The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. — John Piper Copy Share Image
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT! — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ… — John Piper Copy Share Image
So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The Bible-oriented preacher wants the congregation to know that his words, if they have any abiding worth, are in accord with God’s… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Which means, therefore, that our Bible reading is never just for seeing, never just for learning and doctrine. It is not even… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The teaching that diminishes the urgency for reaching all the unreached peoples of the world with the only news that can save… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Therefore, we read the Bible selectively. We pick a text here and there to fit our felt needs. This is like a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Nowhere else in all the Bible is there a preface to a command like this one: “I charge you in the presence… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“This is how God has designed the Scriptures to work for human transformation and for the glory of God: the Scriptures reveal… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“If anyone is going to see the gospel as true and good, satanic blindness and natural deadness must be overcome by the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“This understanding of the divine will and the human will at work together is not restricted to the writing of Scripture. It… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“When you are tempted to forsake God because of the greatness of evil and misery in the world, may you remember that… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would… — John Piper Copy Share
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share
“The Spirit inspired the Word and therefore He goes where the Word goes. The more of God's Word you know and love, the more… — John Piper Copy Share
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you… — John Piper Copy Share
“Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and… — John Piper Copy Share
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The… — John Piper Copy Share
Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory… — John Piper Copy Share
Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here. — John Piper Copy Share
“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is… — John Piper Copy Share
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity… — John Piper Copy Share
“job 14:1 man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of troubles "If that isn't your experience now it… — John Piper Copy Share
“Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else… — John Piper Copy Share
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… — John Piper Copy Share
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16) — John Piper Copy Share
![“If anyone is going to see the gospel as true and good, satanic blindness and natural deadness must be overcome by the power of God. This is why the Bible says that even though the gospel foolishness to many, yet 'to those who are called...Christ [is] the power of God and the wisdom of God' (1…” quote by John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c7e/john-piper-255_bible_if-anyone-is-going-to-see-the-gospel-as_3099976.png)
