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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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Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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Our Prayer Self World
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
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Disaster Persons Waiting
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
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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God Knowing Knows Want
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
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
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
It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
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Father Jesus Unqualified
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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Lost Mean Opinion
Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.
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Archeological Information Often Sunday
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
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
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God’s approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
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Approval Prayer Reputation
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
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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