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God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

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
Rescue
Misery
Move
Happiness
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People
Everlasting

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He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
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Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
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All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
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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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