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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.

D. A. Carson

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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Lost Mean Opinion
What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort.
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Christian Jesus Jobs
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
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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Blessing Drawing Prayer
Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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Christian Holy Play Scripture Two
If the text is God’s Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
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Holy Joy Obedience
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
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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Context Pretext Proof
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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Different Domesticated Form Philosophical
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
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Damn Dichotomy Hell
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
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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Bigs God Love World
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
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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Our Prayer Self World

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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