This short paragraph is worth reading 3-5 times, bearing in mind that we should all be doing theology. For theology is the sustained effort to know the character, will, and acts of the triune God as he has disclosed and…
The Right Kind of Modesty and the Wrong Sort (per Chesterton)
A few days ago I was thinking of how I would make initial introduction to myself in England where I would be preaching. In explaining my convictions to a new audience, it seemed appropriate to quote two quotable Brits. First,…
If You’ve Been Hurt, Keep this Perspective
Helmut Thielicke once remarked that God forgives us an accumulated debt so great that it buckled the knees of God’s Son. And yet we steam and fret, toss and turn, over even the smallest –over even imagined snubs by a…
Tolerance is . . .
G.K. Chesterton: Tolerance is the virtue of people who don’t believe anything. The people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
If You’ve Been Hurt Badly at Church, Read What C. John Miller Wrote to a Pastor Who Was Dismissed from His Church
We are all getting older. Life is slipping by quickly and soon we shall stand before Him who will ask us to give account according to our works done in the body. When that happens, it will be important for…
A LLoyd-Jones Observation on How to Drive People (Men Especially) Away
Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Romans, Vol. 1, 252): It is an interesting thing that there are men, especially, who prefer a message when it does hit them and hurt them, and the one thing they cannot abide is sentimentality. Give…
Motivation for Obedience
John Stott in an appendix with the title, “Reflections of an Octogenarian, 27 April 2001”: . . . Let me share with you a conviction about obedience. John 14:21 is one of my favorite verses. Here are the words of…
How to Battle Pride: Be The Kind of Soil Where It Does Not Grow
Michael Ramsey quoted by John Stott: Thank God, often and always . . . Thank God carefully and wonderingly, for your continuing privileges . . .Thankfulness is a soil in which pride does not easily grow In, The Living Church:…
Reading, Reflection, and Preaching
“An individual without time to read broadly and intensely, without time to reflect on life, without time to compose (even if merely in a personal journal), is not likely to be an individual who can preach.” T. David Gordon.
Pentecost: When Babel Was Turned Upside Down
Tomorrow is Pentecost Sunday when we celebrate the pouring out of the Spirit and the inauguration of the New Covenant. Think prayerfully and deeply about Pentecost. It is an epochal Sunday! In a “must own” book on the Holy Spirit,…