Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
D. A. CARSONDamn all false dichotomies to hell
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When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t want to do what you wanted to do before.
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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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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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Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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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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When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it’s mediated through many different human authors.
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There 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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A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
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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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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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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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For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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