John Piper Quotes
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John Stephen Piper is a Reformed and Baptist theologian, preacher, and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books.
Piper's motto in ministry, preaching, and teaching is: "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls those who live out this motto Christian Hedonists. Piper places a heavy emphasis on the objective and absolute nature of truth and is confident in the Christian's ability to grasp that truth through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
 According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention about 43% of all American women will have at least one abortion by the age 45 (p. 18). 20% of these are performed on teenagers (p. 28). 50% are performed on women who have had at least one abortion already (p. 31). Every third baby conceived and viable in this country is killed by abortion (p. 35). Topics: Abortion
Source: The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth, Sermon: January 26, 2003 | | Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently. Topics: Abortion
Source: The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth, Sermon: January 26, 2003 | | How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it? Topics: Abortion
Source: The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth, Sermon: January 26, 2003 | | If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer. Topics: Abortion
Source: Abortion: The Innocent Blood of Our Sons and Daughters, Sermon: January 27, 2008 | | It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result. Topics: Abortion
Source: The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth, Sermon: January 26, 2003 | | One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing Topics: Abortion
Source: Abortion, Race, Gender and Christ, Sermon: January 23, 2005 | |
| | The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years. Topics: Abortion | | The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald. Topics: Abortion
Source: Love Your Unborn Neighbor, Sermon: January 22, 2006 | | The law of our land today is that any abortion is legal in America until birth if the mother can give reason that the pregnancy or the child will be an excessive burden or stress on her well-being. Since that ruling 14 years ago Thursday, about 20,000,000 babies have been aborted in America. Topics: Abortion
Source: Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have So You Kill, Sermon: January 18, 1987 | | The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling. Topics: Abortion
Source: Abortion: Where Does Child Killing Come From? Sermon: January 25, 1998 | | Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness. Topics: Anger
Source: This Momentary Marriage - A Parable of Permanence, p. 150 | | God has never done anything that should legitimately cause anger in any of His children. We are never warranted in getting angry at God. Ever. It happens. And we should admit it, and tremble, and repent, and turn back to humble trust in His sovereign goodness. Topics: Anger, Faith
Source: This Momentary Marriage - A Parable of Permanence, p. 151 |
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