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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
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What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
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In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
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Adoption is the visible Gospel.
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Go, send, or disobey.
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If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.
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Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
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Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
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One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. Abortion is cloaked child-killing
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The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
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The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.
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My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.
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True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.
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Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
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Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.
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I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
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We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
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Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
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When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news
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Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.
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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
John Piper