Theology That Bites Back
We have a meal here that entails consecration. All of Christ is offered to you, and in natural return, you are summoned to come. But when you are summoned to come, this means that all of you is summoned to come. The cup of blessing is here, set before you. But we want always to …
We have two basic purposes in our gathering here today. The one purpose is to remember and honor the life of Eileen Lawyer, and second and more fundamental purpose is to glorify the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now a common element in funerals is the presence of flowers. But the flowers we have …
Introduction: Spurgeon rightly says that this psalm is the testimony of a “struggling, but unstaggering, faith.” The Hebrew form of this psalm has no title, but the Septuagint attributes it to David, an assumption we will follow. Whether by David or not, it certainly fits in with his life and experience. God was with him …
We have noted that the foundation of every form of free government is self-government. Fools and blockheads cannot build a free society. We cannot govern ourselves collectively unless we know how to govern ourselves individually. And we cannot learn self-government apart from a work of the Spirit of God. This applies to every area where …
This is a meal, and physically speaking it is a very plain meal. We have simple bread and red wine set before us. At the same time, you are invited to get a great deal out of it. You are summoned to feed upon Christ here, and all that Christ contains—and He is infinite—is available …
The preacher’s “business is not to involve into the text, something that is extrinsic, but to evolve out of it, something that is intrinsic” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, pp. 168-169).
“Much of the problem of preaching today in respect of its lack of biblical content is due to the fact that men are too busy running the ecclesiastical machinery of their churches to soak their minds and spirits in the truth of Holy Scripture” (Martin, What’s Wrong With Preaching Today? p. 20).
“An idle minister — what will become of him? A pastor who neglects his office? Does he expect to go to heaven? I was about to say, ‘If he does go there at all, may it be soon.’ A lazy minister is a creature despised of men, and abhorred of God” (Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight …
“M’Cheyne said, ‘The man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself'” (Martin, What’s Wrong With Preaching Today? p. 18).
“He that cannot be safely imitated ought not to be tolerated in the pulpit” (Spurgeon, The Greatest Fight in the World, p. 40).
