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Ten Biblical Truths on the Obedience of Children
Two years ago, I must have struck a nerve with the article “Parents, Require Obedience of Your Children.” It has proved to be one of our most visited resources.In view of that, I thought it might be...
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Why We Pray for Our Meals
Praying before we eat a meal is a beautiful thing — or should be a beautiful thing. It is gloriously appropriate to give thanks and praise to God from whom all blessings flow. And to have food to eat...
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Seven Substitutes for True Joy
His wife was gone.Sure, last night looked like a lot of nights recently. She’d walked out many times before, but this was different. The abandonment, the adultery, and the deception had mounted a...
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Fix Your Eyes and Heart on the Bible
Our Bible reading is about much more than reading. In this lab, John Piper highlights two major principles for getting the most out of your time in God’s word.Watch Now
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Take Action Against Adultery
I love premarital counseling. It’s a nice respite from what is so often crisis response. Instead, I get to see two incredibly happy people excited for the day when they shall become one flesh. My job...
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Joy Is Not Optional
Joy is essential to the Christian life. The Scriptures are clear: God’s people are both commanded to rejoice and characterized by rejoicing.Our heavenly Father is not indifferent to our happiness. Joy...
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You Are the Hands of Jesus
What’s calling for your attention? What’s demanding to be done and requiring your energy and focus?We have emails to be answered, phone calls that need to be made, church events to plan, church...
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More Tough Skin and Tender Hearts
In honor of Black History Month, organizations, churches, and even private businesses will set aside time to engage in conversations about ethnic division and racial injustice in our country. I’ve been...
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God’s Bigger Purpose for Proverbs
You probably know the book of Proverbs as a collection of practical advice for God’s people. Proverbs itself, though, defines its purpose in a deeper, more significant way.Watch Now
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From Slum to Shining Sea
Memories of my past often hit at unexpected times. Memories that are ironically vivid when compared to the haze of waking up with a splitting headache and no recollection of the night before. I also...
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Prayers for Christ’s Increase and Our Decrease
When John the Baptist said, “Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. [Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:29–30), he wasn’t talking about his inner life. He was talking about his...
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A Social Media Heart Check
Before social media, life seemed simpler, uncluttered. You knew what you alone were having for dinner, not twenty others. Hours in a day were more productive. Focused. No scroll-and-click distractions....
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Lean in on Sunday Morning
Do you lean in on Sunday mornings? Or does a critical spirit or unchecked cynicism have you leaning out, ready to size up and dress down the slips and inadequacies of the leaders up front?Does a spirit...
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The Consequences of Forgiven Sin
I was again overcome by the story of David’s sin against Uriah (murder) and Bathsheba (adultery) and God’s response in 2 Samuel 11–12.David acknowledges that the one who has done such a thing deserves...
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Three Sightings of the Glory of Jesus
There isn’t anything greater than to see the Son of God in all his divine beauty and radiance and greatness, and be supremely and increasingly happy in him forever.Listen Now
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Do Not Fear the Hard Things of Marriage
The picture in my head was clear, the image of a sheep being guided along from the rear by its shepherd. The sheep stayed the course on the straight path by the taps of the staff to its hindquarters. I...
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Breaking Through the Despair of Unbelief
MINNEAPOLIS — Michael Reeves may now serve as the President of Union School of Theology in Oxford and be recognized as the author of wonderful books like Delighting in the Trinity and Rejoicing in...
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Jesus Suffered to Keep You from Sinning
Jesus promised us that his followers would suffer unjustly for bearing his name. In this lab, John Piper explains how we return good for evil, even when it seems like evil is winning.Watch Now
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Developing Our Second Bests
G.K. Chesterton says in his Emancipation of Domesticity that a woman who has made the home her domain “may develop all her second bests.”In a world that runs on specialization, this is an enigma, to be...
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The Greatest Joy Is Still to Come
When we say that joy is not optional in the Christian life, we don’t mean that we ever have it in full in this life.We can promise joy in all its fullness, but that doesn’t mean we minimizing the...
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