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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

D. A. Carson

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
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Effectiveness Lonely Teaching
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
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
It’s just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.
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Accept Group Particular Truthful
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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Father Jesus Unqualified
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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Long Teaching
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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Lost Mean Opinion
We treat the Bible, not as if it’s a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it’s dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.
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Book Magic Pieces
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
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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Absolutism Heroic May
Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Caught Praying Taught
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it’s the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn’t interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Awkward People Writing
God in his infinite wisdom chose to give us his Word in the 66 canonical books, with all of their variations in theme, emphasis, vocabulary, literary form, and distinctive contributions across time.
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Contribution Distinctive God Vocabulary
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
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Cost Heaven Lying
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist.
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Artists Doctors Economist Profound
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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Responsibility Sovereign Sovereignty

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

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