“The itch of self-regard craves the scratch of self-approval.” Battling Unbelief by John Piper. Page 49
Category Archives: Aside
Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about ‘man’s search for God.’ To me, as I then was, they might as well have talked about the mouse’s search for the cat
Aside
“Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about ‘man’s search for God.’ To me, as I then was, they might as well have talked about the mouse’s search for the cat.” -Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
We want improvement not regeneration or transformation
Aside
We want improvement not regeneration or transformation
Has Jesus Been Worth It?
Aside
“you care less for God and truth than for security and comfort. Your fear of losing them powers your unbelief. Jesus once said, ‘whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?’ So I need to ask you: is security and comfort worth that,”
“many people have accepted Christianity intellectually but have never come under the power of the Word and the gospel and therefore have “not truly repented.”
“many people have accepted Christianity intellectually but have never come under the power of the Word and the gospel and therefore have “not truly repented.”
-Exerpted from Lloyd-Jones on Preaching and the Gospel (part 2) by Tim Keller
Christ Died For The Sins Of Christians Too
Aside
Christ Died For The Sins Of Christians Too blog Post by Tullian Tchividjian (Guest Post by Dr. Rod Rosenbladt)
External compliance and the grace of God
Aside
“There is no way to get people to do more than to constantly show them what Christ has already done for them”
“External compliance without heart change is shallow and short lived”
men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God
Aside
“men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.”
-John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (trans. Henry Beveridge; Accordance electronic ed. Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), n.p.
heaven isn’t a place for those who fear hell; it’s a place for those who love God
Aside
“heaven isn’t a place for those who fear hell; it’s a place for those who love God”
-Grace Driven Effort: The Weapons Grace Provides by Matt Chandler
People do not drift toward holiness
Aside
“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, and obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
-For the Love of God (Vol. 2) by D.A. Carson
