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What God Gives When He Takes Away
What we really love and trust aren’t truly seen until we are tested by loss.This is essentially the point that Satan made when talking to God about Job. In that odd scene in the first chapter of Job,...
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Pray for God to Satisfy You
When we ask God to incline our hearts, can he do it? In this third lab, John Piper asks a couple of hard questions about what we pray when we pray. Are we hypocrites to pray for our mouths and behavior...
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Christ Will Not Paint on a Proud Canvas
The wildly unearthly words that roar out of 2 Corinthians 12:7–10 are these — first from Jesus, then from Paul:[Jesus] said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in...
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Fasting for Beginners
Chances are you are among the massive majority of Christians who rarely or never fast. It’s not because we haven’t read our Bibles or sat under faithful preaching or heard about the power of fasting,...
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When Should I Get Rid of My Smartphone?
In episode 670, Pastor John advises Christians on the use of smartphones. Listen Now
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Life’s Knots Need Jesus
Phrygia was an ancient kingdom in what is now central Turkey. According to legend, once upon a time Phrygia was without a king. One day, a pagan oracle declared that the next man to drive an ox-cart...
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Does Joy Die in Sorrow?
I want to underline the great truth that Christian joy does not die when sorrows abound. Joy and sorrow in the Christian life are not sequential, but simultaneous. We are called to rejoice always, and...
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Law-Keeping Cannot Save You
People by nature want to boast in their own abilities, efforts, and achievements. Therefore, the cross of Christ is an offense to everyone. In this lab, John Piper looks at why we resist the message of...
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Five Lessons for Serial Daters
Every fall, young men and women descend on college campuses across the country freshly free from parental accountability and looking for love. It’s a unique time of life that likely won’t repeat...
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Loving the Neighbor We Didn’t Choose
“Who is my neighbor?” a lawyer asked Jesus (Luke 10:29).The lawyer had made the mistake of trying to catch the law’s author contradicting the law by asking how he should inherit eternal life. The...
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Life Is Short. Love Your Spouse.
As the Ashley Madison leak continues playing out in the media, we’re reminded so clearly about the lies of sin. The Ashley Madison Company, a cheating site that is (sadly) very successful, has the...
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Truth in the Age of Cynicism
“The age of anxiety has given way to the age of cynicism,” recently wrote 30-year-old composer Mohammed Fairouz. “Among my generation, cynicism is no longer a bad word: it’s being celebrated, and often...
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Leadership Requires the Pursuit of Joy
The following is a lightly edited transcript.Joy is so important for anyone who wants to be in leadership. I think people can tell when you are trying to lead them in a certain direction, but your...
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One Strategy to Rule Them All
In high school, Dylan was a natural leader, voted Most Valuable Player on his football team. Everyone expected him to succeed. But when he went to college, Dylan’s Christian convictions were assailed...
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George Müller Did Not Have the Gift of Faith — Thankfully
George Müller (1805–1898) provided for thousands of orphans by means of the “faith principle” — which meant he would look to God and never directly ask another person for money. Nor did he ever borrow...
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America’s One Enduring Legacy in History
Two millennia ago, “a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered” (Luke 2:1). The most apparently powerful earthly head-of-state ordered a census because the empire...
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Next-Door Strangers
Do you know your neighbors? I’m asking about the people who live immediately to your right and your left, maybe across the street or beyond your backyard or across the hall. If you can name them, the...
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Crucified to the World
What does it mean for us to die to the world or for the world to die to us (Galatians 6:14)? In this lab, John Piper explains what happens when we belong to Jesus. What kind of new creation are we, and...
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‘Twas the Night Before Middle School
It was one of those kind of nights. I tossed and turned, looking at the clock each time I raised my head. I wanted to be sure I didn’t oversleep the morning my oldest child ventured out of our home to...
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Your Shattered Dreams and Shaken Faith
Sometimes my faith is shaken when my dreams are shattered.I wonder where God is in the midst of my suffering. I cannot sense his presence. I feel alone and afraid. My faith wavers.I question what I...
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