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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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Isn't it ironic that today people say, 'If you know the love of God, you don't have to worry when you go on in sin.' But the apostle John said, 'If you know the love of God, you won't be able to go on in sin.'
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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
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The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
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God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
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Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, Now I have another hour to answer for. (Eph. 5:16)
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God tests His people through hardship.
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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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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
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I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
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Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
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Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
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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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Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst
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If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
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My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
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The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.
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We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.
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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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Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
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If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
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