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One Of The Most Important Discoveries I Have Ever Made Is This Truth: God Is Most Glorified In Me When I Am Most Satisfied In Him. This Is The Motor That Drives My Ministry As A Pastor. It Affects Everything I Do.

-John Piper

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One Of The Most Important Discoveries I Have Ever Made Is This Truth: God Is Most Glorified In Me When I Am Most Satisfied In Him. This Is The Motor That Drives My Ministry As A Pastor. It Affects Everything I Do.

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The Assurance Of The Believer Is Not That God Will Save Him Even If He Stops Believing, But That God Will Keep Him Believing--god Will Sustain You In Faith, He Will Make Your Hope Firm And Stable To The End. He Will Cause You To Persevere.

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If You Can't See The Sun You Will Be Impressed With A Street Light. If You've Never Felt Thunder And Lightning You'll Be Impressed With Fireworks. And If You Turn Your Back On The Greatness And Majesty Of God You'll Fall In Love With A World Of Shadows And Short-lived Pleasures.

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We Are More Than A Collection Of Appetites - We Are Of God.

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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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God Took The Record Of All Your Sins-all Your Sexual Failures-that Made You A Debtor To Wrath, And Instead Of Holding Them Up In Front Of Your Face And Using Them As The Warrant To Send You To Hell, He Put Them In The Palm Of His Son’s Hand And Nailed Them To The Cross.

The Way Of The Cross Is The Way Of Suffering. Christians Are Called To Die, Not Kill, In Order To Show The World How They Are Loved By Christ.

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Whether Sexual Orientation Can Change Or Not, Hearts Can Change And Turn Any Sexual Orientation Into An Occasion For The Glory Of Christ. Those With Same-sex Attraction Glorify Christ Through Sexual Abstinence And Through The Enrichment Of Significant Christ-exalting Relationships In Other Ways.

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Exultation That Does Not Flow From Education, Affections That Do Not Flow From Knowing, Savoring That Does Not Flow From Seeing, Feeling That Does Not Flow From Thinking - Are Hollow And Rootless - Noisy Gongs And Clanging Cymbals. And God Is Not Glorified By Artificial And Empty Passions. True Delight Is Rooted In True Doctrine. God-centered Exultation Is Rooted In God-centered Education.

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God Is Infinitely Valuable. I Can't Think Of Anything That Would Have A Greater Impact On Your Life Than For You To Believe That.

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Whenever Your Heart Starts To Be Anxious About The Future, Preach To Your Heart And Say, 'heart, Who Do You Think You Are To Be Afraid Of The Future And Nullify The Promise Of God? No, Heart, I Will Not Exalt Myself With Anxiety. I Will Humble Myself In Peace And Joy As I Trust This Precious And Great Promise Of God - He Cares For Me.'

I Do Not Elevate The Time Or Mode Of Baptism To A Primary Doctrine.

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Out Of The Freedom From Worry That God's Generosity Provides Comes An Impulse Toward Simplicity Rather Than Accumulation.

Adoption Is The Visible Gospel.

Not Grace To Bar What Is Not Bliss, Nor Flight From All Distress, But This: The Grace That Orders Our Trouble And Pain, And Then, In The Darkness, Is There To Sustain.

The Best News Of The Christian Gospel Is That The Supremely Glorious Creator Of The Universe Has Acted In Jesus Christ's Death And Resurrection To Remove Every Obstacle Between Us And Himself So That We May Find Everlasting Joy In Seeing And Savoring His Infinite Beauty.

The Point Is Not That The Resurrection Is The Price Paid For Our Sins. The Point Point Is That The Resurrection Proves The Death Of Jesus Is An All-sufficient Price. If Jesus Did Not Rise From The Dead, Then His Death Was A Failure, God Did Not Vindicate His Sin-bearing Achievement, And We Are Still In Our Sins.

To See Him And Know Him And Be In His Presence Is The Soul’s Final Feast. Beyond This There Is No Quest. Words Fail. We Call It Pleasure, Joy, Delight. But These Are Weak Pointers To The Unspeakable Experience.

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.

Humility Is Beyond Our Reach. If It Were A Product Of Reaching, We Would Instinctively Be Proud Of Reaching It. It Is A Gift.

All The Different Ways God Has Chosen To Display His Glory In Creation And Redemption Seem To Reach Their Culmination In The Praises Of His Redeemed People. God Governs The World With Glory Precisely That He Might Be Admired, Marvelled At, Exalted And Praised. The Climax Of His Happiness Is The Delight He Takes In The Echoes Of His Excellence In The Praises Of The Saints.

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The Ultimate Difference Between God's Wisdom And Man's Wisdom Is How They Relate To The Glory Of God's Grace In Christ Crucified. God's Wisdom Makes The Glory Of God's Grace Our Supreme Treasure. But Man's Wisdom Delights In Seeing Himself As Resourceful, Self-sufficient, Self Determining, And Not Utterly Dependent On God's Free Grace.

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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.

Mission Exists Because Worship Doesn't.

What Is God Looking For In The World? Assistants? No. The Gospel Is Not A Help-wanted Ad. It Is A Help-available Ad. God Is Not Looking For People To Work For Him But People Who Let Him Work Mightily In And Through Them.

Anger Devours Almost All Other Good Emotions. It Deadens The Soul. It Numbs The Heart To Joy And Gratitude And Hope And Tenderness And Compassion And Kindness.

Will I Find Spiritual Communion With God Sweet Enough, And Hope In His Promises Deep Enough, Not Just To Cope, But To Flourish And Rejoice In Him?

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Ways To Be Actively Involved In The Solution: 1. Consider Adoption. 2. Be A Regular Giver Of Your Money To Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 3. Volunteer In A Crisis Pregnancy Center. 4. Be Involved In Spreading Truth With Good Literature. 5. Make Your Presence Know At The Abortion Clinics In Town (by) Writing Or Phoning Or Visiting And Talking, If You Can, With Those Who Work There. 6. Dream A New Kind Of Ministry. 7. Pray!

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He Shook My Dozing Soul And Threw The Cold Water Of Reality In My Face, So That Life And God And Heaven And Hell Broke Into My World With Glory And Horror. (on Cs Lewis)

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Be Glad In The Lord And Receive Willingly From His Hand All That He Designs For My Holiness - Both Painful And Pleasant.

There Is No Other Way The World Is Going To See The Supreme Glory Of Christ Today, Except That We Break Free From The Disneyland Of America And Begin To Live Lifestyles Of Missionary Sacrifice That Looks To The World Like Our Treasure Is In Heaven And Not On The Earth.

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.

If God's Love For His Children Is To Be Measured By Our Health, Wealth, And Comfort In This Life, God Hated The Apostle Paul.

Do We Eagerly Long For The Coming Of Christ? Or Do We Want Him To Wait While Our Love Affair With The World Runs Its Course? That Is The Question That Tests The Authenticity Of Faith.

Put Your Ear To The Ground Of God's Word And Listen To The Rumble Of His Faithfulness Coming.

You Can't Praise What You Don't Prize.

Seek To See And Feel The Gospel As Bigger As Years Go By Rather Than Smaller. Never Let The Gospel Get Smaller In Your Heart.

One Accurate Way To Describe Abortion Is Subtle Infanticide. That Is: Child-killing Done In A Way That The People Don't Recognize It As Child-killing. That Reality Is Why The Word Abortion Exists. Some Words Are Created To Cloak Reality The Same Way Procedures Are Created To Cloak Reality. "abortion" Is Cloaked Child-killing

Don't Wait For A Feeling Or Love In Order To Share Christ With A Stranger. You Already Love Your Heavenly Father, And You Know That This Stranger Is Created By Him, But Separated From Him... So Take Those First Steps In Evangelism Because You Love God. It Is Not Primarily Out Of Compassion For Humanity That We Share Our Faith Or Pray For The Lost; It Is First Of All, Love For God.

God Is Love Precisely Because He Relentlessly Pursues The Praises Of His Name In The Hearts Of His People.

If We Have No Zeal For The Glory Of God Our Mercy Must Be Superficial, Man-centred Human Improvement With No Eternal Significance. And If Our Zeal For The Glory Of God Is Not A Revelling In His Mercy, Than Our So-called Zeal, In Spite Of All Its Protests, Is Our Of Touch With God And Hypocritical.

Do All Things Without Grumbling. Why? You Have A Sovereign God Who Is On Your Side, Who Works Everything Together For Your Good.

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Every Experience In Life Is Designed To Magnify The Cross Of Christ.

I See No Thread Running Through My Work; I Simply Get On With My Life And My Painting.

All That Looks Like Reality To Us Is Dependent On God. There Is Creation And Creator, Nothing More. And Creation Gets All Its Meaning And Purpose From God.

If We Love God's Fame And Are Committed To Magnifying His Name Above All Things, We Cannot Be Indifferent To World Missions.

The Inner Essence Of Worship Is Cherishing Christ As Gain - Indeed As More Gain Than All That Life Can Offer - Family, Career, Retirement, Fame, Food, Friends. The Essence Of Worship Is Experiencing Christ As Gain. Or To Use Words That We Love To Use Around Here: It Is Savoring Christ, Treasuring Christ, Being Satisfied With Christ.

Our Deeds Are Not The Basis Of Our Salvation, They Are The Evidence Of Our Salvation. They Are Not Foundation, They Are Demonstration.

We Can Say That True Gratitude Does Not Give Rise To The Debtor's Ethic Because It Gives Rise To Faith In Future Grace. With True Gratitude There Is Such A Delight In The Worth Of God's Past Grace, That We Are Driven On To Experience More And More Of It In The Future...it Is Done By Transforming Gratitude Into Faith As It Turns From Contemplating The Pleasures Of Past Grace And Starts Contemplating The Promises Of The Future.

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.

The Line Of Lovelessness Is Not Drawn Between Speaking And Doing, But Between Speaking And Doing In The Truth, And Speaking And Doing In Emptiness. Truth Turns Word-love Into Deed-love.

Strong Affections For God, Rooted In And Shaped By The Truth Of Scripture - This Is The Bone And Marrow Of Biblical Worship.

The Bible Says He Was Raised Not Just After The Blood-shedding, But By It. This Means That What The Death Of Christ Accomplished Was So Full And So Prefect That The Resurrection Was The Reward And Vindication Of Christ's Achievement In Death.

The Greatest Stumbling Block For Children In Worship Is That Their Parents Do Not Cherish The Hour. Children Can Feel The Difference Between Duty And Delight. Therefore, The First And Most Important Job Of A Parent Is To Fall In Love With The Worship Of God. You Can't Impart What You Don't Possess.

Falling In Love

Missions Is The Overflow Of Our Delight In God Because Missions Is The Overflow Of God's Delight In Being God.

Christian Inspirational

When I Believe In Jesus, I Am United To Christ. Therefore, What He Did And Achieved Becomes Mine By This Union Through Faith Alone. His Righteous Life Is Imputed To Me. What Christ Achieved Is Counted As Mine.

Prayer Causes Things To Happen That Wouldn't Happen If You Didn't Pray.

Bad Theology Dishonors God And Hurts People.

There Is A War Going On. All Talk Of A Christian's Right To Live Luxuriously "as A Child Of The King" In This Atmosphere Sounds Hollow - Especially Since The King Himself Is Stripped For Battle.

Heaven Is A Place Of Unparalleled And Indescribable Joy

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.

All The Money Needed To Send And Support An Army Of Self-sacrificing, Joy-spreading Ambassadors Is Already In The Church.

Sin Is What You Do When You Are Not Satisfied In God.

Grace Is Power, Not Just Pardon.

Love Is The Overflow Of Joy In God! It Is Not Duty For Duty's Sake, Or Right For Right's Sake. It Is Not A Resolute Abandoning Of One's Own Good With A View Solely To The Good Of The Other Person. It Is First A Deeply Satisfying Experience Of The Fullness Of God's Grace, And Then A Doubly Satisfying Experience Of Sharing That Grace With Another Person.

Maintaining Joy In God Takes 'work'; That Is, It's A Fight Against Every Impulse For Alien Joys And Every Obstacle In The Way To Seeing And Savoring Christ.

Where Passion For God Is Weak, Zeal For Missions Will Be Weak.

Your Mind Was Made To Know And Love God.

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Christian Fasting, At Its Root, Is The Hunger Of A Homesickness For God

Christ Did Not Die To Forgive Sinners Who Go On Treasuring Anything Above Seeing And Savoring God. And People Who Would Be Happy In Heaven If Christ Were Not There, Will Not Be There. The Gospel Is Not A Way To Get People To Heaven; It Is A Way To Get People To God. It's A Way Of Overcoming Every Obstacle To Everlasting Joy In God. If We Don't Want God Above All Things, We Have Not Been Converted By The Gospel.

Here Is A Vocation That Will Bring You More Satisfaction Than If You Became A Millionaire Ten Times Over: Develop The Extraordinary Skill For Detecting The Burdens Of Others And Devote Yourself Daily To Making Them Lighter.

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.

Love Relationship

What Was Once Foolishness To Us-a Crucified God-must Become Our Wisdom And Our Power And Our Only Boast In This World.

Christ On The Cross

O That We Would So Love The Gospel And Have So Much Compassion For Lost People That Tribulation And Distress And Persecution And Famine And Nakedness And Danger And Sword And Gun And Terrorist Would Turn Us Not Into Fearful Complainers, But Bold Heralds Of Good News.

O, God Of Wonder, Enlarge My Capacity To Be Amazed At What Is Amazing, And End My Attraction To The Insignificant.

Sin Is What You Do When Your Heart Is Not Satisfied With God. No One Sins Out Of Duty. We Sin Because It Holds Out Some Promise Of Happiness.

Worship Is An Inward Feeling And Outward Action That Reflects The Worth Of God.

Oh, How Rare Are The Christians Who Speak With A Tender Heart And Have A Theological Backbone Of Steel.

God's Greatest Interest Is To Glorify The Wealth Of His Grace By Making Sinners Happy In Him.

Grace Is Not Simply Leniency When We Have Sinned. Grace Is The Enabling Gift Of God Not To Sin. Grace Is Power, Not Just Pardon.

God Is Not An Employer Looking For Employees. He Is An Eagle Looking For People Who Will Take Refuge Under His Wings. He Is Looking For People Who Will Leave Father And Mother And Homeland Or Anything Else That May Hold Them Back From A Life Of Love Under The Wings Of Jesus.

What Is The Essence Of Evil? It Is Forsaking A Living Fountain For Broken Cisterns. God Gets Derision And We Get Death. They Are One: Choosing Sugarcoated Misery We Mock The Lifegiving God. It Was Meant To Be Another Way: God's Glory Exalted In Our Everlasting Joy.

Forgiveness Costs Us Nothing. All Our Costly Obedience Is The Fruit, Not The Root, Of Being Forgiven. That's Why We Call It Grace.

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.

One Of The Most Important Discoveries I Have Ever Made Is This Truth: God Is Most Glorified In Me When I Am Most Satisfied In Him. This Is The Motor That Drives My Ministry As A Pastor. It Affects Everything I Do.

We Cannot Know What Prayer Is For Until We Know That Life Is War.

At One Level, The Message Of The Book Of Ruth Is That The Life Of The Godly Is Not A Straight Line To Glory, But They Do Get There.

The Highest Act Of Love Is The Giving Of The Best Gift, And, If Necessary, At The Greatest Cost, To The Least Deserving. That's What God Did. At The Loss Of His Son's Life To The Totally Undeserving, God Gave The Best Gift - The Display Of The Glory Of Christ Who Is The Image Of God.

How Do You Get From, "we Do Not Know Whether This Is Protectable Human Life," To "therefore, We Will Not Protect It?" Wouldn't The Logic Just As Likely (some Would Say Far More Likely) Be, "since We Do Not Know Whether This Is Protectable Human Life, Therefore We Will Protect It?" Why Does The Judicial Uncertainty About The Humanity Of The Unborn Lead To Unbridled License To Destroy It?

There Are Two Basic Restrictions On Marriage In The Bible: Number One, She Should Marry A Man. Number Two, He Should Be A Christian.

The Pursuit Of Joy In God Is Not Optional. It Is Not An 'extra' That A Person Might Grow Into After He Comes To Faith. Until Your Heart Has Hit Upon This Pursuit Your 'faith' Cannot Please God. It Is Not Savng Faith. Saving Faith Is The Heartfelt Conviction Not Only That Christ Is Reliable, But Also That He Is Desirable.

Do You Feel More Loved When God Makes Much Of You Or Do You Feel More Loved When God At The Cost Of His Son Allows You To Make Much Of Him?

If Grace Is To Be Free - Which Is The Very Meaning Of Grace - We Cannot View It As Something To Be Repaid.

The Call Of God Creates Sight In Us. It's The Work Of God In Our Hearts To Awaken Us Before His Word.

The Cross Is Not A Mere Event In History; It's A Way Of Life! Take Up Your Cross Daily, Jesus Said!

The Lord Is Kind. He Is Good To All Who Take Refuge Under His Wings.

Homosexual Behavior Has Been Exploited, And Reveled In, And Celebrated In Art, For Millennia.

For The Mind Of Faith, A Promised Act Of God Is As Good As Done.

To Love God Passionately Is To Love Truth Passionately.

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.

The Ultimate Meaning Of True Womanhood Is This: It Is A Distinctive Calling Of God To Display The Glory Of His Son In Ways That Would Not Be Displayed If There Were No Womanhood.

Betrayed By Judas, Denied By Peter, Abandoned By The Eleven, Forsaken By God. Darkness, You Get One Hour. Then You Die.

Life Is War. That's Not All It Is. But It Is Always That. Our Weakness In Prayer Is Owing Largely To Our Neglect Of This Truth. Prayer Is Primarily A Wartime Walkie-talkie For The Mission Of The Church As It Advances Against The Powers Of Darkness And Unbelief.

Taken As A Whole, The Story Of Ruth Is One Of Those Signs. It Was Written To Give Us Encouragement And Hope That All The Perplexing Turns In Our Lives Are Going Somewhere Good. They Do Not Lead Off A Cliff. In All The Setbacks Of Our Lives As Believers, God Is Plotting For Our Joy.

That's Who Jesus Christ Is. He Became The Final Priest And The Final Sacrifice. Sinless, He Did Not Offer Sacrifices For Himself. Immortal, He Never Has To Be Replaced. Human, He Could Bear Human Sins. Therefore He Did Not Offer Sacrifices For Himself; He Offered Himself As The Final Sacrifice. There Will Never Be The Need For Another. There Is One Mediator Between Us And God. One Priest. We Need No Other. Oh, How Happy Are Those Who Draw Near To God Through Christ Alone.

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.

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.

We Embrace The Hand We've Been Dealt, Because We Know The Dealer, And He Never Deals Badly.

Now Unto Him Who Is Able To Strengthen You … Be Glory.

I've Always Wondered, Am I A Writer Who Preaches Or A Preacher Who Writes? I Don't Know. I Love Them Both.

God Seldom Calls Us For An Easier Life, But Always Calls Us To Know More Of Him And Drink More Deeply Of His Sustaining Grace.

The Deepest Longing Of The Human Heart Is To Know And Enjoy The Glory Of God. We Were Made For This.

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.

God Has An Inexhaustible Enthusiasm For The Supremacy Of His Name Among The Nations.

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