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• Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

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  Doctors, Sick, Weak

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• The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

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  Glory, Aim, Ultimate

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• Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.

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  Monday, Morning, Heart

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• Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

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  Christian, Prayer, Love Relationship

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• It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

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  Christian, Inspiration, Passion

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• When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

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  Jesus, Heart, Grace

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• If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

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  Biblical, Order, Deception

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• Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

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  Perfection, Redemption, Realizing

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• The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

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  Wrath, Meditation, Way

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• And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?

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  Jesus, Eye, Years

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• Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

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  Depression, Waiting, Darkness

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• I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

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  Long, Triumph, Way

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• Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

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  Christian, Humility, Grace

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• In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

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  Joy, Believer, Setback

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• Don't coast through life without a passion.

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  Passion, Coast, Waste Of Life

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

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• What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

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  Voice, Ears, Privilege

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• We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

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  Hands, Embrace, Deals

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• Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

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  Christian, Worldview

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• There is hope in forgiveness

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  Forgiveness, Christian, Hope

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• Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

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  Men, Long, People

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.6, B&H Publishing Group

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• Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

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  Sun, Endless, Nothing New

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• Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

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  Self, Mind, Satisfaction

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• Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

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  Christian, Important, Ruins

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition”, p.50, B&H Publishing Group

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• Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

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  Giving, Grace, Delight

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.196, Multnomah

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• The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.

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  People, Heaven, Way

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