John Piper
John Piper
John Stephen Piperis founder and teacher of desiringgod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a Calvinist Baptist preacher and author who served as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 33 years. His books include ECPA Christian Book Award winners Spectacular Sins, What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth11 January 1946
CountryUnited States of America
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
Don't coast through life without a passion.
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.
Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul
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The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy.
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.
God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.