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Adoption Mirrors God’s Love for Us
In less than three minutes, Vermon Pierre explains how adoption mirrors God's love for us. The following is a lightly edited transcript.What do I say to Christians to waken them to the importance of...
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The Joy Project
We want to be happy, and yet we find that we are chronic failures when it comes to finding the kind of joy that will last for more than a fleeting moment. What if the deepest joy that we seek really...
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Seven Tips for College Students
You have one life to live. And it is not a good thing to experiment with it. What will make life work? What will make my eternity happy? God did not give you life to experiment with. He gave you life...
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Forgiveness Leads to Love
What do you do when a verse in the Bible (even words from Jesus himself) seem to contradict core beliefs at the heart of Christianity? In this lab, John Piper models a way forward with difficult texts,...
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How to Use a Study Bible
A study Bible is a book that includes the full text of the Bible plus additional features that help readers better understand and apply the Bible. How should you use a study Bible? Here are some...
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Enduring the Uncertainty of Dating
When couples move past the awkward first-date phase of a relationship, many face a new and unsettling tension between strong romantic feelings and the reality that they are not yet married. They ask...
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The Hidden Ministry of Motherhood
In between “Mama, I want a snack” and baby squeals, with fists pounding on the high chair, I check my numbers online. How many views today on the blog? Did anyone comment on my Facebook post? Any new...
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Take Every Task Captive Today
The most dangerous thing about tomorrow is the temptation to forget God, to live and talk and act as if God doesn’t exist. It’s the greatest danger any day: to live our daily lives — our daily habits,...
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God’s Love for the Worst
Who will love Jesus more, the one who has been forgiven much or the one who has been forgiven little? If so, why do we not sin more? In this lab, John Piper tackles another difficult question raised by...
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What God Thinks About You
We all want to know who we are. We seek and search and try to “find ourselves.” Many of us have taken personality tests and other assessments. We learn that we are a lion, a beaver, an ENFP, an...
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Unlock God’s Storehouse of Grace
Nothing will deplete your faith like looking at what you lack.I find that the more I fixate on my lack of resources, the strengths I don’t have, the weaknesses I do have, the heavier the weight of...
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Injury Interrupted My Idolatry
If you struggle to believe God loves you, and God just keeps bringing trials into your life, don’t panic. They’re more related than you realize.I hobbled on one crutch to grip my cell phone from my...
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You Don’t Need Your Perfect Church Now
Many worship leaders consider themselves artists. Translation: We are typically passionate, idealistic, opinionated, and sensitive.We have specific ideas about how things should go and can let those...
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Sex Belongs to Believers
In 1 Timothy 4:1–5, Paul confronts certain ascetic false teachers who believed that sex in marriage and eating foods freely were at best for second-class Christianity. Paul called these false teachings...
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A Picture of Prevailing Prayer
“Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”Bartimaeus was blind. And his soul-weariness over his blindness was beyond description. As soon as he understood that it was Jesus passing by, he began shouting...
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The World Needs More One-Woman Men
The “one-woman man” may seem like an endangered species today. In our over-sexualized and sexually confused society, it’s increasingly rare to come across married men who are truly faithful to their...
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God Gives Us Joy in Grief
What role do trials play in the Christian life? In this lab, John Piper explains a hard, but beautiful truth. God writes hardship and suffering into every believer’s story for the sake of their faith....
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Three Ways to Help Bible Beginners
Lots of people, probably many in your own life, are curious about the Bible or maybe even want to read it, but don’t know where to start. Many of us woke up this morning ourselves wanting to start...
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Broken But Grateful
“Aaron, wait! Don’t jump!”It was the last thing Aaron “Canon” McCain heard before he leaped forty feet off a bridge in December, 2014. He woke up in a haze, flat on his stomach, pressed against the...
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Does Netflix Make Christ More Precious to You?
I am appalled at what Christians do for entertainment by taking it for granted that if it is in the theater it should be watched. I will not watch certain scenes because my mind is contaminated for...
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