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Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

D. A. Carson

God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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Limitation May People Self
They revere Scripture, not because Scripture becomes an idol, but because it discloses God who is especially come after us in salvation and redemption through the person of his son, his cross, his resurrection, the full sweep of the gospel.
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Cross Disclose God Redemption
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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Responsibility Sovereign Sovereignty
We are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
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Abandoned God Sinner Told
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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God Knows Suffering Way
Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, “This isn’t fair.”
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Day Every Justice Lasts
Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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Sex Timing World
When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it’s mediated through many different human authors.
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Believe Christian Mistake
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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Absolutism Heroic May
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.
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Dicatted Example God Memorize Person
If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.
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Judgment Looks Want
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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Christ Christian Want
My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc.
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Footnoted Justification Sanctification Similarly
As long as young people are asking, ‘Can I get away with this?’ or ‘Can I get away with that?’ I wonder if they’re regenerate. If they’re asking, instead, ‘How can I grow in holiness?’ then I suspect they’ve begun to understand.
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Holiness People Suspect Wonder Young
What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
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Reverence Sacred Want

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

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