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Why Was Judas Carrying the Moneybag?
Jesus put a thief in charge of his moneybag. Has that ever struck you as odd?In last week’s post, we looked at Mary, who poured a year’s wages on Jesus’s feet, and Judas, who saw Mary’s worshipful act...
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The Joy Seeker’s Idol
We were made to enjoy God.That’s the message of Desiring God, and we believe it’s the message of the Bible. But if we’re honest, we don’t always feel joy. For most of our lives it seems we feel...
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Worship in a Selfie World
Wow. God really met with us in worship tonight. The room was just so full of his presence. One of the most intense times of worship I have ever experienced.This caption came across my Instagram...
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Strengthen Your Faith Through Physical Exercise
Both bodies and souls are important to the Christian.We know that God created humans with these two interconnected parts, and that the health (or sickness) of one can influence the health (or sickness)...
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Let Darwin Teach You
Charles Darwin loved his scientific studies. They were his “chief enjoyment and sole employment throughout life.” However, as the years passed, Darwin experienced a tragic atrophy. He described it near...
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How Are Women Saved Through Childbearing?
What did Paul mean when he said in 1 Timothy 2:15, “Yet she [the woman] will be saved through childbearing — if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control”?Henry Alford’s...
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Learning to Abide in Christ
I hear the words “abide in Christ” mentioned a lot by women as a way to express rest. At least I think that’s what they mean. The truth is, I’ve never had it defined for me clearly, even though I’ve...
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Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood (New eBook)
Christian complementarity is the conviction that God created men and women as his image-bearers — equal in dignity and distinct in role.Contrary to popular opinion, the Scripture’s distinctive roles...
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Sinner in the Hands of a Patient God
“Exposure to Jonathan Edwards has mostly been limited to reading Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, as an early selection in an American literature textbook, such that we might despise the Puritans...
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Dads, Date Your Daughter’s Boyfriend
One of the most terrifying moments of a not-yet-married man’s life is meeting his girlfriend’s father.The much-anticipated introduction is an unending fountain of humor for friends and family, but it’s...
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A Father Worthy of Imitation
Read the Bible. Pray. Repeat.Go to church. Talk about God along the way. Repeat.Sow the seed. Pray for fruit. Trust the Lord. Wait. Repeat.Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.For fathers who take serious the call...
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The Treasure Makes All the Difference
One of Jesus’s most powerful parables is also one of his shortest:The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all...
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The World’s Greatest Game
I have to confess, I was giddy when I got out of bed yesterday morning.It was borderline embarrassing. As I made my first cup of coffee, and the house was quiet, I stood there laughing at myself and...
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Nepal’s Most Unlikely Church Planter
Down the valley from Kathmandu, the ancient capital of Nepal, rests an even older city. In Bhaktapur, the timeworn traditions of Hinduism sink as deep into the dry soil as the white-capped Himalayan...
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Putting on the Brave Face
Coaching tee ball is hard. And not just because it’s like herding a pack of wet cats. Or because five-year-olds generally prefer digging in the dirt to fielding grounders. Or because twenty minutes in,...
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Would You Tackle the Gunman?
On Thursday, June 5, shortly after 3:30 in the afternoon, inside a building on the campus of Seattle Pacific University, a student named Jon Meis pepper-sprayed a stranger and tackled him to the...
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This May Push You over the Edge
Most of us read, see, or hear thousands of messages during the course of our lives. But only a few strike us with such force that we remember them distinctly. These messages uniquely shape us. They...
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No Book Like the Bible
We believe the most effective way to make everyone everywhere truly, deeply, lastingly happy is to teach them to meet God in his word.This September, John Piper will be launching an initiative inspired...
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The Secret in Every Circumstance
Don’t be fooled by the popular locker room read on Philippians 4:13.“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” — score a touchdown, hit a homerun, climb a mountain, run a marathon, win the...
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Bring the Bible Home to Your Heart
We all want to be “doers of the word, and not hearers only” (James 1:22).Who wants to feel the failure or share in the shame of being pegged like one “who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror...
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