Comments on: Reading, Writing and The Internet http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2008/12/09/reading-writing-and-the-internet/ Reforming Fundamentalism (IFB) through Reformed Theology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:36:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: fundyreformed http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2008/12/09/reading-writing-and-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-8971 fundyreformed Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:55:19 +0000 http://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/?p=1827#comment-8971 Good quote, Nathan. I'm being blessed in all the extra reading I'm doing too. Good quote, Nathan. I’m being blessed in all the extra reading I’m doing too.

]]> By: Nathan W. Bingham http://www.fundamentallyreformed.com/2008/12/09/reading-writing-and-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-8970 Nathan W. Bingham Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:29:19 +0000 http://fundyreformed.wordpress.com/?p=1827#comment-8970 @Bob: I agree that reading is very important, and something that can be easily neglected (especially if one spends a lot of time on blogs). Hence, I've also begun to add some book reviews on my blog. I've only added two, but it has led to some accountability and critical thinking in my reading, as I have need to express my thoughts in 'coherent' words. There are some great nuggets in Spurgeon's sermon on <a href="http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0542.htm" rel="nofollow">2 Timothy 4:13</a> in regards to reading, and here is just one extract: <blockquote><em>Even an apostle must read.</em> Some of our very ultra Calvinistic brethren think that a minister who reads books and studies his sermon must be a very deplorable specimen of a preacher. A man who comes up into the pulpit, professes to take his text on the spot, and talks any quantity of nonsense, is the idol of many. If he will speak without premeditation, or pretend to do so, and never produce what they call a dish of dead men's brains—oh! that is the preacher. How rebuked are they by the apostle! He is inspired, and yet he wants books! He has been preaching at least for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had had a wider experience than most men, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had heard things which it was unlawful for a men to utter, yet he wants books! He had written the major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books! The apostle says to Timothy and so he says to every preacher, "Give thyself unto reading." The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own...</blockquote> @Bob: I agree that reading is very important, and something that can be easily neglected (especially if one spends a lot of time on blogs). Hence, I’ve also begun to add some book reviews on my blog. I’ve only added two, but it has led to some accountability and critical thinking in my reading, as I have need to express my thoughts in ‘coherent’ words.

There are some great nuggets in Spurgeon’s sermon on 2 Timothy 4:13 in regards to reading, and here is just one extract:

Even an apostle must read. Some of our very ultra Calvinistic brethren think that a minister who reads books and studies his sermon must be a very deplorable specimen of a preacher. A man who comes up into the pulpit, professes to take his text on the spot, and talks any quantity of nonsense, is the idol of many. If he will speak without premeditation, or pretend to do so, and never produce what they call a dish of dead men’s brains—oh! that is the preacher. How rebuked are they by the apostle! He is inspired, and yet he wants books! He has been preaching at least for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had had a wider experience than most men, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had heard things which it was unlawful for a men to utter, yet he wants books! He had written the major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books! The apostle says to Timothy and so he says to every preacher, “Give thyself unto reading.” The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own…

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