Tried With Fire

One of my pet peeves is the notion that Christian women should only read books written by other Christian women on women's topics. I don't think I'm imagining this, am I? While I'm not discounting the value of application-oriented books or women authors, I take issue with the idea that theology and doctrine are dull, dry, ego-bloating, and impractical. Therefore, "don't trouble your pretty little head about such things".  I don't think anything can be further from the truth. Plus this idea about boring theology is also inflicted on men in this anti-intellectual age, minus the "pretty" part, of course. In Sunday's sermon, one of the takeaway points was how we need to go deep in our understanding of God and not merely stay on a temporal plane. As examples, the pastor mentioned a group of young men in their 20's who have studied  Chosen by God by R. C. Sproul and are now tackling a book by Wayne Grudem on doctrine. He also mentioned a...

Just imagine: Jesus grows up as a carpenter in Galilee.  Then, when he is thirty or so years old, he begins to teach as a Jewish rabbi.  His disciples are all Jews, and they have been taught from childhood that there is only one God, and they should worship God alone.  They should never worship idols, certainly never worship a mere man.  Somehow, during the next three years or so, all these Jewish disciples, and many more people besides, are convinced that Jesus is God and deserves to be worshipped as God.  They have known him intimately as a man, have walked and talked and eaten with him; yet, they have come to worship him.  That is quite an amazing thing. Salvation Belongs to the Lord - An Introduction to Systematic Theology by John M. Frame, P&R Publishing, page 131.