On June 28, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield fought a rematch of a previous boxing match. Holyfield had won the first battle, but some questioned whether he could withstand the powerful punches of Tyson again. It wasn’t the punches of Tyson that floored Holyfield, but the biting of Tyson that shocked the world. Tyson bit […]
Read More The FightI have not read Don Piper’s book, 90 Minutes in Heaven. Nor, at least at this point, do I plan to do so. As I select books to read, I consider several criteria: is it written by an author that I know, trust, and enjoy? is it about a topic that is either theologically or […]
Read More 90 Minutes in HeavenKris Lundgaard, Through the Looking Glass: Some who seem to be sincere believers never stop to meditate on Christ and his glory. Oddly, they claim that they want nothing more than to see his glory in heaven forever. How can we reconcile this? It is impossible for someone who never delights to reflect on the […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Desire for God (Lundgaard)The easiest thing to do when seeing immaturity and weakness and failure in ourselves or in other people is to quit. The hardest thing to do when seeing immaturity and weakness and failure in ourselves or in other people is to continue with Christ. The hardest part about ministry is not the what or the […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers, 8/30/09John Piper, The Roots of Endurance: The twenty-first century will not be an easy time to be a Christian. It is not meant to be easy. But we are not left without help. The Bible centers on a crucified, risen, and reigning Christ and is full of promises for every crisis. And the history of […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Endurance (Piper)Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: The Spirit of God is peculiarly precious to us, because he especially instructs us as to the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that is the main point of our preaching. He takes of the things of Christ, and shows them unto us.
Read More Today’s Quote – Holy Spirit (Spurgeon)Leon Morris, The Cross in the New Testament: In His death He is not apart from sinful men. He is executed as sinful men are executed. Through all His ministry He had sought out sinful men. At the climax of it all He is clearly one with them.
Read More Today’s Quote – Christ’s Death (Morris)In Ephesians 2:12, Paul notes that prior to their salvation, the Gentile Ephesians had “no hope.” Which God me to wondering. Just how hopeless is hopeless? Just what will one who has no hope say about his life? Now not all men will recognize their hopelessness, and even if they do, not all will verbalize […]
Read More How hopeless is hopeless?Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on.
Read More Today’s Quote – Character (Chambers)“The greatest thing in the world is to be saved.” Many, obviously, have believed this. But one man spoke that to his pastor even while he was lying on his death bed. And one of the realities that will stimulate us to believe that salvation is great is understanding just how lost we were prior […]
Read More Sunday Leftovers (8/23/09)John Owen, in Contending For Our All: Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend, I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.
Read More Today’s Quote – Fellowship with God (Owen)John Piper, Contending For Our All: Packer says that Puritans differ from evangelicals today because with them “Communion with God was a great thing, to evangelicals today it is a comparatively small thing. The Puritans were concerned about communion with God in a way that we are not. The measure of our unconcern is the […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Fellowship (Packer)Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: Watch the twists and turns and singularities of your own mind, and the strangeness of your own experience; the depravity of your heart, and the work of divine grace; your tendency to sin, and your capacity for holiness; how akin you are to a devil, and yet how allied […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Indwelling Sin (Spurgeon)For those who serve in leadership in the church, 1 Peter 5:2ff is a familiar section: Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness; nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, […]
Read More Shepherd the flockAl Mohler, in Preaching the Cross: Most Americans believe that their major problem is something that has happened to them, and that their solution is to be found within. In other words, they believe that they have an alien problem that is to be resolved with an inner solution. What the gospel says, however, is […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Gospel (Mohler)
