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Take Christ As Your Motto
Wikipedia can be misleading. August 4, not July 24, marks the annual birthday of slave trader-turned-pastor John Newton (1725–1807). The date change is due to an 11-day shift in the calendar adopted in...
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You’re Awesome — But Not That Awesome
If you ever wondered what it would be like to read tweets and Facebook updates from a 17th-century genius, check out Pascal’s Pensées.Born in France in 1623, Blaise Pascal was a brilliant mathematician...
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For Adoption or Against Abortion?
If you’ve been in the church for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly heard some variant of the following sentiment:Christians should be known for what they’re for, not for what they’re...
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The Failure of Christless Tenderness
The grotesque is part of what this fallen age is. Seeing it and seeing God with clear, uncompromising eyes of faith keeps us from making gulags or gas chambers.When sentimentalism separates the...
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Tim Keller on the Writing Brilliance of C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis was an exemplary communicator of Christian truth. So was the 18th-century theologian Jonathan Edwards.The use of images was Edwards’s forte, while Lewis excelled in illustrations. Both men...
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Twelve Gospel Passages to Soak In
Mere truth won’t do it. Our souls desperately need the gospel.“The grace of God in truth” (Colossians 1:6) is the shock that brings a dead soul to life, and the charge that keeps it living. The gospel...
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Untamable Truth Changes Lives
This book is not a memoir.The truths here, as John Piper describes them, are “wildly untamable, explosively uncontainable, and electrically future-creating.” They represent the proclaimed statement of...
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Whatever Is Not from Faith Is Sin — Really?
People from the time of John Chrysostom (347–407) have tried to limit the meaning of Paul’s words in Romans 14:23, “Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.” Chrysostom cautions, “Now all these...
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Hip Hop ft. John Piper
Words carry a ton of meaning and rap music makes room for a ton of words. That means whether right, wrong, or indifferent, rap is unique in its ability to convey a message.Over the years hip hop has...
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Lay Aside the Weight of Fragmented Focus
No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. (2 Timothy 2:4)The Debilitating Weight of Too MuchIf we’re going to successfully run the race of...
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Giving the Gospel Graciously
I’m terribly sorry I just evangelized all over you.That’s how we can feel after spewing a full stomach of precious information on an unsuspecting stranger or friend. It can seem like sharing our faith...
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New “Strict” Abortion Laws — Really?
For some children, the new “strict” abortion law in Texas is no protection at all.Last month Texas Governor Perry signed a bill that banned aborting a child after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The headlines...
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The Family: God’s Litmus Test of Applied Grace
If you want to know the depth of one’s character, observe how they treat children and the elderly.Folks on the extreme ends of life’s timeline usually have enormous needs and limited capabilities....
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Do You Want Your Faith to Grow?
If you want your faith to grow, read the Bible.Earlier this Spring, in a discussion on sanctification, John Piper explains, “The only way faith grows is by God speaking to you. ‘Faith comes by hearing...
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Five Cheers for the Church and Individualism
If individualism is a bad thing, corporatism is also a bad thing, and probably a worse thing. If I had to choose, I would prefer to fight for biblical truth in the chaos of American individualism than...
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A Song for the Suffering (with John Piper)
A Christian’s suffering is never meaningless.Shane Bernard understands this truth. After the untimely death of his father, he and his family desperately looked to God for comfort. They clung to God’s...
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Five Back-to-School Basics
The beginning of August signals the beginning of back-to-school shopping, or at least back-to-school-shopping commercials. You may not know it, but whether you’re a freshman or senior, you’re going to...
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Why We Really Sleep In
Recent studies say hitting the snooze button is bad for our bodies. But studies won’t get us out of bed.Elise Snickers was a college student pursuing a career in a psychology when she wrote a letter to...
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God Will Never Regret Saving You
It was almost 7 AM — opening time for a tiny concession stand dubbed the Eureka Café. I was there first, leaning on the counter and staring happily at the trademark: “We Proudly Brew Starbucks...
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What God Says to Egypt
Egypt! Egypt! A Meditation for Today on Isaiah 19:24–25O Egypt, Egypt, do you not Recall, dear friend — have you forgot — That twice you were the savior of My only Son — though not from love?You...
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