Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: We do not yet know if this is what will happen, but we should at least know that this is what we should be bracing for. I know, it is almost a year until the voting in the general election happens, and I also know that these months could be a political eternity. All …
There is really only one reason why marriages become unhappy over time, and that reason is sin. And there is really only one reason why happy marriages are so astonishingly durable, and that is because the husband and the wife have learned the great lesson of how to deal with sin. And by “dealing with …
A symposium in Hollywood took a surprising turn yesterday, when a panel of experts spent about ten minutes bashing the evangelical film “industry.” Since the normal pattern for Hollywood insiders is to refuse even to acknowledge the existence of any such industry, observers took careful note of what was said. The discussion began with a …
“Exposition identifies the traps we must avoid. The two main pitfalls are forgetfulness and disloyalty. The forgetful expositor loses sight of his text when he follows his own ideas and forgets to follow what the text says. The disloyal expositor appears to stick to his text, but strains and stretches it so that it means something quite different from its original and natural meaning”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 29
“John was mildly irritated, not at Cindi, but with that special kind of vaguely aimed irritation that we for ourselves when in the presence of people who are being correct in our direction.”
“The biblical authors were honest men, not deceivers, and they intended their writings to be understood”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 27.
“The rest of them were about as indignant as a room full of wet cats”
Evangellyfish, p.133
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