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The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

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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Heaven
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Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
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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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Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
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The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.
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Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
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I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
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You can't praise what you don't prize.
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The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
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Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.
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Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.
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Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
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The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.
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Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
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We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
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Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
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From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.
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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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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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The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.
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Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
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