Good Quotes on Various Subjects

OUR MEDIA ADDICTED CULTURE
"We have become so accustomed to its discontinuities that we are no longer struck dumb, as any sane person would, by a newscaster who having just reported that a nuclear war is inevitable goes on to say that he will be right back after this word from Burger King; who says, in other words, ‘Now . . . this’" (Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, p. 105).

GOOD BOOKS
"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth not be diffused, error will be; if God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and liscentious literature will; if the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness, will reign without mitigation or end." Daniel Webster in 1823


THE SOLUTION TO RACISM AND ALL HUMAN FACTIONS

"As long as men shall live there will be wars and rumors of wars. Strife and hostility will dog and plague our existence. Men everywhere will long for peace. People will feel the part of stranger and alien in this world… because we are not made for this world.

Our cries for reconciliation are testimonies to the fact that this world is not as it was originally made. Things have gone terribly wrong. Our sin has utterly corrupted everything—it has corrupted our hearts and corrupted our society. Loneliness and alienation and hostility are abominations. We were made for perfect and intimate union with one anther and supremely with God. We were made to reflect the glory of God through a unity that affirms that God made no mistake when He made us both Jew and Gentile – Jew, African, Asian, European, Haitian, Native American, Hispanic and so on. A unity that affirms all of that and yet transcends those categories through an abiding oneness with Jesus Christ.

That vision, that reality, that reconciliation is possible only through becoming one new nation, indeed one new man, and taking up one new dwelling together with God. And that is only possible through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ who gives us peace with each other and with God the Father through faith in Him." - Thabiti Anyabwile

- - On a different note, here is the message "Membership: A Commitment to Submit" that I preached this past Sunday night. Some of us were talking about this on Monday. It's probably the only time I've ever mentioned the "Gospel Gangstas" in a sermon.

Praying for you all,
JN