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" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. "
John Piper
Hope
Gospel
Owe
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" Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible. "
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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 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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" There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian. "
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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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" 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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" Life is in God's hand. "
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Life
God
" If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command. "
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" The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family. "
John Piper
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Race
Ethnicity
" 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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Shine
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" I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel. "
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Future
God
" There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. "
John Piper
Beauty
Many
Bible
" 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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Love
Who
Writer
" I want to learn from everybody. "
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Everybody
Want
Learn
" 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. "
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Culture
Worship
Depend
" 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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Best
News
Death
" 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. "
John Piper
Life
Name
My Life
" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "
John Piper
Path
Love
Humble
" 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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People
Go
Amazing
" 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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" 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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Think
You
Life
" God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything. "
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Anything
Us
Owe
" The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself. "
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Love
Happy
Great
" Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. "
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Realize
Must
Perfection
" 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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Life
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" Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity. "
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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 Am
" Sin carries in it its own misery. "
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Carries
" 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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Glory
Bible
Positive
" 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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He