Category: Random

One of the most important events in the history of publishing took place in the book of Exodus when God put pen to paper — or finger to stone — and wrote and published the Ten Commandments (Exodus 31:18). That day on Sinai, God published, he became an author, and literacy was forever changed.

—Tony Reinke

Stellvertretung (taking the place of another). This German word keeps coming up in my readings. Why do Old Testament scholars have to be German?

Our heads learn faster than our hearts, and that means danger. Just because you can communicate a Biblical truth does not mean you have submitted yourself to it. And if we are not careful, we will mistake the communication part as the barometer of our maturity.

—Jonathan Parnell

Books… immerse us in a single idea. Books bring a voice into our head, create a different brain chemistry, open doors to a more powerful lever, a learning that can yes, change us. 

Dozens (perhaps hundreds) of times in my life, a book has changed my mind. So have some powerful lectures or direct engagements with teachers or mentors. These are the moments of true change, times when we are entrained with the message, when we feel the learning happening in real time.

—Seth Godin

People are starving for the greatness of God. But most of them would not give this diagnosis of their troubled lives. The majesty of God is an unknown cure. There are far more popular prescriptions on the market, but the benefit of any other remedy is brief and shallow. Preaching that does not have the aroma of God’s greatness may entertain for a season, but it will not touch the hidden cry of the soul: “Show me thy glory!”

John Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching