Tag: Chrestomathy

[Concerning 2 Therss. 3:6-8] “So what is the apostolic tradition? Work hard. Show up on time. Don’t call in sick when you aren’t. Don’t be a malingerer. In short, the apostolic tradition is not esoteric at all. Change your oil every three thousand miles. Rotate your tires.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 81

“When we surrender the glory of man, He invites us up into the glory of God.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 82

“A church that does not practice church discipline is a church with an immune system collapse.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 89

“Damnation is a function of loving a lie, preeminently the lies you tell yourself. Self-deception is the prince of all deceptions. The wrath of God is seen in this, when God gives people over to what they have loved all along.”

Mines of Difficulty, pp. 78-79

“In Heaven and Hell, we become what we have always been becoming. Men and women who love Christ will grow to love Him more and more, while men and women who hate Him will only sink deeper into that hatred.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 73

“You don’t want to be the gardener who gets so focused on pulling weeds that he forgets he is doing so in order to grow something else. It is supposed to be a flower garden, not a no-weeds dirt patch.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 68

“How should you deal with it when your theology tells you that you area living on the edge of a precipice? You should go out to the workshop. You should plant a tree. You should make dinner.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 64

“In the flesh, people who like to test things tend to be ornery; they like to see people crash and burn. In the flesh, people who are eager to hold fast to that which is good tend to want everything to be good; everybody gets a participant ribbon. And these two errors feed off each other.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 57

[Concerning Heb. 13:7,17; 1 Thess. 5:12-13]
“These exhortations require the leaders of the church to know the names of those they are responsible for, and it requires the members of the church to know the names of those they are responsible to. The requirements are gibberish otherwise.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 56

“The Jewish War would ‘fill up’ the sins of Israel (Matt. 23:32). That event would begin the ‘times of the Gentiles,’ a period that would eventually be completed. I take that completion as being marked by the conversion of the Jews, an event that has not yet happened (Rom. 11:15). This means we are still living in the times of the Gentiles.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 52