A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
D. A. CARSONSex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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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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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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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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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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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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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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Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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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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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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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
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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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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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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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