• “Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.” — Will Rogers

• “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” — Jackie Mason

• “Drag and Drop for Windows users: DRAG your peecee off your desk, and DROP it in the trash.” — some forum member’s tagline

• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.” — St. Augustine

• “I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” — Groucho Marx

• “Non-Christian investigators of nature are as successful as they are because they work with stolen capital.” — Cornelius Van Til

• “Heaven is eternity in the presence of God through a Mediator. Hell is eternity in the presence of God with no Mediator.” — Tony Reinke

• “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” — C. S. Lewis

• “Paul’s life was a prophetic book for Jews to read and see how to be saved, so our lives should be an easy to read book for the lost on how they can easily be saved.” — Ken Ham

• “Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.” — Martin Luther

• “I’m not lost.” — Frank Churchill

• “People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.” — J. C. Ryle

• “I began my education at a very early age—in fact, right after I left college.” — Winston Churchill

• “Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.” — George Washington

• “We should never do what we cannot pray God to bless.” — James Smith

• “True education is not giving in the answer, it’s in showing them how to find it.” — Kelly Crawford

• “One proud, surly, lordly word, one needless contention, one covetous action, may cut the throat of many a sermon. Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine.” — Richard Baxter

• “TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book.” — Unknown

• “If you don’t fear God, you’ll fear everything.” — Dan Horn

• “The cold water of persecution is often thrown on the church’s face to fetch her to herself when she is in a swoon of indolence or pride.” — C. H. Spurgeon

• “Self-righteousness is being more aware of and irritated by the sins of others than you are conscious of and grieved by your own.” — Paul Tripp

• “Man does not need to know exhaustively in order to know truly and certainly.” — Cornelius Van Til

• "When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy." — Corrie ten Boom

• “Luther once said, ‘The devil hates goose quills,’ and, doubtless, he has good reason, for ready writers, by the Holy Spirit’s blessing, have done his kingdom much damage.” — C. H. Spurgeon

• “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” 
— Martin Luther

• “Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your own living room by people you wouldn’t have in your house.” — David Frost

• “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they simply make the best of everything they have.” — Unknown

• “People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” — Thomas Sowell

• “People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.” — Edmund Burke

• “A lot of men have a wishbone where they ought to have a backbone.” — Unknown

• “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell

• “The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.” — La Rochefoucauld

• “The very familiarity of blessings sometimes makes us insensible to their value."— J. C. Ryle

• “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Sir Richard Steele

• “Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.” — Elias Boudinot

• “I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.” — John Knox

• “A ship in the harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are built for.” — John Shedd

• “What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.” — J. C. Ryle

• “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
 — Edmund Burke

• “Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they get out.” — Mark Twain

• “Thanks, modest girls. Appreciated by a male whose time studying the ground is proportional to each degree of rising temperature.” — Unknown

• “[N]ot one particle remains to man as a ground of boasting. The whole is of God.” — John Calvin (Institutes 2.3.6)

• “The measure of a great teacher isn’t what he or she knows; it’s what the students know.” — John C. Maxwell

• “Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.” — Paxton Hood

• “[T]he ministry of Satan is employed to instigate the reprobate, whenever the Lord, in the course of his providence, has any purpose to accomplish in them...” — John Calvin (Institutes 2.4.5)

• “My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there.” — C. H. Spurgeon

• “Question everything but Scripture.” — Geoff Botkin

• “When she married you, she gave you her life to spend. Are you spending your life wisely?” — Dan Horn

— August 11th, 2012 —

Guest Post: “Magic Mike and Male Modesty” by Gabriel Hudelson

Gabriel Hudelson at Thine is the Kingdom put up this excellent post yesterday on the oft-neglected subject of male modesty. “[W]here’d we get the idea that girls need to, you know, wear clothes, but guys can show off their sculpted physique with impunity? I don’t know, but I don’t think that we got it from The Bible”, he writes. He’s spot-on correct.

Recently a film by the name of Magic Mike opened to rave reviews.

The film is about male strippers.

The audience for Magic Mike? 73% female.

Cue thinking face.

Let’s look at Genesis chapter 3, verse 21.

“And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam’s wife, Eve, but told Adam that, since Eve didn’t struggle with lust, the principle of modesty didn’t apply to him, and so he could continue to wear his fig leaf.”

Wait, what? Your translation doesn’t say that?

*searches madly*

OK, so where’d we get the idea that girls need to, you know, wear clothes, but guys can show off their sculpted physique with impunity?

I don’t know, but I don’t think that we got it from The Bible. We hear plenty of exhortations directed to Christian girls, warning them, pleading with them, to be modest, to embrace purity, to think of their brothers, to, you know, wear clothes. Rightly so, for Scripture directs exhortations to modesty directly to the ladies (1 Tim. 2:9), while nature testifies to the powerful attraction that the feminine form has to men- for good and for bad. Furthermore, our culture viciously pulls women towards “strutting their stuff,” so the exhortation to remain covered rarely comes amiss for young ladies in my generation.

But when was the last time that you heard a sermon on the way guys dress? It seems that for some reason we have assumed that girls don’t struggle with lust. At a deeper level, it seems that while we know that the Bible has something to say about how women dress, we somehow conclude that It is silent on the male wardrobe. This is a glaring inconsistency in our orthopraxy.

Click here to read the rest—and I’d encourage you to read the comments. There’s much excellent discussion there, too.

Posted on August 11th, 2012 by Kyle Shepherd | Tags: |

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