Thursday, August 07, 2008

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:42:37 GMT

[Armenians] seek to make the man stand up: [Calvinists] seek to bring him down, and make him feel that there he lies in the hand of God, and that his business is to submit himself to God, and cry aloud, ‘Lord, save, or we perish.’ We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all. When he says, ‘I can pray, I can believe, I can do this, and I can do the other,’ marks of self-sufficiency and arrogance are on his brow.” ~ C. H. Spurgeon

For it is he alone who determines whether or not this tremendous power is released. This is what Warfield called ‘the powerhouse view of grace.’ And all the talk about the tremendous generator, the transformers and the wires, cannot disguise the fact that everything depends upon the one who throws the switch. But isn’t it really the same conception that is suggested by the altar-call method? Is not the impression created that the power of the Spirit is there—even in an unusual degree—and that it is readily available to all—but that it is man himself who has to turn on this power? Once the meeting is ended, and the invitation has been allowed to pass, the opportunity will be gone! The power will not be there, somehow, in the same manner and degree— within reach, as it were. Isn’t this the impression we receive? Isn’t the altar-call itself thought of as the means of releasing this power? [1]

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:34:00 GMT

It's funny how the smallest actions can contain the greatest significance.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:30:33 GMT

If only the quiet of the night didn't come at the cost of daylight.

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