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It’s Not Too Late
I could see the pain in his eyes. And fear.His question was about his lack of assurance of salvation, and it was easy to tell this was not philosophical or merely theoretical. It was turmoil of soul...
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Game-Changer for Bible Reading
Luke 24 is a game-changer.It was an unsuspecting walk from Jerusalem. Jesus, unrecognized by two of his disciples, started up a conversation, “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he...
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To the Sons and Daughters of Divorce
Few things are more traumatic than a car accident — 2,000 pounds of steel and glass bending and scraping, with no respect for the limits or boundaries of the human body inside. There’s a path of...
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How to Pray for Africa
In this four-minute video, African pastor Conrad Mbewe encourages us to make a place in our prayers for Africa. It is a diverse continent and can be divided into three major parts, with attendant ways...
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God Works for Those Who Wait
The Bible says several times that our God is utterly unique among all the gods in the world and in history. But what makes him so unique? In this lab, John Piper begins a series looking at key texts...
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Why Not to Have a Woman Preach
The specific question on the table is this: Does 1 Timothy 2:12 leave open the possibility that women are permitted to preach in the weekly gathering of a local church as an extension of the male...
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Don’t Let Pride Steal Your Joy
Pride is perhaps the greatest evil that exists. It wreaks destruction at every level of human experience. It’s present in small irritations and in the collapse of great civilizations. Pride is the root...
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God Is Bigger Than My Cancer
“There’s no doubt about the diagnosis,” the doctor said. Incurable cancer. A fatal disease. I had just celebrated my tenth anniversary with my wife, and we were busy raising our children, aged 1 and...
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A Long Motherhood
Forty-two years went by between the birth of our first child and when the last of all five turned 18. That’s a lot of parenting. I suppose, if we had planned that season more compactly, there would be...
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Either ‘Okay’ or ‘Thank You’
My five-year-old can’t stop saying the f-word.It just happened. I didn’t teach it to her. Her mom didn’t either. But again and again — and every Saturday without fail — she wants to know, in a voice...
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You Are God’s Workmanship
Here is a text I hope will fuel your faith and hope in whatever God gives you to do today:For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we...
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Typology: How God Targets Your Desires
Here is a woodenly literal translation of 1 Corinthians 10:6: “These things became types of us, so that we might not be desirers of evil things, as they desired.” Clumsy English, but incredibly...
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God Will Abundantly Pardon
The God of the Bible is not like any god of any other religion. This series of labs asks what sets our God apart from all the alternatives. In this lab, John Piper looks at the beauty of an infinitely...
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Laughter Is the Sound of Joy
“It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it. I see that in church often enough. So I wonder what it is and where it...
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When God Interrupts Your Plans
We were recently on a vacation when God interrupted my plans. My family and I had traveled hundreds of miles to stay at a hotel on the beach. I had made arrangements to spend one day visiting with...
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What Is Your Capacity for Mystery?
In twelve minutes, John Piper pulls apart some of the tensions between Calvinism and Ariminianism. Believing the whole Bible, with all of its varied pieces, is not a small or simple thing. A theology...
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The Joy of Graduation and the Crisis of Joblessness
Congratulations, class of 2015. Your day has finally come. The classes have ended. The final papers are in. The exams are behind you. You’re not registering for another fall. You are free.Over the next...
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God Does Not Need You
Why did God make human beings? Was it because he needed something that he didn’t already have? This series of labs asks what sets our God apart from all others. In this lab, John Piper asks how we can...
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Should We Call Them Bullies?
Nobody condones bullying, right? Websites and radio and television public service announcements rightfully condemn bullying and encourage everyone to speak up for vulnerable children.My children’s...
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Four Ways to Fight the Fear of Missing Out
The Thing. It’s a strange thing, because it’s there and not there at the same time. What I’m talking about is The Thing that you don’t have that you think you need in order to be happy. And you know...
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