“Although teaching is a spiritual gift and a great privilege, it brings with it many dangers”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 78
Books to Discard
“But when it finally happened to her, the whole thing was far more illuminating than she had thought it would be and went all the way back to her girlhood. Vanity, selfishness, conceit, superficiality, covetousness, ambition—all of them tumbled off the top bookshelf of her mind and were just lying there on the floor, waiting for someone to pick them all up and throw them away.”
The Content Cluster Muster (02.20.20)
Time to Think About Logos Online: NSA SCHOLARSHIP: A Bit Different: And more here. This is Why God Wanted Us to Have the Internet: A Wise Caution: ESV Only?: Here is something chewy and nutritious for the theological part of your brain. The World is a Miraculous Place: https://twitter.com/NatureisScary/status/1229603194260598784
Fire in the Bones
“The pressure should begin to build inside us, until we feel we can contain it no longer. It is then that we are ready to preach. The whole process of sermon preparation, from beginning to end, was excellently summed up by an African American preacher who said, ‘First, I reads myself full, next I thinks myself clear, next I prays myself hot, and then I lets go.’”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 73
Thruppa-da-da
“So he just sat, not paying attention to much of anything. But occasionally a phrase from the prayer book would create a little spiritual thruppa-da-da, much like what happens when you forget to put the lawn mower in the garage for the winter, and try to get it started in the spring. Nothing much there, but occasionally there might be a noise that might indicate that at some point in the indefinite future there might be something there. Every three weeks or so, the Rev. Jane Hutchens, for that was her name, would read something profound that Thomas Cranmer had written in the sixteenth century, Lord knows why anymore, and Chad would shift in his seat. Thruppa-da-da.”
Unleashing My Inner Tozer
Introduction: Just when my life starts getting back to normal, the Southern Baptists hear about it and start acting up again. If you want a little background to these words that I say, consider this ...
Audio Reading of Post
131: What I Saw in America
This week Douglas Wilson chats the Extremes and Moderates in the political circus, unpacks the greek word astorgos, and recommends GK Chesterton’s What I Saw in America. Get Martin Luther’s Bondage of the Will with a foreword by Douglas Wilson here: https://canonpress.com/products/the-bondage-of-the-will/
131: What I Saw in America
This week Douglas Wilson chats the Extremes and Moderates in the political circus, unpacks the greek word astorgos, and recommends GK Chesterton’s What I Saw in America. Get Martin Luther’s Bondage of the Will with a foreword by Douglas Wilson here: https://canonpress.com/products/the-bondage-of-the-will/
Letters Are Back!
Letter to the Editor: Regarding 1 Corinthians 6 and "Whose Ox is Being sued" The text of 1 Corinthians 6 is straightforward enough in its prohibition of Christians taking one another to ...
Congregations Also Know
“Every preacher knows the difference between a heavy sermon which trundles along the runway like an overloaded passenger jet and never gets airborne, and a sermon which has ‘what a bird has, a sense of direction and wings.’”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 73