Abri Brancken - The Chaplain’s Commentary

Here’s a question that should make every one of us a little uncomfortable. Is your doctrine keeping you in the dark? I’m not asking about your Bible. I’m asking about your doctrine, and the two aren’t always the same thing.Most of us didn’t come to the text empty-handed. Long before we opened Hosea or Romans for ourselves, the church we grew up in, the denomination we belong to, the preacher we trusted, and the notes at the bottom of our study Bible handed us a set of answers. Many of those answers are right. Some aren’t. But once we come to a passage already knowing what it means, we stop reading and start overlaying. We lay what we’ve been told over the text like a stencil, and we only see the parts that fit the shape.That’s how doctrine can keep us in the dark. It becomes a predetermined answer. It tells us what the verse says before it has a chance to speak. And because it feels like knowledge, we never notice what we’re missing. We don’t know the other views. We don’t know the play on words in the Hebrew or the Greek. We don’t know what the first hearers would have heard. We only know what we were told.In this sermon, Abri explores the importance of studying the Text properly and not simply believing what we have been told to believe.

Acts 2:4 - and they spoke in tongues.... This message is a study on speaking in tongues.

A study on Acts 2 - Why did the outpouring of the Holy Spirit happen? What did it mean?

A study on Acts 1

A cloud took Jesus out of their sight. Clouds appear frequently in the Bible and often symbolise God’s presence, glory, guidance, judgment, mystery, and divine power. In this Study we focus on the various types of clouds in the Bible. The cloud that took Jesus into heaven is not carrying Jesus away into the weather system. It is supernatural, and it is the visible sign that He is entering the sphere of divine glory and authority.