Tag: Chrestomathy

“So put on Christ (Rom. 13:14; Gal. 3:47). Put on your Jesus coat. And make sure you put your arms through both sleeves.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 43

“The family is the ministry of health, education and welfare. The Church is the ministry of grace and peace. The civil magistrate is the ministry of justice. But the (non-institutional) government that supports and makes possible all three of these is self-government.”

Gashmu Saith It, pp. 42-43

“We like to describe self-controlled people as ‘unemotional,’ but what we really mean is that their emotions are not half-civilized yard apes on a sugar rush.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 41

“In a biblical framework, you and all your feelings are like a first-grade teacher taking her whole class to some busy downtown museum, and because she loves them, every last one of them is on a neon-colored leash.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 40

“Hard teaching creates tender hearts. Tender teaching creates hard hearts. The jackhammer of the Word breaks up our hard hearts. The feather duster of the Word leaves our hard hearts just where they were.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 38

“Love and justice are defined from outside the world.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 36

“Pastors and elders are not allowed to look at their flocks on a distant hillside, as painted by an impressionist at a low point in his game, and while also working with dirty brushes.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 28

“This message of the cross lies at the center of our existence, and there are enough antibodies there to fight off every form of a creeping carnal respectability.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 23

“Preaching Christ means preaching both His words and His wounds. You cannot preach the cross, which is a scandal, without scandal. There is no such thing as sanitized gospel faithfulness. It doesn’t exist, and never has.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 22

“When David went out to face Goliath, he was not looking for a dialogue partner.”

Gashmu Saith It, p. 21