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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.

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We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part of her life beat, part of the beating heart of what makes them tick.
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Beaten Christian Heart Son
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Disaster Persons Waiting
Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life.
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Blessing Drawing Prayer
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
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
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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Context Pretext Proof
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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Responsibility Sovereign Sovereignty
Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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Church Jesus Love
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
Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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Christian Holy Play Scripture Two
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
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Common People Reader Study
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
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 more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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God Knowing Knows Want
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
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
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Effectiveness Lonely Teaching

The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.

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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.

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