“Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
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🎄 #23 The Glorious Incarnation ~ Meaning Of Christmas
December 23, 2020 
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“This is the meaning of Christmas. Oh, that God would waken your heart to your deep need for mercy as a sinner! And then ravish your heart with a great Savior, Jesus Christ. And then release your tongue to praise him and your hands to make his mercy shine in yours.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 #21 The Glorious Incarnation ~ Message Of Hope
December 21, 2020 0 Comments
“Thus says the Lord: the meaning of Christmas is that what is good and precious in your life need never be lost, and what is evil and undesirable in your life can be changed. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can’t be changed—these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy. It is God’s message of hope this Advent that what is good need never be lost and what is bad can be changed.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 #17 The Glorious Incarnation ~ God Can Be Trusted
December 17, 2020 0 Comments
“Christ came to prove that God tells the truth, that God keeps his promises. Christmas means that God can be trusted.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 #15 The Glorious Incarnation ~ A Giving Love
December 15, 2020 0 Comments
“That’s the kind of love the Father has. It is a giving love. It gives his most precious treasure—his Son. Meditate on that this Advent. It was a very costly love. A very powerful love. A very rugged, painful love. The meaning of Christmas is the celebration of this love. “God so loved . . .” And wonder of wonders, God gives this costly love to an undeserving world of sinners, like us.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 #14The Glorious Incarnation ~ Christmas Gift
December 14, 2020 1 Comment
“Say to the next generation again and again: God is truthful; God keeps his word; God does not lie; God can be trusted! That’s one blessing of Advent. Receive it as a wonderful Christmas gift, and give it to as many people as you can.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 #12 The Glorious Incarnation ~ Mission Of God
December 12, 2020 0 Comments
“Advent is a season for thinking about the mission of God to seek and to save lost people from the wrath to come. God raised him from the dead, “Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:10). It’s a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a God on a mission, that he is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 #11 The Glorious Incarnation ~ Indestructible Joy
December 11, 2020 0 Comments
“He may be doing it for you in this Advent season—graciously and tenderly frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can’t find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man. What a Christmas gift that might be! Let all your frustrations with this world throw you onto the Word of God. It will become sweet—like walking into paradise.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 The Glorious Incarnation #24 ~ Hope For All That Is Coming
December 24, 2016 0 Comments
“Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 The Glorious Incarnation #23 ~ Meaning Of Christmas
December 23, 2016 1 Comment
“This is the meaning of Christmas. Oh, that God would waken your heart to your deep need for mercy as a sinner! And then ravish your heart with a great Savior, Jesus Christ. And then release your tongue to praise him and your hands to make his mercy shine in yours.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 The Glorious Incarnation #21 ~ Message Of Hope
December 21, 2016 1 Comment
“Thus says the Lord: the meaning of Christmas is that what is good and precious in your life need never be lost, and what is evil and undesirable in your life can be changed. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can’t be changed—these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy. It is God’s message of hope this Advent that what is good need never be lost and what is bad can be changed.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 The Glorious Incarnation # 17 ~ God Can Be Trusted
December 17, 2016 0 Comments
“Christ came to prove that God tells the truth, that God keeps his promises. Christmas means that God can be trusted.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 The Glorious Incarnation #14 ~ Christmas Gift
December 14, 2016 3 Comments
“Say to the next generation again and again: God is truthful; God keeps his word; God does not lie; God can be trusted! That’s one blessing of Advent. Receive it as a wonderful Christmas gift, and give it to as many people as you can.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 The Glorious Incarnation #12 ~ Mission Of God
December 12, 2016 0 Comments
“Advent is a season for thinking about the mission of God to seek and to save lost people from the wrath to come. God raised him from the dead, “Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:10). It’s a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a God on a mission, that he is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That’s the meaning of Advent.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 The Glorious Incarnation #11 ~ Indestructible Joy
December 11, 2016 0 Comments
“He may be doing it for you in this Advent season—graciously and tenderly frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can’t find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man. What a Christmas gift that might be! Let all your frustrations with this world throw you onto the Word of God. It will become sweet—like walking into paradise.”
John Piper, The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
🎄 “The Inn Keeper” by John Piper ~ Christmas Poem
December 8, 2016 0 Comments
🤔My Thoughts…
Just watched/listened to thes powerful & emotional poem/story. I’ve never heard this before and thought you might like it.
Grace Is Power, Not Just Pardon
October 10, 2013 3 Comments
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. Therefore the effort we make to obey God is not an effort done in our own strength, but in the strength which God supplies.
John Piper
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