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A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
D. A. Carson
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D. A. Carson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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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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One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
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Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.
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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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The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.
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Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.
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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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The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
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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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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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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.
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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
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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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You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
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The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.
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There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
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