I am sorry to say that as I mingle with the younger generation today, I cannot help feeling that this culture of deep meditation on God has been largely lost. There is too much noise. Noise from the television, noise from the radio, noise from the internet, noise from the smartphone, noise from the computer, noise from the sports stadium - noise, noise, noise.
And when our attitude becomes one of no no no no no we shouldn't pay a price no no no no no we shouldn't suffer no no no no no why should we be suffering? Put a big question mark on whether you are a true Christian at all. Sermon: Is Your View of the Cross Worldly
it will grieve your heart to realize that so much of preaching today is really but stories of the preacher and often times larger then life stories. Stories meant to make the hearers believe that here finally is the great hero that we've all been waiting for. So that when all the preaching is over instead of all the people going home with great thoughts of a great saviour they go home with great thoughts of a pitiful man. Rezolution 2010 - Christ and Him Crucified (http://www.rezolution.co.za/Messages.html)
We're thinking about him whom angels gaze in adoring wonder as the beauty of His person glows before their very eyes and they do not ever feel that a slice of eternity is already too much as they gaze at his glory. No! Eternity, to the thousands upon thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand angels is nothing! Too short in seeking to know something of the glory of His person. Rezolution 2010 - Christ and Him Crucified http://www.rezolution.co.za/Messages.html