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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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• The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

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  Christian, Giving, Church

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• I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

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  Writing, Preacher, Knows

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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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• It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.

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  Self Esteem, Humble, Biblical

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.35, Baker Books

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• heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

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  Joy, Heaven, Indescribable

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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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• Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

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  Christian, Hurt, Roots

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• Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

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  Prayer, Ministry, Holiness

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.75, B&H Publishing Group

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• Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

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  Illumination, Way, Spirit

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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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• We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

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  Joy, Suffering, Path

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.287, Multnomah

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• I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul

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  Running, Race, Waste

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• Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

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  Pride, Form, Boast

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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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• My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

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  Christian, Real, Class

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• Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.

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  Sin, Satisfied

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• James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. And we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. And if self-enhancement is god, then the One who is at work in the womb shaping a person in His own image is not God and the assault on His work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.

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  Baby, Cutting, Self

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• The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

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  People, Broken, Half

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• Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

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  Treasure, Flow, Sin

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• Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.23, SPCK

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• The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

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  Heart, Sight

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• Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

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  Home, Giving, Christ

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• Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.

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  Sex, Children, Love Is

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