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The Complicated Life of Lazy Boys
The modern man has a major branding crisis. Most sum him up in one word: lazy. There are different ways to pronounce the word — dependent, wasteful, inept, ungrateful, complacent, unworthy,...
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Why We Can Trust Him
Trust the Lord! It’s one of those sincere, but often trite-sounding, statements we may say when we are trying to encourage or challenge someone. We may throw it around when someone has a hope deferred....
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Sell the Treasure That Will Not Last
Many people are afraid to give because they’re afraid they won’t have enough themselves or that they’ll miss out on something in the future. In this lab, John Piper highlights the liberating promise...
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Is Theology Your Idolatry?
We have often loved what we’ve learned about God more than God himself.The Bible warns us about the dangers that come with our knowledge of God, especially for the theologically refined and convinced....
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Four Lessons from a Calvinist Slave
Your life is not that hard. Not compared to this.In 1756, Olaudah Equiano and his sister were kidnapped from their home in Nigeria. They were separated a few months later, never to see each other...
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Put Laziness to Rest
God often has a backwards way of dealing with brokenness in our world. Conquering, but not by the sword (Matthew 26:52). Defeating death with death (Hebrews 2:14). Preaching parables to bad listeners...
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Seek the Treasure That Will Not Fail
“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” What we treasure has massive implications for the health and security of our hearts. In this lab, John Piper explains why treasure in heaven...
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Think of Yourself Less
I joked with some people whether being asked to give this talk on pride is an example of typecasting. I am very qualified to speak on pride because I am so proud. I hate my pride, but what I take even...
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What Will You Leave Behind?
Author, playwright, poet, and Christian apologist, Dorothy Sayers, once wrote, “What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if ‘making’ is our profession.”By professional “making,”...
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United Through Disability
When I’m in a group of parents where disability is the topic or reason for our gathering, the characteristics of ethnicity, education, economic status, and geography fade in their importance. I talk...
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Tattoos for the Soul
For twenty years, I have considered myself a “confessional Christian.” That means I subscribe to a historic confession of faith that I believe beautifully and accurately summarizes the Christian faith....
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The Savior’s Tears of Sovereign Mercy
“Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!” (Mark 11:9–10)Palm Sunday is the day in the church year when...
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Jesus Turns the Tables
He entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. (Mark...
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The King We Needed, But Never Wanted
“The Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.” (Mark 10:33)The road to Calvary was a road of...
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You Never Outgrow the Gospel
Author Jerry Bridges tells the story of his coming to realize the relevance of the gospel for his own soul as a young Christian — that the message of salvation in Christ is not just for nonbelievers,...
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Mutiny Against the Messiah
Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. (Mark 14:10)The chief priests wanted him dead. But they couldn’t kill him in the open. No, the...
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Cancer Is a Parable About Sin
All human suffering, especially the suffering of the Son of God, is meant to portray to dull souls the unimaginable moral ugliness of sin and the unimaginable offensiveness of sin to God.That’s why...
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Not My Will Be Done
“Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” (Mark 14:36)Darkness had descended on Jerusalem. Its residents had finished their Passover...
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Why Have You Forsaken Me?
At the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” (Mark 15:34)Up to this point, the narrative of the crucifixion has focused on the physical sufferings of Jesus: the...
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God Gave Us His Son
2015 Holy Week SeriesPalm Sunday: The Savior’s Tears of Sovereign MercyMonday: Jesus Turns the TablesTuesday: The King We Needed, But Never WantedSpy Wednesday: Mutiny Against the MessiahMaundy...
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