Quote for the day

The contemporary moral climate does not favor a faith as tough and fibrous as that taught by our Lord and His apostles. The delicate, brittle saints being produced in our religious hothouses today are hardly to be compared with the committed, expendable believers who once gave their witness among men. And the fault lies with our leaders. They are too timid to tell the people all the truth. They are now asking men to give to God that which costs them nothing.

Our churches these days are filled (or one-quarter filled) with a soft breed of Christian that must be fed on a diet of harmless fun to keep them interested. About theology they know little. Scarcely any of them have read even one of the great Christian classics, but most of them are familiar with religious fiction and spinetingling films. No wonder their moral and spiritual constitution is so frail. Such can only be called weak adherents of a faith they never really understood. (That Incredible Christian, 76).

A.W. Tozer

Backyard in the Spring of 2009

Can you theology handle this?

Lots of rain, means lots of green

State of the Church

The truth and nothing but the truth!

It's Just the Truth from I'll Be Honest on Vimeo.

4Theologians and Nancy

Ridgecrest Retreat Flip Video

Here is a short series of flip video's that document our trip up to Asheville last week for our class retreat. We were packed to the gills and really looked liked the Beverly Hillbillies of the Carolinas. Nancy could not see out the back of the car but what a great time we had in Asheville!

Quote for the day

“We’ve become very familiar with preaching that, pays scant attention to the Bible; is self-focused; and is consequently only capable of making the most superficial impact upon the lives of the listeners. This would be bad enough were it not for the fact, that large sections of the church who listen to this kind of stuff are actually oblivious to the fact that what they’re getting is a placebo rather than the real medicine. And therefore they leave satisfied with the feeling that it has done them some good. A feeling which disguises the gravity of the situation… They get bloated up by all this stuff, and it gives them the feeling that somehow or another they’ve had a meal, but after a few hours they say, ‘You know, I don’t know whether that thing did anything at all…’ And so, in the absence of bread the population grows accustom to cake.”
- Alistair Begg

Thoughts of summer dance in my head