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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. Carson

A little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
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Courage God Little Love Sympathy
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
Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that’s imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.
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Different Domesticated Form Philosophical
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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Abandoned God Sinner Told
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
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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Believe Christian Mistake
Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Caught Praying Taught
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
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist.
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Artists Doctors Economist Profound
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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Emotional Love Wrath
I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover.
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Book Christian People
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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Context Pretext Proof
We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
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Effective Greatest Pain Teaching
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
The 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.
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Christian Jesus Winning
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity

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