Discussing Green Church
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
The connections class takes a break from the Psalms series to further discuss aspects of a healthy church which were described last week in the Green Church Series. MP3 download.
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Imprecatory Psalms, Part I
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
Suffering and Evil
Monday, February 8th, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
In yesterday’s Connections class, I mentioned a couple of sermons by D.A. Carson titled “On Being Prepared for Suffering and Evil.” I cannot recommend this teaching strongly enough; this isn’t the first time I’ve commended these messages, and it won’t be the last.
Here are the free download links:
On Being Prepared for Suffering and Evil: Part 1
On Being Prepared for Suffering and Evil: Part 2
In addition, Dr. Carson has published an extensive treatment on the subject in his book How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil. I’m only a few chapters in, but it is off to a fantastic start—I highly recommend it
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Did Jesus Have a Sense of Humor?
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
As we consider the serious side of Jesus’ humanity, this video from Mark Driscoll shows us a another side we probably think about too little:
If You Live Long Enough, You Will Suffer
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
Some thoughts on pain and suffering and how our current teaching series on the humanity of Jesus helps me make sense of it all:
As a thoughtful Christian, I have to be able to make sense of that most difficult of questions: how do you reconcile the reality of suffering and evil with the existence of an all-good, all-powerful God? … As the atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell famously asked, “what are you going to say as you kneel next to a dying child?”
Bringing logic to bear on that situation is, for most people, simply a case study in using the wrong tool for the job. Instead, comfort comes from understanding that God is familiar with suffering through first-hand experience
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Psalm 22
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
A Woman Doing Apologetics!?
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
Ladies… don’t make Mary Jo Sharp beg.
I first came across Mary Jo’s Confident Christianity ministry last July when she was interviewed on Stand to Reason. She earned her MA in Christian Apologetics from Biola University, and she’s also a Certified Apologetics Instructor with the Southern Baptists’ North American Mission Board (NAMB). She deserves your attention!
On Twitter and Facebook
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
Have you tried Twitter? Are you on Facebook?
The new world of status updates has its pros and cons. Brevity wins readers, but it’s hard to be concise and precise at the same time. Like Mark Twain said, “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.”
But have you figured out how to gossip the Gospel 140 characters at a time? Consider:
We “need to write even more clearly and simply for the new media than for the old media.” How much more important is this when our subject matter is the gospel?
Combining brevity with gravity and levity with wit on Twitter and Facebook has been a challenge I’ve really enjoyed …
Psalms of Lament
Sunday, January 10th, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
Using Psalm 88, we look at the parts of a Psalm of lament. MP3 download.
Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 18
Sunday, December 20th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
About The Author
Hugh Williams is one of the Connections teachers at Grace Fellowship and is also one of the webmasters for the forGodsfame.org website. You may notice him playing bass with the music team on Sunday mornings, too, when he works hard on smiling while reading music and keeping rhythm at the same time. A native of the New York City area, Hugh and his wife, Krista, have lived in the Atlanta area since 1997.
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