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The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

D. A. Carson

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
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
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Important Toy Years
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
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there’s a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.
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Generations Scripture Voice
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
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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Believe Evidence Moral 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
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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Responsibility Sovereign Sovereignty
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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Effectiveness Lonely Teaching
Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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Sex Timing World
God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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Limitation May People Self
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
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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Become Book Christian Different Everybody Section
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
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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