ON READING
I came across this today and I thought that it could be of some help. I found it to be a rich reminder about the goal of Christian reading.
"Read as an act of worship. Read to be elevated into the great truths of God so that you may worship the Trinity in Spirit and in truth. Be selective about what you read, however. Measure all your reading against the touchstone of Scripture. So much of today's Christian literature is froth, riddled with Arminian theology or secular thinking. Time is too precious to waste on nonsense. Read more for eternity than time, more for spiritual growth than professional advancement. Think of John Trapp's warning: 'As water tastes of the soil it runs through, so does the soul taste of the authors that a man reads".
Quote taken from: Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching, Soli Deo Gloria Pub. 120.
"Read as an act of worship. Read to be elevated into the great truths of God so that you may worship the Trinity in Spirit and in truth. Be selective about what you read, however. Measure all your reading against the touchstone of Scripture. So much of today's Christian literature is froth, riddled with Arminian theology or secular thinking. Time is too precious to waste on nonsense. Read more for eternity than time, more for spiritual growth than professional advancement. Think of John Trapp's warning: 'As water tastes of the soil it runs through, so does the soul taste of the authors that a man reads".
Quote taken from: Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching, Soli Deo Gloria Pub. 120.
posted by adam at 12:00 PM
11 Comments:
Awesome quote Thomas! Only one question: Why are you reading Ryrie, McBeth, and Pursuit of Purity?
Hey don't spend your time revealing my internal inconsistencies. I tell you what, you TEDS guys are all alike. You're a bunch of sweet guys aren't ya.
Adam,
I picked that book up at the DGM conference, and I have only read the introduction, but it looks sweet. Thanks for the encouragement!
James
Hey!I was browsing blogspots and ran across yours so I thought i'd comment. Your blog is awesome and very uplifting. It's awesome to find people that you went to school with that went on to serve God into their adult life =).
Sounds like things are going well for you. That's great!! Congrats on the wife - whenever it happened =).
Kimberly (Kowalcyk) McCuistion (GCS JH)
tim - a timely word of knowledge.
thomas - one word: duplicity.
"word of knowledge"! You love it don't you. Just wait until I tell CBTS about how you and Tim are sharing a theological "lot", if you will, with those who we, as a collective group, have decided "can't be helped".
Proverbs 1:14
"Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse"
Oh my Luther! You have made my day with that one!! :) LOL
you won't be telling them anything we didn't tell them...
and what's with you rejecting the lot of evangelicalism, huh? the "lot" is one of the sweetest figurative election motifs in all of Scripture.
i'll let you wrestle with what that means as to why you are still where you are contrary to your own human willing/running (rom 9.16).
continuing in the "sophia paradosis" [wisdom tradition]:
the lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from the LORD (prov 16.33).
scripture silences
pagan rhetoric, thomas...
you should try it some time.
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You Delinquent. You haven't posted in over a month.
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