Dan Greenfield

Category: Theology

  • Let Us Love

    Let us love, and sing, and wonder, Let us praise the Saviour’s name! He has hushed the Law’s loud thunder, He has quenched Mt. Sinai’s flame; He has washed us in His blood, He has brought us nigh to God. Let us love the Lord who bought us, Pitied us…

  • What to Preach

    One should preach his beliefs, not his doubts. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 62.

  • Ministry Notoriety

    Notoriety always comes to the preacher who betrays his Lord or his gospel (60). –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 60.

  • Sincerity in Ministry

    (Commenting on 2 Cor 4:2) The temptation was often yielded to then as now, to put the best apples on top of the barrel, the best strawberries on top of the basket. The Judaizers made a plausible plea and show. Paul, in contrast, grounds his confidence on two reasons. One…

  • Humility

    The man wins more men to the ministry who is unconscious of any special halo on his own head. He sees only the face of Jesus his Lord. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, pp. 57-58.

  • Your Point of View

    The sense of the nearness of God in his own life and ministry is the overmastering conviction of Paul…if Paul is able to find joy in the midst of his misfortunes, he has pointed the way for every preacher of Christ. The secret lies in looking at one’s life from…

  • God’s Will

    It is easier to see the hand of God after we have passed through a crisis. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 41.

  • Mountains and Valleys

    The sun often shines on the mountain when it is dark in the valley (39). –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 38.

  • Call to Preach

    The temptation is easy to settle the question of being a preacher on the dead-level of business, expediency, and convenience. It is the spiritual view of the eternal values as seen by Paul in this prophetic passage that will win and hold the noblest type of man to the service…

  • Press On

    It is a great mistake for any preacher to reach a final conclusion in his moments of despondency. One can see better in the light than in the dark. The light will come if one press on towards it. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 37.  

  • Quit the Ministry?

    Deep down as Paul had gone, it did not occur to him to quit the ministry. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 28.  

  • A Pastor in Jeopardy

    At such a time [the day-to-day sameness and toil of ministry] one is oversensitive and imagines all kinds of slights and insults. The real difficulties and problems of the ministry are magnified out of all proportion to the facts. In such a case a minister is in jeopardy. He is…

  • The Passing of an Apostle

    When the apostles passed off the scene, did they give any kind of hint or clear instruction as to what believers and churches should look to for final authority in matters of faith and practice? Yes, they did–note this comment by C. I. Scofield on 2 Timothy 3:16-17… The apostolic…

  • Who Trains the Shepherds?

    This is excellent: http://www.baylyblog.com/2010/10/the-academy-the-seminary-the-church-and-terminal-degrees.html#more I especially appreciated this part: The academy has taken over the Reformed church and needs to be pushed back to being a servant, rather than a master. And its service needs to be circumscribed to the end that, once its overreaching has been disciplined, it doesn’t have…

  • Great Quote

    “In the will of God the earthly life and service of saints is to be in the fellowship of local assemblies” (C. I. Scofield, Scofield Bible Correspondence Course, volume 2, p. 301).

  • Amish Beliefs about Salvation

    This is a good summary about Amish beliefs concerning Bible study, what makes Amish “Amish,” why most stay Amish, and their reasons for not actively seeking to spread the gospel.  

  • Do Evolutionists Believe in God?

    If there was ever an illustration of the truths of Romans 1:18-23, this latest news item from National Public Radio is it: Jesse Bering’s mother died of cancer on a Sunday, in her own bed, at 9 o’clock at night. Bering and his siblings closed her door and went downstairs,…

  • Following Christ

    Is it your earnest desire to do all in your power to advance his cause and glory? Can you renounce every worldly object for Christ? If so, happy are you. But if not, your case is dreadful indeed. —Memoir of Harlan Page (p. 53), letter dated August 7, 1818

  • The Day of Judgment

    I read this verse (Ps 96:13) this morning– The Lord is coming, He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness Sadly, the coming Day of Judgment doesn’t seem to be viewed as an essential aspect of the gospel…

  • The Standard of Holiness

    “There can be no proper doctrine of the atonement and no proper doctrine of retribution, so long as Holiness is refused its preeminence. Love must have a norm or standard, and this norm or standard can be found only in Holiness. The old conviction of sin and the sense of…