Understanding Christianity

The gospel empowers us to show Christ-like humility. Paul exhorts the Philippian church to make his joy complete by being unified and humble. He gives a powerful illustration of how Jesus left the glories of heaven to lower HImself in extreme humility on the cross as a way to both instruct and inspire us to worship Him.

The book "The Shack" caught the Christian world on fire back in 2008. In a few weeks, "The Shack" movie will come to theatres across the nation. Dr. Sean Cole is joined by his friend Caleb Neel, Southern Seminary student, to give a hearty critique of the faulty theology in the book. They provide six areas of grave concern to this dangerous book. www.seancole.net

Dr. Sean Cole preaches a message using material from the Puritan Thomas Watson's book "The Godly Man's Picture" to show how we should treasure Christ as supremely valuable.

Dr. Sean Cole explores theme of what it means to "fear the Lord" from Genesis to Revelation. He focuses in specifically on Isaiah 6:1-8 to demonstrate the two types of fear of the Lord demonstrated in the Bible.

This is the final sermon in the "Faithful for the Future" series by Dr. Sean Cole. It fcouses on four truths about our salvation from 2 Timothy 2:11-13.

Paul's imprisonment has served to advance the gospel. His aim is to glorify Christ either in life or death. He desires the Philippian church to strive side by side for the gospel by living a life worthy of the gospel.

Calvinists believe in individual unconditional election based on God's good pleasure alone. Arminians believe in individual election based on foreseen faith. Traditionalist Southern Baptists believe neither--they hold to the corporate view of election. Dr. Sean Cole traces the history of this fairly new doctrine in church history and presents a hypothesis that Karl Barth's influence helped shape the view of corporate eleciton within the last 60 years. He then plays a clip from Dr. Leighton Flowers of www.soteriology101.com who explains the corporate view from Ephesians 1:3-14. Then Dr. Cole gives his exegetical conclusions from Ephesians 1 as welll. Enjoy!Note: We tried a new audio recording software and the audio quality is not as good as usual. Sorry for the technical issues.www.seancole.net

In order to be faithful for the future as a church, we need to remember the substance of the gospel, the sufficiency of the gospel, and the suffering that will come on account of the gospel. www.seancole.net

Paul charges Timothy to suffer as a good soldier, an elite athlete and a hard -working farmer.

Dr. Sean Cole begins a series on the book of Philippians. In this introductory teaching, he focuses on how the church in Philippi was started as evidenced in Acts 16--a fashionista, a snake girl, and a prison worker formed the nucleus of the Philippian church.www.seancole.net