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The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

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
Died
Paid
Greatest
Happened
Jesus
Place
Freeing
Debt

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He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
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