"This is a tough challenge. We have to be the people who, because we are possessed by a passion to see God's glory in His creation, love homosexuals more than they love their sin. This means that our love has to be tenacious. This will also require that we come to know and establish relationships with those struggling with homosexuality. Armed with an awareness of both the problem and God's provision, we have no right to believe that homosexuals are beyond the grace of God or that any individual is beyond the hope of redemption and transformation".
Al Mohler - "Homosexual Marriage as a Challenge to the Church: Biblical and Cultural Reflections" in "Sex and the Supremacy of Christ" - Justin Taylor and John Piper (editors) - Crossway Books, Illinois (2005) - (p126).
"The man who never reads will never be read. He who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own ... You need to read" - C H Spurgeon. "To fail to learn from the pulpit of the past is to impoverish that of the present" - Tony Sargent
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Al Mohler on Loving Those with Same-Sex Struggles
Friday, 6 June 2008
John Piper on the True Meaning of Love
"Love is doing whatever you need to do to help people see and savour the glory of God in Christ forever and ever".
John Piper - "God is the Gospel" - Crossway Books, Illnois (2005) - (p153).
Saturday, 15 September 2007
A W Tozer on the Love of God
"This is the best of good news: God loves us for ourselves".
A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p26).
Friday, 24 August 2007
Charles Simpson on True Love
"We've got to learn to love more than in word. We have got to love in deed as well as word. I mean personal investment of ourselves in discipling faithful people into the ways of God - and providing resources that prove our faith in God and in them".
Charles Simpson - "The Fruit of the Kingdom" - New Wine Magazine - December 1978 - CGM Ministries - (pp13-14).
Charles Simpson on Love
"Everything we do must be born out of God's love for people. Jesus Christ was the most fruitful Person who ever lived because everywhere He went, people felt the love of God".
Charles Simpson - "The Fruit of the Kingdom" - New Wine Magazine - December 1978 - CGM Ministries - (p10).
Monday, 30 July 2007
Ern Baxter on Doctrinal Orthodoxy
"Truth is not a legalistic set of facts but rather a life-changing stream that flows and prodcues change by the power of love".
Ern Baxter in "Repentance" from "Vintage Years - Selected Articles from New Wine's First Decade: 1969-1979" - New Wine Publishers, Mobile, Alabama - (p28).
Ern Baxter on Doctrinal Orthodoxy
"Truth divorced from love is no longer truth for once the love factor goes out of truth, that truth becomes a distortion and a caricature".
Ern Baxter in "Repentance" from "Vintage Years - Selected Articles from New Wine's First Decade: 1969-1979" - New Wine Publishers, Mobile, Alabama - (p28).
Ern Baxter on Doctrinal Orthodoxy
"We too as Christians dedicated to the truth must see that we don't fall into the same trap; by becoming unlovingly dogmatic, unChrist-like and severe. It is so easy when we are convinced we are right to become self-righteous in pressing our claim".
Ern Baxter in "Repentance" from "Vintage Years - Selected Articles from New Wine's First Decade: 1969-1979" - New Wine Publishers, Mobile, Alabama - (p27).