Tag: Counter-Culture

just one more way

May 2015 (11)“If there were 1000 ways to God, we would want 1,001.  The issue is not how many ways lead to God, the issue is our own autonomy before God.  We want to make our own way.  This is the essence of sin in the first place – trusting our ways more than God’s way.”

David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion,
Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.14.

chasing slavery

May 2015 (10)“We chase all these things, thinking that we’re free.  But we’re blind to our own bondage. For in all our running to serve ourselves, we’re actually rebelling against the only One who can satisfy our souls.”

David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.8.

what girls are not for

May 2015 (9)“God …has uniquely formed (each precious girl) not for forced sexual violation from countless random men but for joyful sexual union with a husband who cherishes, serves, and loves her.”

David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.6.

tree of determination

May 2015 (8)“…for the man and woman to eat from this tree was to reject God as the One who determines good and evil and to assume this responsibility themselves.”

David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion,
Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.4.

the offense of God

May 2015 (7)“Tell any modern person that there is a God who sustains, owns, defines, rules, and one day will judge him or her, and that person will balk in offense.”

David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, Kindle location 165.