Spurgeon once again : “When you preach, speak out straight, but be very tender about it; and if there is an unpleasant thing to be said, take care that you put it in the kindest possible form. Some of our brethren had a message to deliver to a certain Christian brother, and when they went to him they put it so awkwardly that he was grievously offended. When I spoke to him about the same matter, he said, ‘I would... Read more
Spurgeon once more: “If any gentleman here would present me with a cannon-ball, say one weighing fifty or a hundred pounds, and let me roll it across the room; and another would entrust me with a rifle-ball, and a rifle out of which I could fire it, I know which would be the more effective of the two. Let no man despise the little bullet, for very often that is the one that kills the sin, and kills the sinner,... Read more
JOLLYBLOGGER muses on his current absense from blogging: “Your wife, who usually tells you to get off the computer, quit blogging and come to bed, says ‘honey, you haven’t blogged in three days.’ Then when it’s the fourth day and you still haven’t blogged she says ‘you better blog something, there are people out there expecting something from you.’ So I say to her ‘who are you and what have you done with my wife………… with it being Valentine’s week... Read more
The Theology Blogs aggregator has been born. It will be run by Mike of Eternal Perspectives and is for preachers and theologicans. Read more
Blogotional: “‘Charismatic’ is a very loaded term. In my thinking it refers not to those that believe the Holy Spirit is active in revealing God in the present day, but rather, it refers to those that believe either Pentecostal theology concerning the baptism of the Holy Spirit, or those with an unhealthy focus on the more miraculous manifestations of the Spirit, often to the exclusion or dismissal of those with less spectacular gifting. As Adrian is using the word, I... Read more
Eternal Perspectives quotes Brad Young on this : “‘The issue of prayer is God. People mistakenly pray as if God is a friend who does not care or a judge who does not deal justly . . . in many ways the theme of these colorful illustrations can be summarized by saying, ‘God is your good friend.’ Because God is good, perseverance in prayer will receive the answer.'” Read more
Richard says: “Jesus does not make propitiation, He is Propitiation. Hope this Clears everything up” Sorry Richard, it doesnt. I don’t get it at all. If anyone else can explain to me exactly what that means that would be most helpful Read more
Spurgeon once more: “If you yield yourself thus unreservedly to the mind and will of God, by-and-by, when you get out into the ministry, you will sometimes be impelled to use a strange expression or to offer an odd prayer, which at the time may have a queer look even to yourself; but it will be all explained to you afterwards, when someone comes to tell you that he never understood the truth until you put it that day in... Read more
Spurgeon said You may depend upon it that you may make men understand the truth if you really want to do so; but if you are not in earnest, it is not likely that they will be. If a man were to knock at my door in the middle of the night, and when I put my head out of the window to see what was the matter, he should say, in a very quiet, unconcerned way, “There is a... Read more
Spurgeon said “You must also believe in the power of that message to save people. You may have heard the story of one of our first students, who came to me, and said, ‘I have been preaching now for some months, and I do not think I have had a single conversion.’ I said to him, ‘And do you expect that the Lord is going to bless you and save souls every time you open your mouth?’ ‘No, sir,’ he... Read more
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