Recently, Dr. E was invited to sit with Dr. Darrell Bock to be a guest on his podcast, The Table, produced by Dallas Theological Seminary.

We hope you enjoy this valuable conversation about the role of the church in our culture.

To view a full transcript of this Bonus Episode, visit: https://michaelincontext.com/the-table-church-and-culture/

As an adversary, satan hates Christ. He is our enemy and desires that we would live eternally separated from God. Yet God, in His sovereignty, is using Satan.

Talking about Satan can bring up anxieties and worrisome thoughts for some. If you're prone to worrying about this, remember that, though Satan may tempt us, we have the Holy Spirit who can indeed bear any temptation.

Join me today as I finish our Why We Believe What We Believe series with Part 2 of The Person and Work of Satan.

To read and revie

As an adversary, satan hates Christ. He is our enemy and desires that we would live eternally separated from God. Yet God, in His sovereignty, is using Satan.

Talking about Satan can bring up anxieties and worrisome thoughts for some. If you're prone to worrying about this, remember that, though Satan may tempt us, we have the Holy Spirit who can indeed bear any temptation.

Join me today as I finish our Why We Believe What We Believe series with Part 2 of The Person and Work of Satan.

To read and revie

Did you grow up in a home that taught that Satan was real? Maybe you were taught that when anything bad happens, any consequence that isn't what we intended, it's spiritual warfare. Satan is behind it.

Or perhaps you were raised in a home where you were taught that Satan is a myth, no more real than nursery rhymes.

But we need to understand him from a biblical context, not with what we grew up with or what we have glommed together in our own search for meaning, if you will.

In today's episode we'll look

Did you grow up in a home that taught that Satan was real? Maybe you were taught that when anything bad happens, any consequence that isn't what we intended, it's spiritual warfare. Satan is behind it.

Or perhaps you were raised in a home where you were taught that Satan is a myth, no more real than nursery rhymes.

But we need to understand him from a biblical context, not with what we grew up with or what we have glommed together in our own search for meaning, if you will.

In today's episode we'll look

The Holy Spirit, which seals our Salvation, is a person at work. How does He empower us, fill us, indwell us?

Unless we stop, rest, and spend time studying the work and role of the Holy Spirit in God's Word, it will remain a mystery to us.

But I have confidence in His word and in His Spirit that as we spend time there, we will understand more and more His role in our lives.

Learn more about the work of God’s Spirit in Episode 12 of our Why We Believe What We Believe Series.

To view Show Notes for th

The Holy Spirit, which seals our Salvation, is a person at work. How does He empower us, fill us, indwell us?

Unless we stop, rest, and spend time studying the work and role of the Holy Spirit in God's Word, it will remain a mystery to us.

But I have confidence in His word and in His Spirit that as we spend time there, we will understand more and more His role in our lives.

Learn more about the work of God’s Spirit in Episode 12 of our Why We Believe What We Believe Series.

To view Show Notes for th

Concerning the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, some of us come from stoic backgrounds and Holy Ghost language gives us the heebie-jeebies.

Others of us come from more pentecostal or charismatic backgrounds and we tend to put great emphasis and trust in our experiences of what we perceive to be the Holy Spirit.

But what, specifically, does Scripture tell us about the person and work of God's Holy Spirit?

Join us today for part one of Michael's teaching on The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

Michael mentions qu

Concerning the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, some of us come from stoic backgrounds and Holy Ghost language gives us the heebie-jeebies.

Others of us come from more pentecostal or charismatic backgrounds and we tend to put great emphasis and trust in our experiences of what we perceive to be the Holy Spirit.

But what, specifically, does Scripture tell us about the person and work of God's Holy Spirit?

Join us today for part one of Michael's teaching on The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

Michael mentions qu

Justification is not "just as if I'd" never sinned. It's much more than that. Justification is the work of Jesus Christ to declare you righteous.

Grace, of course, is the means by which we are saved. It's not just that God decided to overlook our sins the way we overlook a child's minor disciplinary issue. Grace is His unmerited favor in the face of deserved wrath.

How do we embrace this?

Let's learn together as Michael teaches part two of The Doctrine of Salvation in episode 10 of our current series, W