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" I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me. "
John Piper
Hospital
I Can
Job
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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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" 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 believe God has a future for ethnic Israel. "
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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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Who
Writer
" You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. "
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You
Say
" 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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" 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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" 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
" 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. "
John Piper
Together
Experience
Logic
" I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? "
John Piper
Voice
Why
Afraid
" 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. "
John Piper
Giving
Christ
Christianity
" Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! "
John Piper
Satisfaction
Food
Kitchen
" 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
" There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian. "
John Piper
Marriage
She
Bible
" 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. "
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God
Time
Poison
" 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
" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "
John Piper
See
Says
People
" 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
" 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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Time
Design
God
" 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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Good News
Prayer
World
" Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. "
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Realize
Must
Perfection
" God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. "
John Piper
Most
Glorified
God
" 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. "
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Faith
God
Law
" I want to learn from everybody. "
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Everybody
Want
Learn
" 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. "
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God
Time
Me
" You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. "
John Piper
God
Authority
Over
" God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything. "
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Anything
Us
Owe
" 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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God
Without
Different
" 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. "
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Mother
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" Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging. "
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