It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.
D. A. CarsonWe do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
D. A. CarsonTo God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
D. A. CarsonA billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
D. A. CarsonYou get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.
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