American - Clergyman | January 11, 1946 -
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.
John Piper
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The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
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I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.
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I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
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As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.
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One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
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God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.
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God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
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Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.
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You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
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