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Beyond the Rhetoric: Gosnell and the Late-Term Reality
“It is a highly needed and valuable procedure.”That statement above is referring to late-term abortion. In other words, says LateTermAbortion.net, it is highly needed and valuable that deadly poison be...
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Love Letter to a Lesbian
Dear ______,I just want you to know that I understand.I understand how it feels to be in love with a woman. To want nothing more than to be with her forever. Feeling as if the universe has played a...
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God’s Mercy in Making Us Face the Impossible
God is not content for us just to understand the idea that nothing is too hard for the Lᴏʀᴅ (Jeremiah 32:17). He wants us to have the overwhelming joy of experiencing it. But the sometimes agonizing...
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Piper’s News Poem: “Grace Forfeited”
It’s a new start for an old tradition in American Journalism, says Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief of World Magazine. The news poem.Hardly a vile murder or a military victory went by without colonial...
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Recap of Recent Piper Messages
We have never known days like these at Desiring God.John Piper is now on staff full-time at DG and has begun a more unfettered ministry to the wider world through writing and speaking.Along the way, we...
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A Pentecost to Celebrate
If it weren’t for Pentecost, we wouldn’t know about Easter.For most of us, tomorrow isn’t flagged on our calendars as Pentecost Sunday. But it is a big deal for Christians, and there are at least three...
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Spiritually and Emotionally, How Far Is Too Far Before Marriage? (Ask Pastor...
ESPN analyst Chris Broussard on homosexuality. C.S. Lewis on joy. Choosing a seminary. Processing a tragedy. And how far is too far in dating. It’s all in a fortnight of Ask Pastor John episodes. What...
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Hedonism to the Extreme: Lamborghini and Our Souls
“What does a tractor manufacturer know about sports cars?” said Enzo Ferrari to an Italian mechanic from humble roots.1This mechanic, Ferruccio Lamborghini, did manufacture tractors, and he did well....
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Greater Than Graduation: All Things Are Yours
Few occasions are more anticipated than graduation. We invite our loved ones, wear clothes we never wear anywhere else, and take lots and lots of pictures.This past Friday evening, John Piper addressed...
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Christian Adoption: Disavowals and Affirmations
Significant Christian push-back was unleashed in recent months by Kathryn Joyce’s criticism of the abuses in evangelical adoption efforts: The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of...
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God’s Sovereignty and Personal Compassion in Public Tragedy
In light of various tragedies in the news, I asked Pastor John a few weeks ago how he personally reconciles what appears to be two conflicting responses when public tragedy occurs: (1) his compassion...
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Legalism or Love? Religious or Radical?
If you’re struggling with legalism, don’t fight it by quitting your quiet times. That’s the good advice I remember once hearing from a pastor.In other words, there’s a temptation to presumably fight...
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The Bible as One Story
How does the Bible hold together into a single, cohesive story?It’s an important (and intimidating) question reserved for the discipline of biblical theology, an angle of scholarship that focuses on...
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Those Deleted Tweets
Monday night, in the wake of the devastating tornado in Oklahoma, John Piper posted two tweets at 11:00pm (CST). Both tweets quoted the first chapter of Job. He first cited Job 1:19, and then Job 1:20,...
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We Are Far Too Easily Pleased
It’s a beautiful thing when a single sentence reorients a soul for good. When one proposition proves potent enough to be life-changing for the better. Especially when it’s a short one.For me, it was...
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God’s Mercy in Messed Up Families
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find an example of what we would call a “healthy family” in the Bible? It’s a lot easier to find families with a lot of sin and a lot of pain than to find...
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When God Came to the City
Jesus endured the cross for the joy that was set before him. He knew his mission.The evangelist Luke captures Jesus’s relentless journey by telling us that “he set his face to go to Jerusalem” (Luke...
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Let Us Read, As in Read
I read the Bible at the dinner table last night.One of our daughters was laid out horizontally across her chair. Our son was crying, reaching for me to pick him up. And then our other daughter was...
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The Power for Our Patience
May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy. (Colossians 1:11)Strength is the right word. The apostle Paul prayed for the church at...
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The Unmarked Tomb of a Well-Known Soldier
Today many of us in the United States will visit cemeteries and find other ways to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the Armed Forces.Memorial Day, observed annually on the...
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