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If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
John Piper
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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17 Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
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People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
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When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.
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I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
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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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I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.
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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
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The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.
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Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
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The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.
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Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.
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So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.
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All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
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Only the # gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.
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The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.
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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
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The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
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It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
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