The Dove Awards have always fascinated me- and not in a good way.  They seem to run so counter to the Christian value of humility and self-forgetfulness as well as the fact that God's pleasure is to be the goal of our worship and of all that we do to facilitate that worship- not man's praise.  I’d love to talk with whoever came up with the idea and and try to understand their motivations (I did have a chance, by the way, to talk about it with Dove Award winner Paul Baloche and he said that he and the fellow artists that he knows are not focused at all on winning awards but when they are offered, accept them out of genuine gratitude and thankfulness that what they have produced has been a blessing to so many people- he seemed quite humble about the whole affair).

Anyhow, reading “The Forgotten Spurgeon” and came across this tidbit:

“Spurgeon’s legacy is neither his oratory nor his personality- these things have gone the way of all flesh- but his testimony to the whole counsel fo God and his utterance of the great Reformation principle that he Lord alone must be before our eyes and His honour the ultimate motive in all our actions. In this connection it was no coincidence that, like John Calvin who desired no epitaph to mark his grave, Spurgeon wished for nothing more than the letters ‘C.H.S.’ to mark his tombstone.”