The Gospel for Life

14 Principles for Studying the Bible from Crossway +++ For more information about this group, please visit their website at reformationboise.com . Every weekday at 3:30 am and 7:30 am you can listen to The Gospel for Life on KSPD 94.5 FM and 790 AM Boise's Solid Talk in the Treasure Valley,  Idaho, USA. If you have a question, comment, or even a topic suggestion for the Pastors, you can email...

7. Preach/Teach Everywhere Jesus went he taught and preached God’s precious word: And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. ( Matt. 4:23 ; see 2 Tim. 4:2 ) +++ For more information about this group, please visit their website at reformationboise.com . Every weekday at 3...

+++ For more information about this group, please visit their website at reformationboise.com . Every weekday at 3:30 am and 7:30 am you can listen to The Gospel for Life on KSPD 94.5 FM and 790 AM Boise's Solid Talk in the Treasure Valley,  Idaho, USA. If you have a question, comment, or even a topic suggestion for the Pastors, you can email them.   If you enjoy The Gospel for Life , please...

8. Compel Apollos did not preach solely to dispense information. He passionately proclaimed the truth in order to convince his hearers and convert them to the way of God’s truth: Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accura...

4. Obey Caleb proved to be special (in contrast to the disobedient nation) because of his totally obedient response to God’s commands: None of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me...

Obey the Word Throughout his New Testament writings, the apostle John summarized a Christian’s obligation to obey the Scriptures. He made it clear that walking in the ways of the word was not optional. First, Christ said that if one loves him, that person will keep his commandments ( John 14:15, 21, 23 ). On the other hand, the one who does not love him will not keep his words ( John 14:24 ). A Ch...

Obey the Word Throughout his New Testament writings, the apostle John summarized a Christian’s obligation to obey the Scriptures. He made it clear that walking in the ways of the word was not optional. First, Christ said that if one loves him, that person will keep his commandments ( John 14:15, 21, 23 ). On the other hand, the one who does not love him will not keep his words ( John 14:24 ). A Ch...

Obey the Word Throughout his New Testament writings, the apostle John summarized a Christian’s obligation to obey the Scriptures. He made it clear that walking in the ways of the word was not optional. First, Christ said that if one loves him, that person will keep his commandments ( John 14:15, 21, 23 ). On the other hand, the one who does not love him will not keep his words ( John 14:24 ). A Ch...

7. View of salvation. The goal of Mormon salvation is not about escaping wrath as much as it is about maximizing our growth and ensuring our happiness. Salvation is finding our way back to God the Father and recalling our forgotten first estate as his premortal spirit children. Mormon theology teaches that we cannot receive an eternal reward by our own unaided efforts. In some respects, salvation...

4. View of God . In Mormon thought, God has a physical body. According to Doctrine and Covenants, “The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also;” but “The Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit.” Whether God the Father is self-existent is unclear. There was a long procession of gods and fathers leading up to our Heavenly Father. Br...

3. View of man . According to Mormon theology, men and women are the spirit sons and daughters of God. We lived in a premortal spirit existence before birth. In this first estate we grew and developed in preparation for the second estate. In this second estate we walk by faith. A veil of forgetfulness has been placed over our minds so we don’t remember what we did and who we used to be in our prem...

A quick note on secondary sources: Christian materials do not always treat Mormonism fairly or go the extra mile to present Mormon ideas as a Mormon would recognize them. One book that does is Andrew Jackson’s Mormonism Explained: What Latter-day Saints Teach and Practice. I also recommend A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-Day Saints by BYU professor Robert Millet. Richard Mouw concedes...

We’ve been working through 2 Timothy on Sunday evenings. Last week I preached from 2 Timothy 3:6-9 . It’s a passage–like many in the pastoral epistles–that deals with false teaching. Paul warns against the folly of false teaching (and against the folly of falling for it). Which leads to the question: what is false teaching and how do we spot it? Obviously, there is no foolproof scheme for identify...

We’ve been working through 2 Timothy on Sunday evenings. Last week I preached from 2 Timothy 3:6-9 . It’s a passage–like many in the pastoral epistles–that deals with false teaching. Paul warns against the folly of false teaching (and against the folly of falling for it). Which leads to the question: what is false teaching and how do we spot it? Obviously, there is no foolproof scheme for identify...

We’ve been working through 2 Timothy on Sunday evenings. Last week I preached from 2 Timothy 3:6-9 . It’s a passage–like many in the pastoral epistles–that deals with false teaching. Paul warns against the folly of false teaching (and against the folly of falling for it). Which leads to the question: what is false teaching and how do we spot it? Obviously, there is no foolproof scheme for identify...

We’ve been working through 2 Timothy on Sunday evenings. Last week I preached from 2 Timothy 3:6-9 . It’s a passage–like many in the pastoral epistles–that deals with false teaching. Paul warns against the folly of false teaching (and against the folly of falling for it). Which leads to the question: what is false teaching and how do we spot it? Obviously, there is no foolproof scheme for identify...

We’ve been working through 2 Timothy on Sunday evenings. Last week I preached from 2 Timothy 3:6-9 . It’s a passage–like many in the pastoral epistles–that deals with false teaching. Paul warns against the folly of false teaching (and against the folly of falling for it). Which leads to the question: what is false teaching and how do we spot it? Obviously, there is no foolproof scheme for identify...

What is false teaching and how do we spot it? Kevin Deyoung Obviously, there is no foolproof scheme for identifying false teaching. Biblical discernment takes years of prayer, preaching, and practice. But there are certain questions that may help us sift the good from the bad. Here are 15 discernment diagnostic questions I suggested to my congregation. +++ For more information about this group, pl...

The Israel of God: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow  by O. Palmer Robertson    Proposition #5: Rather than understanding predictions about the "return" of "Israel" to the "land" in terms of a geo-political reestablishment of the state of Israel, these prophecies are more properly interpreted as finding consummate fulfillment at the "restoration of all things" that...

 Proposition #4: The land of the Bible served in a typological role as a model of the consummate realization of the purposes of God for his redeemed people that encompasses the whole of the cosmos. Because of the inherently limited scope of the land of the Bible, it is not to be regarded as having continuing significance in the realm of redemption other than its function as a teaching model.  +++...

The Israel of God: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow  by O. Palmer Robertson    Proposition #3: It cannot be established from Scripture that the birth of the modern state of Israel is a prophetic precursor to the mass conversion of Jewish people.  +++ For more information about this group, please visit their website at reformationboise.com . Every weekday at 3:30 am and 7:30 am you can listen to The Gosp...

The Israel of God: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow  by O. Palmer Robertson    Proposition #2: The modern Jewish state is not a part of the messianic kingdom of Jesus Christ. Even though it may be affirmed that this particular civil government came into being under the sovereignty of the God of the Bible, it would be a denial of Jesus' affirmation that his kingdom is "not of this world order&q...

 Proposition #1: The church of Jesus Christ, embracing the elect of God from both Jewish and Gentile backgrounds, is a part of the messianic kingdom of Christ, even though the church does not exhaust the dimensions of Christ's kingdom.  +++ For more information about this group, please visit their website at reformationboise.com . Every weekday at 3:30 am and 7:30 am you can listen to The Gos...

Derek Prime has written a book entitled A Good Old Age: An A to Z of loving and following the Lord Jesus in later  years. The book provides insights about how to prepare for old age. +++ For more information about this group, please visit their website at reformationboise.com . Every weekday at 3:30 am and 7:30 am you can listen to The Gospel for Life on KSPD 94.5 FM and 790 AM Boise's Solid...

Derek Prime has written a book entitled A Good Old Age: An A to Z of loving and following the Lord Jesus in later  years. The book provides insights about how to prepare for old age. +++ For more information about this group, please visit their website at reformationboise.com . Every weekday at 3:30 am and 7:30 am you can listen to The Gospel for Life on KSPD 94.5 FM and 790 AM Boise's Solid...