foolishness
“There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.”
William Cowper; There is a Fountain, 1834
The words of There is a Fountain are written by a man who was smitten to the point of suicide with deep depression and anxiety until he found Christ to deal with the guilt that was debilitating him. Most modern skeptics would judge the author of a song like this to be a madman, not a recovered manic rejoicing with the Lord over the grace that He afforded him. So it is with the gospel. Paul tells us that it is “Foolishness to the Greeks, and a stumbling block to the Jews”...
(from "A Preeminent Tabernacle" preached by Mike Gunn)
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.”
William Cowper; There is a Fountain, 1834
The words of There is a Fountain are written by a man who was smitten to the point of suicide with deep depression and anxiety until he found Christ to deal with the guilt that was debilitating him. Most modern skeptics would judge the author of a song like this to be a madman, not a recovered manic rejoicing with the Lord over the grace that He afforded him. So it is with the gospel. Paul tells us that it is “Foolishness to the Greeks, and a stumbling block to the Jews”...
(from "A Preeminent Tabernacle" preached by Mike Gunn)