The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.
John PiperMissions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
John PiperBetrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
John PiperThe highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.
John Piper