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.
D. A. CARSONStudy Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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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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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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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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Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
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Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.
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It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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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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There may be some, but not everybody. But there are many, many, many different Christian, theological, pastoral, specialisms that are covered by one section or another of the book and this will become, therefore, a resource volume for many people.
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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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Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.
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Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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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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