Dan Greenfield

Category: Jesus Christ

  • The Golden Rule

    If you’d like to stir the pot, tell folks that the “Golden Rule” doesn’t apply to everyone. If you’d really like to stir the pot, say the same thing about the entire sermon encompassing the Golden Rule (Matthew 5-7, the “Sermon on the Mount”). Lest one think my dispensational convictions have…

  • The Act of the Death of Christ

    William Ames (1576-1633), Puritan theologian, powerfully says that Christ’s death was an act of Christ and not a mere matter of enduring because he met and endured it purposely. John 10:11, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep,” and 10:18, “No man…

  • Looking at the Cross

    Tonight we’ll sing this hymn by John Newton, to the tune Prospect: In evil long I took delight, Unaw’d by shame or fear, Till a new object struck my sight, And stopp’d my wild career. I saw one hanging on a tree, In agonies and blood, Who fix’d his languid…

  • What Do United Methodists and Muslims Have In Common?

    According to at least one pastor, they worship the same God! The front page of the United Methodist Church website points to an article detailing how one of their pastors is observing the fast Muslims observe during their holiest month, Ramadan. Listen to his opening statement: “I have no doubt that Muslims…

  • Defend the Faith Biblical Challenge

    I received an email today from one of many news services about religious items. Wow, talk about invective! The low-down: An author asks folks to supply evidence that he has used the Bible incorrectly in his latest book, The Case Against Evangelical Christianity, specifically these points: The book makes several controversial…

  • Hark! the Voice of Love and Mercy

    We learned and sang this hymn this past Sunday to this tune (but not at quite that tempo): Hark! the voice of love and mercy Sounds aloud from Calvary; See it rends the rocks asunder, Shakes the earth and veils the sky: “It is finished! It is finished!” Hear the…

  • The Way, the Truth, the Life

    1 Thou art the Way: by Thee alone From sin and death we flee; And he who would the Father seek, Must seek Him, Lord, by Thee. 2 Thou art the Truth: Thy word alone True wisdom can impart; Thou only canst instruct the mind, And purify the heart. 3…

  • Who Said Liberalism is Dead?

    It’s been the opinion of some that theological liberalism is dead. Simplistically, theological liberalism describes those who call themselves Christians but deny many (if not most) of the doctrines that make Christianity Christianity. Some believe that liberalism’s sun has set and its dead and buried. I don’t think so. Come…

  • Idolatry

    If there was any doubt about idolatry in the Roman Catholic Church, the following from this news release should clear the fog away– A vial containing blood drawn from Pope John Paul II shortly before he died will be installed as a relic in a Polish church soon after his beatification later…

  • The Incarnation of Jesus Christ

    I’m submitting the following for this week’s “Pastor’s Column” in our local newspaper. If you have thoughts or suggestions, let me know by noon today! 🙂 —————– We just finished what for many is their favorite time of the year, Christmas. Increasingly our culture views this season in purely secular…

  • The Second Advent

    Let these things sink down into our minds. In all our thoughts about Christ, let us never forget His second advent. It is well to know that He lived for us, and died for us, and rose again for us, and intercedes for us. But it is also well to…

  • Christ in the Old Testament

    There has been an effort among many to “find Christ in the Old Testament.” This has brought both good and bad results, and such from both covenant and dispensational perspectives. I unashamedly align with a “classic” dispensational approach to the Scriptures (a la Ryrie’s Dispensationalism), but I will be the…

  • Great Sinners Need a Great Savior

    While doing some preparatory work for this coming Sunday’s message from John 1:3-5, I was reminded of some of John Newton’s last words before his death: My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things — that I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Savior.…

  • Luther on John 1:3

    John 1:3 says, “All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” If Christ is not true and natural God, born of the Father in eternity and Creator of all creatures, we are doomed…we must have a Savior who…

  • John 1:1

    Great quote on the doctrinal truths in John 1:1– It is rashness to search too far into it. It is godliness to believe it. It is Life eternal to know it. And we can never have a fully comprehension of it till we come to enjoy it. –Gaebelein, The Gospel…

  • Sin in the Light of God’s Holiness

    “All approach to God is on the ground of shed blood. The atonement has its deepest demand in the holiness of God. Any doctrine of the atonement that sees its need only in the necessity that man be influenced by a mighty motive, or in the necessities of governmental expediency,…

  • Why Did Jesus Pray?

    “But Jesus himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray” Luke 5:16 Jesus provides a pattern to follow on how a believer should live while on this earth (cf. Rom 8:29). In addition to studying how he prayed, it is perhaps even more basic to learn why he…

  • The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

    One hundred and ten years ago Reuben Archer Torrey (1856-1928), then Superintendent of the Bible Institute of Chicago (later renamed Moody Bible Institute) wrote: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is in many respects the most important fact of Christian history. It is the Gibraltar of Christian Evidences, the Waterloo of…