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Caring for Your Wife in Miscarriage
While reading Jasmine Holmes’s excellent article “How to Care for Women Who Have Miscarried,” I was inspired to consider the thousands of men who also have experienced the loss of a child in...
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Enjoy Your Possessions Before They Possess You
Take an inventory of your life. What do you own right now? Whatever possessions you have are no accident, and not a product of mere happenstance.At the micro level, Jesus promises to care for even the...
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Love by Faith, Not by Sight
Do you love Jesus? A genuine affection for and devotion to Jesus is a miracle made possible only by God’s work. In this lab, John Piper looks at the affect of the new birth on our heart’s response to...
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The Bait-and-Switch over Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
Kim Davis is not alone.After she declined to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, 32 magistrates in North Carolina recused themselves from performing same-sex unions. In Alabama, about half a...
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Praying for a Breakthrough
A breakthrough is a military concept. When one army is able to weaken its enemy’s forces to the point of collapse, a breakthrough occurs allowing that army to invade and take its enemy’s territory.But...
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Oregon, We Are Not Numb — Or Hopeless
Yesterday, tragedy struck in the state of Oregon. A gunman killed at least ten people at a community college. Reports say the gunman intentionally targeted Christians, lining victims up, asking their...
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Satan’s Subtle Art of Destruction
In recent months, I have found myself reflecting on twenty years of ministry in the church. The reflection has inspired me to ponder future years of ministry, if God should sustain me in it. The...
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Two Obstacles to a Relationship with God
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since...
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We Should Pray for Healing
One Sunday afternoon my wife was in bed with a high fever, groaning and unable to sleep. I was lying next to her praying. I actually wasn’t mainly praying for her. I was in a season of significant...
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The Word Awakens Joy and Worship
Peter begins his letter not merely with statements of truth, but with worship. He rejoices over the realities he has seen about who God is and what he has done. In twenty minutes, John Piper walks...
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Reignite Your Prayer Life
How’s your prayer life?Hardly any question — unless perhaps if someone asks about your evangelistic efforts — can cause more chin-dropping, foot-shuffling embarrassment for Christians than asking about...
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The Christian’s Pledge of Allegiance
The Apostles’ Creed first appeared around 140 AD.It’s old — and it’s bold, bolder than we often give it credit for. In fact, the audaciousness of its historic claims easily get obscured by our...
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You Are Not Enslaved to Your Past
Christianity means change is possible. Deep, fundamental change. It is possible to become tender-hearted when once you were callous and insensitive. It is possible to stop being dominated by bitterness...
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Reject the World’s Whitewashed Words for Evil
Recently, one U.S. Representative, speaking off the record about the Planned Parenthood controversy, recalled Ronald Reagan’s 1983 “Evil Empire Speech,” where he described the Soviet Union as “the...
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Seven Ways to Improve Your Team
Jesus does not mean for his followers to go about their work alone.He is the one singular leader in his church. No peers. The rest of us follow his example together, by laboring in the plural. He alone...
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Put Away Ignorant Passions
All of us have remaining sin still inside of us making war against our souls. In this lab, John Piper looks at strategies for bringing our hearts and lives further and further into conformity to God...
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I Need Thee Every Hour
One of the sweetest refrains in English Christian hymnody is this:I need Thee, O I need Thee; Every hour I need Thee; O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.Thank God for Annie S. Hawks who wrote...
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The Only FOMO to Fear
Missing the boat, missing the bus, missing a spouse, missing a promotion, missing a stock tip, or missing a date with friends — we have all experienced missing out.And that’s why the fear of missing...
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Loving Money Is Suicide
In episode 706, we share an excerpt from a sermon Pastor John preached on loving money more than loving Jesus.Listen Now
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An Organic Journey Towards the Doctrines of Grace
In two minutes, Trip Lee talks about his organic journey towards the doctrines of grace (Calvinism or Reformed theology) and how he saw these doctrines in the Scriptures before he read them in any...
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