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Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

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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Preaching
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Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
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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 only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.
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If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
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If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.
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Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
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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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You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.
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Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
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Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For 'the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.'
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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
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We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.
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Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
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It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
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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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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
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We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.
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