Good Shepherd Bible Study Webcast: Recent Episodes
Miller Ansell
Sermon: Power is required, suffering is expected - Lk 24:44-53; Acts 9:10-17, 26:14-18
Dr. Rev. Henry Krabbendam
What do you get when people are crying out, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD”?
This happened on Palm Sunday, the day that Jesus rode the donkey into the city of Jerusalem. The people lined the streets, waved palm branches, and shouted, “Here’s our king!”
Palm Sunday—John 12:12-36
Why is it necessary that God provide and accomplish salvation? Sermon: The Just and the Justifier - Rom. 3:24-26 - Rev. Mark Sumpter
On Mar 17, 2019, special guest preacher Dr. Henry Krabbendam teaches on Jesus’ two schools of prayer, congregational support for the evangelist and the Lord’s Supper.
Sunday School lesson at Good Shepherd OPC on Sunday, Mar 17, 2019. Biblical Evangelism.
Rom. 3:9-12 - The timely Now of Son-ship - we return this week to the Bible’s teaching on being adopted as God’s child. Opening up Romans 3 will guide us in important, practical teaching of the Good News of God’s grace, truth, peace, and hope.
Seeing hospitality and friendship is key. Jesus Christ comes to dine in the home of Simon, the Pharisee. To be sure, we see our Savior ministering as a prophet and as the Lord who forgives (only God can forgive sins!)
This week we look at what it means and how we learn to be a Christian. We will look at the examples and contrast drawn between Mary and Judas.
This week we look at our object of confidence, holding fast and going boldly to the throne of grace.
This week we look at Isaiah 6 and examine the Holiness of God, the sinfulness of man and the deep love of Christ our Savior.
This week we look at a passage in 1 Peter and learn how through our sufficient Savior, we have a forward-looking hope, a future expectation of joy beyond measure in the midst of our present trials.
This week we look at a passage in Romans and discuss what it means to be conformed to the image of Christ.
This week we look at a passage in Hebrews and consider the blood of Christ and how it speaks of our great mediator and Savior, Christ Jesus.
This week we look at a passage in 2 Kings 6 that can be easily brushed over without realizing that even the little stories, the seemingly insignificant details in Scripture have meaning to us to this day and forever.
This week we look at the testimony of our conscience, not in any earthly wisdom but in knowing our clean, clear conscience in Christ Jesus.
This week we look at how God used Joseph as a deliverer of His people and brought him to a position of exaltation through humiliation.
This week we study what the Bible has to say about the qualification of church leaders.
This week our sermon is from 1 Timothy 2:11-15 and in it Paul addresses the place of women in the church.
Al Tricarico delivers God’s message of love, service and Spiritual cleansing. Text: Jn 13:1-17
Christianity is not just for the smart, the wealthy, or the socialites. It is for Jew and Gentile, it is for the artist and the scientist, it is for all types of people.
In 1 Timothy 1:18-20 Paul reiterates Timothy's charge, and as emulators of our elders, we too are to dress for the battle too. Not with guns and knives, but with faith and a good conscience in order that we do not go astray and become shipwrecked.
The greatest story ever told of Jesus Christ coming into the world to save sinners is one many of us have heard time and time again. We can grow cold towards it if we're not careful, but don't grow jaded brothers and sisters! Let us learn from Paul's testimony here in 1 Timothy 1:12-17 to recall our sins against God and his great pardon of them.
This week, from 1 Timothy 1:8-11, Paul will correct their misuse of God's law and set it on the right course.
This week we will observe from 1 Timothy 1:3-7 the command to Timothy to stop the false teachers. We will also see just what it was these false teachers were teaching, and finally we'll look at love as the true teaching.
“[First Timothy] was designed to carry with it an authoritative value, to convey instructions respecting church order and Christian work.” - Patrick Fairbairn
Matthew 7:13-29. This time we will examine our relationship to those on the narrow path, to false-prophets, and to Christ.
Matthew 7:1-12, our study this week. As Jesus concludes his Sermon on the Mount we find him addressing relationships. Our relationship to our brother and judging him. Our relationship to those who reject the gospel. Our relationship to our Father in prayer. Our relationship to our neighbor and how we treat him.
In Matthew 6:19-34 our Lord examines the diagnosis of anxiousness and then prescribes the cure.
Last week Jesus gave three examples of that difference: alms giving, prayer, and fasting. But not only did Jesus point out the hypocrisy of the Pharisees in prayer, but he also gave believers a model prayer. It's that prayer, the Lord's Prayer, that we'll be studying this week from Matthew 6:9-15.
Who doesn't love a pat on the back or an attaboy? If we're honest we must say we all love the praise and adulation of others for a job well done. But what about when it comes to practicing our religion? Do we do it before others for applause or before God and his approval?
We cannot forget the two word summary of the Sermon on the Mount and that is: Christian Counterculture. We see much of that in this week's lesson as Jesus continues to correct the Pharisaic perversions of the Old Testament.
In this passage Jesus tells us, it is not enough to simply not murder physically, but we also shouldn't destroy others' lives verbally. There is also the issue of the heart, that we ought not hate our brother in our heart. How many of us are guilty of murder without a knife or gun? Jesus also tells us it is not enough that we do not commit adultery with our bodies, but we also must not commit adultery in our hearts. How many of us are guilty of such lust? The third issue we will study is that of divorce.
We are now entering Jesus' teaching on the law in Matthew 5:17-20. Up to this point he seems controversial in the Sermon on the Mount, because Jesus has not spoken of the law. But Jesus shows that his teaching on the law and gospel go hand in hand. So much so that he actually fulfills the law and prophets, although that does not mean the law passes away. Instead the law is still to be used as a standard for Christian living.
In Matthew 5:13-16 we find that Christians are two things: salt and light. We know that salt is a preservative meant to keep rot and decay away. That is exactly the Christian's job as a follower of Christ. The salt is to keep society and culture from plunging headlong into decay. This is only accomplished by Christians looking different than the world and staying true to Scripture, yet when Christians do not act differently they become worthless, good for nothing but to be trampled on.
This week we will finish up with the last three Beatitudes. The first two, Beatitudes six and seven (Matt 5:8-9), being pure in heart and a peacemaker, are qualities that many in our culture would agree with, and yet we do not practice them as we ought. To be pure in heart we must be fully committed to the Lord with no room for idols. To be a peacemaker is to be at peace with God and others in the church.
From this fourth beatitude our attention then turns to the fifth, which is dealing with mercy. Just how merciful do we find ourselves? Often we long for the happiness of an easy life, but the one who shows mercy is concerned with the pitiable and the unjustly oppressed in our world. It is difficult to live the easy life when our neighbor needs our Christian mercy. So please come and learn more of these great Beatitudes with us at Good Shepherd.
Growing up I understood the Beatitudes of Matthew 5 to be for an exceptional group of Christians. I thought that these Christians who were poor in spirit, mournful, and meek would make up a heavenly all-star team. Yet these eight beatitudes are not for eight exceptional groups of believers, instead they are the blessings given to all Christians. Rather than eight groups of Christians the beatitudes give us eight characteristics for all followers of Christ. So just what do they mean for us? What does it mean for us to be poor in spirit? Or mournful? Or meek? This week we examine these first three beatitudes from Matthew 5:3-5 and we will see just how our heavenly king desires his citizens to live in this world.