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Go into a telegraph office at any time, and you will see certain needles moving right and left with unceasing click. Electricity is a great mystery, and you cannot see or feel it, but the operator tells you that the electric current is moving along the wire. How does he know? “I know it by the needle.”…

It was an eminent type of faith when the Hebrew father in Egypt slew the lamb and caught the warm blood in the basin, then took a bunch of hyssop and dipped it in the blood and marked the two posts of his door, and then struck a red mark across the lintel. That smearing of the door represented faith.…

I once saw a colonel shooting at a target. There were two targets near each other, and he hit the center of one of them. The attendant called out, “Which target was that gentleman shooting at?” “The one on the left,” was the answer. “I thought so,” said the man, “for he hit the one on the right.” There…

Alexander the Great, when he was master of the whole world, was the greatest slave in it, for he was discontented even with his victories. The pride of conquest held him in captivity by its iron chain. He who aims at the highest greatness in this world may only be more greatly selfish than the rest of…

God does not make laws denying us anything that would really be for our good. There is a poisonous berry growing in your garden, and your child has been told that he is not to eat it. If he is a wise child, he will understand that it is your love to him that has told him not to eat that poisonous berry.…

The Christian life isn't a series of correspondence courses. A young man decided he wanted to be a boxer, so he decided to take private lessons. He found a boxing coach at a nearby gym who agreed to give him twenty-six weekly sessions. As part of his instruction, the young man was required to spar with…

There are no victories at discount prices.—Dwight Eisenhower I once read an author’s account of a day in the park: Walking through a park, I passed a massive oak tree. A vine had grown up along its trunk. The vine started small—nothing to bother about. But over the years the vine had gotten longer and…

Our mistake is to think that following Jesus consists in loving our enemies, going the "second mile", turning the other cheek, suffering patiently and hopefully - while living the rest of our lives just as everyone around us does. This is like the aspiring young baseball players mentioned earlier. It's…

And in this truth lies the secret of the easy yoke: the secret involves living as he lived in the entirety of his life - adopting his overall life-style. Following "in his steps" cannot be equated with behaving as he did when he was "on the spot." To live as Christ lived is to live as he did all his…

"Christianity has not so much been tried and found wanting, as it has been found difficult and left untried." G.K Chesterton Source: Willard, Dallas: The Spirit of the Disciplines, p. 1, 1988.

3 John Piper Desiring God Minneapolis, Minnesota 4 For Your Joy FOR YOUR JOY Published by Desiring God © 2005 Desiring God International Standard Book Number: 0-9773286-0-0 Edited for Desiring God Cover design by Edd Blott All scripture quotations are taken from: The Holy Bible: English Standard Version,…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…