I’m working on a book on the new birth. The final chapter is designed to give encouragements for personal evangelism. I just added a quote by C. S. Lewis that I love. Here’s the whole section to help you move toward people: Find People Interesting Be encouraged that simply finding people interesting and caring about [...]
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God motivates us to feel and to do what we should by calling to our minds his past performances of love and his future promises of love—some near, some far. Be sure that you are connected to the way God means to motivate you with the backward look and the distant forward look and the [...]
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I noticed that YouTube was down for some reason this morning and the videos I’d linked to recently weren’t available so I thought I’d post the audio version of John Piper’s message on adoption. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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May 1, 2008 · Posted in Piper
Saving faith looks at the horror of sin, and then looks at the holiness of god, and apprehends spiritually that God’s forgiveness is unspeakably glorious. —John PiperFuture Grace Via: Desiring God
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Sometimes I’m asked how I explain the disproportion between the size of the universe and the smallness of man created as the crown of God’s creation. The tension is felt in Psalm 8:3-5. “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, [...]
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The sins of the unrepentant will be avenged in hell; the sins of repentant were avenged on the cross. —John PiperFuture Grace Via: Desiring God
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The aim of missions is to bring about the obedience of faith among all the unreached peoples of the world. But that is not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal —even of faith and obedience—is “for the sake of his name” (Romans 1:5). The fame of Christ, the reputation of Christ, is what burned in [...]
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