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• The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). The life of the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... The destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.

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  Mother, Unique, Knitting

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• God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

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  Worship, Gods Will, Known

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• I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul

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  Running, Race, Waste

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• The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

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  Heart, Sight

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• When I pray for revival I pray first for the most radical thing: The utter devotion and allegiance of your hearts to Christ. That you would love Him so deeply and long for Him so passionately that His coming would be your great hope, and death would be gain, and life would be for Christ and His kingdom.

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  Heart, Long, Would Be

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• People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.

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  Biblical, Thinking, People

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• I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

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• This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity.

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  Jesus, Mean, Treasure

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• My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.

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  Jesus, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

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  Prayer, Ministry, Holiness

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.75, B&H Publishing Group

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• It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.

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  Self Esteem, Humble, Biblical

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.35, Baker Books

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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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  Writing, Preacher, Knows

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• Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

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  Jesus, Important, Christ

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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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  Christian, Men, Two

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• Grace is power, not just pardon.

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  Grace, Enabling, Pardon

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• heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

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  Joy, Heaven, Indescribable

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• So the main question is not, Which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring about for humans - including Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and nonreligious secularists - and all people everywhere?When it is all said and done, the most crucial question is: Why? Why did Christ suffer and die? Not why in the sense of cause, but why in the sense of purpose?

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  Friday, Buddhist, Jesus

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• Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

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  Christian, Prayer, Vulnerable

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• The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

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  Christian, Giving, Church

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• Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

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  Christian Inspirational, Car, Want

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• What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

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  Christian, Notes, Made

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.151, SPCK

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• Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

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  Religious, Religion, Records

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• The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

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  Men, Doe, Raises

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.235, Multnomah

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• The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.

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  Retirement, Essence, Careers

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.261, B&H Publishing Group

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• When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus.

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  Jesus, Passion, Names

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.108, SPCK

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