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Don’t Live Strong, Live Wise
As I write this, I’m visiting my mother. On the desk in the guest bedroom is an antique case containing old greeting cards that my grandfather gave to my grandmother more than 80 years ago. These cards...
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Live on Earth as Citizens of Heaven
Christians live in and are citizens of some nation on earth, under some government, but their final authority is in heaven. In this lab, John Piper explains how to live as exiles and refugees.Watch Now
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Church Leaders, Focus on the Big Picture
In less than two minutes, Pastor Conrad Mbewe encourages discouraged church leaders to think about the the big picture and to remember that God is using them as a piece in an ongoing drama across...
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Seven Reasons Not to Play the Lottery
Americans now spend more than $70 billion dollars annually on lotteries. That’s more than the combined spending on books, video games, and movie and sporting-event tickets. Lotteries are legal in 43...
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Serpents, Seeds, and a Savior
Last week, while beginning yet another journey through the Scripture, as a recent bride, I found myself reading the account of Adam’s and Eve’s nuptials with fresh eyes.I’ve read it perhaps hundreds of...
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What’s the Most Neglected Spiritual Discipline?
Guest, Don Whitney, shares what he believes is the most difficult spiritual discipline to practice. Listen Now
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Gluten Free to the Glory of God
I used to think that people with food allergies were weird. I’m sorry, but I did. It’s not that you were evil, just strange, and for some people, probably also a little culpable.But now I have a food...
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A Safe Place for Sexual Sinners
Last year, we surveyed 8,000 Desiring God readers. The study revealed that pornography usage is higher among younger adults than their older counterparts. David Mathis sums up our findings:More than...
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Obey as People Who Are Free
How do servants of the King live and serve in a world with kings? In this lab, John Piper reveals the wonder of Christian freedom and the witness of being subject to human authorities.Watch Now
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Minimize Student Debt, Maximize Christian Mission
January doesn’t just mark the start of a new year. It also marks the season when tens of thousands of families in the United States begin filling out the FAFSA for the next academic year. If you have a...
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Slain in the Shadow of the Almighty
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” (Psalm 91:1–2)On January 8, 1956 —...
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Jesus Offers Escape from Hypocrisy
The Christians in Sardis had the reputation of being alive, but they were not (Revelation 3:1). Their reputation was a phantom of a former real greatness.The seven Asian churches, which the Lord...
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Three Questions to Ask Before Listening to Any Sermon
It’s easy to become a passive sermon consumer. As a young Christian, I started to sense this tendency in my own sermon listening. One Sunday I brought a notebook to church and devised a simple little...
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Who Is There to Harm You?
It is astonishing to hear Peter say, “Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?” (1 Peter 3:13). What could he possibly mean?No other book in the Bible addresses the issue of...
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What Does It Mean for a Man to Lead His Family Spiritually?
Pastor John gives examples of what it means for a husband and a wife to model Christ and the church.Listen Now
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There Was a Man Sent from God
Right in the middle of perhaps the most beautiful, breathtaking, magisterial descriptions of the eternal Son of God ever penned, the apostle John, abruptly it seems, writes these words: “There was a...
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Navigating Trials in the New America
The church in America is slowly awakening from the distortion of 350 years of dominance and prosperity. Until recently, being a Christian in America has been viewed as normal, good, patriotic,...
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Fear God, Not the Government
What does freedom in Christ look like in subjection to a human government? In this lab, John Piper explains five key principles.Watch Now
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A Place to Start for Spiritually Stuck People
I’m spiritually stuck. We are stuck people. We get distracted, pulled down, undone. God feels distant and irrelevant. Dane Ortlund says, “You are not abnormal. So relax. We all go through this from...
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Why Satan Exists
In a very real sense, “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19). All humans, including those who compose the church, are subject to the evil god of this world.So here’s a...
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