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The Hopelessness and Hope of the Greatest Commandments
There are no commandments in the Bible more devastating than the two that Jesus said are the greatest:And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul...
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Pray for Those Who Abuse You
Jesus said, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). He also said, “Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you” (Luke...
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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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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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The Hopelessness and Hope of the Greatest Commandments
There are no commandments in the Bible more devastating than the two that Jesus said are the greatest:And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul...
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Pray for Those Who Abuse You
Jesus said, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). He also said, “Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you” (Luke...
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It Is God Who Justifies
Satan is an accuser (Revelation 12:10), but Jesus disarmed him at the cross. In this lab, John Piper explains how the work of Christ wars against and defeats Satan’s schemes to accuse and condemn us....
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The Real Faces Behind the Gay Issue
A few years ago, a girl wobbled onto the ice with her little brother in tow, wondering about the wisdom of taking him for an ice-skating trip on his fifth birthday — especially since she hadn’t been...
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A Mother’s Greatest Enemy
Those who suffer the fallout of “the mommy wars” will be relieved to hear that their suspicions have been confirmed. There are forces at work in this world that are hell-bent against them. But this...
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What God Can Do with a Little Wire
It’s one of the more mundane things I do as media ministries staff: soldering microphone connectors in the floor pockets.Our sanctuary was built in 1991, and after over twenty years of use, some of the...
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America’s Most Tolerated Sin
Gluttony is perhaps the most tolerated sin in American Christianity. I say this, not as someone who is immune from the attractions of the buffet line, but as someone who needs all the help he can get....
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Your Life Depends on Little Words
It is of utmost importance to realize that Scripture argues. It doesn’t just give pearls on a string that we can take away individually and reflect upon. It reasons with us, argues a point, tries to...
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We Are More Than Conquerors
We learn a lot about the Bible when the Bible quotes itself. In this lab, John Piper looks at Paul’s use of Psalm 44 to see how we are more than conquerors in all our suffering. Understanding God’s...
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What Do We Say to Grieving People?
The following is a transcript of the video above.Because my husband David and I have gone through the death of two of our children, and we do a lot of speaking and interacting with grieving people,...
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God’s Glory in Your Extraordinary Story
Statistically speaking, you should not exist.Think about it for a moment. How unlikely was it that your parents ever met? And even when they came together, you were just a bad mood or argument or...
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God Wants His Children to Enjoy Creation
Becoming a Christian means giving up bodily pleasures for spiritual pleasures, right?Wrong.In fact, according to Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon “The Pleasantness of Religion,” Christianity increases...
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When God Calls You Out
2 Corinthians 1:9,Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.If we don’t sometimes feel like we’re “in over...
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Iwo Jima and the Monumental Sacrifice
“Some people wonder all their lives if they made a difference,” Ronald Reagan once said. Then he added, “The Marines don’t have that problem.” That was certainly true of the Marines who fought and died...
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