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" Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. "
John Piper
Homosexual
Been
Behavior
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" The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve. "
John Piper
Better
Justice
Someone
" The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. "
John Piper
Essence
Us
God
" The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous. "
John Piper
Us
Life
God
" I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both. "
John Piper
Love
Who
Writer
" As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning. "
John Piper
Mother
Relationship
Help
" As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do. "
John Piper
Out
Say
Truth
" God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die. "
John Piper
Because
Life
He
" 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. "
John Piper
World
Worth
Nothing
" Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power. "
John Piper
Little
Power
Souls
" 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. "
John Piper
Believe
Life
I Am
" Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture. "
John Piper
Culture
Worship
Depend
" God tests His people through hardship. "
John Piper
God
Tests
Hardship
" The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. "
John Piper
Glory
Bible
Positive
" God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that. "
John Piper
Think
You
Life
" I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do. "
John Piper
Love
Stand
Bad
" God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover. "
John Piper
God
Time
Poison
" Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. "
John Piper
Spirit
God
Every
" 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. "
John Piper
Best
News
Death
" God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings. "
John Piper
God
Good
Human
" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. "
John Piper
Hope
Gospel
Owe
" 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. "
John Piper
People
Go
Amazing
" Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. "
John Piper
Realize
Must
Perfection
" The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. "
John Piper
Dangerous
World
Sin
" 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. "
John Piper
Time
Design
God
" I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors. "
John Piper
God
Time
Me
" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "
John Piper
See
Says
People
" God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute. "
John Piper
Faith
God
Law
" Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. "
John Piper
Diabetes
Football
Women
" I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel. "
John Piper
Believe
Future
God
" Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels. "
John Piper
Really
God
He