February 2012
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Francis Schaeffer on T.D. Jakes…err…I mean Karl...
In recent years it has often been said that Karl Barth changed his views toward the end of his life. If this was so, then all could have been easily cared for by his writing one more book amongst his many books and, while he was yet living, making it known that his views of Scripture, his lack of a space-time Fall, and his implicit universalism had been publicly repudiated. In the light of his...
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“For Christianity is not romantic; it is realistic. Christianity is realistic...”
– Francis Schaeffer in The God who is There.
“Exegesis is not the finished product but rather a servant to it. It is not th...”
– Murray, _How Sermons Work), p. 39.
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“To withhold discipline is neither a compliment nor a kindness; and the...”
– Derek Kidner in his TOTC commentary on Proverbs. (Via Paul Wegner’s article “Discipline in the Book of Proverbs” in JETS 48/4.
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“[Jesus] would go to Jerusalem not to wield the spear and bring the judgment, but...”
– Edmund Clowney via D.A. Carson’s Pillar Commentary on John, 273.
“Preaching, he says, “may be slow work; it often is; it is a long-term policy....”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in Preaching and Preachers.
January 2012
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Spurgeon: No Doubt as to what we believe and teach →
Read it…live it!
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“See the book as profoundly God-centered, reading the whole in light of the...”
– Guidelines for Reading/Listening to the Book of Job — George H. Guthrie
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“Almost every doctrinal error starts with the desire to affirm or to protect some...”
– Nuance Is Necessary – Kevin DeYoung
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“It’s painful, expensive, time-consuming, stressful and ultimately...”
– Seth Godin
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“Hopelessness destroys moral conviction by making it look ludicrous. And...”
– John Piper in Bloodlines
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“And he who created all things in the beginning with this goal in mind will...”
– Peter Thomas O’Brien, The Letter to the Ephesians, The Pillar New Testament commentary, 244 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999).
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Sad Irony
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Yesterday: I began reading John Piper’s Bloodlines which is now available for free in pdf format.2 While there are many areas of theology and practice where I would disagree with Pastor Piper, I have been encouraged by the first four chapters. Racism is absolutely and unequivocally incompatible with the Gospel.
Today: One of the occupational hazards of being on deputation is...
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“The Word was with God, God’s eternal Fellow; the Word was God, God’s own Self.”
– Edmund Clowney on John 1:1.1
D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John, 117 (Leicester, England: W.B. Eerdmans, 1991). ↩
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“I doubt that putting right-wingers in their place is the most pressing issue in...”
– Does Jesus Hate Religion? Kinda, Sorta, Not Really – Kevin DeYoung
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“Whenever Slovenians speak positively or negatively of Church or religion, they...”
– Jason Blake in Slovenia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
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“While the modernist imagines herself a perfectly fit arbiter and neutral judge...”
– Jon Hinkson and Greg Ganssle in Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns
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“I don’t care what’s out of place. I care about what’s best.”
– John Gruber of Daring Fireball
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Hope
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Not the maybe, kinda, sort of, middle school guy hoping the girl he has a crush on will ask him out to the Sadie Hawkins dance (or banquet for us IFBer’s) type of hope. Hope in the Bible springs from faith. Hope is not the prospect that something might happen, but rather it is the expectation that whatever has been promised will happen.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and...
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“I like his way of doing it better than other people’s way of not doing it.”
– D. L. Moody
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“People need to grasp not only the theoretical concept of evil and wrong, but...”
– Mark Dever in Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns
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“His name is holy because He is holy.”
– The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul
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“We become more dependent when we recognize the truth of Francis Schaeffer’s...”
– Church Planter by D. Patrick.
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Always winter, never Christmas
“Always winter, but never Christmas.” This was the curse upon Narnia in C.S. Lewis’ classic. Good writing is amazing. Lewis instantly transports us to a bleak world, but not just a bleak world–a world without hope.
His five simple words capture the timbre of a life without Christ at its center. Tim Keesee applied these words aptly to the world of missions and unevangelized...
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“The name of God is God’s revelation of himself.”
– For the Sake of God’s Name – Justin Taylor
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“God wants us to stop obsessing about the future and trust that He holds the...”
– Highlighted by John Grasty in Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will by Kevin DeYoung
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“His holy character has something to say about economics, politics, athletics,...”
– The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul
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“It is not that there is no mind, but rather that there is no evangelical.”
– Carl Trueman in The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
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“Let us not forget that the doctrine of Christian exclusivism developed in a...”
– Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns, ed. D.A. Carson