Well, here we are in the dog days of summer with week three with RC Sproul at the beach.

We've been walking through the volumes of the right now counts forever columns and we

are up to volume three the years 1997 to 2006.

As I combed through these various columns, I came across a number that have to do with

books.

And so that'll be our focus.

So one of these columns is June 2000 and it's entitled The Matter of Art.

Dr. Sproul begins by saying every form is an art form and every art form communicates

something.

He talks about music and painting and sculpture film drama, but he focuses in on literature.

He goes on to say one of the most powerful of all art forms is literature.

The written word is a medium that is verbal.

We understand that nonverbal communication is real and powerful, but it is the verbal

that communicates in a particularly cognitive manner.

Literature has been a powerful tool used to chisel the forms of Western civilization.

He talks about great literature that expresses great themes in a great way.

He says such literature pierces to the core of the human predicament and shines a verbal

light on truth and great literature.

Even that which chronicles misery, evil, oppression and darkness, there is a loveliness

to the bare truth that is expressed from the power of Poe to the joy of Bunyan.

We are moved by an art form that is obscured in any clips by the popular and taudry literature

that reflects our current culture.

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