Jul 14, 2018 - Default    No Comments

昼夜思想

约书亚记 Joshua 1:8
这律法书不可离开你的口,总要昼夜思想,好使你谨守遵行这书上所写的一切话。如此,你的道路就可以亨通,凡事顺利。
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

 

诗篇 Psalm 1:2
唯喜爱耶和华的律法,昼夜思想,这人便为有福!
but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

 

歌罗西书 Colossians 3:16
当用各样的智慧,把基督的道理丰丰富富地存在心里,用诗章、颂词、灵歌彼此教导,互相劝诫,心被恩感歌颂神。
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

May 9, 2018 - Default    No Comments

John Newton or John Knox

— Mathis, David. How to Stay Christian in Seminary (pp. 49-50).

We were all huddled around a circle of tables. Thursday noon meant “Table Talk” for the guys at Bethlehem Seminary, and on this particular day we were talking church unity with our pastor and school chancellor, John Piper. He had raised that subject to kick things off, though the conversation had morphed into a discussion on various denominations and influences within American evangelicalism. We were simply carrying the conversation along by our questions. Then Benjamin spoke up.

“Pastor John,” he began, “as seminarians at Bethlehem, and since we have been deeply impacted by you, what do you want us to be like? What should characterize us?”

The room became instantly still. This was a really good question. We all leaned forward, waiting for Pastor John’s reply. He looked down at his Bible, deep in thought.

“I want you to be more like John Newton than John Knox,” he came back. “Knox was passionate and wild, even abrasive at times.” We knew these could be good qualities (minus the abrasive part). But then Pastor John continued.

“But John Newton,” he said, beaming with a smile, “Newton was glad he was saved!”

Apr 25, 2018 - Default    No Comments

司布真 – 精读你手头的书

C. H. Spurgeon

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them, masticate and digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.'”

精读你手头的书,全面、彻底地掌握里面的内容。将自己沉浸其中,一遍又一遍不停地读,咀嚼、消化、吸收,直到那些知识成为你自己的。好书值得反复阅读、做笔记、认真思考。如果你照做了,你会发现,精读一本书对你的知识结构的影响,远胜过浏览二十本书。马马虎虎的阅读只能让你更加无知,而且莫名骄傲。有些人为了多读书而停止思考,这使他们失去了思考能力。让这句话成为你读书的座右铭:“少读多想”。

from J. Oswald Sanders, “Spiritual Leadership”

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