At this time of year many
people consider the question "Who is Jesus Christ?" Many reply:
"He is a good teacher, but I cannot accept his claim to be God!" C.
S. Lewis replies to that statement this way: "That is the one thing we
must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the things Jesus said would
not be a good moral teacher. He would be a lunatic -- on the level of a man who
says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must
make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman
or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and
kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But
let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." ~ Mere Christianity, p. 41
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
For The Lord's Day
“… man is alienated from God by
sin and God is alienated from man by wrath. It is in the substitutionary death
of Christ that sin is overcome and wrath averted, so that God can look on man
without displeasure and man can look on God without fear. Sin is expiated and
God is propitiated.”
~ David Wells, The Search for
Salvation
Sunday, March 1, 2015
For The Lord's Day
How to avoid a wasted life:
“God created me – and you – to live with a single, all-embracing,
all-transforming passion – namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and
displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. Enjoying and
displaying are both crucial. If we try to display the excellence of God without
joy in it, we will display a shell of hypocrisy and create scorn or legalism.
But if we claim to enjoy his excellence and do not display it for others to see
and admire, we deceive ourselves, because the mark of God-enthralled joy is to
overflow and expand by extending itself into the hearts of others. The wasted
life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for
the joy of all peoples.” -- Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper
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