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Ten Passages for Pastors to Memorize Cold
Here’s one way to cool down during a sizzling hot July: ice-cold memorization.Grab an iced tea, find some air-conditioned space, and put these ten passages to memory. You’ll never regret any extended...
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Are We Fascinated with Lewis’s Fame or His Influence?
The video below introduces the amazingly influential C.S. Lewis and invites you to our National Conference on Lewis, September 27–29.If your time is short, just go straight to the video. But if you...
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Three Things We Should Know About God
A.W. Tozer famously said that whatever comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. When you hear the mention of “God,” what would you say? What image fills your...
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DOMA and the Rock
In 1996, when Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), I grieved with my people. I was an atheist then, and lived in a monogamous lesbian relationship, working as a tenure-track...
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Lay Aside the Weight of “Not Feeling Like It”
What do you not feel like doing today?You know what I mean. It’s that thing that’s weighing on you, which you know would honor God because it obeys his law of love (John 15:12), or is a work of faith...
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C.S. Lewis: Christian, Writer, Scholar, Prophet
It’s hard to be a casual fan of C.S. Lewis. Many despise him for his Christianity and convictions. Many love him dearly for his brilliant mind and writing and prophetic insight.If you’ve read enough...
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Live for the Particular Glories of Jesus, Not a Smudge
If you ever wondered why we at Desiring God write so much about doctrinal particularities, here’s one answer.If glory includes beauty, as I wrote last week, it includes lines. They may be curved or...
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Training Heart Identities in Boys and Girls
Boys are different than girls. It’s plain in the Bible and plain in our everyday experience as parents.I have five children. The first three are girls; the last two are boys. They are different! There...
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Capturing the Heart of a Child
What was so wonderful about C.S. Lewis, says Sally Lloyd-Jones, author of The Jesus Storybook Bible, is that such an incredible mind wrote children’s stories. She continues,He didn’t think children’s...
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Books Don’t Change People, Paragraphs Do
I have often said, “Books don’t change people, paragraphs do — sometimes sentences.”This may not be fair to books, since paragraphs find their way to us through books, and they often gain their...
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Keller and Piper Talk C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis claimed he was no theologian. At least that wasn’t his day job. But it didn’t stop him from seriously shaping some of today’s most influential theologians.Lewis was a world-class scholar of...
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Ten Gospel Verses to Keep Warm
Bible memorization is always time well spent. Whether you’re tackling extended sections, or “fighter verses” for specific sins, or passages particularly helpful in pastoral ministry, surely all...
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The Most Frightening Prayer I Could Pray for My Children
The most frightening prayer I could pray for my children is the one they need the most.Now, I always pray about their behavior, their health, their progress in school, and their friendships. I also...
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The Main Ingredient in Effective Prayer
It’s tragic how easily we can miss the main ingredient in effective prayer.In our sin, we’ve been rewired to focus on us — on the steps we should take for our prayers to be heard. We have this bent...
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Introducing the C.S. Lewis “Small Talks”
We want this conference to be the next best thing to visiting Narnia for yourself.The Desiring God 2013 National Conference, September 27–29 in Minneapolis, is taking up the theme “The Romantic...
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John Piper Explains the 10 Most Popular Bible Verses
What are the ten most popular Bible verses in the world? And what do they mean?YouVersion tallied the list. Now John Piper has expounded the texts.Since YouVersion was created in 2008, it has become...
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Seven Ways to Pray for Your Heart
Over the years, as I’ve prayed for my own heart, I’ve accumulated seven “D’s” that I have found helpful. Maybe you’ll find them helpful as well.With seven you can use them a number of ways. You might...
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Trayvon, Race, and Gospel Ministry (Ask Pastor John)
Excepting a few tweeted links to various articles, Pastor John didn’t write anything new himself in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict in the Trayvon Martin case. In a Q&A discussion this...
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Some Kindling for Your Embers
We all feel small.That’s because we are small. John Piper may seem like a big fish in the little evangelical pond. But in the ocean of the world, I am statistically a nobody.But we are attached to the...
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For Those Feeling Forgotten
Some of the greatest disappointments in our relationships are made in the moments our memories fail us. No one enjoys being forgotten, especially by those we love most.Your memory is one of the most...
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