Archive for March 25, 2010
Mar 25
Passion Week Messages
Starting with Palm Sunday, this coming Sunday, we begin what is historically known as Passion Week. It is a remembrance of the passion of Christ in the week leading up to his death and resurrection. This year we have a unique opportunity to do this as a church, because our monthly Lord’s Supper falls on this week. In other words, we have an extra service in the middle of the Passion Week to help walk ourselves through the narrative: the triumphal entry, the cleansing of the Temple, the Passover/Last Supper, the betrayal and trial, the crucifixion and death, and the resurrection. Yes, it makes for a busy week with services on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, but let’s see that as a helpful opportunity…and not at all as drudgery.
We’ll stay in our Luke series through it all (jumping ahead a bit for the next week or so, and then back to chapter 18 to finish the book). So the schedule and Scripture references for the next week look like this:
– 3/28, Palm Sunday (9:00 and 10:45AM) – The Triumphal Entry (Luke 19:28-44)
– 3/31, Wednesday Lord’s Supper (6:30PM) – The Passover Meal (Luke 22:1-38)
– 4/2, Good Friday (6:30PM) – The Trial and Crucifixion (Luke 22:39 – 23:56)
– 4/4, Easter Sunday (7:30, 9:00, and 10:45AM) – The Resurrection (Luke 24)
Hope you’ll invite a friend (or more) to one of these (or more). Pray that God would meet with us in power, truth, glory, and love as he spreads the aroma of death and the aroma of life (2 Cor 2) in and through us.
Mar 25
Resources on Eschatology
Sunday’s message looked at two passages on the “now and not yet” reality of the kingdom of Christ (Luke 17 and 21). While we didn’t spend any time talking about the different interpretive timelines of the “last days” — Premillennialism, Postmillennialism, Amillennialism, etc. — the below charts show the basic eschatological options.
AMILLENNIALISM
POSTMILLENNIALISM
HISTORIC (CLASSIC) PREMILLENNIALISM
DISPENSATIONAL PREMILLENIALISM
These are taken from Capitol Hill Baptist Church’s Core Seminar on Systematic Theology.
For further reading, I’d recommend:
- Millard Erickson, A Basic Guide to Eschatology
- “An Evening of Eschatology” — a conversation on the Millennium with John Piper, Sam Storms, Doug Wilson, and Jim Hamilton (available for free in video, audio, or text formats)
- Anthony Hoekema, The Bible and the Future
- Kim Riddlebarger, A Case for Amillennialism
- Sam Storm’s many articles on eschatology, including three (Pt 1, 2, 3) on the Olivet Discourse (Mt. 24 and Lk. 21)
- Craig Blomberg and Sung-Wook Chung (ed.), A Case for Historic Premillennialism