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To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

D. A. Carson

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
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Moral Want
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
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
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Damn Dichotomy Hell
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
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
If the text is God’s Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
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Holy Joy Obedience
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
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
Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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Sex Timing World
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
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Mistake Pain Play
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Disaster Persons Waiting
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
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Important Toy Years
Some people say What’s the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest.
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Doe People Philosophical
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist.
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Artists Doctors Economist Profound

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