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• You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

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  Willing, Ought, Ifs

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• There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

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  Christian, Kings, Children

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• Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

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  Believe, Mean, Heart

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!

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  Gratitude, Heart, Echoes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.214, Multnomah

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• It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

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  Treasure, Saving, Christ

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• 'Worship' is the term we use to cover all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God. This is what we were created for, as God says in Isaiah 43:7, Everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory. That means that we were all created for the purpose of expressing the infinite worth of God's glory. We were created to worship.

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  Heart, Mean, Names

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• Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

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  Believe, Empowering, Enjoy

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.2, Multnomah

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• There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.

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  Live Life, Sacrifice, America

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• The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

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  People, Broken, Half

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• When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

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  Book, Gone, Forgotten

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• Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.23, SPCK

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• The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

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  Valentines Day, Son, Loss

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• Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is not a resolute abandoning of one's own good with a view solely to the good of the other person. It is first a deeply satisfying experience of the fullness of God's grace, and then a doubly satisfying experience of sharing that grace with another person.

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  Love Is, Views, Joy

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.120, Multnomah

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• Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

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  Fighting, Joy, Way

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• There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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  Jesus, Book, Joy

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• God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

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  Grace, Wealth, Christianity

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.159, Multnomah

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• If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.

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  Grace, Gold, Want

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.205, B&H Publishing Group

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• The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

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  Mind, Might, Reason

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.15, SPCK

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• All heroes are shadows of Christ

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  Hero, Shadow, Christ

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• Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

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  Answers, Hours, Clock

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• Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

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  Illumination, Way, Spirit

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• Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

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  Strong, Biblical, Scripture

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.104, Multnomah

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• Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither needs to make the other suffer for sins. Christ has borne that suffering. Now as two sinful and forgiven people we can return good for evil.

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  Disappointment, Husband, Love Is

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• Reading is more important to me than eating.

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  Reading, Important, Eating

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.58, Multnomah

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• Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

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  Roots, Grace, Cost

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