Lance Phelps

“Every time we worship our minds are informed, our memories refreshed with the judgments of God, we are familiarized with what God says, what he has decided, the ways he is working out our salvation.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“A Christian,” wrote Augustine, “should be an alleluia from head to foot.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“As Mark Twain supposedly said, a classic is a book that nobody wants to read but everybody wants to have read.”
― Douglas Wilson, Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth

“If the church as a whole is losing its ability to be “salt and light” in the culture, it is not because its members have no opinion of the films of Bernardo Bertolucci, no appreciation for the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and no regular slot on The Charlie Rose Show. More likely, it is because they do not have a solid grasp of the basic elements of the faith, as taught in Scripture and affirmed by the confessions and catechisms of the church.”
― Carl R. Trueman, The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind