If the text is God’s Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
D. A. CARSONThe Christian’s whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
More D. A. Carson Quotes
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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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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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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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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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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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We are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
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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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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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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
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We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part of her life beat, part of the beating heart of what makes them tick.
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Systematic theology will ask questions like “What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?” Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as “What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John’s Gospel?
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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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Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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