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Resolved: To Read the Bible
Whether you feel like a beginner, or the grizzled old veteran, one of the most important things you can do in 2015 is regularly read the Bible for yourself.It is a remarkable thing that we have Bibles...
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When We Grow Passionate in Prayer
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! (Psalm...
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The Glorious, Radical, Ordinary Christian Life
Christians are supposed to have an impact on the world in which we live. Like the followers of Jesus in Acts 17:6–7, present-day followers of Jesus should be turning the world upside down. However,...
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I Want to Read a John Piper Book, but Where Should I Start?
Around here we love books: reading them, writing them, publishing them, promoting them. John Piper alone has authored over 50 titles. So I asked, in light of the overwhelming number of free books we...
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Location in Worship
Sometimes it matters where you sit on Sunday morning when the worship songs are sung.We found the perfect place today, where heaven touched the earth, and earth the face of heaven.I thought my heart...
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Three Facts for Your Fret
We tend to fret.It is a fact about creatures that we are derivative beings who can’t ultimately control the world around us. We have questions about whether we should do this or that, and about what...
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Ask Whatever You Wish
This promise that Jesus made to us is so sweeping in its scope and seems beyond the experience of many of us that it can strike us as unbelievable:If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask...
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Are Deeds a Better Sign of Love Than Words?
The same apostle who said, “Let us not love in word or tongue, but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:18), also recorded Jesus saying, “These things I speak . . . that they may have my joy fulfilled in...
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Heaven Will Never Be Boring
What no eye has seen,what no ear has heard,and what no human mind has conceived—the things God has prepared for those who love him.Have you ever worried that you might grow bored in heaven, that things...
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The Power and Privilege of God’s Children
Now is the time to take a fresh look at your private prayer life and dream about a tweak or two you could make in the coming days. Typically the best way to grow and make headway is not a total...
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A Sermon for Your Day
Preaching matters because words matter.This is the way God has hardwired humans. Just as he has eternally communicated in his triune fellowship, he has created us as communicative beings. Through...
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God Is at Work in Your Unremarkable Days
I’m reading in Genesis now, as I often do at the beginning of the year, once again on a one-year journey through the greatest, most influential book ever published in human history. I’m in my fiftieth...
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Trading Fear for Fear
I once climbed an indoor rock wall, and when I got to the top, I turned to look down, and I froze. Panic took over and I could not let go. I hung there, gripping the rope, terrified to release my...
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What Would Jesus Pray?
Prayer is quite possibly the most important thing you will do today. And yet most people feel lost alone with the Lord. They don’t know what to do or how to persevere when prayer feels difficult,...
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Who Else But You?
Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psalm 73:25–26)The...
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What God Can Do in Five Seconds
God can do more in five seconds than we can do in five hours or months or years. This is one reason the habit of prayer is wise. Sometimes we do not get the five-second breakthrough because we do not...
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Love Covers
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. (Proverbs 17:9)Some cover-ups are lies and some cover-ups are love. It depends on who’s doing the...
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Learning from a Hard Knox Life
John Knox turns 500 this year. Actually, historians are not certain whether it was 1514 or 1515, but sometime around there, in the little market town of Haddington, Scotland, down the street from Saint...
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The Things of Earth Will Grow Strangely Bright
Very few books address with equal seriousness the biblical teaching that, on the one hand, “God richly provides us with everything to enjoy” (1 Timothy 6:17), so “nothing is to be rejected if it is...
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When Prayer Comes Out of the Closet
Prayer is at the very heart of the Christian life. Not only is it obedience to God’s command, but it is a vital means of our receiving his ongoing grace for our spiritual survival and thriving. And the...
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