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September 20, 2020
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“God gave Rock and Roll to you
Gave Rock and Roll to you
Put it in the soul of everyone”

~Argent, “God Gave Rock and Roll to You”

“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn to dumb idols, breaking the heart of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of the flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have not yet visited.”

~C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory”

“A person, seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.”

~David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“Just as old or bleary-eye men and those with weak vision, if you thrust before them a most beautiful volume, even if they recognize it to be some sort of writing, yet can scarcely construe two words, but with the aid of spectacles will begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering up the otherwise confused knowledge of God in our minds, having dispersed our dullness, clearly shows us the true God.”

~John Calvin

“I read there [in ‘certain books of the Platonists’] that God the Word was born ‘not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor the will of the flesh, but of God.’ But, that ‘the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us’ — I found this nowhere there.”

~Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions

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Romans 1:18-25

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. ¹⁹ For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. ²⁰ For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,  in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

²⁴ Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

2 Timothy 3:16

¹⁶ All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness…

Hebrews 1:1-2

¹ Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, ² but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

John 1:18

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

John 5:39-40

³⁹ You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, ⁴⁰ yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.