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“You can please some of the people all the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.”
I can relate to Abe. Can you?

Below are more quotes from Mark Moore’s book Seeing God in HD. This book is a must read for the serious Bible student. Click here to purchase. There’s also a copy available in the OCC library. Check it out – in more ways than one!
“It does not matter what the text means to you; what [...]

I’m currently reading Seeing God in HD by Mark Moore. It is a book on how to interpret the Bible. So far, so good. Below are some great quotes from chapter one. Stay tuned for more.
“…if you don’t obey the words of Scripture, you have no right to claim that you understand them.” p. 19
“The [...]

I just started a new book yesterday. It’s called Building Faith at Home. The first chapter has a quote by Peter Benson. I have no idea who he is, but here’s the quote: “Religious life in the home is more influential than the church.”
What do you think?

I’m almost finished with Don’t Waste Your Life. It’s a book I can’t read fast. There’s a lot to think about. I’m highlighting more than I usually do. Anyway, there’s another quote I want to share with you. I’d love to hear your thoughts. What is the “far more” we were created for? 
Oh, how many lives are wasted by [...]

The above title is a heading of a section in Don’t Waste Your Life. Piper quotes Robert Murray M’Cheyne, a Scottish pastor who died in 1843 at the age of twenty-nine. M’Cheyne believed that the mercy and generosity of Christians proved or gave evidence that they were indeed Christians. Below is a quote from M’Cheyne.
I am concerned for the poor [...]

I’m really enjoying The Barbarian Way. Here’s another quote.
No matter how we try to spin the story, the Bible is filled with tribes of irrational people. When Noah built the ark, he did not live in a flood zone. When Elijah called fire down from heaven, he had never tried it before…David should have left [...]

 
Read half of The Barbarian Way this morning. Here is one quote that stuck out.
The original call of Jesus was so simple, so clean, so clear: “Follow Me.” He wants us to surrender our lives to Him and follow Him into the unknown. And if it means a life of suffering, hardship, and disappointment, it [...]

I just started reading a book called What’s in the Bible by R.C. Sproul and Robert Wolgemuth. It’s going to be great learning (even though these guys are Calvinists) and review.
Here’s a quote from today’s reading: “I find that it is always dangerous to shout where God has whispered.” (p. 5)
Think on these things.