How to Make Your Heart Dry & Barren...

He who lives without prayer, he who lives with little prayer, he who seldom reads the Word, and he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence from on high -he will be the man whose heart will become dry and barren.

-- Charles Spurgeon

Finding the True Meaning

No text can yield its true meaning if it is removed from its context in the one revealed message of the Bible. Every sermon should be prepared with this in mind.

-- Graeme Goldsworthy, Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, p.248

Question Scripture?

When you begin to question the accuracy and authority of Scripture, you are not offending the ancient historical writers; you are offending the living Holy Spirit who inspired it.

-- Greg Heisler, Spirit-Led Preaching, p.40

Embrace the Distance!

Paradoxically, however, the first step that we must take to a healthy appropriation of the Old Testament is to fully embrace its distance from us. We will surely distort God's message to us if we read the Old Testament as if it had been written yesterday.

-- Tremper Longman III, Making Sense of the Old Testament, p.22