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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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• 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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• If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

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  Strong, Long, Drunk

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.25, SPCK

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• The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and
  rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no
  condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.

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  Jesus, Believe, Rose

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• Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

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  Son, Wrath, God Love

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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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• The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

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  Believe, Mean, Authority

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• We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

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  Worship, Pleasure, Belittle

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• Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.

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  Sports, Jobs, Heart

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• God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

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  Dream, Passion, Thinking

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

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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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• 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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• The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

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  Mental Health, Highest

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• God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

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  Moving, People, Misery

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• Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

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  Parent, Grace, Bitterness

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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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• To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

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  Christian, Moving, Comfort

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• Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

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  Heaven, Criticism, Rewards

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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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• Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

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  Ears, Faithfulness, Rumble

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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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• Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

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  Mirrors, Dependability

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.189, Multnomah

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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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• Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

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  Jesus, Church, Doe

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.51, SPCK

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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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