“You were bought with a price” by D.A. Carson

“Christian leaders worthy of the name will constantly be aware that they owe fealty and devoted allegiance to only one Person: to the Lord who bought them.”
–D.A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004), 98.

“The Sermon on the Mount sears and burns” by D.A. Carson

“The more I read these three chapters– Matthew 5,6, and 7– the more I am both drawn to them and shamed by them. Their brilliant light draws me like a moth to a spotlight; but the light is so bright it sears and burns. No room is left for forms of piety which are nothing [...]

“There is no middle ground” by D.A. Carson

“Ultimately wisdom is from the world and is opposed by God, or it is God-given and tied to the cross. There is no middle ground.”
–D.A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004), 62.

“What an utterly profound privilege” by D.A. Carson

“There is no deep and stable spirituality that does not acknowledge what an utterly profound privilege it is to know God and be reconciled to Him by the crucified Messiah.”
–D.A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004), 52.

“The smoothness of the performance” by D.A. Carson

“We have become so performance-oriented that it is hard to see how compromised we are. Consider one small example. In many of our churches, prayers in morning services now function, in large measure, as the time to change the set in the sanctuary.
The people of the congregation bow their heads and close their eyes, and [...]

“When Barna becomes more important than the Bible” by D.A. Carson

“At the moment, books are pouring off the presses telling us how to plan for success, how ‘vision’ consists in clearly articulated ‘ministry goals,’ how the knowledge of detailed profiles of our communities constitutes the key to successful outreach. I am not for a moment suggesting that there is nothing to be learned from such [...]

“New Covenant worship” by D.A. Carson

“We cannot imagine that the church gathers for worship on Sunday morning if by this we mean that we then engage in something that have not been engaging in the rest of the week. New Covenant worship terminology prescribes constant worship.”
–D.A. Carson, Worship by the Book (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 24.

“All the blessings God has for us” by D.A. Carson

“Everything that is coming to us from God comes through Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus has won our pardon; He has reconciled us to God; He has canceled our sin; He has secured the gift of the Spirit for us; He has granted eternal life to us and promises us the life of the consummation; He has [...]

“The aim of Bible reading” by D.A. Carson

“The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.”
–D.A. Carson, “The Scholar as Pastor” as cited on http://s3.amazonaws.com/tgc-documents/carson/2009_scholar_as_pastor.pdf (accessed May 18, 2009).

“He remains faithful forever” by D.A. Carson

“Do not put your confidence in princes, politicians, social tinkerers, economists, academics, gurus, legislators, administrators, preachers, psychologists– they are all mortal, they are all limited and fallible, and they all will die. That is not to say that we cannot gain much help from the best of people in all these categories. But in the [...]

“Our debt is incalculable” by D.A. Carson

“The idea is not simply that we have been forgiven, and therefore ought to forgive, but that God Himself, in Christ, has forgiven us, and therefore our debt is incalculable. No matter how much wretched evil has been done against us, it is little compared with the offense we have thrown in the face of [...]

“Truth and culture” by D.A. Carson

“No truth which human beings may articulate can ever be articulated in a culture-transcending way– but that does not mean that the truth thus articulated does not transcend culture.”
–D.A. Carson, “Maintaining Scientific and Christian Truths in a Postmodern World,” Science & Christian Belief, vol. 14, no. 2 (October 2002): 107-122, http://www.scienceandchristianbelief.org/articles/carson.pdf.

“He sent us a Savior” by D.A. Carson

“If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, He would have sent an economist.  If He had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, He would have sent a comedian or an artist.  If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, He would have sent us a politician.  If He [...]

“God’s timing is best” by D.A. Carson

“We think that if God is going to relieve our sufferings, He ought to do so immediately. Any delay vitiates His promises. We live in a fast-paced world, and we want God to respond with the same efficiency we expect from high-speed computers. We are not inclined to think through the delays in Scripture: Moses’ [...]

“Our expectations are false” by D.A. Carson

“One of the major causes of devastating grief and confusion among Christians is that our expectations are false. We do not give the subject of evil and suffering the thought it deserves until we ourselves are confronted with tragedy.
If by that point our beliefs—not well thought out but deeply ingrained—are largely out of step with [...]