(by:jt)
Since there are a number of silly “Christian” board games circulating these days, I thought I’d try to develop another type of “Christian game” that might actually help. We’ll see?
If you plan to worship with Grace Church this Sunday, maybe you will want to help prepare your soul for the preached word by trying to guess which sentences from J.C. Ryle’s commentary on Mark will be quoted in this week’s sermon. Ryle’s commentary is brief, but power-packed, and as devotional as it comes.
The incentive (mainly for me), is that if more of our people will read Ryle’s comments, I won’t feel so bad about leaving out so many of his great statements!
So, happy guessing.
How to play:
Read Ryles commentary, then guess which Ryle quotes I’ll use in the sermon by posting in the comments section, like this:
“All, in a word, need to be born again and to flee to Christ.”
Or, this:
“May we never rest until we know and feel that we have repented! There are no impenitent people in the kingdom of heaven. All who enter in there have felt, mourned over, forsaken, and sought pardon for sin. This must be our experience, if we hope to be saved.”
Or, this:
“Two men together will do more work than two men singly. They will help one another in judgment, and commit fewer mistakes. They will aid one another in difficulties, and less often fail of success. They will stir one another up when tempted to idleness, and less often relapse into indolence and indifference. They will comfort one another in times of trial, and be less often cast down. “Woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.” (Eccles. 4:10.).”
Or, this:
“We see, in the first place, how apt men are to undervalue things with which they are familiar. The men of Nazareth “were offended” at our Lord. They could not think it possible that one who had lived so many years among themselves, and whose brethren and sisters they knew, could deserve to be followed as a public teacher.
Never had any place on earth such privileges as Nazareth. For thirty years the Son of God resided in this town, and went to and fro in its streets. For thirty years He walked with God before the eyes of its inhabitants, living a blameless, perfect life. But it was all lost upon them. They were not ready to believe the Gospel, when the Lord came among them and taught in their synagogue. They would not believe that one whose face they knew so well, and who had lived so long, eating, and drinking, and dressing like one of themselves, had any right to claim their attention. They were “offended at Him.”
I guess you’re catching on by now? But, hey, if you’re still reading…it worked!
Click “Read the rest…” for Ryle’s commentary on this week’s passage.
