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Jesus Has Overcome the World
One thing the Bible is not is utopist about life in this world. It gets unfairly criticized for encouraging a pessimism that makes people passive about doing anything to improve things; people who are...
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Work Like an Arminian, Sleep Like a Calvinist?
It was the topic of Ask Pastor Johnepisode 143, and it became the most played episode we released in the last two weeks.The slogan, “work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist,” initially may sound...
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The Gospel of the Wall of Jericho
Your wall, O wicked Jericho, your ancient, mighty wall, Your shame, where you have made your infants’ blood renowned, Your boast, your monument, your Babel, tall...
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A Tantrum for My Transformation
Some days I wake up and nothing seems to go right.The alarm fails to sound. The kids are slow to get ready. The fridge is empty of milk (after I set the table with bowls of cereal). And then the route...
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A Song to Help Us Long for Jesus
Music has a unique ability to affect the human soul. The synergy of words and tunes helps us express reality, and feel reality, especially when it resonates with our deepest desires.“Lord, I want to...
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Will You Be a Believer Tomorrow Morning?
Christian, how do you know you will still be a believer when you wake up in the morning? And every morning till you meet Jesus?The biblical answer is: God will see to it.Are you okay with that? Does...
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Your Life in God’s Theater
Theology is inherently theatrical — there’s a stage (creation), a script (Scripture), a main Actor (our Triune God), secondary actors (the Church), and a historical plot (creation, fall, redemption,...
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Why We Won’t Back Down
What if Tom Petty wrote an anthem for 21st-century evangelicals?In the increasingly post-Christian worlds of Europe and North America, society relentlessly pressures biblically faithful Christians to...
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How to Read a Book
It’s that time of year when students and teachers are going “back to school” after the summer vacation. John Piper describes this new poem as “playful, though serious,” and we hope it will both clarify...
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Can You Define the Relationship?
We are living in strange times — specifically, in the age of the abortion contracts, wedleases, and throuples.In 2007, J.J. Redick launched his NBA career with the Orlando Magic. Much ballyhooed out of...
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Moving Beyond the Stalemate in Marriage
Let me be honest from the start. At the beginning of my marriage, I was a harsh jerk. My self-righteous impatience made it almost impossible for my husband to plan even a Saturday out for the two of us...
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God Is Not an Idolator
When he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. (2 Thessalonians 1:10)People stumble over the...
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Fight Your Sin: A Storyline for the Battle Lines
Fight your sin with a storyline. I mean right now. Life is war, everyday. Submerged temptations lie waiting for you just out of sight. Insidious sirens are faintly wooing your way, beckoning you to...
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You Can Take Heart in Uncertainty
Uncertainty is a difficult thing to bear. We want to know where the provision is going to come from or if we’re going to die of this disease or how this child is going to turn out or if our job will...
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Make the Bible Your Native Tongue
Some things seem to just happen. No one in particular is to blame. Options increase, the past gets overshadowed by the present, and the next thing we know, conventional thinking shifts, and we’re...
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Fresh Advice for the New Semester
It’s that time of year. School is back in session, new relationships are burgeoning, and fresh patterns of life are forming. Back to school is a major season of transition in Western society and...
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The Value of Knowing How God Saved You
I will venture to say that most Christians don’t know how God saved them. I don’t mean how God paid for their sins, but how he brought them to faith. That means many Christians miss out on the benefits...
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What Would We Do “Without” the Gospel?
Have you ever stopped to look at just one word in God’s word? Maybe you look it up in a concordance or do a search online. You might search for “hope” or “peace” or “God” or “life.” But what if the...
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Three Reasons to Pray for President Obama
Knowing what is right and doing what is right are the basics to following Jesus in this world. But it’s not always simple.The freedoms for Christian discipleship in the United States seem to be...
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Keeping King’s Dream Alive
It truly was the dream speech.Fifty years ago today — on August 28, 1963 — Martin Luther King, Jr. rose to a podium on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered one of the most important...
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