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Where Is Heaven on Earth?
Once in college I went to a prayer meeting put on by a small Evangelical denomination in the rural South. It was the kind of denomination that has a string of adjectives before the word “Baptist” — the...
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Superior Women
Near the end of his classic book Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville said this:Now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the...
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Jesus Wept
He seemed composed as he approached the town. The sister of his dead friend met him outside. He consoled her with truth and grace. But then he saw the other sister, manifestly more emotional. And he...
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Gentle Jesus and the Compassion Conspiracy
The metaphor seems self-evident. “Bruised reeds are people who are broken and needy, people worn out and tired and exhausted with life’s circumstances, people neglected by the world, but accepted by...
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Steward the Gifts God Has Assigned to You
Each of us has received grace-gifts from God. And, “as each has received a gift,” we are to “use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace” (1 Peter 4:10). We are given these...
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Smartphone Addiction and Our Spiritual ADD
If I am being honest, I have to admit that my iPhone habits have been largely unchecked, undisciplined, and unhealthy. And in a recent survey of 8,000 of our readers, many of you honestly admitted the...
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God’s Grace Will Find You
He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your...
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When Your Twenties Are Darker Than You Expected
The human body starts dying at age 25. Our twenties slap us with the expiration date of sin’s curse (Genesis 6:3): slowly, in our ligaments; tightly, in our muscle fibers; subtly, checking for bumps;...
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Free Yourself from Divided Interests
This is a reality we must remember: “The present form of this world is passing away” (1 Corinthians 7:31).The nearly two thousand years since Paul penned these words might feel like a long time to...
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The Cravings Beneath Your Conflict
Human beings are made to partake of glory. We were made to seek glory and to reflect glory. In his book We Become What We Worship, theologian Greg Beale argues that Scripture presents us with a big,...
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A Better and Abiding Possession
The gospel shines most brightly when Christians rejoice in the midst of really painful, even unjust suffering. In this lab, John Piper looks at Hebrews 10 to understand how we cultivate the kind of joy...
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When Fear Seizes You
This past fall my husband had the privilege of going to Turkey to speak at a conference for Christian workers. Although I was excited for his opportunity, I was also feeling somewhat hesitant with the...
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The Greatest Gift Is God Himself
“Don’t take this wrong, but we prayed before our children were born, and all of them were born healthy.”I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to take that. We had just told a new acquaintance that our...
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God Is Like Dessert
It may not earn you many points in the game Words with Friends, but “glory” is a big word.Glory to the newborn king!Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.God is most...
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That Hideous Beauty of Calvary
We have a crisis if the cross loses its offense in our eyes. If we’re not offended by the cross, we’re in grave danger of losing the comfort and hope of the cross.Paul writes, “If I, brothers, still...
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Nine Arguments Against Anxiety
This three-part series of labs takes on anxiety by studying Matthew 6:24–27. If the Bible is going to effectively speak to our anxious hearts, we need to learn how to read it well. In this lab, John...
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Three Ways to Remember God’s Grace
Remembering who God is and who we are is the antidote to grumbling. If we see our world, our lives, and our circumstances through the lens of Jesus’s cross, everything will come into focus. And that...
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You Have Just Enough Time
“I don’t have enough time.”I have said this countless times over the years. I have thought it many times more than I’ve said it. But I have not ever seriously considered that thinking or speaking this...
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How the Prosperity Gospel Hurts Racial Reconciliation
When a prophet calls down fire from heaven, it’s wise to stand to the side.That’s how I felt a few weeks ago when John Perkins, the revered preacher and civil rights activist, brought up prosperity...
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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. (James 1:17)In 1743, when Robert Robinson was just...
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