The Plodding Preacher

We are not saved by faith. We are saved by Jesus. Faith is the hand that receives what Jesus offers. Greg Koukl

The San Antonio shooting prompts two sobering thoughts.  One, it could have been any of us.  Two, it *was* us.  In Christ, we are one. Ray Ortland

Hollywood expels one of its leading figures for the very misbehaviour it sells in its movies. Al Mohler

The Bible doesn’t expect us to live as if every second were our last. If we did, we’d likely skip work, stay in our pajamas all day, hunker down with friends and family, and eat as much ice cream as possible. Numbering our days is not an excuse for irresponsibility. It’s an invitation to think more seriously about eternity. It’s a call to work for the things that will keep working when we can’t. Like pouring into people. Or proclaiming the truth of Scripture. Or putting our time into the local church. Kevin DeYoung

The second great command is not, “You shall love the sinner as you love your sinful self.” As Augustine succinctly put it: “No sinner is to be loved as a sinner.” Rather, we are to love our neighbor “as a man for God’s sake.” This involves first realize that “God is to be loved for His own sake. And if God is to be loved more than any man, each man ought to love God more than himself.” When we fail to place these truths in their proper order there is no end to the sorts of evil that we will readily tolerate in ourselves and promote in others. Nick Batzig