D. A. Carson
D. A. Carson
Donald Arthur Carsonis a Canadian-born, Reformed Evangelical theologian and professor of the New Testament...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth21 December 1946
CountryCanada
loving-god knowing-god knows
To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
pain
We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
trying deeds sin
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
spiritual prayer mean
Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.
pain mistake play
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture. We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
issues sin individual
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
christian jesus winning
The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
way assuming loses
The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
father book son
It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books." In some ways they thought instead of the culmination of Old Testament books being Christ himself, the word incarnate as the opening verses of Hebrews 1 put it. In the past God spoke to the fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his son and the son is revelation.
passion temptation sin
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
spiritual children heritage
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
christian real self
In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
mistake lying home
I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly.
moving wrath covenant
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.