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If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command. (John Piper)
The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family. View quote
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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. View quote
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Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. View quote
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Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. View quote
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Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. View quote
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The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. View quote
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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels. View quote
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I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God. View quote
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God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. View quote
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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. (John Piper)
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. View quote
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I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do. View quote
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God tests His people through hardship. View quote
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One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sin carries in it its own misery. View quote
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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. View quote
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Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power. View quote
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We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody. View quote
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Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day. (John Piper)
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war. View quote
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The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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