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\”. . . we are not free to say: \”Well, God is in control. He’s sovereign, immutable, and omniscient, so whatever will be will be. There’s no point in praying.\” Scripture universally and absolutely denies that conclusion. Instead, it affirms that prayer does effect change. God, in His sovereignty, responds to our prayers.\” (R.C. Sproul, The […]

\”But some will say, \”Does He not know without a monitor, both what our difficulties are and what is meet for our interest, so that it seems in some measure superfluous to solicit Him by our prayers, as if He were winking or even sleeping until aroused by the sound of our voice.\” Those who

\”So on the one hand, we have to trust in the benevolent providence of God to give us our daily bread, and on the other hand, we are to be industrious, doing all that we can to provide for our families. God typically works through means, and He normally provides through the means of our

\”Thus, when Jesus told his followers to pray, \”Your kingdom come,\” He was making them participants in His own mission to spread the reign of God on this planet so that it might reflect the way God’s reign is established in heaven to this day.\” (R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord, 46)

\”That is, the first thing you are to remember in prayer is who it is you’re talking to, because nothing will condition your prayer life more deeply than remembering that you’re in conversation with God, the sovereign Creator and Ruler of the universe. Second, you are to remember who you are. You are not God.

\”In short, no prayer of any human being ever uttered in history ever changed the mind of God in the slightest, because His mind doesn’t ever need to be changed. . . . prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this

\”She [the church] is not in the business of telling the world what’s right and wrong so that it can do good and avoid evil. She is in the business of offering, to a world that knows all about that tiresome subject, forgiveness for its chronic unwillingness to take its own advice. But the minute

\”If God wanted to destroy the world, he wouldn’t have to do anything; he would have to stop doing something. god is not only the initial cause of the world at its beginning; he is the present and immediate cause of the world at every moment of its being.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the

\”The rule in theology is: When you’ve got two truths that you can’t hold in harmony, you don’t solve the problem by letting one of them go. You hang on tight and hold them both in paradox. At least that way ou don’t end up sweeping jewelry under the run gin the name of compulsive

\”The human race is, was, and probably always will be deeply unwilling to accept a human messiah. We don’t want to be saved in our humanity; we want to be fished out of it. We crucified Jesus not because he was God but because he blasphemed: he claimed to be God and then failed to