Plunge Your Mind into the Ocean of God’s Sovereignty
Sometimes we need to plunge our minds into the ocean of God’s sovereignty. We need to feel the weight of it, like deep and heavy water pressing in against every pore, the deeper we go. A billion rivers...
View ArticleFive Truths About Eternal Security
If we’re called to bring believers back from their wandering, does that mean true believers can lose their faith? In this lab, John Piper deals with the security of every believer, explaining how God...
View ArticleQuiet Time Doesn’t Earn God’s Grace
In less than five minutes, Bryan Chapell reshapes how we view God’s grace and love in light of our quiet time. He reminds us that spiritual disciplines don't manufacture grace, but rather when we feast...
View ArticleFour Steps Toward Joy in Repentance
There is a kind of joy in repentance. I say “a kind of” because repentance is also arduous, humbling, exacting. Think of Jean Valjean writhing in agony during his soliloquy: “I feel my shame inside me...
View ArticleYour Suffering Is Working for You
What does pain produce? What’s it doing in our lives? John Piper explains why Christians should not lose heart in suffering.Listen Now
View ArticleChrist Removes the Curse of Criticism
The greatest regret I have in my life is relationships broken by my poor handling of criticism. For many years, I felt unjustly accused and misunderstood by those close to me, and so, I was indignant...
View ArticleIt Takes Work to Stay Warm
I live at latitude 44.9778° north, longitude 93.2650° west. If you’re not a geography or cartography geek (I’m not either), those are the coordinates for Minneapolis, Minnesota. Perhaps all...
View ArticleGod Treasures You, But Not Because of You
When a person becomes a Christian, they take on an entirely different identity, the pinnacle of which is being God’s prized possession. In this lab, John Piper looks at two of the most explicit and...
View ArticleThe Pleasure of Praising Others
Great persons commend great things. The greatest individuals commend the greatest things. They search for that which is most commendable and then set out to magnify it with speech, enjoy it with...
View ArticleOne Voice on Christian Social Media
Rosaria Butterfield is a wife and mother, a lover of God and of people, and a former lesbian activist. In the 1990s she was a tenured post-modern professor at a prominent university. She was deeply...
View ArticleThe Infinite Price of Your Freedom
God calls us to live in a way that says Jesus’s blood is infinitely valuable. In fifteen minutes, John Piper tells us how.Watch Now
View ArticleRaising Spurgeon from the Dead
On October 21, 1928, the spirit of Charles Spurgeon was raised from the dead. Or so the clairvoyant claimed.In a series of séances supervised by Canadian surgeon and paranormal researcher Thomas Glen...
View ArticleWhat Child Is This?
As a child, I was not impressed with a Christmas song that asked a question everyone already knew the answer to.What child is this? Really? It’s Jesus, of course. We all know that — even the kids know...
View ArticleWoe to You When All Speak Well of You
“Love your enemies.” In this short video, John Piper explains this radical, even impossible call from Jesus.Watch Now
View ArticleLay Aside the Weight of Low Self Image
If we find that we struggle with a low self-image, we need to look carefully at it, because it may not be low at all. It may in fact be a frustrated inflated self-image.Paul wrote this in Romans...
View ArticleFour Productivity Lies
Aren’t we all getting a little bit tired of all the books and articles on productivity? Yet we are drawn to them. Because we know that we are here on earth for a purpose, and this material promises to...
View ArticleWhy You Exist in the World
Can you explain why you exist in the world? In this lab, John Piper explains the purpose of your life.Watch Now
View ArticleKeeping the Heart in Our Christmas Traditions
I made spritz cookies the other day — those beautiful cookies that look like Christmas trees and taste like almonds and butter, sprinkled with colored sugar on top. For those of us of Scandanavian or...
View ArticleIf I Only Knew Why
I contracted polio long after it was supposedly eradicated. The doctor misdiagnosed my symptoms because she had never seen polio before. And the wrong diagnosis led to widespread paralysis. With a...
View ArticleThe Happy Choir of Heaven
In the popular Christmas hymn, Angels We Have Heard on High, the opening line describes angels singing God’s praises over the open fields. Their cry is retained in the famous Latin phrase, “Gloria, in...
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