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10 Unforgettable Lessons on Fatherhood
In public, my dad was one of the great pastors of his generation. He served most notably for twenty fruitful years at Lake Avenue Congregational Church in Pasadena, where John and Noel Piper worshiped...
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Vintage Worship
I love old hymns. I keep a stack of hymnals on my nightstand, and have an ever-growing collection in my library. I cut my teeth on Charles Wesley and John Rippon. I hope to write academically on the...
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Breaking Free from the Anti-Gospel of Insecurity
It was one of the seven wonders in the ancient world, a must-see attraction, stunningly beautiful and majestic — the Taj Mahal of the first century.The Roman temple of Diana (or the temple of Artemis,...
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Christian, Your Job Is a Ministry Job
Many Christians struggle with the sense that vocational ministry jobs are more “sacred” or “spiritual” than other jobs. Our terminology probably isn’t helpful: non-ministry jobs are often called...
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Should a Woman Preach Next Sunday?
Why do Andrew Wilson (here and here) and Tom Schreiner (here) and John Piper (here) take their valuable time to write about their differences over secondary matters, when they enjoy such enormous...
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Walking Through Weight-Loss with Friends
I have been overweight all of my adult life.While not everyone’s additional pounds are directly linked to sin, I know many of mine are. Historically, I’ve gone through seasons of facing my sin...
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God Will Supply Your Every Need
God exalts himself by serving us, not by having us serve him, and that sets him apart from all the gods. In this lab, John Piper shows why we should never think we have served God as though he needed...
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Conflict Is an Opportunity for Grace
You know the feeling. The sour taste in your mouth. The heavy feeling in your heart. That unpleasant aura of conflict that everything in you wants to avoid.It’s so much easier to talk about nice...
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Freed from Self-Absorption
C.S. Lewis helps awaken us to the “astonishing realness of things.” It’s what Alan Jacobs calls an “omnivorous attentiveness” — a bewildering awareness of the things all around us. It is being alive to...
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How to Be a Puritan Husband
Over the course of my ministry, one of the things I have sought to emphasize is the need to embrace “reforming marriage.” Another time in the history of the church when this same emphasis arose was in...
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The Word of God Has Not Failed
Romans 9 potentially creates a massive problem for the glorious promises of Romans 8. In this lab, John Piper begins a series through this difficult, but critical chapter by explaining the crisis of...
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Redeem the Rejection of Singleness
When I was a little girl, I never associated being alone with being rejected. Time on my own afforded me the opportunity to disappear inside my imagination without interruption. I’m not so different...
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We Must Not Do Nothing
This weekend Americans will commemorate Memorial Day, a holiday of collective national remembrance. Many will gather in cemeteries and civic parks for grateful and sometimes tearful ceremonies. This...
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How Do You Pursue Joy in Jesus?
In three minutes, Pastor Leonce Crump gives us three ways to find and cultivate a certain kind of joy — the deeper, fuller, more durable joy we experience in and with Jesus.Read Now
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Jesus Poured Out His Joy for You
In your presence is fullness of joy and at your right are pleasures forevermore.–Psalm 16:11Have you ever stopped to consider that the reason Psalm 16:11 is true for you is because it was first true...
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Worship God as Our Father
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. –1 John 3:1All true worship begins with our adoption. All prayer, all praise, all singing —...
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Call That Love
I sing lullabies to my four-year-old son.I usually make them up on the fly, and they sound horrible. He appreciates them, though, and so, every night as I tuck him into bed, by his request, I sing him...
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When God Mercifully Ruins Our Plans
It is a priceless gift when someone shows you a gospel treasure hidden in plain sight in the Bible. My good friend, Jameson Nass, just did this for me in his excellent sermon on the tower of Babel from...
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Letter to Teens Unboxing Their First Smartphone
You just got your first smartphone! This is a major milestone in your life. That phone you are about to take out of the box is one of the most amazing devices ever created, and it is going to be your...
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You Only Live Once?
It might surprise some Millennials to hear that one of our generational battle cries is fairly old school.The popular acronym YOLO (you only live once) has captured the hearts of many an emerging...
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