"In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or e...
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
~ John Piper (artist) ~
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
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