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Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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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Joy
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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
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It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.
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Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.
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Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.
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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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Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
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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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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
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