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

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.

Jesus Christ's holistic claims on us

Explodes false, mystical evangelical theories about God's will.

What it means to see and live in the world in terms of the Gospel, part I.

What it means to see and live in the world in terms of the Gospel, part 2.

The secular plausibility structure and its implementation as both the sexual revolution and economic rigging have created a sin-sick culture in the West that only a new Christian culture can heal. Christian culture reflects confident truth in an age of chaotic relativism, offers liberating redemption in a time of enslaving depravity, and inspires joyous hope amid an environment of cynical despair.

Christian Culture is rooted in the creation order and in ancient Israel. It sprouted in the Constantinian Edict of Milan and flowered in Byzantium and in medieval Europe. It blossomed in the Protestant Reformation. Not to know THIS culture is to be ignorant of vast stretches of Western civilization and to be impotent in confronting our present apostate culture.

Christian culture in Europe, Russia and North America was ruined by many factors, but one of the most destructive was the Kantian "flight to the interior," which abandoned vast stretches of "public" life to anti-Christian forces. A paradigm for the reversal of this ruin can be found in the neo-Reformational paradigm of Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, Herman Dooyeweerd , and Cornelius Van Til. All of life must be redeemed by recourse to God's written Word.

We have every reason to be pessimistic about Western man's capacity to employ technology to dehumanize culture, realistic about the historical evidence that cultural evil is routinely overturned, and optimistic about God's promises that Jesus Christ will create a global godly culture in his Father's good time.

The role of shame in fostering obedience and how God prefers a heart for hi to flawless procedural obedience.

Jesus as Prophet, Priest and King is the cure to personal and cultural pollution.

Prayer changes circumstances. Prayer changes people. Prayer changes God.

God is more active in his universe than we can possibly imagine.

God's old ways are far superior to man's new ways.