Quote of the Day

I have no sympathy with the preaching which degrades the Truth of God into a hobbyhorse for its own thought and only looks upon Scripture as a kind of pulpit from which it may thunder out its own opinions! No, if I have gone beyond what that Book has taught, may God blot out everything that I have said! I beseech you, never believe me if I go an atom beyond what is plainly taught there. I am content to live and to die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching—as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing—as one who never thought invention to be any part of his calling, but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people—mourning much that anything of his own should come between—but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

 

Charles Spurgeon

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…the more Jesus preached to the same crowds again and again, the more His messages were filled with rebukes and urgent pleas for their repentance.  He was not impressed with the size or enthusiasm of large crowds.  He was not interested in accumulating the kind of disciples whose main concern was for  what they might get out of the relationship.  He never upholstered his message to make it more cushy for popular opinion, and he never turned down  the rhetorical heat in order to keep the congregation as comfortable as possible.  If anything, His approach was the exact opposite.  He seemed to do everything He could to disquiet the merely curious who were unconverted.  They absolutely loved it when He did miracles.  He rebuked them for that, and He made sure they could not ignore his message." 

 - John Macarthur

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Any amount of nonsense has been talked about the need of novelty, and in that sense there is nothing particularly meritorious about being modern. A man who seriously describes his creed as Modernism might just as well invent a creed called Mondayism, meaning that he puts special faith in the fancies that occurred to him on Monday; or a creed called Morningism, meaning that he believed in the thoughts that occurred to him in the morning but not in the afternoon.

Modernity is only the moment of time in which we happen to find ourselves, and nobody who thinks will suppose that it is bound to be superior, either to the time that comes after it or to the time that went before. But in a relative and rational sense we may congratulate ourselves on knowing the news of the moment, and having realized recent facts or discoveries that some people still ignore.

- G. K. Chesterton