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Don’t Waste Your Weaknesses in 2014
In 2014, I encourage you to identify and exploit your weaknesses for the glory of Christ. I would like to give you an illustration from my own life, but first let me clarify what I mean.Since 2007,...
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Meet the New desiringGod.org
It’s a new site for a new year.We spent a good deal of 2013 working on this redesign. Now 2014 is here, we’re live, and we’d love to have you help us spread the word.This is an aesthetically driven...
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Captive to Glory (Free eBook)
Today we are releasing a new ebook from John Piper, Captive to Glory: Celebrating the Vision and Influence of Jonathan Edwards. It is a collection of the best snapshots of Edwards’s influence in...
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The Best Quotes from Cross
Something potentially historic happened last week as thousands of students gathered for the sake of the unreached peoples around the world. Hundreds stood on Monday night at the close of the first...
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Jesus Must Increase: A Prayer for the New Year
“Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:30)If the prayer below captures in some way the deep longings of your heart, I invite you to join me in...
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Grace Has Brought Me Safe Thus Far
This first weekend of 2014 affords many of us an opportunity to hit “pause” on this busy opening week and to reflect, backward and forward, on our own lives. Essential at the beginning of every new...
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Worship in Spirit and Truth
The issue is not whether we will worship, but what. Even better, whom and how.On this Sunday, as many of us ready ourselves for corporate worship, perhaps the most significant single biblical text for...
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The Folly of Men Arming Women for Combat
Here we go again — more fallout from the male cowardice that won’t stand up to the politically correct shamers, but instead countenances arming our women for frontline combat. I addressed the folly of...
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22 Million Reasons to Pray with Us
Do you ever think about the Internet as an answer to centuries of saints’ prayers that “the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored” (2 Thessalonians 3:1)?We must not take this marvel for...
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Seven Details to See in Your Past
The grace of Jesus Christ not only covers our past and sustains our present, but also creates for us a future.In him our sins are forgiven and we are declared righteous. In him we are sanctified and...
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What to Do When Faith Dies
Too often we lack works. Maybe we are not praying, not forgiving someone, not crucifying selfishness to care for others, or not sharing the gospel.We know this is a serious problem, because James said...
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Jesus As the True and Perfect Man
Men are experiencing an identity crisis. And we’re short on role models.We’re caught between Don Draper as the alpha male and a whole crew of omega males like Judd Apatow. One tries to express...
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Shouldn’t They Know Better?
One of the more successful tactics of our enemy is to turn our hearts against the ones under our care — to turn protectors into executioners.For decades parents and doctors have legally killed unborn...
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Don’t Let Your Mind Go to Pot
Marijuana is ordinarily used as a mood-altering, mind-altering drug. The aim is to create a kind of euphoria. The effects vary widely from person to person. All you have to do is Google, “What does...
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Top 25 @JohnPiper Tweets
We added retweets and favorites, from the data we have available, to gather the top twenty-five tweets from @JohnPiper. They deal with deep, spiritual insight, practical preparation, major current...
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Love Is Not a Verb
Two weeks ago, I encouraged us all to make a 2014 resolve to “pursue love” (1 Corinthians 13:5). Based on the following statements by Jesus, I would say that love is the most important thing to pursue...
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100,000 Hours: Eight Aims for Your Career
What should I do with my life?It’s one of the biggest questions on most young minds, especially during and after our college years. The practical question is, "What will I do for a living?" When you do...
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The Centerpiece of Sunday Worship
What really moves you on Sunday mornings?There are a lot of potential answers to that question. Maybe the music is enough to get you out of bed. The old hymns have always resonated deeply with you, or...
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Missions: Rescuing from Hell and Renewing the World
In 2012, sociologist Robert Woodberry published the astonishing fruit of a decade of research into the effect of missionaries on the health of nations. The January/February 2014 issue of Christianity...
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Come, Look Through This Telescope
He gave . . . teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God....
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