THE Question

Ask yourself this:

"The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: 'If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?'"

-John Piper (God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself)

A Very Convenient Truth

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 I'm not left to save myself!
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Ephesians 2:8-9:

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

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...because I couldn't!

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John 8:44:

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires...

Proverbs 21:10:

The soul of the wicked desires evil...

John 8:34:

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin."

2 Peter 2:19:

 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

Genesis 6:5:

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21:

And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Jeremiah 17:9:

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?