Piper on Preaching & Grudem on the TNIV

Posted by Peter Bogert on 19 February 2005
Check out this great quote by John Piper on a blog from across the pond and this article from World Magazine by Wayne Grudem on the TNIV.

Great reading.

1 comments:

John said...

Here's one of my favorite quotes from John Piper, from one of his sermons on Zephaniah 3:

We must banish from our minds forever any thought that God admits us begrudgingly into his Kingdom, as though Christ found a loophole in the law, did some fancy plea-bargaining and squeaked us by the Judge. No way! God himself, the Judge, put Christ forward as our substitutionary sacrifice, and when we trust him God welcomes us with bells on. He puts a ring on our finger, kills the fatted calf, throws a party, shouts a shout that shakes the ends of creation and leads in the festal dance.

Someone may ask: Isn't that a bit unseemly and undignified of God to get so excited and shout and carry on this way? But I answer: Remember David's wife, Michal. When David danced with joy before the Lord with all his might, Michal despised this immoderate display of emotion. And the Lord struck her barren for the rest of her life! For he intends to be mightily enjoyed, and one day he will show us how to rejoice with all his might.

2/19/2005 11:16 PM

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