Hitler’s Rant Against Calvinism.
“My Leader……..Chandler…………Chandler is a Calvinist……….He is also a Charismatic”
OH LAWD, THIS IS PERFECT.
1 week ago on May 22, 2012 at 11:13pm
We Christians are ashamed of many of our ancestors who did not act in the spirit of Christ. No doubt there are traces of this plague in our own souls. But true Christianity—which is radically different from Western culture, and may not be found in many Christian churches—renounces the advance of religion by means of violence. ‘My kingdom is not of this world,’ Jesus said. ‘If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting’ (John 18:36). The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.
John Piper, The Passion of Jesus Christ: 50 Reasons Why He Came to Die
2 weeks ago on May 15, 2012 at 06:58pm
Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of material success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.
So it is with marriage. It is a momentary gift. It may last a lifetime, or it may be snatched away on the honeymoon. Either way, it is short. It may have many bright days, or it may be covered with clouds. If we make secondary things primary, we will be embittered at the sorrows we must face. But if we set our face to make of marriage mainly what God designed it to be, no sorrows and no calamities can stand in our way. Every one of them will be, not an obstacle to success, but a way to succeed. The beauty of the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his church shines brightest when nothing but Christ can sustain it.
John Piper, This Momentary Marriage (via set-apartgirl)
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2 weeks ago on May 14, 2012 at 09:59pm
Augustine was right, ‘Command what you will, & grant what you command’ That’s the only reason any of us can do anything that we ought to do, because God grants us the ability to do what we can’t do on our own; Like be happy in Jesus. There’s nobody in London who is happy in Jesus, except that the Holy Spirit opens their eyes to see Him as supremely valuable, because nobody does, apart from His work.
John Piper, Working For Your Joy
2 weeks ago on May 13, 2012 at 12:03am
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.
John Piper (A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God)
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3 weeks ago on May 04, 2012 at 11:56pm
John Piper discusses the pleasure of God in his Fame, Election, and the crushing of his Son ›
1 month ago on May 01, 2012 at 02:57pm
A clip from John Piper’s sermon, “Paper, Rock, Scissors, and Glory: or, You Will Always Lose Because His Hand is Sovereign Over all 3 Choices”
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1 month ago on April 24, 2012 at 09:29pm
My desire and prayer for you is that your life and ministry have a radical flavor. The flavor of risk, sacrifice, love, simplicity, joy, freedom, and precarious adventure.
In 1939, Howard Guinness, one of the early founders of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, wrote a little book called Sacrifice. He was trying to do then what I am trying to do now. He wrote,
Where are the young men and women of this generation who will hold their lives cheap, and be faithful even unto death, who will lose their lives for Christ’s, flinging them away for love of him? Where are those who will live dangerously, and be reckless in this service? Where are the men of prayer? Where are the men who count God’s Word of more importance to them than their daily food? Where are the men who, like Moses of old, commune with God face to face as a man speaks with his friend? Where are God’s men in this day of God’s power?
Indeed, where are the pastors who say with the apostle Paul, “I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24)?
Where are the pastors who say with Joab to his brother Abishai, when surrounded by Syrians and Ammonites, “Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him” (2 Samuel 10:12)?
Where are the young women—single and married—who say with Esther, when the life of her people hung in the balance and Mordecai asked her to risk her life, “I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:16)?
- John Piper gave this plea in his 2008 message at Together for the Gospel
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
One of my favorite Piper sermons.
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1 month ago on April 21, 2012 at 02:38pm
Faith, in this verse, John 6:35, is a coming to Jesus for the soul-satisfaction that He is. Because it says, “he who comes to me will not hunger & he who believes in me will never thirst.” This means soul-hunger, satisfied. Soul-thirst, satisfied. Believing is an embracing, a coming, a receiving of Jesus as our soul’s satisfaction. We are at the end of our quest. And He calls it Faith. He who believes in me will not hunger. So, belief is a coming to Jesus to be satisfied in all that God is for us, in Him.
If you embrace that definition, it changes everything in your ministry. Because how you attempt to bring about faith ceases to be quick decisions at the end of a service, signing a card, praying a prayer, & becoming a carnal unbeliever called “church member”. It’s over. You only want miracles now. It’s all you want. Only miracles count, because you cannot make anybody be satisfied in Jesus. You can’t. Only God can.
John Piper, Working For Your Joy
1 month ago on April 15, 2012 at 01:21pm
