The most important questions that will ever be asked in this world are those regarding the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Who was he? What was his mission? Why did he die? Was he resurrected?
Jesus, himself, asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?” Below you will find some of the answers that have been offered; many of the thoughts being far removed from what the Bible teaches.
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“We must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried, but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still… as I stretch my heart toward the high, shining love of God, someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope.” ~ A. W. Tozer
One man has never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
~ Robert Burton, in The Anatomy of Melancholy
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Every woman should marry, and no man.
~ Benjamin Disraeli, in Lothair
Vitium uxoris aut tollendum aut ferendum est. Qui tollit vitium, uxorem commodiorem praestat; qui fert, sese meliorem facit. [A wife’s faults must either be corrected or put up with. Who corrects the faults, makes his wife more pleasant; who puts up with them, makes himself a better man.]
~ Lucius Afranius, in Satirae Menippeae, De Officio mariti
Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
The institution of marriage makes a parasite of woman, an absolute dependent. It incapacitates her for life’s struggle, annihilates her social consciousness, paralyzes her imagination, and then imposes its gracious protection, which is in reality a snare, a travesty on human character.
~ Emma Goldman
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
~ Ruth Bell Graham
Once a man’s married he’s absolutely bitched.
~ Ernest Hemingway, in The Three-Day Blow
A good marriage is when you’re married not to someone you can live with, but to someone you really cannot live without.
~ Dr. Howard Hendricks
Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.
~ Jared Kintz
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sin.
~ Laozi
Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
~ Beverly Nichols
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~ Rita Rudner
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
~ Barbra Streisand
If you want to become more like Jesus, I can’t imagine any better thing to do than to get married.
~ Gary Thomas
Yes, your spouse might be difficult to love at times, but that’s what marriage is for–to teach us how to love.
~ Gary Thomas
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
~ Paul Tournier
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
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
~ Henry Youngman
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Topic: The Meaning of Holiness
Speaker: R.C. Sproul
Scripture: Matthew 6:9
Can you define the word “holy”? Is it just a synonym for moral purity?
In the Scriptures there are two basic meanings to the word “holy”. The secondary meaning of holiness is personal righteousness and purity. The primary meaning of the word holy is – separate, that which is other. What does it mean to be “other”?
How is God holy?
What makes something a holiday?
What makes something holy? What is the difference between the profane and what is holy?
Can a person become holy? How?
Why are we frightened by the holiness of God, while at the same time being attracted to it?
The Lord’s Prayer includes a desire that the Lord’s name be treated as holy. Do you think that modern Christians evidence this commitment to the holiness of God’s name? Is God’s name often treated in a frivolous manner?
Is it possible for people to honor God and at the same time fail to revere His name?
Do you mirror and reflect the character of God to a dying world?
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This is the fifth 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:
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R.C. Sproul references Rudolf Otto’s book on holiness. You can get it as an ebook for only 99 cents.
Check out the Ligonier website for additional resources.
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Title: Holiness and Justice
Speaker: R.C. Sproul
Scripture: Leviticus 10:3; 2 Samuel 6:1-11
So Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when He said:
I will show My holiness
to those who are near Me,
and I will reveal My glory
before all the people.”
But Aaron remained silent.
What? (What does the Scripture say? What does it mean? What is the truth being discussed)
So What? (How does the truth apply to you, the church, and others?)
Now What? (What is the proper response to this message?)
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This is the third 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:
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Get “The Holiness of God” DVD Collection
Check out the Ligonier website for additional resources.
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Topic: The Trauma of Holiness
Speaker: R.C. Sproul
Scripture: Isaiah 6
What? (What does the Scripture say? What does it mean? What is the truth being discussed)
So What? (How does the truth apply to you, your church, and others?)
Now What? (What is the proper response to this message?)
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This is the second 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:
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Get “The Holiness of God” DVD Collection
Check out the Ligonier website for additional resources.
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Topic: The Importance of Holiness
Speaker: R.C. Sproul
Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-
What?
So What?
Now What?
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Isaiah 6
6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and His robe filled the temple. 2 Seraphim were standing above Him; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another:
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts;
His glory fills the whole earth.
4 The foundations of the doorways shook at the sound of their voices, and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said:
Woe is me for I am ruined
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Hosts.
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said:
Now that this has touched your lips,
your wickedness is removed
and your sin is atoned for.
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:
Who should I send?
Who will go for Us?
I said:
Here I am. Send me.
9 And He replied:
Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.
10 Dull the minds of these people;
deafen their ears and blind their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their minds,
turn back, and be healed.
11 Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” And He replied:
Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,
12 and the Lord drives the people far away,
leaving great emptiness in the land.
13 Though a tenth will remain in the land,
it will be burned again.
Like the terebinth or the oak
that leaves a stump when felled,
the holy seed is the stump. (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
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Holy, Holy, Holy
Lyrics by Reginald Hebnr
Music by John Bacchus Dykes
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee;
Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty!
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Holy, Holy, Holy! all the saints adore Thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and Seraphim falling down before Thee,
Which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.
Holy, Holy, Holy! though the darkness hide Thee,
Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see:
Only Thou art holy, there is none beside Thee,
Perfect in power, in love, and purity.
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!
All Thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea;
Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty!
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!
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This is the first 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:
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Get “The Holiness of God” DVD Collection
Check out the Ligonier website for additional resources.
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If you could take back something you said in the last year, what would it be?
I cannot believe God plays dice with the universe.
~ Albert Einstein
Not only does God play dice with the universe, He’s using loaded dice.
~ Joseph Ford, quoted by James Gleick in Chaos: Making a New Science 
Not only does God play dice, He throws them where we cannot see them.
~ Stephen Hawking, as quoted by Clifford A. Pickover in The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience
God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
~ Terry Pratchett, in Good Omens
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones.
Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.
~ Lord Byron
Iacta alea est. – The die is cast.
~ Julius Caesar, when crossing the Rubicon
We figured the odds as best we could, and then we rolled the dice.
~ Jimmy Carter
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
~ Samuel Foote, in ‘The Minor’, Act 1
I’m the lone crap shooter
Playing the field every night
Baby can’t stay
You got to roll me
And call me the tumbling dice
Roll me and call me the tumbling dice
~ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, ‘Tumbling Dice’
Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start.
And I bet when you exploded in my heart.
~ Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, from ‘Romeo & Juliet’
Triumph depends on a roll of Fate’s dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
~ Terry Pratchett
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
~ from an old English proverb
One who doesn’t throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily. (Or, “God’s dice always have a lucky roll.”)
~ Sophocles
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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