Showing posts with label John Gerstner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Gerstner. Show all posts

John Gerstner on Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 5:30 AM

"To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom of God, and to the lonely He is a brother; to the sorrowful, a comforter to the bereaved, the resurrection and the life. And to the sinner he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin from the world."

John Gerstner


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John Gerstner on Hell

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 5:27 AM

“The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.”

John Gerstner



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John Gerstner on Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 5:56 AM

“Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.”

John Gerstner


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John Gerstner on Man and Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, August 29, 2014 at 5:14 AM

“We must either worship Christ as God or despise or pity Him as man.”

John Gerstner


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John Gerstner on the Problem of Pleasure

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, September 6, 2013 at 6:30 AM

"Troubled by the non-problem of pain, most people do not feel the real problem. The real difficulty is the problem of pleasure. While in a sinful world, pain is to be expected, and pleasure is not to be expected. We should be constantly amazed at the presence of pleasure in a world such as ours.

It is easy to understand why this confusion has come about. Pain is a painful subject. Pleasure is a pleasurable subject. People do not like pain. They do like pleasure. And people associate problems with what they do not like. Because they do not like pain, they call it a problem.

The fact is that pain is no problem, whereas pleasure is an excruciating problem; and if one ever begins to think about that it can become intolerable. How could there be pleasure in a sinful world? People do not like thinking about pleasure in such a light because then they must admit their own sinfulness."
John Gerstner


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John Gerstner on Tragedies

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Tragedy is what happens to a non-Christian, it never happens to a Christian."
John Gerstner



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