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• The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

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  Heart, Views, Joy

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.35, SPCK

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• The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.

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  Baby, Heart, Cells

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• The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

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  Greatness, Goal, Missions

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• Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

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  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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• I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

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  Want, I Can

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• The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

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  College, Men, Goal

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• Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 3. Volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy Center. 4. Be involved in spreading truth with good literature. 5. Make your presence know at the abortion clinics in town (by) writing or phoning or visiting and talking, if you can, with those who work there. 6. Dream a new kind of ministry. 7. Pray!

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  Dream, Pregnancy, Writing

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• All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

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  Army, Sacrifice, Self

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

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  Heart, Humble, School

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• Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

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  Hurt, People, Dishonor

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• Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

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  Worry, Generosity, Simplicity

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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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  Believe, Thinking, Impact

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• Sin carries in it its own misery.

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  Misery, Sin, Carrie

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• God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

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  Looks, World, Treasure

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• Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

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  World, Glory, Missions

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.52, Baker Academic

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• The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

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  Bread Of Life, Cost, Kingdoms

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• Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

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  Inspiring, Music, Christian

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• Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

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  Christian, School, Fighting

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• The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.

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  Jesus, Children, Taken

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• The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

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  People, Needs, Looks

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.

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  Able, Glory

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• For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

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  Mind, Done

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• The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.

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  Garden, Discipline, Schedules

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• The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

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  Heart, Fire, Mind

  John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.35, SPCK

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• History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

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  Sin, Adam, Belts

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