Iron Sharpens Iron: An Anthology of Wise Quotations
Here are some of the one-liners and longer quotations that I’ve benefitted from recently and would like to pass on to you—“as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another”.
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Here are some of the one-liners and longer quotations that I’ve benefitted from recently and would like to pass on to you—“as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another”.
Taken in isolation, positive apologetics ignores the reality of God ... the way sin contradicts his authority, holiness, justice and love; the reality .. of his divine wrath ... the need for Christ’s ... work of redemption to save us ... and the reality of final divine judgment at the end of this age.
We get small opportunities for positive apologetics more than we might realise. Opportunities to connect people with the transcendent. Opportunities to share that precious commodity of hope. Opportunities to explain the goodness of the gospel.
Just as my two-year-old son’s inability to know the reason for his pain did not mean that I had no such reason, so too our lack of capacity to know the reasons for our pain does not mean that God has none.
Christians should rejoice in the divine-human nature of our holy Scriptures. This is not something to be embarrassed about, but something to delight in, something to further commend the goodness of our God and his gospel.
