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Future Grace Seminar Recordings and Slides
The video and audio recordings, along with Pastor John’s 94-page slide presentation, are now online from the recent seminar on Future Grace. Here are the links: Session 1 Session 2 Slides (PDF...
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Dum Dums
My bank teller must be a dad. Every time I go to the bank, he gives my children the exact same colored lollipops. I’ve never asked him to do this, but, without fail, he digs through the lollipop basket...
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This Week's Sermon: "I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life"
Don't let your hearts be troubled. That's the main point of John 14:1–11. Where we live, how we feel — Jesus steps in on the most practical level and targets our common struggle. He intends to overcome...
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John Piper's Chapel Message on Romans 8:32
Romans 8:32, He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? "Of all the passages of the Bible that are designed as solid...
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Our Tears Are Being Undone
Tears sum up everything gone wrong in this fallen world. Grief, frustration, pain, disappointment, loss, stress, tragedy, disaster, regret, mourning, depression, lament, brokenness, abandonment — all...
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Easter Outreach Tools — Tell People Why Jesus Died
It's not enough to know that Jesus died on the cross and rose again on Easter morning. People need to know why. To help you reach out to your community this Easter, we are making cases (48 books) of...
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Keeping Home Priorities In View
Bible scholar Don Carson cautions us about parental hypocrisy by recalling the enduring impact of his parents’ prayerful example: My father was a church planter in Québec, in the difficult years when...
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Minimizing Comforts for Maximizing Joy
As Pastor John explains, the call to risk for the unreached peoples of the world is not a call to lesser joy.
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Update on John Piper’s Transition
Bethlehem Baptist is one step closer to commissioning John Piper from the local church pastorate to greater involvement with Bethlehem College and Seminary and to a wider ministry nationally and...
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Live Tonight: An Evening with Piper and Keller
This evening John Piper and Tim Keller will team up in New York City for a conversation about the gospel and race, moderated by Anthony Bradley. Watch the Live-Stream The event will be live-streamed...
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Walking in the Spirit During Transition
Sharing at a recent devotion with Desiring God staff, Pastor John applies seven arguments from Paul in 1 Corinthians 3 to his transition at Bethlehem Baptist.
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Reading as A Lifetime Vocation
Fresh into his new post at Bethel College in the fall of 1974, Professor John wrote an article to explain the lifelong value of solid reading habits. Teach a man to fish and he can learn from the...
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When the Angel Didn't Come
Luke says it so quickly, so matter-of-factly: “[Herod] killed James the brother of John with the sword” (Acts 12:2). In the flow of the story this little phrase sets the stage for Peter’s dramatic...
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The Mega Millions Lottery Is a Suicidal Craze
Tonight a ticket will be chosen worth over half a billion dollars. Lottery agents in New York were selling 1.3 million Mega Millions tickets per hour Thursday. Officials were expecting to sell about...
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Communion with God: What, Why, How?
"Communion" is a good word. What do you think when you hear it? Maybe an ordinance of the church? Perhaps an archaic way saying relationship? Or even some mystical ambiguity connected to transcendence?...
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Sixth Sunday of Lent
Lenten Lights is a series of devotional readings leading up to Easter. A brief introduction to the series can be read here. Sixth Sunday of Lent (if reading weekly) or Thursday before Easter (if...
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This Week's Sermon: "I Planted, Apollos Watered, But God Gave the Growth"
Bethlehem Baptist Church is in the midst of an historic moment. As John Piper exits as the Pastor for Preaching and Vision, and Jason Meyer enters, 1 Corinthians 3 is a timely word on human leadership...
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Doug Wilson on How to Stay Christian in Seminary
Wilson gives two exhortations: first, knowledge about God is not the same thing as knowing God. And second, love your neighbor, by which he means your wife and your children. Tweets "Stuffing your...
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Darrin Patrick on How to Stay Christian in Seminary
Darrin Patrick shares some advice on how he was helped to grow in grace during seminary: Gather with the church for worship and prayer. Fight for time in the Bible that has nothing to do with class....
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John Piper on How to Stay Christian in Seminary
John Piper gives three answers to how to stay Christian in seminary: Choose professors who are passionate about God and his word. In all your studies ask "so what?" (at least to yourself). Pray with...
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