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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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Mental
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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
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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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We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.
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Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
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We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
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I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul
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Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
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Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.
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O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
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The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.
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The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.
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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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The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.
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I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.
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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 line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
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Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.
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God tests His people through hardship.
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Giving is a way of having what you need.
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Adoption is the visible Gospel.
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