Here's What They Said

The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past. It is Christ's past. -Sinclair Ferguson

From this guy Michael Horton I've been hearing about on the blogosphere:

For Paul, such gifts are given immediately in Christ and worked out in the believer's life, while for many today as in every age, these gifts are the prize for the believer's success.

And:

A gospel that "works" for zealous perfectionists one moment merely creates
tomorrow’s disillusioned and spent supersaints.

How 'bout this from the Internet Monk archives(the rest of the post is quite gleeful as well):

Martin Luther would have beat up your prissy pastor and poured beer on him.

How 'bout Luther himself:

You are an advocate for these most barbarous soul-murderers, who fill the world with hypocrites, and with such as blaspheme God and hate him in their hearts, in order that they may restrain them from a little outward sin. As though there were no other way of restraining, which makes no hypocrites, and is wrought without any destroying of consciences.

Or this:

Let us equip ourselves against the accusations of Satan with this and similar passages of Holy Scripture. If he says, "Thou shalt be damned," you tell him: "No, for I fly to Christ who gave Himself for my sins. In accusing me of being a damnable sinner, you are cutting your own throat, Satan. You are reminding me of God's fatherly goodness toward me, that He so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. In calling me a sinner, Satan, you really comfort me above measure." With such heavenly cunning we are to meet the devil's craft and put from us the memory of sin.

C.S. Lewis on hell

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others . . . but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God 'sending us' to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

He Said WHAT?

Honestly, it's as if I just read 2 blogs and then regurgitate what they're saying, or just link to it. This time it's Gospel Driven Church again...

I will be throroughly surprised if people all over the blogosphere don't start gesticulating wildly and shouting "Did you hear what he just said?"

Here's a touch, then go read the rest:

I still have some basic objections with the message communicated in the use of video preaching.... one reason against it that I haven't blogged on is this: A preacher on a TV screen can't be murdered.

I guess he wasn't kidding when he titled his book Your Jesus Is Too Safe...