There is no promise of deliverance from death in this world. But there is a command to keep doing good until your dead. -1 Peter 4:19 | John Piper
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One Day America
One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end. -John Piper
Abiding in Jesus
Abiding in Jesus is trusting that he really is loving us at every moment and that everything he revealed about himself and our future is true. -John Piper
God’s glory
God’s glory consists much in the fact that he is happy beyond all our imagination. -John Piper
Grace is power
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
God is always doing 10,000 things
God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them. -John Piper
The flame of worship
When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God’s true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. – John Piper
The ultimate thing we can say
The ultimate thing we can say about marriage is that it exists for God’s glory. That is, it exists to display God. – John Piper
Strong Stand
It’s unpopular to take a strong stand on anything these days, except tolerance. -John Piper
The deepest root of joy
What is the deepest root of your joy? What God gives to you? Or what God is to you? -John Piper
Fight for us God
Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. -John Piper
Running
Running – John Piper
A sermon jam typography video made from excerpts from John Piper’s sermon, “Running with the Witnesses (Aug 17, 1997)
God of wonder
O God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant. -John Piper
The Gospel gets people to God
The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. -John Piper
Justice of God
Grace is the pleasure of God
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
Christ is glorified
Happy in heaven, without Christ?
People who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there… will not be there. -John Piper
Satan was defeated by Christ
What is the deepest root of your joy
Live gladly
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. -John Piper
Married to the right person?
How to know if you are married to the right person. Short answer: Look at the name on the marriage certificate. -John Piper
Stop Comparing
To love is to stop comparing. -John Piper
Life is too short
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity. -John Piper
Missions exist
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. -John Piper
The wisdom of God
You’ve nibbled at the world
If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. -John Piper
It’s better to lose your life
It is better to lose your life than to waste it. -John Piper
Christ did not die to forgive
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. -John Piper
The strength of your patience
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours. -John Piper
Christ is glorified in me
Christ is glorified in me when people see he is more precious to me than all that life can give or death can take. -John Piper
Desire God above all
If we don’t want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel. -John Piper
Last Day Excuses
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. -John Piper
Aware of three
God glorified in us
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. -John Piper
To be enjoyed
God’s love delivers sinners
The freedom to fail
Aware of three of them
Better to lose your life
Faith is the evidence
God prospers
Death is like my car
If you are sufficient
If you are sufficient for your task it’s too small. -John Piper
God made man small
God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself. — John Piper
Salvation is not just forgiviness
The essence of faith
God’s looking for people
God is sovereign over your life, and God is good.
God is sovereign over your life, and God is good. – John Piper
Our sexual maleness or femaleness is an essential part…
Our sexual maleness or femaleness is an essential part of our God-given identity, whether we’re married or not. – John Piper