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• How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?

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  Abortion, Humanity, Doe

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• If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

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  Views, Grace, Very Mean

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.43, Multnomah

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• In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not see how an infant could properly receive this ordinance as an expression of his or her faith.

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  Expression, Baptism, Peter

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.158, B&H Publishing Group

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• Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

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  Heart, Giving, Soul

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• If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

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  Men, Compassion, Mercy

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• It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

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  Sex, Children, Abortion

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• If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!

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  Heart, Men, Light

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.36, Baker Academic

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• I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

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  Special, Church, Calling

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• He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

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  Reality, Water, Heaven

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

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• Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.

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  Mean, Love Is, Confusion

  John Piper (2009). “Life as a Vapor: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith”, p.156, Multnomah

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• The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

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  Broken, Simplicity, Contentment

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.129, Multnomah

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• What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

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  Essence, Evil, Broken

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• Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

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  Art, Behavior, Homosexual

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• The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.

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  Block, Distance, Years

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• 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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  Jesus, Worship, Rejects

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• Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

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  Christian, Rising, Firsts

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• Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

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  Jesus, Jerusalem, Certain Death

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• 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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  Tragedy, Christ, Wasted Life

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

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• In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

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  Praise, Praise God, Pleasure

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• I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.

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  Helpful, Aim, Practicals

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• Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

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  Hurt, People, Dishonor

  John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.348, Multnomah

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• The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

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  Life Changing, Mean, Blood

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• One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

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  Christian, Humility, Appreciate

  John Piper (2013). “Alive To Wonder: Celebrating The Influence Of C.S. Lewis”, p.4, Whitaker House

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• Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

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  Mirrors, Paradise, Majesty

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• Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

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  Causes, Worship, Capacity

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