This is an audio sermon delivered on July 3, 2005. The transcript will be posted when it is available.

Course Description

What constitutes good teaching? Why is good teaching so hard to find? What role does the Holy Spirit have to play in our teaching? What are the various teaching methods? This is a course on the basic principles of biblical teaching. It is designed to give an overview of methods and principles of teaching biblical truth. In doing this, the course will attempt to give the student h

Course Description

Introduction¹

I am aware of a group of untaught Christians who apparently took our text so literally that they were seriously thinking of taking the life of one of their members, who had committed a serious sin. While I appreciate their zeal to do what the Bible teaches, I think they have misapplied Luke’s account of Ananias and Sapphira. On the other extreme, there are many more who would like to simply set this passage aside.

Introduction¹

For 40 days after His resurrection, the risen Lord Jesus appeared to men in very convincing ways. He particularly ministered to His disciples, for they would play a key role in His on-going ministry in and through the church. He spoke with them about the kingdom of heaven and told them to wait in Jerusalem for the coming of the Holy Spirit. He commissioned them to be His witnesses when they were clothed with power from on high. Then Pentecost came, and the Spirit came in great power.

1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon. 2 And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money. 4 Peter looked directly at him (as did John) and said, “Look at us!” 5 So the lame man paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.

While in high school, I had two summer jobs to earn money for college. One was working in an automotive parts house, and the other was selling ice cream bars for the local Dairy Queen, right across the street from my other job. Actually, I sold Dilly Bars – frozen ice cream on a stick, dipped in chocolate. I drove a Cushman scooter with a little pickup bed in the back, which held a small freezer. Sitting in the front with two open side doors, I was eagerly pursued by children, as well as the neighborhood dogs, some not too friendly.