“Whatever you worship in place of God is another thing you lose. Whatever you surrender gladly to Him is returned to you, pressed down, shaken, and running over.”
Ploductivity, p. 62
Not if Evangelism is Happening
“Church growth must not be thought of as a zero sum game, where one church can only grow at the expense of the others.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 69
As Good as It Might Be
Two Effects
“There are two effects of every sermon, one special, in the enforcement of a single thought, or the inculcation of a single duty; the other general, in the diffusion of a sense of the beauty of holiness and the value of truth.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 148
Not in the Job Description
“It is not [the preacher’s] business to despair of anybody.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 148
A Third Way Needed
“The technophile just assumes that man is the measure of all things, and he plumps his resume in order to get a job with Google, so that he too may become one of the lords of the earth. The technophobe just memorizes the poetry of Wendell Berry, and years for the days of yesterday when all our food was eked out under a hot sun by a slow mule and a picturesque peasant staggering behind it.”
Ploductivity, p. 59
The Location of Law
“In that Holy of Holies, the law of God was kept inside the ark, but under the mercy seat. And so that is how we treasure our commitment to the law—under the mercy.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 67
The Content Cluster Muster (10.07.21)
When God Appears to Be Telling Some Nondescript Open Road Somewhere That It Is Time to Step It Up: Jokes I Like to Tell: One time there was a minister of a small country church, and in the course of his ministrations one Sunday he noticed, in the second row back, that one of his …
Literacy Where It Counts
“What is evangelical faith? It is spiritual literacy. The natural man does not understand the things of the spirit because they are spiritual discerned.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 65
Preparing for the Savage Gods
Introduction: The reason the apostle John tells the members of a faithful Christian church to "keep yourselves from idols" is that he knew that there would be times when they did not want to keep themselves ...
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