Clik here to view.
Jerry Rankin on Spiritual Warfare in the Global Mission
This is the second question and answer post with Jerry Rankin (read the first). You have written directly on the subject of spiritual warfare. What led you to focus so much on this important topic,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Help Us Serve French-Speaking Africa
At this year’s Conference for Pastors, our bookstore will contain over 8,000 titles—more resources than any pastor or church member would ever need. In the meantime, across the Atlantic, the vast...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Should the Church Work on Social and Political Problems?
Yes . . . If you mean: Ten million Christians should take 10 hours a week spent watching TV, and give that time to worthy social and political engagement. No . . . If you mean: The pastors should leave...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy Birthday, Pastor John!
Today is John Piper’s 65th birthday. Join us in blessing a man for whom retirement from the kingdom work is not on the horizon! Pastor John, in honor of your birthday the DG staff has compiled 65...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name
This week's sermon: "Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name" It is amazing that our Father in heaven cares about our ordinary and everyday lives. His own Son taught us to pray for the small things,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jerry Rankin on the Sovereignty of God and the Gospel Mission
This is our third question and answer post with Jerry Rankin (read the first and second). How important do you understand God’s sovereignty in salvation to be for the mission of the gospel? How are the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Consider Loving Someone into Lovability
One of the most transforming forces in our lives is being regarded as better than we are. There is something profound and paradoxical about the way God creates godly people by first justifying the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Francis Chan on Our Upcoming Conference for Pastors
This is the first post in a question and answer series with Francis Chan. You were with us at the National Conference in October and gave a powerful message. Could you share a little about how you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Piper's Invitation: "Brothers, Come Pray with Us"
Important details about the 2011 Conference for Pastors Speakers include: Joel Beeke, Francis Chan, Paul Miller, Jerry Rankin, and John Piper Register for the Pre-conference seminar with Mark Dever:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One Year Later: God's Word and Work in Haiti
A year ago today a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the small Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing an estimated 230,000 people, injuring 300,000 more, and leaving roughly 1,000,000 people homeless. In a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Responsible Are We When the World Rejects Our Message?
It is a humble impulse to feel that our weak effect on people is our own fault. And it may often be true. There are character traits in speakers that God uses to overcome resistance in hearers (Acts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
"Where Is Your Faith?"
Why did Jesus still the storm? Imagine what the disciples might have been thinking a half-hour later. * * * The sea was quiet now. And there was just breeze enough to push the boat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Francis Chan on His Recent Experience in Asia
This is the second post in a question and answer series with Francis Chan (read the first). For the end of 2010 you and your family sort of unplugged and spent a couple of months serving in Asia. Could...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Piper Writes Biographical Messages
Register now for the 2011 Conference for Pastors on The Powerful Life of the Praying Pastor.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can We See Jesus Better Than the Saints in the Bible?
Jesus speaks of three ways of seeing himself, each better than the one before. There were the people who saw him, the incarnate Son of God, and did not see the self-authenticating reality of his divine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Crude Monosyllable
C.S. Lewis from “Learning in Wartime”— [T]o a Christian the true tragedy of Nero must be not that he fiddled while the city was on fire but that he fiddled on the brink of hell. You must forgive me for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Francis Chan on Celebrity Status and the Holy Spirit
This is the third post in a question and answer series with Francis Chan (read the first and second). Jesus has always blessed his Church with gifted teachers. Unique to our day is the increased...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Help Us Serve French-Speaking Africa: More Info
Earlier this week we announced our next Text-to-Give project to serve French-speaking pastors and leaders in Africa. As we promised, here are some more details about the project. Background SIM...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Emergence of Legal Christian Publishing in China
This article first appeared in the January 2011 issue of The Banner of Truth Magazine. Reprinted here by permission. One of the more remarkable facts about the history of the church is that some of its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ice-Cold at the End of the Age—And White-Hot
I am a historic, premillennial, post-tribulational, evangelical Christian who thinks it is possible that, when Jesus appears visibly and bodily on the clouds to establish his earthly kingdom, the Twin...
View Article