November 2010
6 posts
“The revelation … of Christ … deserves the severest of our thoughts,...”
– John Owen, Works, I, p. 275 via John Piper on John Owen
“I hold myself bound in conscience and in honor, not even to imagine that I have...”
– John Owen, Works, X, p. 488 via John Piper on John Owen
“I must now say, that, after all my searching and reading, prayer and assiduous...”
– John Owen, Works, I, p. lxxxv via John Piper on John Owen
“The true notion of holy evangelical truths will not live, at least not flourish,...”
– John Owen, Works, I, p. lxiv-lxv. via John Piper on John Owen
October 2010
2 posts
“As a pastor, I am certain that I need to realize that, under God, the local...”
– Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church p18
“Bad churches are terribly effective anti-missionary forces.”
– Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church p13
September 2010
3 posts
The Glory of History
It is the nature and glory of history that in every new moment, every now, there is a genuinely new opportunity for the display of the glory and kingdom of God that did not exist, and could not exist, a moment ago.
“The education of children for God is the most important business done on Earth....”
– R.L. Dabney, nineteenth century theologian (cited from Mars Hill School)
“The particularity of Christ is exactly what prevents the church from being an...”
– Kenda Creasy Dean, in The Christian Century
August 2010
1 post
“There is no other way by which human communities - whether a mountain tribe in...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Signs Amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History p88
July 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“The church witnesses to the true end for which all creation and all human being...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p117
“Christians can never seek refuge in a ghetto where their faith is not proclaimed...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p115
June 2010
1 post
“Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government...”
– Senator Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, quoted by Roland Fryer
May 2010
6 posts
“But it isn’t so much a matter of what you do as a parent; it’s who...”
– Freakonomics, p175
“The gospel of Jesus is not religion or irreligion, morality or immorality,...”
– Tim Keller, The Prodigal God, p45
“In her novel Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor says of her character Hazel...”
– Tim Keller, The Prodigal God, p37
“The conscience that is required to keep capitalism going has no ontological...”
– Lesslie Newbigin
“[In the parable of the prodigal God] the elder brother is not losing the...”
– Tim Keller, The Prodigal God p35
“Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling...”
– Tim Keller, The Prodigal God p37
April 2010
6 posts
“To make disciples is to call and equip men and women to be signs and agents of...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p133 