Meditations How God Fed Me: A Year in Books 2021 Theological Books: 1. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (in modern English) Every once in a while it’s good to go back to your foundation. Reading this confession of faith was like applying water right on the roots of my faith. This book lists all the major doctrines (teachings) of the Bible and explains them […] Written by Nathan Zach January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Meditations Learning Contentment [tweet_box design=”default” float=”none”]The challenge of every Christian is to be satisfied and content with the things God has freely given us.[/tweet_box] The challenge of every Christian is to be satisfied and content with the things God has freely given us. For those of us with kids, especially small ones, we KNOW that contentment is not […] Written by adoration May 6, 2020January 3, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Meditations A Beautiful Divorce I was listening to the radio the other day and the host was talking about a certain athlete and his relationship with his team. Apparently, things had gotten rough and the player was thinking about leaving the organization. The host used this to described how in every person to person relationship there are a few […] Written by adoration May 6, 2020January 2, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Ep. 017: A Look At The Doctrines Of Grace: Perseverance of the Saints We’ve finally arrived at the last stop in our “Walk through the flowers: a look at the Doctrines of Grace.” After having examined Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, and Irresistible Grace we now will examine the “P” in the acrostic which stands for the Perseverance of the Saints. Let’s start by looking at a […] Written by Nathan Zach November 30, 2020December 27, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Trough Podcast Ep. 018: What is Expositional Preaching? Expositional preaching is empowered preaching that rightfully submits the shape and emphasis of the sermon to the shape and emphasis of a biblical text. TOPICS DISCUSSED: What is expositional preaching? Contextualization Exegesis Application DONT FORGET: If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to The Trough Podcast on iTunes and we would be honored if you […] Written by Nathan Zach June 6, 2020January 17, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Ep. 017: A Look At The Doctrines Of Grace: Perseverance of the Saints We’ve finally arrived at the last stop in our “Walk through the flowers: a look at the Doctrines of Grace.” After having examined Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, and Irresistible Grace we now will examine the “P” in the acrostic which stands for the Perseverance of the Saints. Let’s start by looking at a […] Written by Nathan Zach November 30, 2020December 27, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Trough Podcast Ep. 018: What is Expositional Preaching? Expositional preaching is empowered preaching that rightfully submits the shape and emphasis of the sermon to the shape and emphasis of a biblical text. TOPICS DISCUSSED: What is expositional preaching? Contextualization Exegesis Application DONT FORGET: If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to The Trough Podcast on iTunes and we would be honored if you […] Written by Nathan Zach June 6, 2020January 17, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
From the Pen of: Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones “From the Pen of” is a series of blog posts where I will take excerpts from books I am either reading now or have read in the past and highlight sections of the text that make compelling arguments, insights or applications into the realities of Christian life and service. In this post, I want to […] Written by Nathan Zach May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How God Fed Me: A Year in Books 2021 Theological Books: 1. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (in modern English) Every once in a while it’s good to go back to your foundation. Reading this confession of faith was like applying water right on the roots of my faith. This book lists all the major doctrines (teachings) of the Bible and explains them […] Written by Nathan Zach January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Christmas Reveals the Glory of God Isaiah foretells of the glory On the heels of Christmas, my family and I were going through our daily Advent readings, we came across this passage from Isaiah, “A voice cries: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain […] Written by Nathan Zach December 22, 2021December 24, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Story For Our Time Part 2 Rooted In Christ A Summary of Part 1 In part one of this post, we looked at the purpose of parables and how they were used by Jesus to teach people about spiritual realities. We used the parable of the pearl of great price as an example and from there we transitioned to the parable […] Written by Nathan Zach February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Shaky Christians On Rocky Ground Pt 1 The Purpose and Use of Parables Jesus loved to tell stories. The Bible calls these stories parables. Jesus used these as his primary method of teaching about God and the kingdom of God to the people of his day [See Mt 13, 18; Mk 4; Lk 15]. They were meant to, by way of analogy […] Written by Nathan Zach January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked