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• God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

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  Mean, Greatness, Looks

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• The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

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  Prayer, Giving Up, Order

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

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• Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

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  Lying, Fall, Broken

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• Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

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  Treasure, Pleasure, Obedience

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

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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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• Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

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  Sweet, People, Needs

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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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• You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Life Is, Christ

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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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• You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

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  Needs

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• God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

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  Powerful, Inspiration, Passion

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• Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

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  Prayer, Reflecting Back, Radiance

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.84, Multnomah

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• Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

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  Knowing, Secret, Atheism

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• You can't praise what you don't prize.

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  Praise, Prize

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

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  Greatness, Men, Made

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• To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

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  Heart, Mean, Grace

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• The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

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  Wings, Kind, Lord

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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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• Your mind was made to know and love God.

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  Love, God, Christian

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• Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

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  Sweet, Love Is, Roots

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.11, Multnomah

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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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• If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

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  Beautiful, Knowing God, Knows

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• God tests His people through hardship.

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  People, Hardship, Tests

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• We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

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  Thinking, Joy, Needs

  John Piper @JohnPiper, twitter.com. November 9, 2009.

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• There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

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  Christian, Missionary, Three

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad! DVD Study Guide”, p.8, Baker Academic

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