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The Great Secret
J. I. Packer (Knowing God, 228; broken up for readability): Do I, as a Christian, understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God. God is my Father; heaven...
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A Bitter Harvest?
The Bible is very clear about three things: God's way is always the best way (Psalm 119:160). God's way will not always seem the best way to you (Proverb 14:12). What you plant, you will harvest...
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Are You More Blessed Than the Virgin Mary?
In the sermon descriptively entitled, “That Hearing and Keeping the Word of God Renders a Person More Blessed Than Any Other Privilege That Ever God Bestowed on Any of the Children of Men,” Jonathan...
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A Helpful Sermon to Understand Justification and Battle Sin
I have been blessed by John Piper’s ministry. A lot of us have. But through this blog post I want to bring attention to a possibly unnoticed message, which was pointed out to me by my mentor. The...
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Luther's Prescription for Despondency
Luther once said, “I have my worst temptations when I am by myself.” Roland Bainton comments in Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, 285 (paragraphing mine): Seek out some Christian brother, some...
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Encouraging Persecuted Believers in Indonesia to Remain Steadfast
Hundreds of theology students in Jakarta fled their campus two years ago when tensions in the predominantly Muslim neighborhood around their school spilled over into violence. A mob of Islamic...
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Every Church Must Make a Decision
J. D. Greear, Lead pastor of the Summit Church and author of Breaking the Islam Code, says: Every church has got to make a decision whether or not it’s going to be a seed that exists for itself or...
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Raising Children in an R-Rated World
At the end of this month, Lord-willing, my wife and I will be adopting our first child. We’ve been matched with a birth mother and things are moving along very quickly. We are exorbitantly excited...
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A Good Way to Think of the Love of Christ
Jonathan Edwards explains how romantic love helps us understand Jesus' feelings towards the church (Miscellanies #189, spacing added): We see how great love the human nature is capable of, not only to...
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What Is a Peacemaker?
Our master, Jesus the Messiah, said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” Christians are called to be peacemakers. So how are we doing? Is this what we are known for?...
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We Are Not So Reasonable
And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers…[and] went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them. (Judges 2:12) The ancient Israelites repeatedly turned to...
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We Are Almost There!
We just need a relative handful more of our friends to help us reach our 1% Campaign goal by December 31, 2010. We are almost there! We have been asking God for 3,500 of our friends who use DG’s...
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When Preaching Becomes Plagiarism
When has a preacher crossed the line into plagiarism in his sermon? Matt Perman, senior director of strategy at DG, has posted his response today at The Gospel Coalition Blog. It follows in a series on...
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Piper Poem on Suffering
What is God’s sovereign grace? Not grace to bar what is not bliss Nor flight from all distress but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain. This...
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Here's What's Often Missing When We Speak of the Final Judgment As Being...
I agree that the final judgment is according to works. We are justified—made right with God and given a title to heaven—by faith alone apart from works. This faith, though, always and necessarily leads...
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An Open Letter to Clarence the Angel (from the Film It’s a Wonderful Life)
Dear Clarence, At the outset, please forgive me if this letter seems a bit disjointed. I’ve never written an angel before, so I’m a bit nervous! What’s the occasion of this, my very first “Angel”...
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Fear Not
And the angel said to them, ‘Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people' (Luke 2:10). The Bethlehem shepherds were afraid of the holy angel. That’s...
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God Has Exalted His Name and Word
"You have exalted above all things your name and your word." (Ps. 138:2) In the beginning was the Word And the Word was with God and the Word was God And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,...
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Anhypostasis: What Kind of Flesh Did Jesus Take?
. . . [Being] in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men . . . (Philippians...
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Deep Joy in Central Truths
Here’s a (non)point from John Piper’s 1997 Christmas sermon that encourages the pursuit of deep joy in central truths—and avoiding “the mentality for the marginal.”
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