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Conformed to the Image of Christ
God’s purpose in creation and redemption is to have a family of children conformed to the image of his Son. But how does that happen in me? In this lab, Pastor John explains the ways in which we are...
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There Is No Good Bible for Over a Billion People
On this planet, there are about 7,000 living languages. 1,860 of them do not have a single word of Scripture. 4,500 languages do not have a full Bible. That’s more than 1 billion Bibleless people.Let...
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You Cannot Serve Both God and Theology
What’s more dangerous to the human soul — money or theology?Money is the easy answer. Paul warns us, “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. It is through this craving that some have...
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My Spouse Doesn’t Enjoy Sex
“Sex can be quite fun. So why do married couples have so little of it?”That was a question asked recently in a New York Times Op-Ed by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a former quantitative analyst at...
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Back to the Heart of Worship
<p>We are creatures of habit. If we don’t find ways to remind ourselves why we do what we do, we’re prone to just go through the motions, if not adopt some new underlying motivation altogether....
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Five Tips for Bible Memory
Memorizing the Scriptures not only molds our minds, but leads us to learn our Lord’s voice. As we listen over and over to the voice of the Shepherd, we accustom ourselves to his timbre and intonation....
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Tell Them About Me
John Piper has often said, “Books don’t change people, paragraphs do — sometimes sentences.” This has certainly been my experience. And few sentences have been more helpful to me in grasping the heart...
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From the Blackest Kid to Believer to the Highest Bench: The Life of Clarence...
This year Clarence Thomas enters his 25th year on the Supreme Court. In the 226-year history of the court, he is the second African-American Supreme Court Justice, after Thurgood Marshall who served...
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Predestined, Called, Justified, Glorified
A promise as mind-blowing as Romans 8:28 needs massive faith-sustaining truth underneath it. Romans 8:30 lays out a process in which God exalts Christ by bringing ungodly people to glory. In this lab,...
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Remembering the Unquantifiable Love of God
When I was in elementary school, each year before Valentine’s Day we would bring in an empty shoebox. We would cover those boxes with pink and red papers and heart shaped cut-outs, and then add our...
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Fifty Shades of Nay: Sin Is a Needle, Not a Toy
Fifty Shades of Grey releases in major theaters this Friday, not surprisingly — and yet ironically — just a day before our annual celebration of love. The series of erotic novels exploring sexual...
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You Can Say No to Porn
Not all sexual desire is lust. God made sexual desire. It has its good place and it can, in fact, become an act of worship in the temple of marriage. But lust is sexual desire gone wrong. Here’s my...
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When Jesus Prays for Your Faith
Jesus will give you another chance.Luke opens the book of Acts by making this clear. No matter how bad you may have messed up in the past, or how oblivious you may have been to the ways of God, or how...
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Who Can Be Against Us?
God is for you, and therefore no one can defeat you. God gave his Son, so he will most definitely give you all things. This lab looks at a couple powerful rhetorical questions. John Piper searches the...
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Evangelism on the Rocks
Evangelism is something many Christians are trying to recover from.The word stirs up memories of a bygone era — some call it “Christendom” — where rehearsed presentations, awkward door-to-door...
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What Is Your Doing Saying?
Your actions speak. Your works are words. The question is what are they saying?Actions SpeakThe old adage, “actions speak louder than words,” is true because, as another adage says, “words are cheap.”...
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Ascent
Last Valentines, I wrote this poem about marriage as a seemingly fragile filament that binds us together, but, in fact, is made of something supernatural and has its ends in heaven where God is...
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10 Questions on Dating with Matt Chandler
Matt Chandler is a husband, father, lead pastor at The Village Church in Dallas, and author of several books, including The Mingling of Souls: God’s Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption.Matt...
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When Worship Is Our Lifeline
Of all the ways we might provide a biblical basis for corporate worship, there is one that has risen to the top for me as a pastor in the nitty-gritty trenches of everyday ministry.It has become so...
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Communing with Christ on a Crazy Day
We’ve all been there. Maybe even today is one of those days for you.The crazy day. At least spiritually speaking.Hopefully you have your regular routine and go-to “habits of grace,” your own when and...
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