Posts tagged Gospel
Quote of the Week (Part 2) – Mark Driscoll on Matt Chandler’s Brain Cancer
Feb 4th
The human experience commonly shared is suffering … If he [Matt Chandler] suffers well, that might be the most important sermon he’s ever preached.
– Mark Driscoll, on Matt Chandler’s Brain Cancer
#SBFCSW “Preaching Christ to the Natural Man”, Pastor Tom Ascol
Sep 26th
Sermon Poetry – “Lord, Help Me” Sermon Title – “Preaching Christ to the Natural Man” Preacher – Dr. Tom Ascol We live in a time where there’s gods all about We’re proud of our pluralist ways The people don’t know of the God of the Word Ignoring the Ancient of Days Lord help me when walking in markets and ways When working among fellow men Lord help me to preach Jesus Christ to the lost To sinners, the lost and the damned Lord help me be faithful to rightly engage The culture in which I am pleased To study and know it and judge it by truth Lord help and show me Your Grace Lord help me remember the sin of my heart The sin that enslaves these around Lord help me to love You and love neighbors too A sinner was lost, now I’m found In me light a fire that burns for Your Name Your honor and glory proclaim In culture around me, your honor to seek Proclaiming Your glorious fame Lord help me to study Your Scripture of Truth And study the culture around Respecting the sinner and loving the lost In Christ, make the lost sinner found And finally, Father, Your Truth will I tell I haven’t the strength on my own Please make me committed, Your glory to seek Save sinners in Jesus the Son
Quote of the Week – The Point is Jesus
May 13th
American evangelicalism has not done a great job at making Jesus the point of the enterprise of faith. We take the Gospel notion of “faith alone,” a belief many Reformers died contending for, and make it about us. We turn perseverance into personal empowerment and sanctification into self-improvement. We’ve made religion a bad word by turning Law into legalism and grace into license. We made Jesus our buddy, our co-pilot, our sidekick. We don’t have sin — we have “issues.” We say we have bad habits rather than admit we have sinful hearts. We look to Scripture in general as a toolbox of pick-me-up quotable quotes and to the Gospels specifically as a chronicle of warm-fuzzy behavioral aspirations. We forgo Christian repentance and gospel proclamation in favor of the culture war against gay marriage, evolution, atheism, liberalism, America forgetting her heritage, what-have-you. - Jared Wilson (http://gospeldrivenchurch.blogspot.com/2009/05/point-is-jesus.html)
Timmy Brister on Adoption
Aug 26th
I just came across this on Timmy Brister’s blog regarding the upcoming 2008 Together for Adoption Conference.
“One of the greatest ways to live counter-culturally in our day of rugged individualism where personal ambition and careers eclipse the call to embrace children is the practical application of the doctrine of adoption. If our spiritual adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers, then a gospel-driven response would be to offer the highest privilege to children with the same love our heavenly Father has bestowed upon us.” - Timmy Brister
