12/05/2005


GOD IS THE GOSPEL
"The acid test of biblical God-centeredness – and faithfulness to the gospel – is this: Do you feel more loved because God makes much of you, or because, at the cost of his Son, he enables you to enjoy making much of him forever? Does your happiness hang on seeing the cross of Christ as a witness to your worth, or as a way to enjoy God's worth forever?" John Piper in his new book, 'God is the Gospel'.

Sam Storms comments,
'When was the last time you heard a sermon, much less a series, that concentrated on God himself, his attributes and affections and splendor and ways and will? Too much is said these days of passion for God and too little of God himself and why he is worthy of being passionately pursued. How many more sermons must we endure that expound on the nature of commitment but say nothing of him to whom our hearts are committed? Must we hear more of the importance and "psychological mechanics" of zeal and devotion and so little of the One for whom we are to be zealous and to whom we are to be devoted?'

Amen!

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