All Nations Baptist Church - Minneapolis, MN

01/22/2023

Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning....

01/15/2023

By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres. For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” Psalm 137:1–3 There are different seasons of our life tha...

01/08/2023

Thus we must begin by laying the foundation of the solid reality of the events, and then go on to inquire into their figurative meaning, or else if we take away the foundation it will look as if we are determined to build on air. Sermon 8 of Augustine. Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the....

12/25/2022

Happy Christmas!

The driving motive behind so much of Augustine’s exegesis of biblical texts is to establish the inner harmony or concordance of scripture. The Bible, being God’s word, can never contradict itself. It must all be teaching the same, Catholic, doctrine… Augustine shared this approach with all the...

12/18/2022

And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” Revelation 5:5 The foundational conviction of the book is that things are not as they seem. Or more exactly, things are ...

12/04/2022

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with...

11/20/2022

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and a...

11/13/2022

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter,...

11/06/2022

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside....

10/30/2022

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 I have heard rumors that people on the interwebs aren’t fans of classical Christian theism. Well, here is a meditation on something that might get you thinking about some of the topics and understanding what they are. I haven’t...

10/23/2022

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the...

10/09/2022

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Romans 7:15 In a conversation this week other person mentioned someone who was happy to live with two things in tension. In that situation, it wasn’t a good thing: it was letting sin fully persist ...