Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.
R. C. SproulJesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.
R. C. SproulThe most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
R. C. SproulThe irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
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