P. Andrew Sandlin's Podcasts, Preaching, And Lectures

Beware of complicating the biblical picture of obedience. Obedience isn't always easy, but it's never hard to understand.

While there are reasons for pessimism in our present cultural climate, realism demands optimism.

The Christian's goal, by the power of the Spirit, is to destabilize, de-legitimize, and deconstruct the abnormal world and reassert the normal world.

As long as you accept the world as it is, you'll never be a mighty man or woman of prayer. Godly prayer warriors never assume that the status quo in a sinful world is the will of God. They pray to change it.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is God's good news calculated to overwhelm the world in very public ways. It is not simply a plan to "go to heaven" but to redeem the earth. A lecture delivered to Christian Concern in London, England.

Two objectives of consistently reasoning rebels are to (a) create an entire conceptual world in competition with the real (God's) world and (2) intimidate Christians into thinking that the sinners' fake world is the real world.

God is jealous, and he won't allow humans to share their submission to his authority, their affection to him, and the world's allegiance to him.

Christians must abandon their spiritual somnolence and dead orthodoxy and rouse themselves to hold onto God if they are to expect any church or cultural reformation.

Crucial to the Christian worldview is common grace, God's kindness toward and gifts to unbelievers, and a critical means of preserving continuity in history to expand his Kingdom.

Two mostly competing views of redemption have emerged among conservatives. The one we embrace shapes our entire outlook on life and eternity.

You can't get the Gospel right if you get the family wrong.

Pietism, Apocalypticism, and Retreatism — these are bad church ideas that are responsible for much of the political apostasy baptizing our present society.

A wide-ranging interview by Allison Burr from "Cultivating the Kingdom" on the meaning of the Gospel, the role of Christian education, the Christianity of the American Founders, the philosophical "inward turn" of existentialism, expectation in prayer, and much, much more.

Gospel ministry is not chiefly about redeeming sinners for heaven but redeeming a sinful world in all of its dimensions. The best gospel ministers (in pulpit, classroom, auto repair shop, software lab, art house, state house, investment house) are those who practice this world-redeeming gospel.

Conservative Christianity is now paying a heavy price for the underdeveloped gospel it has preached for the last few generations. The cosmological gospel of Jesus Christ designed to reorient an entire sinful cosmos is the robust gospel that can — and will — reverse our present cultural apostasy.

Our apostate times are hazardous for single young adults. God's Word shows them how to avoid the hazards.

Only Jesus Christ is the cure for human confusion, human autonomy, and human guilt.

We often hear today that the exhortation "Quit sinning" is a Pharisaic, grace-less moralism. It is nothing of the kind. The critics are often simply influenced by the antinomian temper of our times.

The Gospel isn't a self-help plan or a ticket to ride to heaven.

If you understand God's providence, you will be filled with comfort even in the most dire circumstances — God is not far off. He's constantly "meddling" in His world.