{"id":778,"date":"2010-05-17T09:48:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2010-06-06T08:23:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T14:23:46","slug":"carson-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/carson-on-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson on Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Here is a great quote from D.A. Carson on prayer in Luke 18, which we&#8217;ve been studying recently in our <a title=\"Righteous Sinners in the Gospel of Luke\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/By_Series\/Righteous_Sinners_in_the_Gospel_of_Luke\/\" target=\"_blank\">sermon series on Luke<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">By itself, of  course, this parable could be taken to mean that the longer and louder  one prays, the more blessings one gets\u00e2\u20ac\u201da kind of tit-for-tat arrangement  that Jesus himself elsewhere disavows (Matt. 6:5-15). But the last  verse (18:8) focuses the point: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153However, when the Son of Man comes,  will he find faith on the earth?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The real problem is not with God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  unwillingness to answer, but with our faithless and lethargic refusal to  ask.\u00c2\u00a0 (D.A. Carson, <em>For the Love of God, Vol. 1<\/em>. March 4)<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:  Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">If you want to read more from Carson, this quote is taken from a devotional that he wrote, titled <a title=\"For the Love of God, Vol. 1. by DA Carson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1581348150\/desesprichur-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>For the Love of God, Vol. 1<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Each day&#8217;s devotional reading is <a title=\"DA Carson blog, For the Love of God\" href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/loveofgod\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted online at this blog<\/a> or you can <a title=\"For the Love of God, Vol. 1. by DA Carson (download)\" href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/tgc-documents\/carson\/1998_for_the_love_of_God.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download the entire book for free by clicking here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great quote from D.A. Carson on prayer in Luke 18, which we&#8217;ve been studying recently&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/carson-on-prayer\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,39,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}