Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. John Piper More Quotes by John Piper More Quotes From John Piper When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart. John Piper graceheartjesus God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need. John Piper graceprayergiving Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies. John Piper recordsreligiousreligion Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family. John Piper bitternessparentgrace Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry. John Piper ministrywholeprayer 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. John Piper delightgracegiving 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. John Piper unionsbelievejesus 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. John Piper authoritymeanbelieve 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. John Piper finalssacrificejesus Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. John Piper churchgoalchristian Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. John Piper defeatedagechrist You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel. John Piper needs The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience. John Piper and-lovespiritknows God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do. John Piper gracegoldthinking When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus. John Piper passionnamesjesus God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose. John Piper passionnamespeople There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian. John Piper christianmentwo 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. John Piper graceheartmean 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. John Piper greatnessmeanlooks There is hope in forgiveness John Piper forgivenesshopechristian
