Kenny Parnell

“Such experiences can make us bewail how the Western world gives itself over annually to its Claus-mass or commerce-mass. We celebrate a reworked pagan Saturnalia of epic proportions, one in which the only connection with the incarnation is semantic. Santa is worshiped, not the Savior; pilgrims go to the stores with credit cards, not to the manger with gifts. It is the feast of indulgence, not of the incarnation.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life

“An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption
with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life