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An Opportunity to Build into the Men of Your Church
Our 2012 Conference for Pastors (Jan 30 to Feb 1) is quickly approaching. Senior pastors, given the theme of this year's conference, consider using this as an opportunity to build into the lay leaders...
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Ten Ways to Bring the Gospel Home This Christmas
Tis' the most wonderful time of the year . . . and it's a unique opportunity to give the good news of Jesus to your unbelieving family. Randy Newman's book, Bringing the Gospel Home, is a resource...
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Our Weakness Is No Stranger
There are trillions of ways that Jesus is not like us. The Nicene Creed is only a sketch of what this looks like. These ways are vast — far more vast than what we're able to say. Jesus Is Different...
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Sent into the World: Jesus' Mission and Ours
A danger lurks in our endeavors to live incarnationally. Danger, yes, but not deterrent. It is a risk worth taking, though not treating lightly. The danger is that we can subtly begin to key on...
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Why Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Matters
John Piper and Darrin Patrick recently discussed the Bible's teaching on biblical manhood and womanhood. In this ten-minute video they share about their journey to embrace biblical complementarity and...
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A Poem on Our 43rd Wedding Anniversary
Sometimes I write poems for our anniversary. Sometimes on our anniversary. This one I wrote on our anniversary, December 21st. It addresses the question of where in this baffling, unknown, fragile...
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Reflections on Fruit Bearing
In this one-minute video, Pastor John reflects on John 12:24, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."...
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Blessed Is She Who Believed
Mary was “blessed among women” (Luke 1:42). She received the singular holy gift of being the mother of our Lord (Luke 1:43). God the Son dwelled inside of her body in human form. Then he lived in her...
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Free Audio Book through December 31
Beginning today through December 31 Christian Audio is giving away the free audio book of John Piper's When I Don't Desire God. Four easy steps to get the book: Go to the book's link at Christian Audio...
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The Woe of Sojourning Here
A Song of Ascents . . . Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! (Psalms 120:5) The first "Song of Ascents" tells us Israel is in exile. Glance through the...
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We Three Kings of Orient Aren’t
Behold, magi from the east came to Jerusalem . . . (Matthew 2:1) Matthew says "behold" to make sure he has our attention. He knows how prone we are to fall asleep while we're reading. "Wake up. Make...
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What He Secured Wasn't Sympathy, But Immunity
Jesus is able to sympathize with our weaknesses. He's a Savior who knows what it's like to be human, to live in a fallen world, to experience temptation. And better news than our exemplar, Jesus was...
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How We Get from Exile to a Restored Jerusalem
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord . . . (Psalm 127:3) So Israel is in exile, but there is hope. Our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us...
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Go to the House of Feasting Tomorrow
Charles Spurgeon on December 24, 1854: Feast, Christians, feast; you have a right to feast. Go to the house of feasting to-morrow, celebrate your Saviour’s birth; do not be ashamed to be glad; you have...
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That Crazy Star of Bethlehem
Behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. (Matthew 2:9) The star moved. Really? This is already the second time in this...
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Why Christmas Morning Was a Trajectory
Kenōsis is the Greek word in Philippians 2:7 translated "made nothing" (ESV). It's what Jesus did to himself — "he made himself nothing . . ." Donald Macleod writes, In becoming incarnate God not only...
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A Promise, a Manger, and a City with No Need for the Sun
A Song of Ascents There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed. (Psalm 132:17) Psalm 132 is the longest and clearest of the Songs of Ascents. As we've seen in...
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What to Do If You Wake Up Feeling Fragile
There are mornings when I wake up feeling fragile. Vulnerable. It’s often vague. No single threat. No one weakness. Just an amorphous sense that something is going to go wrong and I will be...
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Catalyst Interview with John Piper
John Piper was recently interviewed for the Catalyst podcast on race and the gospel, what it means to enjoy God, and lessons on leadership. The discussion with Pastor John starts at the 15:40 mark. A...
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The Power of the Web to Reach People
With the world's population just crossing the seven billion mark, Pastor John talks about the amazing power of the web to reach people everywhere with the truth of the gospel and Christian hedonism:...
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