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.
D. A. CARSONThere 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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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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A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life.
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Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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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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Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that’s imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.
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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
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Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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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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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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Some people say What’s the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest.
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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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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