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Six Wrong Reasons to Check Your Phone in the Morning
Our phones now go wherever we go — which is everywhere. And that means most of us sleep with our phones. In the bedroom, our phone wakes us up, tracks our sleep patterns, and makes us available in the...
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Are You Insulting God in Worship?
The misunderstanding of a short, three-letter word can transform an act of heartfelt worship into a slanderous insult.Perhaps you’ve heard Matt Redman’s song “Here for You” and are familiar with its...
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The Distance Between Head and Heart
Again and again I have been asked: How do I get my faith from my head to my heart? The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky may not answer in so many words, but his experience points us in the...
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Give the Word Time to Work
While reading my Bible recently, these words stepped up and stared me in the face:Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor. (1 Corinthians 10:24)I wanted to move on, but I couldn’t. I...
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God Wrote a Book (New Video)
It is one of the saddest effects of the fall that over time the greatest wonders in the world become routine. The first day among the Alps we are speechless with wonder. By the end of the week, we’re...
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Why God Chooses Whom He Chooses
God’s electing love is one of the most challenging realities in the Bible. In this lab, John Piper digs down underneath the doctrine of election to try and understand why God chooses who he chooses....
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The Prosperity Gospel Majors on Minors
In two minutes, Conrad Mbewe shows that when we’re honest with the Scriptures, the prosperity gospel makes too much of temporal riches and too little of eternal joys.Watch Now
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When Marriage Is Miles Away: On Long-Distance Dating
People are pursuing marriage in more ways than ever before. With developments in technology and communication, dating is changing as well. The goals and principles for dating remain the same, but...
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McKinney and Me
Fifty years ago, the Civil Rights Movement came into living rooms across America through the medium of television. Some have argued that, without the constant coverage of the media, some of the clout...
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The Résumé Beyond Your Reach
One evening, I sat cross-legged on the roof of my five-story apartment building praying. Suddenly I became self-consciously aware of myself and my surroundings. At once, a series of crushing...
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The Mystery of Election
What did it mean for God to “love” Jacob and “hate” Esau, even before they were born? How can God elect some and still be good? In this lab, John Piper narrows in on the question of election, and why...
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The Heart of Spiritual Disciplines
Many of us struggle to read our Bibles and pray on a daily basis. Therefore, when we do, we rarely question our motivation. It’s easy to assume that Bible reading and prayer are magic bullets — if we...
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With a God Like Ours, Who Needs Frenemies?
I resented him. I didn’t want to. My best friend.We were life buddies — same school program, same goals, same views on everything. We were enjoying lunch, laughing about school and work, and then he...
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We Long to Belong
Last year my fifth-grade students sharpened their number-two pencils, looked down over their scantrons, and raised their hands to ask a million questions before taking the standardized test.“I’m 1/256...
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Calvinism Is Not New to Baptists
Calvinists once dominated Baptist church life in America.In a 1793 survey, early Baptist historian John Asplund estimated that there were 1,032 Baptist churches in America. Out of those, 956 were...
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My All in All
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. (Matthew 13:44)Lots of people are...
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Happiness Honors the King
“Happy are your men!” It was the high point of her praise for the king, at the very height of his kingdom.This was the moment when the stars all aligned, and the nation shone with her greatest earthly...
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Husbands, Address Her Inner Chaos
Wives are well acquainted with chaos. Whether it’s siblings bickering, piling laundry, random emergencies, or internal conflict, wives have to navigate chaos on a daily basis. When husbands step into...
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Peaches in Paradise
At 6:15 this morning, Elisabeth Elliot died. It is a blunt sentence for a blunt woman. This is near the top of why I felt such an affection and admiration for her.Blunt — not ungracious, not impetuous,...
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