Thinking I was thinking this

Often we are guided by our fears and foibles rather than by the Spirit and Scripture.

“He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul.” (Acts 24:26) What Felix should have done because it was right, he would have done if the price was right.

When the singing of our songs becomes more important than the meaning of our songs, well…

Just because you are wrong about some things does not make you wrong about the things you are right about.

Many people want to take the name of the Christ, but do not want to take the Christ of the name!

If you preach the gospel with your lips but not with your life, you are only halfway preaching the gospel.

Preach the word
Attentive unto the book of the law
Serve with the spirit in the gospel of his Son
Teach in all good things
Obey God rather than men
Ready to preach the gospel

Church music should aid and not impede us in worshipping God in spirit and in truth.

Some folk are satisfied to let the word of God inform them, as long as it doesn’t transform them.

Those who know they are nothing are ready to be something.

Still thinking...

...that I thought some things.

“Some folks who object to using ‘proof texts’ have ‘no texts’ for their own doctrines.”

“Why is it that ‘Christian’ higher education often leads Christians to believe less of the Bible rather than more of the Bible?”

The inspiration of the Scriptures has no expiration of its standing.

“We do not use the Scriptures as our ‘sole resource’ – but it is the ‘sole recourse.’ There is no higher court of appeal.”

“If I read and interpret a passage of scripture and my interpretation is correct, while others who read that same passage interpret it wrongly, what makes the difference? Is it because I am more sincere, intelligent, and educated than the others are? More spiritual? What about others who are spiritual, sincere, intelligent, and educated? Will/should they read and interpret the Bible in exactly the same way I do? What makes the difference?”

“When health care becomes big business, the main business is no longer health care.”

“When you think God is four days late, he is really right on time.” -- Gospel of John, Chapter 11 (I did think of this, but thousands of others probably have also!)

“What’s the best soul food? The B-I-B-L-E.”

“Consistency is a jewel, unless you are consistently wrong!”

“Duty never ceases, and evil never sleeps.”

hate speech: Speech that is hated by the people defining it.

“Dissatisfaction rises from an unwarranted attention to circumstances. Contentment rests in a wise allegiance to God who is over the circumstances.”

If we would be faithful obeying “teach the generation following” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Psalm 48:13; 2 Timothy 2:2), there would not be a need for an every-generation update of the Bible.

“Conformity is doing what everyone else is doing, regardless of what is right. Biblical obedience is doing what is right, regardless of what everyone else is doing.”

“Cain did not become evil because he slew his brother; he slew his brother because he was evil.”

“Marriage should be a bomb shelter, not a bomb explosion.”

“If any of you could know all there is to know about me, you wouldn’t love me. You wouldn’t even like me. God knows it all, yet he loved me and sent his Son to die for my sins, that I might have everlasting life. It doesn’t get any better than that!”

Now I get me up to work;

Keep me, Lord, in all the murk.

Let me work until I die,

And then to heaven swiftly fly.

More things I think I thought of

But possibly not first.

“Time flies the older you get, whether or not you are having fun!”

“Which came first, the ‘Doctor’ or the ‘Doctor’s Degree’?”

“If folks with great academic credentials cannot discern the validity or invalidity of a theological argument that I (with lesser or no credentials) make, do we not have a valid reason to question how much good their credentials are doing them?”

“It is well that God can speak through an ass, else He would have little use for many preachers.”

“If baptism is commanded and only immersion is baptism, then immersion only is commanded.”

“Death is not preventable.”

“Many people are not looking for answers. Instead, they are looking for problems. Rather than being under biblical authority, they like being their own authority.”

“Among the worst enemies of the Bible are ‘used-to-be’ and ‘supposed-to-be’ Baptists.”

“Many times we attend to personal comfort and personal preference without any reference or regard to God’s Word.” (I found this written on a piece of paper and could not find a source. Maybe I thought of it and wrote it down, or otherwise just jotted down what someone else said.)

Things I think I thought

...but may have first heard elsewhere in some similar form.

“We cannot disillusion God. God has no illusions.”

“The emphasis of Acts is not only ‘go and tell,’ but also ‘come and gather’.”

“Some folks think more about the name of the king on the cover page of the Bible than the King named in its pages of inspired text.”

“The bridge of the cross spanned the chasm of sin.”

“If you want to ‘rightly divide’ the word of truth, start with the table of contents in your Bible. It has already been done – Old Testament and New Testament!”

“Jesus takes our dirty laundry, washes it whiter than snow, and irons our the wrinkles.”

“Shaped note is the music faw me. Everything else is just so-so.”

Things I thought

Or at least I thought I thought.

“Jesus’s love is higher than the cross on which he hung, stronger than the wood and nails between which he placed his hands and feet, keener than the spear that pierced his side, and deeper than the grave that could not hold him. Jesus’s love is sovereign, eternal, sacrificial, and unfathomable.” [related to Romans 8:38-39 (et al.) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.]

“If our history hadn’t been our history, what would our history be?”

“Works for salvation does not work for salvation.”

“Some people say that our country needs more tolerance and civility. The Bible does not say, ‘Tolerate your enemies’ or ‘Husbands, be civil to your wives.’ Tolerance and civility often teaches us to pretend each other are right. Love demands that we act right toward those we think are wrong.”

“If we never change, we must already be right about everything, or we are unwilling to admit we are wrong about anything.”

“We should always be careful about arguing about words to no profit.”

“If you have the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God all figured out, you’ve got it all wrong!”

“To be New Testament Christians, we must answer questions with New Testament answers.”

“Death cures all things temporal.”