Text: Colossians 3:5-11 Title: A Radical Walk Theme: New life in Christ leads to a radical walk in this world. For Paul, doctrine demands duty; creed determines conduct; facts demand acts.” – R. Kent Hughes But now things are different. You’ve moved on. You don’t live at that address any longer, so why keep pretending [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Quotations’
28 Sep
Notes from the Sermon…(9/27)
Text: Colossians 2:16-23 Theme: The Gospel free us, but man-centered religion enslaves us. Quotations: “The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness [...]
21 Sep
Notes from the Sermon…(9/20)
I am going to start posting some of the quotations that I use in my sermons…these are from yesterday’s sermon: Text: Colossians 2:13-15 Theme: Our freedom flows from the Cross of Christ (We are freed from death, debt, and dominion) Quotations: Be sure you see this most wonderful and astonishing of all truths: God took [...]
21 Mar
Our Greatest Need
This was too good not to share. Of First Importance shares gems like this just about everyday and I get an email from them anytime they post something. “If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he [...]
11 Dec
Quotation: Meditating on the Word
I have been reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book Meditating On The Word as a means of thinking through my own study and meditation on God’s Word. I keep coming back to this quotation from a letter Bonhoeffer wrote to his brother-in-law Rudiger Schleicher in 1936. If it is I who say where God will be, I [...]
7 Oct
Good Reminder during political season
Here’s a good reminder during this political season from Mark Driscoll’s book Vintage Jesus: Our culture is filled with various people who are proclaimed to be, invarying degrees, messiahs. These messiahs include, for example, politicians who propose to save and deliver us from a terrible fate such as terrorism, poverty, or unreasonable taxation. Such messiahs [...]
25 Sep
John Stott Daily Thought
I get an email with a John Stott quotation every week day. This was yesterday’s: Nothing could sum up better the blessings of being in Christ than the expression ‘the reign of grace’. For grace forgives sins through the cross, and bestows on the sinner both righteousness and eternal life. Grace satisfies the thirsty soul [...]
10 Jul
Quotation: Spurgeon on Christ
I don’t want to fill up my blog unneccesarily with quotations, but this was too good not to share. I first read this on Tuesday evening (the last thing I read as I was falling asleep) and have returned to it several times sense. In fact, I was too tired to read last night, but [...]
8 Jul
Quotation: The Art of Pastoring
From David Hansen’s The Art of Pastoring: The call to repent assaults the Old Adam in us: the life of the flesh, our involvement in the sinful structures of this world, our stubborn refusal to yield to God’s will. We cherish our sin, we clutch it, it kills us but we love it. The gospel [...]
22 Jun
Quotation: Serious Times
From James Emery White’s Serious Times: Making Your Life Matter In An Urgent Day We allow the movement of God on the surface of our spirits to become lost amid the stones the world tosses thoughtlessly into our lives. As a result, we lose the vision God could give us of our world and our [...]
15 May
Help My Unbelief
In chapter eight of Jerry Bridges’ book Respectable Sins, there is a paragraph that uses the passage in Mark 9 (where the name of this blog comes from). It comes in the context of Bridges discussion on anxiety and frustration and I thought it was worthy to post here separately: It’s true, however, that oftentimes [...]
13 May
Einstein’s Folly
Read about a letter written by Albert Einstein being auctioned off where he says “the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.” There are other religious topics he also addresses, such as [...]
10 May
The Allure & Illusion of Freedom (continued)
Here is a quote from John Stott in keeping with the previous post from a couple of days ago: Many suppose that intellectual freedom is identical with ‘free thought’, that is, the liberty to think and believe absolutely anything you want to think and believe. But this is not freedom. To believe nothing is to [...]
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