Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God.
John Piper
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Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God.
John Piper
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At Jesus’s last breath, a crowd of saints rose from their tombs in Jerusalem. Pastor John offers six reasons Matthew’s Gospel includes this
You’re reading through the first book of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew, and you get to the crucifixion account. It’s a story you probably know well, but there, right in the middle of it, is one detail — one really weird detail. It comes as the ground shakes and the temple curtain tears in half. Those are amazing.
Whenever a Christian converses with a non-Christian about the truth of the faith, every request of the non-Christian for the proof of Christianity should be met with an equally serious request of proof for the non-Christian’s philosophy of life. Otherwise we get the false impression that the Christian worldview is tentative and uncertain, while the more secular worldviews are secure and sure, standing above the need to give a philosophical and historical accounting of themselves. But that is not the case. Many people who demand that Christians produce proof of our claims do not make the same demand upon themselves.
John Piper
What’s the relationship between our good deeds and God’s reward? When he empowers us to obey him, he loves to celebrate the beauty of his gr
You do something nice for someone. You invite a struggling neighbor over for dinner. You take a friend who you know is suffering out for coffee. You give a family at church some money to get through a rough season. You help someone, and in the back of your mind, you wonder: Am I doing this because I’m a good person? Or am I doing this because I want God to reward me for it later? And if I am doing it for future reward, then in the moment, it can all feel transactional, right? Like we’re engaged in an under-the-table deal with God that the person we serve doesn’t know about.
The Puritans believed that without perseverance in the obedience of faith the result would be eternal destruction, not lesser sanctification. Therefore, since preaching and the pastoral ministry in general are a great means to the saints’ perseverance, the goal of a pastor is not merely to edify the saints but to save the saints. What is at stake on Sunday morning is not merely the upbuilding of the church but its eternal salvation. It is not hard to see why the Puritans were so serious.
John Piper
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God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god.
John Piper
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.
John Piper
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.
John Piper