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Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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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Christ
Life
Treasuring
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Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'
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The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
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The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.
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Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
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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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In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.
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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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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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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
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The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.
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Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
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God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
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God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
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Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
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America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
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Sanctification is a community project.
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If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.
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If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
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The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
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The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
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