“What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together . . . because . . . they have all been loved by Jesus himself . . .. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.”
- D.A. Carson, Love in Hard Places (Wheaton, Ill.; Crossway Books, 2002),61.
“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 us 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 had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior.”
- D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation
“To worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.”
- D.A. Carson, Worship by the Book (Grand Rapids, Mi.: Zondervan, 2002), 37.
“The Trinitarian view of worship is that it is the gift of participating through the Spirit in the incarnate Son’s communion with the Father. That means participating in union with Christ, in what he has done for us once and for all, in his self-offering to the Father, in his life and death on the cross. It also means participation in what he is continuing to do for us in the presence of the Father and in his mission from the Father to the world. There is only one true Priest through whom and with whom we draw near to God our Father. There is only one Mediator between God and humanity. There is only one offering which is truly acceptable to God, and it is not ours. It is the offering by which he has sanctified for all time those who come to God by him (Heb. 2:11; 10:10, 14).”
- James B. Torrance, quoted by D.A. Carson in Worship by the Book (Grand Rapids, Mi.: Zondervan, 2002), 42.
“Our obtuseness, our deep self-centeredness, our love of pomp and power and prestige, simply would not have allowed us to understand the cross or our need of it. In short, our very lostness demanded the work of the Spirit of God, to the end that we might “understand what God has freely give us” (1 Cor 2:12).
What a great God we have! Not only does he redeem us through the ignominious crucifixion of his much-loved Son, but he sends us his Spirit to enable us to understand what he has done. So obtuse and blind are we that we would not have begun to grasp “what God has freely given us” unless God had taken this additional step.”
- D.A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House Company, 1993), 55.
What is the Gospel? – D.A. Carson
Death by Love: Reflections on the Cross – Mark Driscoll
Gospel-Centered Ministry – Tim Keller
The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and New Earth
- John Piper
Christ the Only Way – R.C. Sproul
God Strengthens Us by the Gospel – John Piper
Why did God choose to save us through faith? – John Piper
The Cross Centered Life – C.J. Mahaney
Jesus vs Religion – Mark Driscoll
The Gospel, Moralism, and Irreligion – Tim Keller
Ryan Ferguson recites Hebrews 9 and 10 from memory
 Preaching The Cross (Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, Al Mohler, C.J. Mahaney, John MacArthur, John Piper, R.C. Sproul) |
 Christ-Centered Preaching (Bryan Chapell) |
 Him We Proclaim (Dennis E. Johnson) |
 Tell the Truth (Will Metzger) |
 The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel (Mark Dever) |
 Preaching Christ (Charles McIlvaine) |
 The Cross and Christian Ministry (D.A. Carson) |
 The Gospel and Personal Evangelism (Mark Dever) |
 Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics (Graeme Goldsworthy) |
 The Reason for God (Tim Keller) |
 The Cross: The Pulpit of God’s Love (Iain Murray) |
 Speaking of Jesus (J. Mack Stiles) |
 The Gospel for Children (John B. Leuzarder) |
