Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
D. A. CarsonGod's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
D. A. CarsonThe 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.
D. A. Carson