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Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with 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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If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.
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Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.
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Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.
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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
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In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not see how an infant could properly receive this ordinance as an expression of his or her faith.
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We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
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Adoption is the visible Gospel.
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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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O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
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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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Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.
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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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The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
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We are far too easily pleased.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
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The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.
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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.
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The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
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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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