Tag: Schaeffer

Francis Schaeffer on The Doxology

July 9, 2023
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    We are not only to sing the doxology, but to be the doxology…. Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), No Little People, Downer Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1974, reprint, Crossway, 2003, p. 236 Praise God from whom all blessings flow;Praise him all creatures here below;Praise him above, ye heav’nly host;Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxology

Humanism

October 10, 2021
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    Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.- Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), Pollution and the Death of Man [1970], reprint, Good News Publishers,  1992, p. 74

On Foot Washing and Servanthood

October 10, 2021
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    To the extent that we want power we are in the flesh, and the Holy Spirit has no part in us. Christ put a towel around himself and washed his disciple’s feet. We should ask ourselves from time to time, “Whose feet am I washing?” – Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), No Little People, Downer Grove,…

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Schaeffer on Truth and Love

April 7, 2015
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The observable practice of truth and the observable practice of love go hand in hand with the proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ. – … Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), The Mark of the Christian, Inter-Varsity Press, 1976, p. 23  

Getting Personal?

August 8, 2009
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“Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church’s ranks for real people, and have a hard task finding them.  All too often, evangelicals are paper people.  If we do not preach these things, talk about them to each other, and teach them carefully from the pulpit and in the Christian…

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