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God Is Merciful Not to Tell Us Everything
When God chooses not to tell us everything, he shows us more mercy than we realize.On the Mount of Olives with Jesus, just before his ascension to the Father, one of the disciples asked a question that...
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Risk Is Right, Says Ebola Survivor and Missionary Nancy Writebol
Nancy Writebol, 59, would prefer to be known simply as a Christian, wife, mother to two grown boys, and grandmother. But after an adventurous few months, she’s now known to the world as a brave...
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Leave Your Poker Face at the Door
When we gather in weekend worship, we seek to commune with God. But unlike your private devotions, corporate worship is about worshiping God together.Sharing our mutual love for God in the assembly is...
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Three Ways Evangelism Can Be More Believable
If our evangelism is increasingly unbelievable, what can we do to be more believable to an inoculated, indifferent, and at times, antagonistic society? In evangelistic seminars, people are often asked...
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Advent: The Dawning of Indestructible Joy
In Minneapolis today it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. What we mean is that the first snow of the season is falling (in a big way — they tell us to expect nearly a foot!), turning our...
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The Fallibility of the Foundling’s Savior: Marilynne Robinson’s Lila and...
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson writes fiction and non-fiction with complexity and narrative skill, because the thinkers who have moved her most deeply “did some justice...
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Finding the Doorway to Hope
Hopelessness is the doorway to hope. You have to give up on yourself before you will be excited about the hope that is yours in Christ Jesus.We tend to give ourselves far too much credit:We tend to...
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Memorize the Mind of God
You’ve heard the pitch for Scripture memory a thousand times. You’re persuaded the benefits would be incalculable, and that there may be no better use of your time than to hide God’s word in your heart...
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Hospitality, Sacrifice, and Delight in God
Find your beach.The words were emblazoned on a giant wall ad across from novelist Zadie Smith’s Manhattan apartment. In the ad, a large yellow beer bottle stood tall in field of luxury-blue. “Each man...
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Taking Homosexual Sin to Church
It’s a song about “reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.”Unless you’re into the Irish bluesy, indie rock scene, chances are it’s only been in recent months that you’ve heard Hozier’s “Take...
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The Bible Is a Book Like Any Other
Does studying the Bible feel overwhelming to you? You open it day after day, but nothing happens. You expect God to give you something profound or inspiring for the day, but you end up asking how this...
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Lay Aside the Weight of “I’ll Never Change”
We all must come to terms with the way we are. But there are two ways we must do this. The first is to cultivate contentment with who God designed us to be, which results in a wonderful liberation from...
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15 Right Responses to Our Christian Celebrities
Read the history of American celebrities backwards, and it will look something like this: Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Bono, Oprah, Prince, Cher, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Hendrix, The...
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Do You Hear the People Sing?
What does Sunday morning sound like at your church?More specifically, what do you hear when your church worships God in song? What is the defining sound? For some, it will be the old, massive,...
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Today Is Just in Time
His circumstances were a nightmare.Not only did he live in the land of whoredom, standing on the brink of national judgment, but his job seemed more like a sick joke than a divine commission. Go marry...
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Greater Works Than Jesus?
A mentor recently told me that every 30 years or so evangelicals have a conversation about the Holy Spirit. The last really significant one, he said, was in the 1970s, and out of that came the revival...
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Does Jonathan Edwards Agree with N.T. Wright?
In his ongoing efforts to come to terms with the language of “the righteousness of God” in Scripture, John Piper recently came across a pair of posts by Edwards scholar, and friend of Desiring God,...
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Beware the Mirror
Mirrors are very dangerous for proud people.Remember the story of Narcissus? He’s the proud, beautiful man in the Greek myth who saw his reflection in a pool, fell in love it, couldn’t tear himself...
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Resolve to Be a Lifelong Learner
Wisdom does not come automatically with age (Job 32:8–9). You’ll find plenty of foolish old fogies out there.For many aged saints, gray hair and a good head go hand in hand. But for others, far too...
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What Does It Mean to Be Gospel-Centered?
.longform-text img {display:none !important;}To be gospel-centered is first to do everything you do in reliance on blood-bought grace and promises.To be gospel-centered is to do everything you do with...
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