Glory Changes People! February 20, 2010
Posted by brian in : John Piper, Marriage , add a comment“Men, I said a minute ago, if you really got this text, if it landed on you, you wouldn’t need next Sunday’s message, the application one. Because I really believe that even though application is appropriate and nitty-gritty examples are helpful and good and right for preachers to give, I don’t think that is the main way preaching works. I don’t think that is the main way the Bible works. I think the main way the Bible works and preaching that is faithful to the bible works is that the Bible displays glories. That we are designed and made to know and which we don’t know because we are in the cesspool of soap operas. And by the Holy Spirit in a moment of illumination all of that can be just driven out and something absolutely glorious enter into a human heart and change everything, by virtue of it’s magnitude before any application ever arrives. Your just changed, your heart soars with a new sense of what you are on the planet for and what this woman in her magisterial dignity as your bride is about and what your living for and everything changes when something lands on you with a Biblical force. That’s what I would like to happen. I can’t make that happen. I can lift my voice, like to lift my voice, but I can’t make that happen. God can! So that is a little parenthesis to tell how you how I think about preaching. I will give you application, but I have a little misgiving when somebody hears a sermon like this and their first response is. “Yeah, but give me an example.” Alright, I’ll give you an example but is your heart soaring right now? Is your heart exploding with the Glory of marriage? Are you soaring? Will you by the end of this service just begin to take off, like a little road runner. Take off? So that from those new heights she looks different, the kids look different, the job looks different, the planet looks different, life looks different, death looks different, the devil looks different, let me out of here I wanna live!!!!! Wonder changes people, not examples. Lists and examples are a little bit helpful, but seeing glory changes everything!”
“You’re Not A Man…You’re A Joke!” February 8, 2010
Posted by Eddie in : Marriage, Biblical Manhood, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill , add a commentI know Brian posted this a few weeks ago, but I just wanted to give it a little bit more exposure. There may be many who do not prefer his style and methods, but Mark Driscoll always gives it to you straight. This message is not for the faint of heart. Men, prepare for a kick in the teeth.
Some Notable Quotables:
“You can’t get a job, keep a job, you can’t keep your hands off a girl, you can’t stop downloading porn, you can’t pay your own bills, you can’t get out of bed in the morning, if you can’t even take responsibility for yourself, you shouldn’t even get a pet let alone a wife!”
“You shut up, you put your pants on, you get a job, you grow up, and maybe one day you can love a woman. It’s for men not for boys… And shame on you if you show up to put communion in your hands representing the body and blood of your murdered savior and then go put them on your girlfriend or download porn from the internet or raise your hand in a threat to your wife. Shame on you.”
Piper Marriage 11 March 12, 2009
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Piper Marriage 10 January 29, 2009
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Piper Marriage 09 January 20, 2009
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