All the great divertissements are dangerous for the Christian life, but among all those which the world has invented, none is more to fear than the theatre.
~ in Pensees, ch. 24, 60
All of us have been created with a God-shaped vacuum that only God can fill.
Happiness is neither within or without us—it is in God and only when God is in us is happiness within and without us.
We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit.
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A true love to God must begin with a delight in His holiness and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Seek the truth
Listen to the truth
Teach the truth
Love the truth
Abide by the truth
And defend the truth
Unto death.
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Without Christ life is as the twilight with dark night ahead; with Christ it is the dawn of morning with the light and warmth of full day ahead.
~ Philip Schaff
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
~ John Henry Newman
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Who has not the Church for mother can no longer have God for father.
~ Cyprian, in On the Unity of the Catholic Church
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No living creature, except for a man, is able to take a risk, and even the risk of death, for the sake of
truth. Thousands of martyrs who have lived are a unique phenomenon in the history of our solar system.
~ Aleksandr Menn
Sharp persecution breaks off only the tips of the branches. It produces martyrs and the tree still grows. Never-ending social and political repression, on the other hand, starves the roots; it stifles evangelism and the church declines.
~ Samuel Moffett, in A History of Christianity in Asia
If the Tiber reaches the walls, if the Nile does not rise to the fields, if the sky does not move, or the earth does, if there is famine, if there is plague, the cry is at once, “The Christians to the lions.”
~ Tertullian
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
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What’s on your iPod? It is common for people to talk about Summer Reading — what about Summer Listening?
May I make a suggestion? How about using this summer to listen to one of the many free Seminary classes that are available for free online? I have listed below two sources for audio from actual seminary classes that are available for free online. You can listen to them as streaming audio or as an Mp3 download. If you don’t find something that interests you from the list below, check with me and I can set you up with a few more sources for similar material.
Available from BiblicalTraining.org (you have to take 30 seconds to sign up in order to gain access, but don’t worry about spam as they only send out an email 2 or 3 times a year, and usually it is just to let you know that more studies have been made available):
Daniel Wallace (Dallas Theological Seminary)
Robert Stein (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
Gerald Bray (Beeson Divinity School)
Gordon Isaac (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
Ron Nash (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
Peter Kuzmic (Evangelical Theological Seminary)
Timothy Tennent (Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary)
- Buddhism
- Hinduism (Foundations)
- Islam
- The World Mission of the Church (Foundations)
- World Religions (Foundations)
Bruce Ware (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
Bill Mounce
- 52 Major Stories of the Bible
- Biblical Greek
- Biblical Training Institute
- Greek Tools for Bible Study
- Now that I Believe
Bryan Chapell (Covenant Theological Seminary)
John Piper (Bethel)
Miles van Pelt (Reformed Theological Seminary)
Douglas Stuart (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
Paul House (Beeson Divinity School)
Frank Thielman (Beeson Divinity School)
George Guthrie (Union University)
Gary Parrett (Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary)
Craig Blomberg (Denver Seminary)
- Introduction to the New Testament: Epistles
- Introduction to the New Testament: Gospel and Acts
- New Testament Survey
Gerry Breshears (Western Seminary)
And, these are available from Covenant Theological Seminary:
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Sunday School was originally established as a place for poor children to learn to read.
“Jesus, Lamb of God:
have mercy on us.
Jesus, bearer of our sins:
have mercy on us.
Jesus, redeemer of the world:
give us your peace. Amen.”
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