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Sex: The Frontrunner for President
One decision determines the fate of the American people every four years: Who will be our next president? This man or woman will almost certainly drive our 320-million-person passenger van through...
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Parenting Our Children’s Prejudice
Our daughter refers to her room as “the party.”And it’s a great party. She sits on her bed and asks us to pile on every one of her stuffed animals. They have a great time talking, rocking, singing, and...
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What Is the Secret of Joy in Suffering?
If it’s true that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him as we saw in Philippians 1:20–21, then joy or satisfaction in God is a mandate. It’s not optional. If we say joy in God...
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Partakers of God’s Promises
When did God decide to include the nations in his chosen people? The apostle Paul cites Old Testament passages to show that God always intended to bring Gentiles into his family. In this lab, John...
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Treasures of the Unseen
During the last school year, I huddled each Wednesday night with a group of fourth-grade girls from church. Our task was to discuss questions about a Scripture text, which the teacher would later...
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Be a Human Infusion of Hope
Encourage one another and build one another up. (1 Thessalonians 5:11)His name was Joseph. But he “was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement)” (Acts 4:36). Joseph....
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Satan Eats Faith for Breakfast
In five minutes, John Piper talks about the epic daily warfare for your faith. Satan wants to devour you, but the risen Jesus promises to pray for you. With Satan against you, and temptation around...
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The Genesis of the Abortion Industry
Every event is part of a story within a larger story, and that larger story has ancient roots.In his beautiful creation, God created the first man, and from him created the first woman. The first man,...
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It Is Well
Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be...
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Community Conquers Culture
True harmony among Christians is as important as it’s ever been.Long has the church been increasingly marginalized and ignored in modern Western society, but today she is finding herself newly insulted...
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Let Good Things Run Wild
Everything God creates is good (Genesis 1:31). But we must take this in large measure on faith because under the curse of the fall, our fallen perceptions often don’t see it. And our fallen natures...
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Hope for the Unhappily Single
There is a new and widespread epidemic in our nation and even in our churches. It’s called the not-yet-married life.Sure, there have always been unmarried people longing for marriage, but the...
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The Great Antidote to Shame
Has God’s word of promise failed because so many in Israel have failed to believe and receive it? In the last lab in this Romans 9 series, John Piper looks at a second major piece of Paul’s argument...
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Abortion Is the Anti-Gospel
You are going to have a healthy baby boy.Those are the words every expectant couple wants to hear. But what happens when a couple gets the most stomach-churning news imaginable — news that there’s a...
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True Faith Will Make You a Fighter
Growing up, I wasn’t much of a fighter. Despite my disposition, my big mouth and stubbornness placed me in situations where I had to defend myself. I fought in the classroom, in the hallway, on the...
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The Greatest Enemy of the Church
These are times that try men’s souls, but who is the enemy — the greatest enemy — of God’s people?Perhaps it’s liberal Supreme Court judges and the sexual ethics of secular society. Or maybe it’s ISIS...
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Do We Have to Enjoy God to Believe?
If joy is so prominent and central in Philippians, what’s the relationship between joy and faith, between joy and belief in the gospel? Because I think most interpreters of this book would arrive at...
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What Will Please God?
What kind of heart and faith pleases God? In this lab, John Piper looks at several texts to try and understand what it means for us to fear God. How can we be terrified of God and still find hope in...
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Pull the Mask off of Fear
I shot eye darts at the van driver in the rearview mirror from my seat behind him. We were traveling down a treacherous East African road booby-trapped with deep potholes, and the speedometer reflected...
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Keep Speaking
This is not the time for Christian timidity. This is not the time for Christian silence. This is not the time for Christian retreat. This is a time for Christian boldness. It is a time to speak.Into a...
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