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" 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
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" God tests His people through hardship. "
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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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" Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity. "
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" Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me. "
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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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" Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. "
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" 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. "
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" There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. "
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