Transcript There’s something about the fact that you’re not standing in front of me that makes me able and willing to do things in communication I would never do if you were in the room. It’s wrong and it’s harming us. And that communication, that form of communication is not just harmful to the person who hears it. It’s harmful to your heart. So I want to talk with you about being a Christian in the world of social media, whether it’s Twitter or F... Read More

Transcript I can’t think of a sadder, more heart-rending thing than for a parent to watch your child suffer some physical, mental or emotional disability. It does tear your heart out. Our daughter was walking down the street in Philadelphia several years ago and a drunken, unlicensed driver careened onto the sidewalk and crushed her against the wall. She had massive injuries. If it happened in the suburb, she wouldn’t have made it to the hospital. She was bleeding profusely ... Read More

Transcript One of the things that’s very important when you talk about themes of punishment in scripture, the theme of consequences for sin, the most ultimate of those is hell, is the position from which you examine those themes. Here’s two starting points that will always get you into trouble. First is the starting point of the centrality of the human being in the biblical story. Human beings are not central. God is central. This is God’s story. I think the most impo... Read More

Transcript So I can’t answer this question about Christians and yoga without putting it in its theological context and that is the theology of God’s common grace. Every human being experiences God’s grace everyday. Because God loves us, because He’s a God of tender, faithful mercy, He allows bad people to do good things, fallen people to make wise contributions, so that life would be livable for us. Let me give you one of the clearest examples of common grace th... Read More

Transcript I’ve been to South Korea many times and in one of my trips to Seoul, I was in a conversation with a pastor who had been in the United States for four years and doing a doctoral program, and had just arrived back in Korea to continue his work as a pastor. And I asked him how his return was. He said something I will never forget. He said, “I’ve come back to a culture I do not know and I do not understand.” I think that’s an experience of many beli... Read More

Transcript So I want to put this question of one-to-one discipleship in its big context. So on Sunday morning, in the gathered worship of the church and in preaching, we experience the formative discipline of the church that so together, we’re all formed with the same theological gospel worldview foundation. That’s getting us all on the same theological gospel tracks. In the small group and in one on one discipleship, you have the corrective discipline of the church. Now, h... Read More

Transcript I think the reason small groups are important is although corporate is terribly important, it doesn’t provide for me everything I need as a child of God on my pilgrimage. That journey between the “already” of my conversion and the “not yet” of my home-going, that journey is through a deeply fallen world that does not operate the way God intended. And that journey is me still struggling with the remaining presence of sin. Here’s the functio... Read More

Transcript Well, I can tell you for sure, Paul Tripp loves Sunday morning. I love the anticipation of that drive to Epiphany Fellowship in the northern part of the center of Philadelphia. I love what I’m going to get there and I love it because I know I need it. I need two things that are so important, such an important part of corporate worship. I need to be taught again and again and again. I need the biblical story applied to my story, so I live with a God-story mentality. Now... Read More

Transcript Well, I want to discuss with you what in our culture has become an important topic and a point of question for many, many believers. And I don’t know how else to set this up other than saying the question says, “Okay, how do I relate to my gay neighbor? How do I relate to this person who’s living this lifestyle that I believe the scripture is very clear in saying it’s outside of the boundaries of God’s plan for human beings? It’s wrong. How... Read More