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Five Truths About Christian Suffering
All Christians suffer. Either you have, you are, or you will — “through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22).This reality is a stark reminder that we have not reached the...
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Be the Smile of God to Your Children
He’s a squirmy one, he is. If I don’t watch him, he’ll wriggle off the bed. But he doesn’t want to. He’s enjoying the tickle fight too much. I can’t blame him. Those giggles make this father’s heart...
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Jesus and Cerebal Palsy
Jesus means everything to me.My life is worship.Often we Christians throw around phrases like these, once full of meaning, but now uttered with too much flippancy and routine. But Rodger Frournoy, Jr....
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Five Ways to Refresh the Saints in Your Life
When reading Paul’s letter to Philemon this week I saw a theme I hadn’t really seen before. This letter is an instruction on how to refresh the saints.Philemon was a refreshing person. When Paul...
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The Kind of Father He Is
The castle was mangled. With just a glance, you could tell it was bad.The main gate was completely exposed. The chains that once lowered the intimidating drawbridge were now severed. The drum tower,...
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You Were Created to Sing
God created you in his own image to dream, and work, and laugh, and love, and labor, and hope, and eat, and enjoy the good gifts in this world.“A man is such a noble work of God,” said nineteenth...
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Church, Make Room for Young Leaders
What some aging Christians need from the younger generation is an invitation to lean into the local church, and not retreat or retire.But others from the older generation need a different challenge — a...
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God Desires You Far More Than You Desire Him
Christianity is not so much about you desiring God as it is about God desiring you. I wonder if you believe that.We are all about desiring God at Desiring God. We believe with all our hearts that God...
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Missions Is Not for Wimpy Women — And Nine Other Lessons from Ethiopia
I’m writing this on my last night of seven in Addis Ababa, the sprawling, higher-than-Denver, capitol of Ethiopia — which just became the second most populous country of Africa.The international,...
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Go Deep in the Grace of God
Christians, of all people, cannot be content with small visions of grace.The message that made us is “the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24), “the word of his grace” (Acts 20:32), “the grace of...
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Why We Click Stupid Links
By “stupid links,” I mean hyperlinks on the Web that do nothing but tap our kneejerk curiosity. They do little for us because they have little to offer. We click, we read, we watch, and often we feel...
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20 Verses for God-Centered Administrators
God doesn’t need us. We need him.Don’t get the roles reversed. We are not indispensable. He is.This is an essential reminder for all of us — and especially those of us in heavily administrative and...
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If Jesus Had Not Come
Jesus was, is, and always will be in a league of his own.Many are happy to honor him as a good teacher and social reformer, and some religions even admit that he was a great prophet of God. But none of...
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When the Sex Should Stop
Sometimes sex should stop in marriage.The sometimes is really important. Not all the time. It’s not what is normative or typical. It’s sometimes. And, at the same time, be sure that sometimes really...
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We Are Far Too Easily Displeased
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in...
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Piper Addresses Strange Fire and Charismatic Chaos
One month ago, John MacArthur hosted a conference titled “Strange Fire.” The conference opposed the so-called “prosperity gospel” and with it the excesses of “charismania.” But somewhere along the way...
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Praise: The Consummation of Joy
My understanding of the nature of worship was radically transformed by a fundamental truth I found in C.S. Lewis, who died 50 years ago this month.What Lewis helped me grasp is best explained by...
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Why It Matters What Outsiders Think
There is a place for a holy disregard for what unbelievers think. But it is small.We shouldn’t be caught off guard when they “suppress the truth” (Romans 1:18) of God as creator and sustainer, as...
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Don’t Raise Good Kids
Parents, don’t raise good kids. I’m a recovering good kid, and I’m here to tell you that the gospel isn’t for good kids.I was pretty easy for my parents to raise. I was generally compliant, had a...
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Learning from Lincoln’s Compelling Precision
On November 19, 1863 — 150 years ago today — a tall, stressed out man from Illinois stood up to deliver 269 words that changed a country. It took him only two minutes.Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth...
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