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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

D. A. Carson

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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Faith Religious Suffering
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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God Knowing Knows Want
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
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
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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Lost Mean Opinion
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
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
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
It’s just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.
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Accept Group Particular Truthful
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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Footnoted Justification Sanctification Similarly
God’s wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved.
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Emotional Love Wrath
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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Blessing Prayer Technique
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
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
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

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