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Lazy Busy
My children love the zoo. Surrounded by the concrete wilderness, there comes over them a sudden instinct to act and speak and even gyrate in ways that are animal-like. It’s an exercise in mimicry and...
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Spurgeon Biography by John Piper (New Book)
You will face adversity — it’s only a matter of time. In fact, chances are, you’ve already experienced hardship. The question then, and going forward, is how you persevere through the oppressing...
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Exhort One Another Every Day
God has appointed other believers as one of the primary means of our perseverance. In this lab, John Piper explains how sin wages war against our souls, and how God equips us with weapons for the...
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The Bigger Thing in Bible Study
Rather than thinking of Bible study as a debit account, where you are putting in your card and taking out the emotional boost you need for the day, regard studying the Bible as a savings account where...
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Can We Really Be Free from Excessive Fears?
Fear is such a powerful force in our experience.Fear is designed by God and has a wonderful, protective benefit for us when it functions as God designed it. Instinctual fears are tremendous mercies,...
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What Is a Kind Husband?
We find many husbands in the Bible, but not many stand out as ideal.One of the men who does stand out is Boaz. Throughout the book of Ruth, he stands out as a model of what a husband as a husband...
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What Is Your Greatest Fear?
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 27:1)If anyone had a reason to fear, it was David. When he wasn’t at...
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Let’s Bring Conversation Back
Conversation has fallen on hard times.Let’s face it, most of us find talking to strangers to be a rarity. This is our new societal reality. The in-between moments of life — running errands and picking...
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Don’t Follow Your Heart
“Follow your heart” is a creed embraced by billions of people. It’s a statement of faith in one of the great pop cultural myths of the Western world; a gospel proclaimed in many of our stories, movies,...
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Pascal’s Wager: Misleading, But Challenging
Thinking about Pascal’s Wager helps us clarify our relationship with God. The Wager is not simple. In its true complexity, it is a wise and sobering challenge. But in its popular simplicity, it becomes...
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Older Men, Younger Men Need You
There is a sad and wide gulf between older men and younger men today. Generational discrimination and segregation are alive and, well, discouraging.We have to pass the torch somehow, but so many of the...
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You Can’t Arrest the Gospel
It was a lesson in the school of hard knocks for a promising young leader.A crowd had gathered in an urban center, ready to hear him speak. He rose to the occasion, feeling a fresh anointing of the...
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The Hard Question of Missions
I was covered in red dust, the kind that sticks to your soles, the kind that smells of Uganda and its long bumpy roads, our white van a flash of Westerners on our way to visit a non-profit’s work.I...
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The War of Love
The color was porpoise gray — that’s “porpoise” like the dolphin. Porpoise gray. That’s the color my wife chose to paint the little sunroom at our house a few years ago. She loves it when I take on...
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Work with Your Hands, Not with Your Worship
The sinful human heart has a strange and offensive fascination with the work of our own hands.Regardless of who we are — however talented, well-known, or successful — there’s something uniquely...
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The Light of the Gospel of the Glory of Christ
What happened when you were saved? While Satan did everything he could to blind you to the beauty of Jesus Christ, God broke through in marvelous light, and you saw, and you believed. In this lab, John...
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Sweetly Devastated by Grace
A deeper, truer knowledge of your sin — of your absolute lostness and wickedness apart from Christ — will devastate and liberate you.It will devastate you, because you will see darkness in yourself and...
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Jesus Will Not Leave You Alone
You and Jesus share a desire for your comfort. But you and Jesus do not always agree on what kind of comfort is best for you.In fact, right now you might be feeling that if Jesus really cared so much...
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What Not to Ask Someone Suffering
People ask me all the time what to say and what to do for people who are grieving the death of someone they love. And I’m glad they ask. I’m glad they want to know what is really helpful and...
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