Author Archives: Chris
Sermon: The Source of Jesus’ Authority
Sermon: A Plan for Mastering the Scriptures
Sermon: The Bible – One Long Story
I really shouldn’t call this a “sermon” so much as it was a short lesson presented from the material of our study. We are going through a book called “Handling the Word with Confidence” at The Upper Room right now, …
Sermons Update – Ruth
Last Christmas, Pastor Jay and I took a break from our Judges series and switched out attention to Ruth. I had always felt like Ruth was kind of Christmas-y. I don’t know why. Probably because it ends with the birth …
Sermons Update – Judges
I finally updated all of the Upper Room’s online sermons. And I’ve got a few of my own to post… Here they are collated by series. Here are my 3 sermons in Judges. Although I taught 8 times in Judges, …
Colossians – Who is Jesus?
Colossians is my favourite book of the New Testament, and we’ve finally come around to studying it in my New Testament class. So I thought I’d live-blog it as well (like I did with Apocalyptic books from OT class on …
Dispensational Apocalyptic View
I’m sitting in a lecture right now about Daniel & Malachi, and the first part is an overview of the Dispensational view of the end of the world. The lecturer is Brian Irwin of Knox College/Toronto School of Thelogy. I’m …
Daniel Inductive Study
I really enjoyed this study in the Book of Daniel.. I kind of want to preach on it now! Inductive Study on the Book of Daniel Part 1: Table of Contents Verses Caption PART 1: Daniel 1 – …
Amos Inductive Study
Chris Evangelista Dr. Marion Taylor WYB1008HF 24 January 2012 Inductive Study on the Book of Amos Part 1: Table of Contents Verses Caption Amos 1:1 to 2:3 Judgement Against Surrounding Nations Amos 2:4 to 2:16 Judgement Against Judah and Israel …
Folly of Idolatry
One of my favourite books is Tim Keller’s “Counterfeit Gods”. It is a no that continues speaking to me and helps me to understand a lot of scripture in light of my own fallen nature and idolatry. Anyway, the reading from Genesis today was actually one that Keller used in is book, the story of [...] Continue reading
Bible Reading Plans
I wrote this letter to my CnC group, regarding Bible Reading plans, and I thought I’d share it hear also… Hey Everyone! I hope you were all as challenged by Pastor Jay’s exhortation to be “saturated” in the Word of God as I was. And as a result of that, I hope that you [...] Continue reading
Unnamed But Quite Present
I already mentioned that God does not “appear” in the book of Esther – no LORD, no God, etc. nonetheless, it’s not hard to discern how God shows up even when unnamed. And here in Esther 4, we see this happening. Esther tells Mordecai about the law forbidding anyone from approaching the king. And to [...] Continue reading
1 John 1:5-11
Basic Translation Verse 5: and / to be (PAI 3sg) / the / message / to be (AAI 3sg) / to hear (PerAI 1pl) / from / him / to announce (PAI 1pl) / to you / for / God …
No One Righteous, Not One
Genesis 27 is one of those passages where it is difficult to see any good at all. One messed up family with all playing their evil part… There are the parents playing favourite, the older brother who doesn’t care about his family, and of course, Jacob the younger brother who deceives his way into a [...] Continue reading