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.
D. A. CARSONDraw 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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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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God’s wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved.
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Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
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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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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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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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It’s not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, “The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books.”
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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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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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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.
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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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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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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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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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