Sharpening Iron

The Word & Love

[Sharpening Iron @GodsIron]

@gregjgordon Are the meetings in Asbury still going on?

[Sharpening Iron @GodsIron]

@PapcunikChad Hmm should have been baptized in the name of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit.

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Suffering is the unwanted exponential catalyst of Christian growth: it is very hard to experience, but it super-charges our dependence on God and cultivates deep humility.

I'm looking forward to diving into this--you should, too!

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. -@JCRyle

[Mike Bickle @mikebickle]

Isaiah prophesied that the Spirit would emphasize King Jesus’ beauty in the generation of His return, and that God’s people will find stability and strength by delighting in His beauty.

[Sharpening Iron @GodsIron]

I agree!

[Sharpening Iron @GodsIron]

@dayoneapp @hljboss I second this request!!

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

A testimony: Evangelical theology (as I have learned it from Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Owen, Edwards, Bavinck) has enabled me to live with joy in the face of pancreatic cancer. So thankful for it (the theology) this morning.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

You will either receive your identity vertically, or shop for it horizontally.

—@PaulTripp

[Protestia @Protestia]

We have access to downloaded copy of @EdLitton 's series on Romans 👀

[Abigail Dodds @abigaildodds]

Carson: "Incidentally, changing a few words here and there in someone else’s work does not let you off the hook; re-telling personal experiences as if they were yours when they were not makes the offense all the uglier."

[Abigail Dodds @abigaildodds]

Carson: "If preaching is God’s truth through human personality (so Phillips Brooks), then serving as nothing more than a kind of organic recording device in playback mode does not qualify."

[Abigail Dodds @abigaildodds]

Carson: "(1) You are stealing. (2) You are deceiving the people to whom you are preaching. (3) Perhaps worst, you are not devoting yourself to the study of the Bible to the end that God’s truth captures you, molds you, makes you a man of God and equips you to speak for him."

[Abigail Dodds @abigaildodds]

D.A. Carson: "Taking over another sermon and preaching it as if it were yours is always and unequivocally wrong, and if you do it you should resign or be fired immediately. The wickedness is along at least three axes:"
https://t.co/zBf5M6iCEA

Article from 2010 by @between2worlds

[eric fehrman @ericfehrman]

@JoshBuice 2/ So, the SBC just elected a president who apparently doesnt preach his own material, doesnt do the work of a Pastor, doesnt study the Bible for himself, and would be expelled from any seminary for ethics violations.

[eric fehrman @ericfehrman]

@JoshBuice 1/ If you get exposed as a plagiarist, then you remove 140 more sermons... it sort of gives the impressions that those were 140 MORE cases of plagiarism.

[Chris Land @jchrisland]

The world is indeed watching https://t.co/GBrz50Yo9H

[Sharpening Iron @GodsIron]

Someone who plagiarizes content so badly has probably done other sketchy things. Time to dig my friends!
#plagiarism #litton

[Desiring God @desiringGod]

Sermons should be an echo of the voice of God. But they should not be an echo of another echo.

https://t.co/xj2SZL5wdx

[Kevin DeYoung @RevKevDeYoung]

The Bible talks about a lot of sins, some in certain contexts more than others. But there is no way to plausibly make the case that the Bible only whispers about sexual sin. Cf. What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality, p. 74.