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The Real Life of the Pro-Life Home
I know myself, and I know that I couldn’t be any more angered by abortion. So when I first started seeing things about the Gosnell trial, I skipped right over it. I am sure that many of you feel the...
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Where Is Jesus?
“But I believe in Jesus too,” my five-year-old said, unconvinced by my explanation why she couldn’t have some of the bread and juice.We had slipped out of the service after I received the elements...
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C. S. Lewis, Panhandlers, and Laziness (Ask Pastor John)
C.S. Lewis, panhandlers, and laziness: these are all themes from this week's lineup of Ask Pastor John podcast episodes. Three episodes focus on C. S. Lewis and the fall DG national conference: "The...
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Foreword to the New Edition of ‘A Hunger for God’
As we look out at the church today, there is so much that encourages us and fills us with gratitude. There is renewed zeal among God’s people for the spread of God’s glory across the earth. Like never...
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The Snowstorm and the Suffering Servant
In a raging storm in a rural town on the coast of Japan, a man and his daughter huddled against a warehouse. They held one another, they felt the fury of the wind and the snow, and they fought for...
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Andrew Fuller Defended the Biblical Gospel
Today marks the 198th anniversary of Andrew Fuller’s death. Though largely unknown to contemporary evangelicals, Fuller was a Particular Baptist pastor and one of the leading theologians during the...
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Destroying the Sacred-Secular Divide
Dancing. Sports. Caffeine. Rock and roll. Food and drink. The college campus is a kind of microcosm of the flashpoints we face “in the real world,” just with the volume turned way up. And lots of video...
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Ian and Larissa: One Year Later
Note, by clicking the CC button you can watch this video with captions translated in 16 different languages.It’s been one year since we released this video, very simply titled: “The Story of Ian and...
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Why the Ascension of Jesus Matters
Tomorrow we celebrate the ascension of Jesus, a date marked out 40 days after his resurrection, when he departed from earth and returned bodily to heaven (Luke 24:50–53, Acts 1:9–11).On first glance,...
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The Outrageous Claim of the Ascension
Today is Ascension Day, the fortieth day after Easter Sunday. For centuries the Christian church has marked this day (also called Ascension Thursday) in remembrance of Jesus’s bodily ascent to...
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Removing Barriers for Arabic Expansion
It’s road construction season in Minneapolis. That means orange signs with massive blinking arrows — the ones that signal that your commute is about to take twice as long. And then the dreaded concrete...
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How Introverted Pastors Love
MINNEAPOLIS — It’s no secret John Piper is an introvert.This week 75 pastors and ministry leaders gathered together as a local chapter of TGC Twin Cities to hear Pastor John share about his 33 years of...
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When Harsh Words Are Kind
Missionary to India, William Carey, once exhorted a Baptist gathering in England by saying, “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” I love that quote. But we must heed the...
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Her Children Arise and Call Her Blessed
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day — a sweet opportunity for Christians to celebrate one of God’s most significant means of his common and redeeming grace.For most, there’s some bitter flavor somewhere. We live...
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Preparing for the Future in the Age of Facebook
The regular use of our minds — thinking, reading, studying, analyzing — is a necessary means to loving God in this world. God gave us a Book, and he ordained that insight into its message be given by...
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Grace Greater Than All Our Worries
“Mommy, what’s the matter?”My son can sense it. The tension and worry that saturates my heart oozes from my presence. “I just have so much on my mind. I forgot to do something, that’s all,” I...
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The Fight for Life: Why We Keep Standing
At Desiring God, we are happy and unapologetic advocates of the sanctity of human life, beginning at conception. We love waving the banner for life, not just around the Roe anniversary in January, but...
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Tullian Talks Regeneration
Do you know the exact moment you were saved? Saul of Tarsus did. As did the great Augustine. Many in church history have testified to dramatic, unmistakable experiences of the new birth, when God...
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National Conference 2013: Celebrating the Work of C.S. Lewis
Fifty years ago this fall, C.S. Lewis quietly crossed from this life into the next.While the assassination of John F. Kennedy captured the world’s attention on November 22, 1963, one Clive Staples...
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Behind the Blog: Good People
A month ago today the bombs went off in Boston. Through the surge of media, many of us were left on the edge of our seats for a week. There was shock and confusion and deep questions. In this latest...
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