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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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The cross is not a mere event in history it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
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Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.
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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
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If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
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Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
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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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Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.
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Go, send, or disobey.
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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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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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God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.
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For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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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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So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.
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Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
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I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.
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If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.
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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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