The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
D. A. CARSONWe are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
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Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It’s not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.
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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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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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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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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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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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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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Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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As long as young people are asking, ‘Can I get away with this?’ or ‘Can I get away with that?’ I wonder if they’re regenerate. If they’re asking, instead, ‘How can I grow in holiness?’ then I suspect they’ve begun to understand.
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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
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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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