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Love the church because Jesus loves it.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Missionary
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
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Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.
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God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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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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The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad they may even be heroic.
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Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
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A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.
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The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
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The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
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There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
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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. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?
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You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
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All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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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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Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
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