P. Andrew Sandlin's Podcasts, Preaching, and Lectures

What it means to see and live in the world in terms of the Gospel, part 2.

The secular plausibility structure and its implementation as both the sexual revolution and economic rigging have created a sin-sick culture in the West that only a new Christian culture can heal. Christian culture reflects confident truth in an age of chaotic relativism, offers liberating redemption in a time of enslaving depravity, and inspires joyous hope amid an environment of cynical despair.

Christian Culture is rooted in the creation order and in ancient Israel. It sprouted in the Constantinian Edict of Milan and flowered in Byzantium and in medieval Europe. It blossomed in the Protestant Reformation. Not to know THIS culture is to be ignorant of vast stretches of Western civilization and to be impotent in confronting our present apostate culture.

Christian culture in Europe, Russia and North America was ruined by many factors, but one of the most destructive was the Kantian "flight to the interior," which abandoned vast stretches of "public" life to anti-Christian forces. A paradigm for the reversal of this ruin can be found in the neo-Reformational paradigm of Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, Herman Dooyeweerd , and Cor...

We have every reason to be pessimistic about Western man's capacity to employ technology to dehumanize culture, realistic about the historical evidence that cultural evil is routinely overturned, and optimistic about God's promises that Jesus Christ will create a global godly culture in his Father's good time.

The role of shame in fostering obedience and how God prefers a heart for hi to flawless procedural obedience.

Jesus as Prophet, Priest and King is the cure to personal and cultural pollution.

Prayer changes circumstances. Prayer changes people. Prayer changes God.

God is more active in his universe than we can possibly imagine.

God's old ways are far superior to man's new ways.

Like all fathers (but much better), God delights to please his children.

We live amid a youthful generation marked by folly, but God has the solution to that problem.

God both remembers — and forgets — better than we do.

We simply cannot understand eschatology apart from Jesus' interpretation of prophecy.

Jesus' substitutionary atonement is designed first to save households

The resurrected Lord transformed us from the inside out.

For believers, the chief verdict of the Final Judgment is already past.

Nothing is impossible for prayer because nothing is responsible for God.

God's program is bigger than saving sinners.

The same waters that bring judgment to the wicked bring salvation to the saints.

Man's way of greatness is ruling. God's way is serving.

The church hasn't "replaced" Israel, but neither is God operating two plans. God has one plan, and one people.

Our faithfulness is a response to God's — but both his and ours are necessary.

Jesus is the meaning of human life — and there is no other meaning.

Christians are righteous judicially and experientially — and we need both kinds of righteousness.