“Enjoyment of Jesus is not like icing on the cake; it’s like powder in the shell.” — 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
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...” — John Piper Copy Share Image
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. — 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
Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel. — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to… — 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
What women rightly long for is spiritual and moral initiative from a man, not spiritual and moral domination. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“O Father, touch us with fresh faith that we might believe the incredible. The very pain of Christ that makes us despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Jesus came into the world with good news, not bad news. He does not call us to a willpower religion that feels… — John Piper Copy Share Image
John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance...… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. Thats… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not… — 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
“God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Paul says that one weapon in this ongoing fight of faith is the practice of “disciplining” the body. He was not unaware… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm… — John Piper Copy Share Image
That's who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not offer sacrifices for himself.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more… — 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
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