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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.

D. A. Carson

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
Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Damn Dichotomy Hell
What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort.
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Christian Jesus Jobs
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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Faith Religious Suffering
Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.
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Another Christian Come Sake
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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Book Christian People
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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Responsibility Sovereign Sovereignty
Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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Sex Timing World
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 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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Fountain Interesting Stories
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, “This isn’t fair.”
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Day Every Justice Lasts
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
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
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

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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