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Contemporary Art Meets the Bible
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible next year, Crossway has commissioned an "illuminated book of the four Gospels." The Four Holy Gospels, which is set to release this January,...
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This Year's Biography: Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Every year at our Pastors Conference (which you can now register for), John Piper delivers a biographical message on a bygone saint whose life and influence are in some way instructive for us today. At...
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DG LIVE with Darrin Patrick
Join us next Tuesday, November 23rd, from 9-11AM (CST) as we hear from Darrin Patrick about all things church planting and pastoring. We will broadcast live that morning from his church in St. Louis,...
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Justification to Take Center Stage Among Evangelical Scholars
This week a host of evangelical scholars will gather in Atlanta for the 62nd annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. The plenary theme is justification by faith. In the welcome in this...
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"Actions Speak Louder"—Buy the Single, Build an Orphanage
Hip-hop artist Swoope released a single today—"Actions Speak Louder" (featuring Tedashi, Lecrae, and Jai)—to raise awareness and support for what His Voice Global is doing in Sudan. You can read the...
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You're Fooling Yourself
There's loads of knowledge to be found, but wisdom is a rare commodity. Why? Because wisdom is one of sin's first casualties. It's hard to admit, but true none the less: sin reduces all of us to fools....
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Faithful Presence Amid "Continuous Partial Attention," Part 2
In last week's post, we briefly discussed James Davison Hunter's observation (from his book To Change the World) that our increasingly omnipresent "fragmentation of consciousness" poses significant...
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Footnote Gem: Humanity’s Need for the Gospel
E. T. is back—at least he’s made a brief reappearance in this footnote gem from John Frame. In his chapter “Christians in Our Culture” in The Doctrine of the Christian Life, Frame writes, Steven...
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The Watters' Story: God's Providence over Curriculum, Cancer, and Adoption
In 2002, Mike and Deb Watters began teaching the curriculum, My Purpose Will Stand, in the sixth grade Sunday School at Bethlehem Baptist Church. Although they didn't know it at the time, God was...
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Free Media by Darrin Patrick
Lord willing, next Tuesday morning Darrin Patrick, author of Church Planter and Vice President of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network, will be joining us for the next DG LIVE broadcast. Alongside...
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Appreciating N. T. Wright
I wish I could have been at Tom Schreiner's presentation last night at the ETS Annual Meeting. According to Justin Taylor, it was a helpful, careful, and charitable critique of N. T. Wright's teaching...
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Money, Stuff, and God Will Never Leave You
Hebrew 13:5 is one simple verse, but the argument is amazing. Readers of Scripture know that the love of money is dangerous (Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; 1 Timothy 3:3; 1 Timothy 6:10; 2 Timothy 3:2), but...
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Mr. Fearing
Recently, while reading John Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress to my family, I ran across an insightful character named “Mr. Fearing”. With him I also found one of the clearest descriptions of the effect of...
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Summary and Review of Justification Debate This Week
Collin Hansen has written a great review of what happened in the plenary sessions at ETS this week. Don't miss the audio of Albert Mohler's reflections on the debate at the bottom.
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Experimental Calvinism
Rev. Ian Hamilton explains. What do you think? Here's a taster: This is what so many miss in their assessment of, or espousal of, Calvinism. It is not first and foremost a theological system; it is...
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Why God Allows Sin and Suffering
Jonathan Edwards: Though [God] hates sin in itself, yet he may will to permit it for the greater promotion of holiness in this universality, including all things and at all times. So, though he has no...
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Questions and Answers with Jerry Bridges, Part 1
Jerry Bridges was in the area earlier this Fall to speak at Faith Community Church in Hudson, Wisconsin. He gave a Saturday seminar on "Respectable Sins," and then preached the Sunday service on "The...
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Powerful Testimony from North Korea
A month ago, Michael Oh wrote of an 18-year-old North Korean girl’s testimony at the Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, South Africa and the powerful impression it made on him. I too had the privilege of...
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What Are the Three Most Disturbing Words on TV?
Mike Cosper has an excellent post on the three most disturbing words on TV. You could not guess what they are. Think Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and the crescendo of each episode. The three most...
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Questions and Answers with Jerry Bridges, Part 2
Yesterday we featured Jerry Bridges' answers to two questions: What is the gospel (in 30 seconds or less)? What would you say to someone who feels too familiar with the gospel? Below are his answers to...
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