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How Summertime Helps Us Pray
Memorial Day weekend is the traditional welcome into summer. Long days, outside reading, baseball, iced tea, sunshine — 'tis the season of unparalleled displays of God's common benevolence. And it's...
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Summers Are for Seeking Christ
Memorial Day is here, school is nearly done, and the days are growing longer and hotter. The firstfruits of summer have arrived. As the summer season approached in 1995, Pastor John reminded his church...
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What Sanctification Feels Like
From Ray Ortlund's excellent commentary, Proverbs: Wisdom That Works (Crossway, 2012), pages 51–52: Proverbs 2:1–22 opens a door to every one of us. We all want to grow in Christ. In this passage God...
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Hope for More Than Unconditional Love
If you only hope for unconditional love from God, your hope is great, but too small. Unconditional love from God is not the sweetest experience of his love. The sweetest experience is when his love...
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This Momentary Marriage — Case Special
In This Momentary Marriage Pastor John unpacks the biblical vision of marriage: Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God. It displays the...
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Make God Look Great. Create.
Creativity. You’ve either got it, or you don’t, right? You’re right-brained or left-brained, into art or into computer science, a painter or a mathematician. Creative folks do creative things, like...
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Truth Obeyed Will Heal
J. I. Packer: Truth obeyed, said the Puritans, will heal. The word fits, because we are all spiritually sick — sick through sin, which is a wasting and killing disease of the heart. The unconverted are...
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The Music Behind All Music
The creation surrounding us is the product of the triune God. That is incredible enough. But take one more profound step and we discover, as Pastor John explains in The Pleasures of God, that “creation...
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Kids, We Eat Food, Not Crayons, Not Boogers
One of my kids picks her nose. I don’t want to write her name here because I don’t want this information to live on the Internet forever and ruin her chances of getting into a good university. I have...
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Behind the Blog: From the Umbrian Hills of Italy
We return to the studio to look back at a few blog highlights from the last week and open with Russell Moore’s post, Fake Love, Fake War, and the story of how the post originated in a bumpy bus on an...
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The Joy of Calvinism
However the terms are refined, the main tenets of Calvinism are structured around the five-petaled acronym TULIP. But too often missing in this structure is the “sap of delight,” as Pastor John calls...
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Mommy Wars
The “Mommy Wars” have found a place in the middle of a cultural discussion, recently appearing on the cover of Time magazine and surfacing in the Mitt Romney presidential run. But the church is not...
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Sinclair Ferguson on Union with Christ
We do not know what the apostle Paul says we know. So says Sinclair Ferguson on Romans 6:6. Speaking to a gathering of pastors a couple years ago, Ferguson shared his sentiment that most people who sit...
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Joe Encouragement: Let’s Be Like Him
“Encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). His name was Joseph. But he “was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement)” (Acts 4:36). Joe...
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The Battle Is Not Cordial: Four Ways to Fight
The United States House of Representatives took a closer look at sex-selection abortion this week. It’s about time this abhorrent practice was dragged into the light. The United States has seen a rise...
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Free eBook in 4 Languages—"Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ"
In his book Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, John Piper answers the simple question "Who was Jesus?" He does this by writing chapters on what the Bible says about Jesus' deity, gladness, anguish,...
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Holy Women Who Hope in God
From John Piper's 1986 Mother's Day sermon: Women who hope in God are women who look away from the troubles and miseries and obstacles of life that seem to make the future bleak, and they focus their...
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"Change Your Clothes"
What is the first thing Jesus says to us when we enter his school? Answer: Ephesians 4 verses 22–24 (my literal translation): Put off the old person [or: old self; or: old man] which accords with the...
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Don't Empty Forgiveness of Its Meaning
God's mercy really is incomprehensible apart from God's wrath. Paul tells us, "Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come" (1 Thessalonians 1:10). And it becomes clear that if we are to know the depths...
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C. S. Lewis on Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June 1953 in London. C. S. Lewis chose not to attend the festivities because the weather was not great, because he did not like crowds, and because he was not in the...
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