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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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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
Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.
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Another Christian Come Sake
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Damn Dichotomy Hell
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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Christian Inspired Worship
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
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
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
God in his infinite wisdom chose to give us his Word in the 66 canonical books, with all of their variations in theme, emphasis, vocabulary, literary form, and distinctive contributions across time.
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Contribution Distinctive God Vocabulary
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
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
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
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
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Disaster Persons Waiting
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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Blessing Prayer Technique
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
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

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