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The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

D. A. Carson

For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.
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Love Pain Teaching
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it’s the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn’t interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Awkward People Writing
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
It’s not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, “The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books.”
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Book Father Son
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
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
To worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13).
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Christian Mean Reality
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
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 more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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God Knowing Knows Want
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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God Knows Suffering Way
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Caught Praying Taught
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
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Damn Dichotomy Hell
A little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
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Courage God Little Love Sympathy

The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

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The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

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