"the Bible refuses to tell you, in plain, simple words, what it is about. If you look for such capsule comment, you are bound to be mightily disappointed: Scripture, approached that way, seems only a potpourri of history, myth, poetry, prophecy, and commentary. Second, when it finally does consent to tell you, it insists on using a profusion of images, types, and figures to do the job, which leaves almost as many unsatisfied customers as does its refusal to speak plainly. To be sure, it has a theme, and it is articulated by a logic of the most rigorous sort. But the logic is the logic of images and is unavailable to the literal-minded." Robert Capon

"One of the benefits of theology is that if you ever get anything right on the subject of God, you immediately get a bonus and start getting things right about the world." Robert Capon

you were meant to contemplate God, Subdue the World, and Worship Your Creator.

"Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for him."

Pay attention to Jesus.

In the house of the righteous there is much treasure. (Proverbs 15:6) no matter your circumstances; no matter the affliction…even if you are poor and you dont have a stool to sit on, or a dish to eat from: there is much treasure if you are clothed in the righteousness of Christ.

A little before his death, in speaking briefly to his younger daughter, Jonathan Edwards said: ‘Dear Lucy, it seems to me to be the will of God, that I must shortly leave you; therefore give my kindest love to my dear wife, and tell her, that the uncommon union, which has so long subsisted between us, has been of such a nature, as I trust is spiritual, and therefore will continue for ever. And I hope she will be supported under so great a trial and submit cheerfully to the will of God. And as to my children, you are now like to be left fatherless, which I hope will be an inducement to you all, to seek a Father who will never fail you.' (c.1758)

"True morality, then, is that we conform to God’s own design in making him our chief end: holiness consists primarily in love to God, which is exercised in a high esteem of God, admiration of his perfections, complacency in them, and praise of them." (Jonathan Edwards)

--Esther Burr, wife of Aaron Burr; daughter of Jonathan Edwards. She died when she was 26, in the year 1756.

"ordinary works that are done in faith, and from faith, are more precious than heaven and earth." Luther

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began (Titus 1:1–2)

Hear me out: 2 nodes. Dojo & Knots Boom. 😂

"God will never give you more than you can handle." Not True! For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. (2 Corinthians 1:8–10)

disciple your children. never over-estimate what they know; never under-estimate what they're capable of learning. Teach them theology, the Queen of the sciences.

"GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,b nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established." WCF 3.1

spontaneity ≠ creativity