The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.
John PiperOur lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
John PiperThe highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.
John PiperJesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.
John PiperThe suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.
John Piper