>“The greatest peril for a preacher is wanting the acceptance and approval of his listeners. This is a serious thing that we have been called to and we will regularly have to say things that our culture thinks is foolish and the religious find offensive.” Matt Chandler
Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
24 Jan
>Why the Church stays indoors…
> “Why does the Church stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy, in which there is no thrill of faith, no terror of doom and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion, and worldliness garlands the altar of sacrifice with the tawdry glitter of unreality. [...]
22 Dec
>Something to think about…
> …we do not have to do our spiritual formation alone. For one thing, God is already at work in us to will and to do. For another thing we have been joined to a body of believers by God’s Spirit and they are all on the same pilgrimage. Spiritual formation is chiefly part of [...]
29 Sep
>Outrageous Calvinist quote of the day
>”Christian’s sin. Okay!? And we hate all sin and just because we do a sin that we decry does not mean that we are hypocrites. It means that we are Christians! And once again I ask myself the question: do people understand the Gospel?” – Todd Friel on Wretched Radio 9/28/2010
8 Sep
>God is…
> "God is a Spirit, holy in nature and attributes, absolute in reality, infinite in efficiency, perfect in personality, and thereby the ultimate ground, adequate cause and sufficient reason for all finite existence." H. Orton Wiley
8 Sep
>Are you looking forward to Christ’s return?
>”Do you love the Lord’s appearing? Then you will bend every effort to take the gospel into all the world. It troubles me in the light of the clear teaching of God’s Word, in the light of our Lord’s explicit definition of our task in The Great Commission, that we take it so lightly…His is [...]
7 Sep
>A Hunger for God
>”The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world.” – John Piper
21 Aug
>5 Ways We Take God’s Mercy For Granted
>According to Charles Spurgeon here are five ways we take the mercy of God for granted: By allowing it to remain, unnoticed, ungratefully passing it over. By claiming it as our due, and talking as if God were bound to bear with us. By opposing its design, and refusing to repent (Prov. 1:24-25). By perverting [...]
13 Aug
>The importance of the Holy Spirit
>”You might as well try to see without eyes, hear without ears, or breathe without lungs, as to try to live the Christian life without the Holy Spirit” Dwight L. Moody
7 Jul
>The machine-gun hermeneutic
>”The machine-gun hermeneutic is essentially an argument from verbosity using Scriptural quotations. I could break down the entire chapter of Hebrews 10, and demonstrate how the entire context, as well as the intention of the entire book, demonstrate that it is possible that a true believer can fall away from the faith. Then the Calvinist [...]
