If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. (Augustine of Hippo -354-430) Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek that gospel which rips up, and tears, and cuts,...
Spiritual people are people who have taken the log out of their eye insofar as they know themselves, they have repented of their sins and cast themselves on the mercy of Jesus and depend on the Holy Spirit (John Piper) Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom....
When you have a god that is a thing, a god that you can use, an object, neighbors also become things, something to use, objects. With an impersonal god, you end up with an impersonal neighbor. (Eugene Peterson) When the LORD is God, we will love our neighbor in our...
Satan is fine with us making the world a better place, and even doing so in the name of Christ, so long as we stop short of recognizing Jesus as Lord. (Ryan Denison) The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And men who can’t lead a church to worship must...
It is in the face of death that the riddle of a human existence grows most acute. Not only is man tormented by pain and the advancing deterioration of his body, but even more so by a dread of perpetual extinction. (James Denison quoting Second Vatican Council in 1965)...
