Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy
John PiperI've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
John PiperEvangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.
John PiperThere is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
John Piper