How do you cope with a preacher who consistently denies the revelation of God? This sermon by Rev Tony Archer ignores the revelation of Gen 3. Original sin, the cause of the wrath of God against natural Man is ignored. The offence to a Holy God caused by a created being rebelling against God, the Creator, is ignored. Instead we get an under qualified junior psychoanalyst's explanation of what we need to do to be happy.

Either set Christ before the people, or have a semblance of honesty and say you don’t know Him.

The Rev Dr Michael Jensen, achieved something rare: a eulogy that honoured the deceased without mythologising him, and a homily that gently introduced listeners to the person of Jesus Christ without tripping cultural alarms or alienating mourners.

This essay argues that a sermon which diminishes the gravity of sin inevitably diminishes the glory of Christ, replacing Paul’s God-centred hamartiology with therapeutic moralism. By tracing Romans 7 through its exegetical, historical, rhetorical, and doctrinal contours, the study demonstrates that only a sin-serious reading can restore the holiness of God, the necessity of substitution, and the eschatological cry of the redeemed.

Any sermon that ignores confessional or covenantal theology must begin and end with anthropology. It will inevitably drift into moralism or therapeutic religion. In short, we have here another prime example of Pastor Ruthless for the Gospel’s semi-Pelagian theology on display from a foundational text to the whole Bible.

Last week, Woori Yallock Presbyterian Church heard a sermon from its minister on Genesis 1. Creation in six days was declared, and that is where the theological content began and finished. A lot can be said about the deficiencies of this sermon, but let us look at something below most disturbing.