The Blog of Hobbes

Alberto Gonzales is the first attorney general who thought the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth were three different things.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-III.
The Hinesburg Journal

HE that puts forth a [blog] sentences his reason to the gantelope:¹ every one will strive to have a lash at it in its course; and he must be content to bear it.

On the Death of Christ, Works of John Owen (1829), p249

¹ i.e. Makes it run the gauntlet.

Hunger pain is a blessing, so long as food is available. To not feel hunger is to die. It is tragic, therefore, to meet so many who are apparently unacquainted with a hunger for God. They do not realise that their soul is starving to death. Nor do they realise that “doing church” is not the food they need - it is simply the “utensil” that God uses to feed us with himself. John Piper eloquently expresses the need for preachers in this feeding process:

Christian preachers, more than all others, should know this truth - that people are starving for God. If anyone in all the world should be able to say, ‘I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory,’ it is the herald of God. And as we look out over the wasteland of our secular culture, must we preachers not ask, Who but us will say to this people, ‘Behold your God!’? Who will tell the people that God is great and greatly to be praised? Who will paint for them the landscape of God’s grandeur? Who will remind them with tales of wonder that God has triumphed over every foe? Who will cry out above every crisis, ‘Your God reigns!’? Who will labor to find words that can carry the ‘gospel of the glory of the blessed God’?

If God is not supreme in our preaching, where in this world will the people hear about the supremacy of God? If we do not spread a banquet of God’s beauty on Sunday morning, will not our people seek in vain to satisfy their inconsolable longing with the cotton candy pleasures of pastimes and religious hype? If the fountain of living water does not flow from the morning of God’s sovereign grace on Sunday morning, will not the people hew for themselves cisterns on Monday, broken cisterns that can hold no water (Jer. 2:13)?

John Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, p107-9.

Just waiting to sort myself out, and for Google to find me…