Below is the video of my message on the Christian Sabbath from the 2025 CBTS Covenant Conference on the Christian Sabbath. This conference was held at Morningview Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. In this message I try to answer the best objections made by non-sabbatarians. I also end with some very practical considerations regarding implementing sabbath rest in your life and family. For a more detailed look at these issues, see my book on the…
Below is the video of my message on the Christian Sabbath from the 2025 CBTS Covenant Conference on the Christian Sabbath. This conference was held at Morningview Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. In this message I try to answer the best objections made by non-sabbatarians. I also end with some very practical considerations regarding implementing...
Good evening. Please turn with me in your bibles to Joshua 23. Tonight, with God’s help, we fill finish this wonderful book by looking at Joshua’s final two acts. We might call them his final two sermons to the congregation of God’s people. These twin sermons tell remind us of two dominant themes of this...
Good evening. Please turn with me to Joshua chapter 21. Joshua 21. Last week we discussed how God’s priority in the land of Canaan was for God’s people to have access to mercy. He set up cities of refuge to protect those that were potentially guilty of crimes, lest they fall into the hands of...
Good evening. Please open your bibles to Joshua chapter 20. Joshua chapter 20. By way of reminder, when we finished chapter 19 a few weeks ago we closed out a major section in this book. The people of God made their way into the land early in this book, just as God had promised. God...
Good morning. Please open your bibles again to the book of Joshua chapter 18. Joshua chapter 18. We’ve nearly made our way through the entire nation of Israel being given their inheritance in the promised land. The battles have been waged. Victories have been given by God. The land has been subdued, and the people...
Good morning. Please turn with me in your bibles to Joshua chapter 15. Joshua 15. This week as we continue through the book of Joshua we are going to pick up the pace. If you will recall, the people of God have gained supremacy within the land of Canaan, the land that God had first...
Please turn with me in your bibles to Joshua chapter 13. Joshua chapter 13. Within the book of Joshua, we have made it to another transition. Chapter 13 begins a new section stretching all the way through chapter 21, which describe the Israelites taking possession of the land as an inheritance. Specifically, many of these...
Last week we looked at how the Lord granted Joshua success against the 5 kings that had formed a coalition to come and war against the Gibeonites and against Israel. The Lord granted Joshua success in battle, and even stopped the Sun and Moon in the sky so that the battle could be won...
Jon English Lee
Jon English serves as Academic Dean and Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Previously he served as Pastor of Discipleship for Morningview Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He has earned a Bachelor’s degree from Auburn University Montgomery, a Masters of Divinity from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a PhD in Systematic and Historical Theology from SBTS. Jon English is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and an Ecclesial fellow for the Center for Pastor Theologians.
