John Piper

When I stand to welcome the people to worship on Sunday morning, there are spouses who can barely talk. There are sullen teenagers living double lives at home and school. There are widows who still feel the amputation of a fifty-year partner. There are single people who have not been hugged for twenty years. There are men in the prime of their lives with cancer ...There are soldiers of the Cross who have risked all for Jesus and bear the scars ...What they need is a kind of joyful earnestness that makes the broken heart feel hopeful and helps ones who are drunk with trifles sober up for greater joys.