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When Your Faith for Fishing Is Small
How is your faith for evangelism? Too frequently mine is too small. I hate that sin of unbelief and having just spent a few days with some joyful, bold, fruitful evangelists, I am freshly encouraged to...
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All I Have Is Christ
Dragon-sickness: a term for delusional greed coined by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit.We hear of it first when Tolkien describes the dragon as “a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm called...
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How Can You Know the Bible Is True?
How can average people, with no scholarly training, and little time to invest in historical studies, know for sure that God has spoken in the Bible?Historically and biblically, one answer that has been...
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Nothing Can Separate Us From God’s Love
Romans 8 lands on the note of God’s unstoppable, unshakeable love for us in Christ. Nothing — however dark or hard — can separate us from him. In this lab, John Piper reveals the love of God for us,...
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Sin Blinds You to God’s Beauty
What is your greatest problem? It might feel like any of a million different things at this particular moment. Maybe it’s your marriage, or your job, or your kids. The thought that immediately comes to...
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Whatever It Takes
We need clarity on the meaning of life.I mean clarity not in terms of getting our theology in order, or knowing what to say if our pastor asked, but clarity in terms of the questions we should stop and...
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Four Unthinkable Conversations
Conversation One“Mrs. Johnson, your baby looks good. Heartbeat is strong and regular. Measurements of head, femur, and amniotic fluid all are right where they should be at this stage of development....
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Every Small Group Needs a Vision
Your small group is destined to die a slow, complacent, even cordial death without direction. Good food and casual conversation might be staples of normal small group life, but they cannot be the...
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The Big Picture
John Piper has completed thirty labs working verse-by-verse through Romans 8. In this last lab, he sums up all that we have learned and explains how the highest points relate to each other. We need to...
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What Do I Read Next?
We all have those moments where a seemingly insignificant statement has far-reaching effects throughout our life. For me, one came 17 years ago when an older mentor was helping me look for resources to...
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Why Things Often Don’t Make Sense
We humans have an irrepressible need to make sense of the world and our experience in it.Meaninglessness Is an IllusionDarwinian naturalists believe that we adapted this need for meaning in order to...
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Facebook Obsession and the Anguish of Boredom
Facebook has never been more addictive.In 2013, it was 63% of Facebook users who checked in daily. In 2014, that number shot up to 70%. If you check Facebook day after day, you join over 864 million...
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Preaching Jesus with Our Songs
Great music-makers, in their own way, are like evangelists. They witness to the truth and goodness and transcendental beauty of God.Renowned composer Hans Zimmer (who wrote the scores to Dark Knight...
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Generosity Begins at Home
What we do with money really matters — for the gospel frontiers and for our own families.Whether we daydream about it, or ignore it and wish it would just go away, or hoard it, or spend it, how we...
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The Great Achievers Are the Great Believers
Most people want their lives to count for something. Something deep inside them wants to make some kind of difference in the world, to leave a mark, a lasting legacy. It is a longing for significance...
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Are You Destined to Possess the Glory of Christ?
What I want you to enjoy as you read this is the destiny of your calling, the aim — the God-appointed, blood-bought, Spirit-assured goal of your life. What is the final, highest enjoyment in your...
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Take Care, Brothers
When you come across an if/then statement, restate the condition and study the implications. For instance, can someone who has truly been saved fall away from the faith? John Piper answers in this...
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The Sovereign Hand of Sleeplessness
I am on the red-eye flight to school-aged children, and I’m weary of the tiredness.Fellow parents of young children know what I mean by this, with their own recent memories of recurring nights in which...
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Parenting Means Wrestling Demons
I nudged the door open with my shoulder, hands holding carryout (again). I made my way through the dark living room and set dinner on the table. I could hear the kids playing in the basement as I...
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Two Words to Stop Self-Condemnation
I am not sweet. I should be, but I’m not.That’s what I thought to myself as I pulled into the garage and closed it behind me, sitting safe in the cocoon of my home and free from the opinions of...
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