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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.

D. A. Carson

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
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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Sex Timing World
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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Christian Jesus Jobs
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
He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.
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Bread People Sold Stones
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
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
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Mistake Pain Play
Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, “This isn’t fair.”
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Day Every Justice Lasts
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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Context Pretext Proof
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
Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Caught Praying Taught
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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Biblical Important Systematic
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
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
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

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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