The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.
John PiperWhen I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.
John PiperAll the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
John PiperNothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.
John Piper