Tucker Project

“I mean you can say you believe in the authority of scripture. So you tell me what’s most powerful: your cleverness or the Bible? You tell me what’s the most powerful. I’ll tell you when you stand up and speak what you [actually] believe. If you tell me the Bible is far more powerful and you get up in the pulpit and preach a little sermonette on a coffee machine as I’ve seen them do, or on a t.v. sitcom, what you’re telling me; that you believe the Bible is the most powerful, and what you’re doing is contradicting what you’re telling me. You don’t have any integrity. And I’m going to opt out for the fact that when you get up there in front of those people that you care to reach you’re going to use what you think is best. And if you use you and not God’s word then it doesn’t matter what you tell me about the Bible. I know by what you do what your real conviction is.” John MacArthur

“Almost an entire millenium stands between his day and mine, and yet I can hear his voice speaking to me across the years as if he were hovering at my shoulder…Moreover, I am reconfirmed in the realization that not only are the past and present woven of the same thread, the past is neither dead nor distant; it continues to exert a genuine and potent force on both present and future, on all that is and is to come.

In these last days I have come to believe that we are none of us so estranged from our ancestral heritage that we no longer feel it’s age-old rhythm in the pulse and flow of the blood through our veins. The lives of previous generations can be traced in the lines of our hands and the meditations of our hearts. For we are not ourselves alone; we are all that has gone before.”
-Stephen Lawhead, The Black Rood, Gordon

“If you love the cross like we sing; you must love what it was designed to do. Namely, gather a people from every people group on planet earth. If you don’t love that, you don’t love the cross. You’re creating it in your own imagination.”

John Piper, “How Few There Are Who Die So Hard! Suffering and Success In the Life of Adoniram Judson: The Cost of Bringing Christ to Burma”, 2003 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors.

you can find the manuscript for the message here.

As I was cleaning up my bookmarks in Firefox (which you should be using by the way) I ran across the following quote.

“Church-less Christianity is like sex-less marriage—it can only last one generation.”  (Keith Drury)

Mr. Drury is a professor at Indiana Wesleyan University.  He was responding to some comments about his thoughts on Barna’s book Revolution.

I am sitting here scanning through my newly acquired “History of the Christian Church” by Philip Schaff. Upon scanning through the first volume (there are eight in total) I ran across this marvelous quote which, in my opinion, paints a beautiful picture of the Church as she sits in perspective to history.

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