I’m a huge fan of Drs. John Gerstner and R.C. Sproul. Put both of them together in the same room (teacher and student respectively) and it’s like watching fireworks. You can see certain elements of Dr. Gerstner’s personality have passed over to Dr. Sproul’s teaching style over the years.

Ligonier Ministries’ apologetics series “Silencing the Devil” where they banter back and forth on such questions of the existence of God and Jesus as the only way to heaven is a must-watch mock-debate and free to watch at Ligonier’s websiteThis lecture is the first of a five-part series called “Can We Know Truth”. 

Note: Gerstner/Sproul never really get anywhere in their arguments due to time constraints, but it’s still fun to watch.

Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on his character. The idolatrous heart assumes that God is other than he is - in itself a monstrous sin - and substitutes for the true God one made after its own likeness. Let us beware lest we in our pride accept the erroneous notion that idolatry consists only in kneeling before visible objects of adoration, and that civilized peoples are therefore free from it. The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him…

A.W. Tozer- A.W. Tozer

Excerpt from The Knowledge of the Holy