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• God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

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  Broken, Grace, Trials

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• God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family, i will pay for him to be in my family with my son's life. That's Love folks. That is mega off the charts love!!!

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  Pride, Son, Men

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• Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

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  Heart, Reflecting Back, Done

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.92, Multnomah

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• We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

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  Heart, Free Gifts, Buying Things

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• God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

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  Joy, Killjoy

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• Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary

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  Christian, Believe, Artist

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• Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.

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  Beautiful, Spirit, Glory

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• Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

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  Christian, Joy, Style

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• It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

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  Prayer, Trying, Comfort

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

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• Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

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  Excellence, Doe, Matter

  John Piper (2009). “Life as a Vapor: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith”, p.15, Multnomah

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• The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

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  Brother, Joy, Ministry

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• The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.

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  Dream, Church, Covenant

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.16, SPCK

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• From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.

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  Heart, Eye, Giving

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• You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

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  Differences, People, World

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• God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

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  Heart, Names, People

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.48, Multnomah

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• Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For 'the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.'

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  Law, Perfect, Soul

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.144, Multnomah

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• We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

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  World, Behinds, Haul

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• Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

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  Humble, Hands, Suffering

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.4, B&H Publishing Group

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• The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

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  Evil, Suffering, World

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• Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

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  Views, Giving, Promise

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• Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

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  Feelings, Worship

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.88, Multnomah

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• Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

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  Doctors, Medicine, Nurse

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• Only the #‎ gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

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  Pride, Two, Increase

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• Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.

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  Grace, Doe, Trust In God

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.37, Multnomah

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• The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

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  Children, Father, Winning

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