Archive for the ‘Quote of the Day’ Category
Get Dirty…
July 8th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in » Christian Living, Quote of the Day
Interesting quote I ran across this morning…
You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. (Cecil Baxter)
What a great reminder for we Christians that so like to “reach out” from our safe little sanctuaries… ministry is a messy business. If we’re going to love and serve as God intends, helping to “clean up” the lives of those who need it most… we can’t do so without getting a bit of the “dirt” so prevalent in the lives of the lost on ourselves.
It’s an equally good reminder of what Christ has done for us. Our righteousness… our cleanliness… purchased by the sacrifice of Christ… by His willingness to take all of our filthy sins upon Himself so that the just punishment for them might be given.
Anyway, you know it’s a good quote when you can get that much application from it, right?
Fluffy Bunnies…
March 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in » My Life, Quote of the Day
As Nancy and I were talking tonight, she was sharing with me about how she had spent quite a bit of time today sharing the real meaning of Easter with Jeffrey, Jenna, and Allison. As we discussed how difficult it is to teach them the truth of Easter in the face of our culture’s message about it, she said something that I thought was pretty profound. When she said, “Sometimes I really need a blog” as a follow-up comment, I knew I had to post it here.
The quote?
When did death, burial, and resurrection turn into fluffy bunnies, cute chicks, and colored eggs?
We may be Southern Baptists, and this may go against our latest confessional statement… but I’ll say the one thing I can say in response.
Preach it, baby!
If God Had a Refrigerator…
November 26th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in » Just For Fun..., Pictures, Quote of the Day
Nancy picked up a new t-shirt for Jenna last weekend. Just thought I’d share a photo of her modeling it for us.
In case you can’t quite make out what it says, the text is, “If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it!”
Very cute, a bit cheesy, yet most profound.
The Truth…
August 1st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in » Devotions / Bible Studies, Quote of the Day
I hate to interrupt the photo series, but I saw this quote today and had to post it:
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
– Herbert Agar
While I’m not quite sure the context of this quote, it’s DEFINITELY applicable to Christianity.
Jesus proclaimed, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
It’s this truth… that Jesus is truth… that we simply don’t want to hear or acknowledge. And yes, that goes for Christians as much as non-believers.
Jesus is truth. His ways are truth. But we want to continue to do things our way, on our terms.
We prefer not to hear, and remain enslaved to… well, insert what’s trapping you here.
Isn’t the freedom that Christ provides a better option? Open your ears… hear Him today… and be free.
The Vine and the Oak
July 9th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in » Christian Living, Quote of the Day
I ran across this quote about a year back, and recently came across it again. Good stuff about the kind of relationship we should have with God.
The vine clings to the oak during the fiercest of storms. Although the violence of nature may uproot the oak, twining tendrils still cling to it. If the vine is on the side opposite the wind, the great oak is its protection; if it is on the exposed side, the tempest only presses it closer to the trunk. In some of the storms of life, God intervenes and shelters us; while in others He allows us to be exposed, so that we will be pressed more closely to Him.
– B. M. Launderville
Savage Controversies…
June 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in » Baptist Issues, Quote of the Day
I ran across the following quote this morning, and thought it very much applicable to SBC matters…
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
– Bertrand Russell
Just thought I’d share.
“Beer-vangelism”?
January 29th, 2007 | 7 Comments | Posted in » Baptist Issues, In the News..., Quote of the Day
I’m not terribly fond of the title of this article, but it’s an interesting read about The Journey in St. Louis (a non-traditional church that is doing a phenomenal job of reaching young people) and the controversy surrounding a discussion forum they hold called “Theology at the Bottleworks”.
I have to say, I really enjoyed how the following response to this article (found on the Missouri Baptist mailing list) put this into perspective:
Nothing reveals the Glory of God to the nations, nothing communicates the power of the Risen Lord to a lost world, nothing draws all men to Jesus Christ… like a bunch of Baptists fighting over beer.
To be honest, I’m still not sure how some Missouri Baptists can let themselves get so upset about this matter. Didn’t Jesus go where the lost and hurting were? Why shouldn’t we?
Antiquarian Curiosity Seekers…
January 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments | Posted in » Quote of the Day
I heard an interesting anecdote this morning on the radio in a sermon from Pastor Bob Coy of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale (interestingly to me, he resembles my friend Kevin Bussey!). I had to share it here.
First, the quote (this is from the internet, not word for word from his sermon)…
One hundred years from my day there will not be a Bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker.
– attributed to Voltaire (1694-1778)
Tradition has it that at some point after his death, the Geneva Bible Society purchased Voltaire’s home, and could be found using it as a Bible printing facility.
Whether true or not (a bit of internet research raises some questions about the validity of this story), it’s a good illustration of God’s sense of humor. It’s almost as if God said, “Well, I’ll show you.”
Voltaire couldn’t have been much more wrong (unless you count millions of Christians as “antiquarian curiosity seekers”).
On Alcohol… from the Florida Baptist Convention
December 1st, 2006 | 4 Comments | Posted in » Baptist Issues, Quote of the Day
Interesting. This Baptist Press article addresses statements made at the Florida Baptist Convention regarding alcohol.
Here’s a few of the “highlights”:
We are not going to have people on our boards of trustees that do not believe in total abstinence.
– John Sullivan (Executive Director-Treasurer of Florida Baptist Convention)
God saved me from that and when we make decisions, I want it to be done in sobriety. We may not always be right, but we’ll always be sober.
– John Sullivan (Executive Director-Treasurer of Florida Baptist Convention)
I don’t drink, don’t want to, don’t need to. That’s not my point. But I can’t make that text say that the man can’t take a drink.
– Voddie Baucham (Houston evangelist)
Don’t you let it touch your lips. How ironic is that? Can I tell you why that’s the position we take? Because we don’t have a problem with alcoholic pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention.
– Voddie Baucham (Houston evangelist)
It’s probably safe to say that Baptists will never agree on alcohol consumption… (no, I’m not talking about what kind!).
Entertainment… Evil?
November 22nd, 2006 | 5 Comments | Posted in » Quote of the Day
I ran across the following quote on another blog today… thought provoking stuff.
I believe that amusements were created by the devil to take the minds of dying men off of their dying. I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the enemy to keep dying men from knowing they’re dying and to keep men who are enemies of God from remembering they are enemies. . . . Fallen human nature plus the work of the devil have given us something to keep us thinking harmless thoughts and pleasant thoughts in order that we might not settle the matter of eternal soul welfare. The man who comes home at night, God in heaven knows, and nobody else does, that just three weeks away is a coronary thrombosis that will drop him on the sidewalk. God knows it and he doesn’t and his family doesn’t. If he knew it, he’d be calling in the preacher and reading his Bible and getting straight with God. And why isn’t he going to call anybody and get right with God? Too many funny things on the radio, too many funny things on T.V., too many Life magazines, too many comic strips, too many things that he can do! Too many bowling clubs, too many theaters, too many night ball-games, too much everything to take his mind off the fact that his troubles are real and that the agitation and disharmony and discord within him are the result of his fall and his sin. . . . Now if that’s radicalism, you can quote me, I don’t care. I believe that.
– A.W. Tozer
What do you think? Is there much truth in this? How should whatever truth this quote embodies be implemented in our lives?
