The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.
John PiperChrist died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.
John PiperHomosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
John PiperAnd in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say โWell done, good and faithful servantโ?
John PiperI recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
John PiperJames says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. And we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. And if self-enhancement is god, then the One who is at work in the womb shaping a person in His own image is not God and the assault on His work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.
John Piper