I wanted to provide a quick list of resources that you will find encouraging as we at Meadowview study the final hours of Jesus life (Gospel of Luke) over the next several weeks.
The Cross of Christ by Stott
The Murder of Jesus by MacArthur
The Cross He Bore by Leahy
Living the Cross Centered Life by Mahaney
The Truth of the Cross by Sproul
There are other great books, but these are simply my favorite.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
Can You Relate?
I find this particular paragraph very challenging - how about you?
I'm convinced that the big crisis for the church of Jesus Christ is not that we are easily dissatisfied but that we are all too easily satisfied. We have a regular and perverse ability to make things work that are not and should not be working. We learn to adjust to things that we should alter. We learn to be okay with things we should be confronting. We learn to avoid things we should be facing. We would rather be comfortable than to hold people accountable. We swindle ourselves into thinking that things are better than they are, and in so doing we compromise the calling and standards of the God we say we love and serve. Like sick people who are afraid of the doctor, we collect evidence that points to our health when really, in our heart of hearts, we know we are sick. So we settle for a human second best, when God, in grace, offers us so much more.
Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling, 59
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