Kevin Stilley

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The Insanity of Luther : Discussion Questions

Topic: The Insanity of Luther
Speaker: R.C. Sproul
Scripture: Romans 1

Why did Pope Leo call for the Lord God to rise up and deal with a wild pig loose in His vineyard? (Ex Surge Domine)

Was Martin Luther wild / insane?  What would provoke someone to think Luther was out of his mind?

How is Martin Luther’s life story pertinent to the topic of Holiness?

What is the gospel?

Watch again the video between 28:40 and 32:16.

Do you think most people understand the gospel as it is described here?

R.C. Sproul says that justification by faith alone is the article upon which the church stands or falls. Why?

What are the practical implications of belief that our righteousness is found in Christ and nowhere else?

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This is the fourth lecture in the Ligonier teaching series The Holiness of God.

The Ligonier website describes the series as follow,

“The Holiness of God examines the meaning of holiness and why people are both fascinated and terrified by a holy God. This series closely explores God’s character, leading to new insights on sin, justice, and grace. The result is a new awareness of our dependence upon God’s mercy and a discovery of the awesomeness of His majestic holiness. Dr. R.C. Sproul says, “The holiness of God affects every aspect of our lives — economics, politics, athletics, romance — everything with which we are involved.”

Discussion questions and video for the rest of the series can be found at the following links:

  1. The Importance of Holiness
  2. The Trauma of Holiness
  3. Holiness and Justice
  4. The Insanity of Luther
  5. The Meaning of Holiness
  6. The Holiness of Christ

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Loneliness – select quotes

LonlinessLoneliness is the most devastating malody of this age.
~ Paul Tournier

Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon to a few solitary men like myself, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
~ Thomas Wolfe

Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul without God in the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at television. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
~ Carl Sandburg

They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts.
~ Sir Philip Sidney

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
~ Mother Teresa

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. Two can be as bad as one. It’s the loneliest number since the number one…
~ Three Dog Night

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
~ Mark Twain

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What Do You Think?

If you could take back something you said in the last year, what would it be?

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Fear – select quotes

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
~ James Allen

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker

There lives in each of us a hero, awaiting a call to action.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
~ Francis Chichester

Quem metuunt oderunt, quem quisque odit periise expetit. [Whom men fear, they hate; whom a man hates he wishes dead.]
~ Quintus Ennius, in Ex fabulis incertis

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
~ Kahlil Gibran

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
~Howard Hendricks

Let me assert my firm belief, that the only thing to fear is fear itself.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The terror we fear is often empty, but nevertheless it causes real misery.
~ Johann Schiller, Piccolomini, act 5

The man bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
~ Talmud, Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah to 2, 3

Do the thing you fear, and fear will die.
~ Unknown

Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.
~ Unknown

The fear of God can deliver from the fear of man.
~ Unknown

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
~ The Bible, Joshua 1:9

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Worry – select quotes

The man who wishes to offer a pure mind to God but who is troubled by cares is like a man who expects to walk quickly even though his legs are tied together.
~ John Climacus

Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow.
~ Swedish Proverb

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.
~ Unknown

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What Do You Think?

If you were given $100,000 to celebrate someone or something, who or what would you celebrate?

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What Do You Think?

If you were to fast-forward your life five years, where would you be and what would you be doing?  What changes would people see in you?

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