“That is why physical circumcision could never be seen as an end in itself, not even in the Old Testament. It symbolized something deeper: circumcision of the heart. What God wants is not merely an outward sign that certain people… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“So with the demise of Bible reading, what teaches us how to think God’s thoughts after Him? How on earth shall we love Him with heart and mind if we do not increasingly know Him, know what He likes and… — 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
