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Three Prayers for Your Heart
How do you pray when you pray for you? Praying for the crisis of the moment — a particular stress, a sudden illness, a big deadline — or praying for the needs of others’ can seem pretty clear...
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How to Care for Women Who Have Miscarried
When I found out I was pregnant, I remember excitedly texting a friend who was much further along, asking her a boatload of questions about what was normal for the first trimester. We swapped plans and...
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A Letter to Exiles
Peter wrote a letter to Christians facing massive opposition and even persecution for their faith. These believers refused to join in the world’s rebellion against God, and they were mocked and...
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God’s Big Work and Your Little Mission
Many people wrongly believe that Christianity is simply a new set of rules and guidelines for how to behave. More recently, due to the widespread emphasis on missional living, it’s the “missional to-do...
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How God Gives Assurance
Am I truly a Christian?Few questions cause more fearful trembling in believers, and few soul-shepherds are as helpful as John Newton in explaining to trembling saints how God cultivates assurance in...
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Two Bedtime Prayers for Weary Parents
God has called parents to a difficult task. We are called to prevent the giant pile of children’s laundry from overtaking the house, cook meals for picky eaters, and clean up never-ending messes. But...
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The Promise of God in Threatening Pain
We live in a society that is petrified of suffering. Each day starts with a thousand moments of flinching at pain — at our alarm clocks, at the shower’s cold water, at missed emails that threaten loss...
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A Worship Song Worthy of Eternity
And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people...
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How to Stay Christian on Campus
They call it “the bubble.” It’s the perception that your campus, however big or small, college or seminary, is cozily quarantined off from the surrounding world. Life is different when you’re safe “in...
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Unbelief Is Sure to Err
Unbelief messes up how we calculate reality and leads us to errant conclusions and really bad decisions.After Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead in John 11, the Jewish religious leaders realized...
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This Is the Best of Times, And the Worst of Times
Perhaps this is true at every point in the history of a God-ruled, sin-pervaded world. It was true in 1859, and it is true today.Charles Dickens wrote The Tale of Two Cities in 1859. It begins,It was...
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Known by God Before You Were Born
When did God know you would be his adopted son or daughter? Peter says that our election is “according to the foreknowledge of God.” In this lab, John Piper asks what it means for God to foreknow us,...
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Signs of Life from an Unlikely Source
It has been 27 years since N.W.A. released Straight Outta Compton, an album that took the hip hop world by storm. The album, featuring tracks such as “F--- tha Police,” pioneered the subgenre of...
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You Can’t Tryout for God’s Team
Growing up as a kid in rural eastern Kentucky, I dreamed of one day becoming a University of Kentucky Wildcat basketball player. Even though that dream never came true due to lack of skill, I was good...
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How to Fight Addiction in a Pornographic Culture
In five minutes, Voddie Baucham exposes the pornographic nature of our culture and provides men and women with a key tool necessary to fight addiction.Related ArticlesFifty Shades of Nay: Sin Is a...
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The Good Samaritan’s Smartphone and the Law of Love
The statistics are as clear as a red stoplight on a dark night.Talking on the phone while driving makes you 4-times more likely to get into an accident. Texting while driving makes you 23-times more...
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Bought with Blood for Obedience
The Bible stabilizes us in the storms of life by reminding us who we are. In this lab, John Piper highlights our unfathomable relationship to God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — all in the very first...
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The Shadrach Option
A growing number of American Christians are realizing that we are not living in the Promised Land, but in what increasingly appears to be Babylon. If that’s true, then like our Jewish forefathers, we...
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How Long, O Lord?
Peter tells us that “the Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness” (2 Peter 3:9). At some point, each of us joins the “some” group. We reach places where it’s painfully clear that...
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