Short Break

While working on the next post in the series I was digging through a text. As I sunk my teeth into it, I realized it was not at all making the point I was trying to make. That caused me to pull back, reassess and jump right back in.

However, when I reexamined things, I realized the text was making a whole greater point than I was ever going to make. Therefore, it may take a day or two, but the rest of the series is going to go in a bit different route.

Until then, I leave you with a couple of great quotes from The Expository Genius of John Calvin (Ooohhh, it's good.)

From Calvin:

No man is fit to be a teacher in the church save only he who...submits himself...[to] be a fellow-disciple with other men.

Doctrine without zeal is like a sword in the hand of a madman, or...else it serves for vain and wicked boasting.

Of Calvin, Lawson says:

In short, he knew the Bible, having absorbed it in his quick memory and embraced it in his devoted heart.

Again, Calvin said:

I am not speaking here merely that others may hear me; but I too, for my part, must be a pupil of God, and the word which goes forth from my lips must profit myself; otherwise woe is me! The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.