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"Old, Settled, and Reformed" Is Coming at You Like a Freight Train
Because evangelicals have not seen real revival for over a century (e.g. like the Welsh revival of 1905), as a result we have been slow to recognize our active cultivation of an ongoing culture of...
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Helping Finish the Mission Through Radio
One way the gospel is spreading across borders this day and age is through the work of ministries like TWR (Trans World Radio). As their full name implies, TWR focuses on using radio waves (and other...
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John Piper Interviews Greg Livingstone and David Sitton
Pastor John sat down with Greg Livingstone and David Sitton at our recent National Conference for an hour-long interview. Two reasons to watch this: 1) It's a delight to hear people talk who "do not...
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I Want to Be More Like My Disabled Son
Several months ago my son badly bruised his heel while having a seizure. As he walked around the house before school, it was a pattern of grimace, smile, grimace, smile, grimace, smile, grimace, smile....
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Thank you, Brazil!
This is a photoblog to say thank you publicly to some of the friends we made in Brazil last week. October 3-9 Noël and I, with Bob and Gayle Glenn and Bill and Cindi Walsh, flew to Sao Paulo. Over...
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One of My Teachers Has Died
Arthur Holmes was one of two philosophy teachers (the other was Stuart Hackett) who had a significant influence in shaping my mind at Wheaton College. I thank God for him. I wrote in The Pastor as...
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Stories are Soul Food: Don't Let Your Children Hunger
My children have heard a lot of stories. Some have been made up on the fly (The Wilson Kid Adventures), some have involved hobbits, some apostles, some dwarves, and some have involved men caught up in...
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Paul Miller on the Doctrine of Prayer
Lloyd-Jones writes, Prayer should be going on throughout the day. Prayer need not of necessity be long; it can be brief, just an ejaculation at times is a true prayer. That is, surely. what the Apostle...
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The Day of Your Deliverance Is Decreed
She hobbled into the synagogue to hear the healing rabbi. Hoping against hope. You see, she “had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself”...
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The Bishop of Liverpool, J. C. Ryle
Since our first Conference for Pastors in 1988, Pastor John has given a biographical study of a great hero of the faith—"men of whom the world is not worthy." This year Pastor John will focus on J. C....
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Now Available: Interview with Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert
"What am I doing here?" — have you ever thought that before? We're not asking about purpose with this one. We want to know what we're supposed to be doing (in light of our purpose as the praise of the...
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The Dynamics of Faith and Receiving from God
Jeremiah Burroughs: All good is in God, true, but how shall we come to partake of that good? There is such a distance between you and God that, were not Christ in the middle, you would never come...
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J. C. Ryle's Charge to Parents
From The Duties of Parents — Fathers and mothers, I charge you solemnly before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, take every pains to train your children in the way they should go. I charge you not merely...
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"Neither Boys Nor Men" — Our Calling in This Cultural Crisis
In a recent CNN article, William J. Bennet describes the pathetic situation of men in the United States. Addressing the church, Darrin Patrick writes: We live in a world full of males who have...
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Gravity and Gladness in Corporate Worship — Free Seminar, November 11-12 in...
Pastor John introduces the next Desiring God Seminar, being held in Minneapolis on November 11-12: Details Bethlehem Baptist Church 720 13th Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55415 Day 1 Friday, November 11 7:00 -...
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The More You Love, the More You Hate
John Murray: If there is still sin to any degree in one who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, then there is tension, yes, contradiction, within the heart of that person. Indeed, the more sanctified the...
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Why Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation?
John Piper: The reason God decreed that the gospel would obtain people from every tribe and people and nation is that the aim of the gospel is the glorification of his grace and this ingathering of...
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Seven Things the Bible Says About Evil
How can we reconcile God's sweeping control over creation with the existence of such horrors as cancer, famine, genocide, sexual abuse, tsunamis, and terrorism? Voltaire sums up the issue nicely in his...
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Masculinity Is the Glad Assumption of Responsibility
Doug Wilson will address the topic of "father hunger" and what that means for leadership in the family and the church at our 2012 Conference for Pastors (Jan 30 - Feb 1). Registration is now open....
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How to Glorify God in Your Decision-Making
In the fall of 1974 John Piper stepped into a classroom at Bethel College to teach New Testament as a one-year sabbatical replacement. Over the next six years he followed the calling to be a professor:...
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