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Seven Reasons Not to Play the Lottery

Here are seven reasons, among others, I have often rehearsed to make the case that you should not gamble with your money by playing the lottery.
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Don’t Be Anxious, Lay Up Treasure in Heaven
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Don’t Be Anxious, Lay Up Treasure in Heaven

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Our treasures on earth will fade — and fast. Our only permanent treasure lies in heaven.
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Seven Reasons Not to Play the Lottery
Seven Reasons Not to Play the Lottery

Seven Reasons Not to Play the Lottery

Jan 5, 2016
Here are seven reasons, among others, I have often rehearsed to make the case that you should not gamble with your money by playing the lottery.
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What John Piper Does with His Royalties

Oct 5, 2016
John Piper explains how his book royalties are managed to guard against the love of money, and channel them back into ongoing ministry.
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Oct 5, 2016
“The heart that loves money needs money to be content, so it’s not content in God. That kind of heart produces evil.”
—John Piper, from Does Scripture Forbid Entrepreneurs from Raising Big Money?
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Hebrews 13:5–6: God Will Never Forsake You
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God Will Never Forsake You

Hebrews 13:5–6

Nov 10, 2015
The love of money — a craving for money as the source of our security — is an epidemic in our world, and maybe especially in our nation. So how do we kill the craving within us? In this lab, John Piper models what it means to fight temptation with the promises of God.
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Matthew 6:22–23: God over Money
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Loving money over God is soul-suicide. Those who love money over God will be eternally poor, but those who love God over money will own the universe.
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