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20 Quotes from Date Your Wife
I recently asked Justin Buzzard how he would sum up his new book in less than ten seconds. "If you want to change a marriage, change the man," he replied, "and Jesus changes the man." Simple and...
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Finish Your Piper Collection — at Long Last
At one time, it would have cost you a pretty penny to finish off your Piper book collection. A few fanatics would pony up what it took to obtain a Cambridge-University hardback or Baker softcover of...
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A Conference Focusing on the Power of Paradoxes
This fall the Desiring God National Conference will wrestle with paradoxes. Not contradictions. Things like Philippians 2:12–13, “You work . . . for God is at work in you to will and work.” And 1...
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Our Mother Who Art In Heaven?
Returning to the "masculine feel" of Christianity discussion, it may be worthwhile to address one prominent point in the debate. While God the Father is spirit, and therefore is not a sexual being nor...
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Pastors, Politics, and the American Republic
For those reading from the States, today is Independence Day, the peak of America's summer. So in the midst of cookouts and fireworks, let's do a quick dial back to the founders. America and its...
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The Presence of the Lamb and the Sufferings of Hell
Two of the passages of Scripture that express the unending nature of hell most clearly point to seemingly opposite reasons it will be terrible. One speaks of being “away from the presence of the Lord.”...
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Fernando Ortega at Our National Conference
We're pleased to announce that Fernando Ortega will be joining us this September for our National Conference on sanctification. Fernando will lead us in an evening of worship on Friday after the main...
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The Apologetical Power of the Existence of Israel
Christianity Today's four-part dialogue between John Piper and David Brickner of Jews for Jesus is now fully published online. The topic is the relationship and attitudes American Christians should...
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Free Download of John Piper's Oldest (and Newest) Book
One addition to Crossway's republication of Love Your Enemies is a new preface from John Piper in which he explains why this book is a monument to God's mercy and faithfulness. He writes, Monuments are...
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God Is Merciful Not to Tell Us Everything
There is more mercy than we realize when God chooses not to tell us everything. When the disciples were with Jesus on the Mount of Olives just before his ascension to the Father, one of them asked a...
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Only One Life: Focus on the Text
I would not write it this way today. That is one of John Piper’s reflections almost forty years later on his 1974 dissertation, Love Your Enemies, just republished by Crossway. It has to do with how he...
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The Effects of Aging on Sanctification
In this five-minute video John Piper shares about some expected and unexpected ways that aging has worked in his experience of sanctification. John Piper, along with Kevin DeYoung, Jarvis Williams,...
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Some Foreseen Effects of Legalizing So-Called Same Sex Marriage
When I preached on the implications of the legalizing of so-called same sex marriage I said, “Pretending that [marriage] can exist between people of the same sex will send ripple effects of dysfunction...
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Overcoming the Denial of Death
I sat down on the gym floor next to a college freshman after a game of pickup basketball and struck up a conversation. We had met on the court a couple weeks before and had briefly conversed. This...
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Self, Doubt, and Writing
I used to think my self-doubt and insecurity about writing were signs of my profound humility. It felt noble and heroic to be this full of agonizing self-doubt. It felt lowly and meek to be so tortured...
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How Romans 8 Helps Trip Lee
Trip Lee explained in an interview this Spring how hip hop is a genre of music uniquely suited to wield the Word in our fight against sin. So it's no surprise that his new album is saturated with...
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Some Proven Weapons in the Fight for Holiness
When Paul says to put to death the deeds of the body “by the Spirit” (Romans 8:13), I take him to mean that we should use the one weapon in the Spirit’s armor that is used to kill. Namely, the sword....
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The Foundational Action of God
God’s action for us and in us through Christ is the foundation underneath our pursuit of practical maturity in the gospel of Jesus Christ. God’s design for us to pursue practical maturity in the gospel...
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A Clear Job Description: Date Your Wife
We recently sat down with Justin Buzzard, lead pastor of Garden City Church in Silicon Valley, to discuss his newest book, Date Your Wife. We diced up the interview into a handful of segments that...
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David Brainerd Biography (Free eBook)
In 1742 Yale College expelled David Brainerd. He had made some prohibited comments about some of the faculty and, though at the top of his class academically, Yale booted him. Add to this that in order...
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