“If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.” IfsReligionOrderChristianityIllusionDeceptionBiblicalPortraitsObscureEvangelism Author:John Piper
“The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.” IfsMenWritingLittlesRealityChristianUniverseSpeakKnownStudySubjectsDesignGloryTasksTreatsInfiniteManifestationAcademicBiblicalScholarshipAccuracyManifoldInsurrectionAbdicationAcademic Work Book:Think Source: Think
“Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.” PeopleIfsNeedsLooksAsksAnswersOur LivesSweetThis LifeServingAssuranceServing OthersCalvarySacrificial Love Author:John Piper
“If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.” IfsDoeFallFailingFalling In Love Author:John Piper
“God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.” IfsMeanChildrenDoeSometimesAgeTurnsGoes OnThousandTenGods WillShiftingDoing GoodDoing YouLoving Him Book:The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God Source: The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
