Archive for the ‘quotes’ Category
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Piper describing George Whitefield's preaching, commenting on criticisms that Whitefield was merely "acting":
This was not a repressed acting. This was a released acting. It was not acting in the service of imagination. It was acting in the service of reality. This was not rendering the imaginary as real. It was ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Michael Oh:
My sister and I did well in school and we were tracking towards lucrative careers. We could have done anything. We could have been incredibly comfortable and recognized. Between my sister, my 2 brothers-in-law, my wife, and me, we have 15 undergraduate and graduate degrees. Eleven of the 15 ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
From page 182 of When People Are Big And God Is Small by Ed Welch:
Scott Peck, in his best-selling book, The Road Less Traveled, suggests that we can shape other people into host organisms. It is not a pretty picture: people are the intestine, we are the worm.
"I do ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Worth reading carefully:
The concept of substitution may be said, then, to lie at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
From pages 61-62 of Paul Tripp's Whiter Than Snow:
Here are the radical words I have been alluding to: "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). I must admit that I don't always greet God's kingdom with delight. There are things that ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Do you know why I often ask Christians, "What's the biggest thing you've asked God for this week?" I remind them that they are going to God, The Father, the Maker of the Universe, The One who holds the world in His hands. What did you ask God for? Did ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
O Lord, make me know my end
and what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting I am!
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
- Psalm 39:4-5
Come now, you ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
I've started going through Paul Tripp's Whiter Than Snow. It's a book of 52 short meditations on Psalm 51. Here's a snippet from the first one that I find immensely helpful.
Here’s the point. Before you can ever make a clean and unamended confession of your sin, you have to first ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
From When I Don't Desire God (page 151), on how to pray over your Bible reading:
I—(Incline!) The first thing my soul needs is an inclination toward God and his Word. Without that, nothing else will happen of any value in my life. I must want to know God and read ...
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