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Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
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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If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
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If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
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Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
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We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.
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True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.
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Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.
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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
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Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
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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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The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
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God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.
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Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.
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The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.
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Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
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Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
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All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.
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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
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Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us abundance for others.
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