the theology of sleep

"Somehow, my reformed theology makes me responsible for tens of millions of people ending up in hell. But that is the sort of a, I guess you could say, 'neo-finneyest-palagianism' that motivates so many people in evangelicalism who think that the success of the gospel is dependent upon their persuasive powers and their ingenuity. That kind of thinking inevitably ends up adjusting the gospel. I promise you that if I felt for one minute that anybody was going to go to hell because somehow I failed to make the necessary adjustments in the message to persuade them to believe, I would have a very hard time sleeping.... That's a pretty heavy burden to bear. " --John MacArthur, in "The theology of sleep!" (emphasis mine)

reward vs cost

"Now what happens to doctrine when you take on an emotional framework of thought - when you enter this 'emotional trajectory'? You lean into what appears to give you an emotional reward, and you lean away from those things that appear to come with an emotional cost. Now you can see what that does to the gospel." - Al Mohler, in "How does it happen? Trajectories toward an adjusted Gospel" (emphasis mine)

'i heart john piper' in greek

LOL that's my favorite line in this song. came across this on you tube while looking at - yup, you guessed it - john piper vids. crack me up! and about that little bitty issue of theology? too true!!!!

"i think my wife's a calvinist":

and then a follow up one:

love 'em!!!

matt chandler, and cj mahaney on suffering

T4G 2010 -- Session 8 -- C.J. Mahaney from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.

LOVE IT