Every time we justify less than honest means of acquiring something, we become more dragon and less human; every time we store up wealth from selfishness or insecurity, we become more like Smaug sprawled jealously over his treasure hoard.  — Andrew Menkis modernreformation.org/resour…

"God has given us the sacraments, Calvin says, to put his promises most clearly on display before our eyes—indeed, place them into our hands and mouths—so that they can sink most deeply into our hearts." — Brannon Ellis modernreformation.org/resour…

One of the tragic effects of dispensationalism on American Christianity has been a speculative spirit with regard to the last things. While the New Testament authors recognized that they were living in the last days and that the consummation of history had already begun in the cross of Christ, dispensationalism has sought that consummation elsewhere. It has looked almost completely to the future and away from the cross. The Apostles saw themselves in the midst of a present eschatological drama, but dispensationalism has sought apocalyptic drama outside the text of the New Testament, ever around the next historical corner. The clarity and comfort of New Testament eschatology has been transformed into confusion and fear by a speculative hermeneutic which insists on reading the text in our context, instead of its own. From "Finding Comfort in Eschatological Texts?" by @RevDrBLee Read more: modernreformation.org/resour…