“However hard some things are to understand, it is never helpful to start picking and choosing biblical truths we find congenial, as if the Bible is an open-shelved supermarket where we are at perfect liberty to choose only the chocolate… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“again. Here is a sober lesson. Even after times of spectacular revival, reformation, or covenantal renewal, the people of God are never more than… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Looking closely at what these young people believe, one discovers that they have evidently never been taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. The absence… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“If chastening were merely a matter of remedial education to morally neutral people, the timing and severity would not matter very much; we would… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The initial impetus to cross lines of race and heritage with the Gospel of Jesus Christ arose not from a committee planning world evangelization,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The greatest intercessors have always recognized that far more connects them with the common lot of sinners than what distinguishes them—and in any case… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“we cannot imagine that the church gathers for worship on Sunday morning if by this we mean that we then engage in something that… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Be patient; it is better to be a chastened saint than a carefree sinner.” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Where there is flagrant disavowal of the truths essential to the gospel, where there is persistent and high-handed disobedience to the commands of Jesus,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“To appeal…to some ill-defined and sentimental notion of love as the ground for contravening Scripture may be a lot of things, but it is… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“In a world of finite gods (often supported by one pantheistic deity), cyclical views of history, sub-biblical understandings of sin, multiplied idolatry, dualism that… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“genuinely righteous people invariably become more aware of their personal guilt and need for forgiveness than those who have become so foul and hard… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Mosaic covenant, the peace offering (Lev 17:11ff.) was the divinely prescribed means of maintaining a harmonious relationship between God… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The truth of the matter is that meeting God is either transcendentally wonderful, or utterly horrific. If God meets sinners—sinners like you and me—in… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Christians do not restrict their moral horizons to immediate results; they make their ethical decisions from an eternal perspective (p. 52).” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Forbearance and genuine tenderheartedness are much tougher than niceness, and sometimes…tough love is confrontational (p. 54).” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
