A masterpiece …

… The Poor You Have Always With You - Front Porch Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

As the Word of God is “a red-hot iron,” men are inclined to pick it up with a pair of tongs, to hold it at a distance. Too many preachers end up “purring like a tabby cat” instead of “feeling the pain of it”—the wound of the Word that leaves us stripped of pretense, pulling groans for redemption from the bowels of our souls.