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" Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. "
John Piper
Spirit
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" My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus. "
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" My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around. "
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" I want to learn from everybody. "
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" God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die. "
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" The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. "
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" When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. "
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" God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings. "
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" God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. "
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" Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together. "
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Logic
" Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. "
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" Life is in God's hand. "
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Life
God
" 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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" The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family. "
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" The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying. "
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Christ
Christianity
" We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. "
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Design
God
" I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do. "
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Stand
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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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" I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both. "
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" Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls. "
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" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "
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" It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people. "
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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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" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. "
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" God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. "
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" Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed. "
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" When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.' "
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" I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? "
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" The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. "
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" God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine. "
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