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If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Damn Dichotomy Hell
To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
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Father God Knowing Loving Resolution
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
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Boys Doors Running
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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Our Prayer Self World
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.
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Fountain Interesting Stories
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
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
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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Blessing Prayer Technique
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
How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.
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Dicatted Example God Memorize Person
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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Doe People Philosophical
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
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
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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Evil Gentleman Play
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
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Common People Reader Study

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