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Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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