Tag: Selected Quotes

“What we do need to do is go over the temptations faced by people who live in the proximity of money. Teaching on this is also found in Scripture, but we are not nearly enough on our guard about it. If someone in our congregation received a windfall inheritance of 100 million dollars, the chances are pretty good that this person would receive scores of warnings not to let it go to his head. All the people around that guy will not receive any warnings, and they are the ones who really need it.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 5

“We need to remember that money will do what money always wants to do.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 4

“One danger is the obvious one of calling it cultural engagement when we are just drifting along with whatever it is the world is dishing up.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. x

“The principle is that you should take up the hard task of counting your shekels before undertaking the relatively easy task of spending them.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 2

“Our evangelism is not an attempt to helicopter victims out of a disaster area, but rather is the work of rebuilding a disaster area.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. x

“Worshiping God is not a means to another end. Worshiping God is the highest calling that any human being has, or that the entire human race has. It requires no other justification. Whatever we do, it should drive us to this great end. Whatever you do, it should culminate here, in the glorification of God. There is great wisdom in the first question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism here. This is our chief end”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. ix

“What is this structure for? When the structure is a church, the answer should obviously be that it was built to glorify God. But even this has to be connected to subordinate functions. A church building glorifies God in the architecture itself, but also in how it houses the singing acoustically, and whether it is obvious that the preaching occupies a central place, and so forth”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. v.