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[DEVOTIONAL] John Piper? Drinking orange juice for God’s glory

When I am asked, “Is the doctrine of total depravity biblical?”, My answer is “Yes”. One of the things I intend to say with this answer is that all our actions (without saving grace) are morally contaminated. In other words, everything the disbeliever does is sin and is therefore unacceptable to God. One of my

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[DEVOTIONAL] John Piper? Extensive and broad prayer, but in bad taste

This is one of the admirable facts of biblical prayers: how large and wide they are often, but they do not have that vague tone of “O God, bless the missionaries,” which seems so weak. Sometimes we try to remedy this error by adding, “We must offer specific prayers for others, presenting their specific needs,

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