Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
D. A. CARSONGood praying is more easily caught than taught.
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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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We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
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There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
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When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t want to do what you wanted to do before.
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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.
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It’s not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, “The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books.”
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The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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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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I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover.
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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
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