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The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

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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Precious
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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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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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Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.
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Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
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The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.
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For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.
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CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
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It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.
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The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.
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Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.
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We are far too easily pleased.
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You can't praise what you don't prize.
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God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family, i will pay for him to be in my family with my son's life. That's Love folks. That is mega off the charts love!!!
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The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.
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If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
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So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.
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Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
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Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
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