The Plodding Preacher

When the preferences of the church members are greater than their passion for the gospel, the church is dying.   – Thom Rainer

“Untold millions are still untold.”   ―   John Wesley

“When you love God with your heart but not your mind, you end up loving the god of your imagination, not the God of the universe.”

Please take the time to read this excellent article by Gregory Harris on praying for our children.  The whole article is found HERE . The Bible clearly shows that, during our Lord’s earthly ministry, there were parents who wanted Jesus to bless their children: Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” And after laying His hands on them, He departed from there. ( Matt. 19:13–15 ) Though Jesus is not currently visible ( 1 Pet. 1:8 ), nothing has changed for believing parents. We still want—and so desperately need—the Lord to bless our children. This shows both our continuous looking to Him and the realization that our capacities as parents are limited. As with most items related to discipleship—and parenting is definitely a God-ordained and co...

"Would you have a Bible made according to your mind,—a brand-new Bible, I suppose, once a week, for your mind changes so often that it would need constantly to be revised in order to be according to your mind? And shall God speak only such things as you would have him say? Are you to be master of his voice, and lord even of the Inspired Word?" There are some people who raise questions even concerning God himself. According to their notions, God should be this, or that, and almost anything but what he really is. Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the only living and true God, is not at all according to their taste. Some even venture so far as to call his justness, “severity.” They would have “a God all mercy” if they could. Or they pick out some one or other of God’s attributes, and they want to have a change made in it. What! man, is God to be made to suit thee, instead of thyself being adapted to ...

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. Edwin Conklin (Biologist)