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• Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

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  Heart, Past, Pastor

  John Piper (2016). “A Camaraderie of Confidence: The Fruit of Unfailing Faith in the Lives of Charles Spurgeon, George Müller and Hudson Taylor”, p.21, SPCK

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• The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.

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  Joy, Soul, Purpose

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• The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

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  Real, One Day, Answers

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• God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

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  Thinking, Grace, Gold

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.203, Multnomah

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• The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

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  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.86, Multnomah

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• Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope - Jesus Christ is not defective in any way whatsoever. But the view from the struggling Christian's heart of their objective hope could be obscured by disease and pain, the pressures of life, and by Satanic fiery darts shot against them... All discouragement and depression is related to the obscuring of our hope, and we need to get those clouds out of the way and fight like crazy to see clearly how precious Christ is.

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  Depression, Christian, Jesus

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• Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

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  Marriage, Husband, Heart

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.210, Multnomah

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• God without Christ is no God.

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  Christ

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• The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.

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  Christian, Strong, People

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• So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.

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  Taken, Heart, Sunday

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• CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

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  Christian, Moving, Done

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• The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

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  Men, Woven, Messages

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.18, SPCK

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• The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

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  Adoption

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• Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Knowing

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition”, p.17, B&H Publishing Group

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• Oh that God would help me waken in you a single passion for a single great reality that would unleash you, and set you free from small dreams, and send you, for the glory of Christ, into all the spheres of secular life and to all the peoples of the earth.

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  Dream, Passion, Reality

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• The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

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  Creating, World, Glory

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• All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and his Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.... When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.

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  Fall, Moving, Son

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• The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.

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  Christian, Writing, Biblical

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.20, SPCK

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• Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

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  Christian, Roots, Fasting

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• All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.

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  Moving, Mean, Son

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• America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

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  America, Culture, Firsts

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• ...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

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  Dark, Despair, Pessimism

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• humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

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  Humility, Proud, Reaching

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• At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

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  Book, Godly, Levels

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• Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

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  Life Is, Christ, Crosses

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