Kevin DeYoung on the Doctrine of Scripture
[Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes] "The doctrine of Scripture is rooted in a triune God who wants to be known and knows how to be known," explains Kevin DeYoung in the latest episode of Theology...
View ArticleThe Greatest Enemy of Our Hunger for God
John Piper: Christian fasting is not only the spontaneous effect of a superior satisfaction in God; it is also a chosen weapon against every force in the world that would take that satisfaction away....
View ArticleHow I Forgot the Gospel
I forget the gospel. It’s one of the most maddening things about living with a truth-distorting sin nature. Let me give you a recent example. A few weeks ago I said to my wife, “I’m feeling gospel...
View ArticleDon't Discount Them Like the Culture Does
It speaks volumes when a pastor addresses the reality of disability with biblical authority. In this 3-minute video, John Knight, father of a child with multiple disabilities, explains how "The Works...
View ArticlePiper and Edwards On Election (the Presidential One, I Mean)
The 57th U.S. presidential election is bearing down hard on us. Well-funded propaganda warships are shelling us from every media outlet. Dire consequences are prophesied if the wrong vision for America...
View ArticleDon’t Hide God’s Word from the Little Ones
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. –Luke 17:2 It may long be remembered as the...
View ArticleSports in the Age to Come
Will there be touchdowns in the new creation? Grand-slam homeruns? Three-pointers at the buzzer? When heaven comes down to earth (Revelation 21:1–2), we shouldn’t expect anything less. Or, to really...
View ArticleGod Is More Relentless Than Disability
John Knight says that churches need pastors who love the word of God. That's one central aim of the upcoming disability conference November 8. In this short video, John challenges pastors to set forth...
View ArticleGo to Church Starved for God
How should we arrive at our church gathering today? Starved for God, John Piper says in this 2-minute clip from his most recent sermon on Christian Hedonism: This excerpt was taken from the recent...
View ArticleThe Deeper You Walk, the Hungrier You Get
John Piper: When you take your stand on the finished work of God in Christ, and begin to drink at the River of Life and eat the Bread of Heaven, and know that you have found the end of all your...
View ArticleBrothers, We Are Not Professors
It has been said by one great Reformed theologian that we are living in the most anti-intellectual age in the church’s history. We are the TV generation, making way for the Internet generation. Images...
View ArticleWhy God Is Not Vain to Seek Praise
In his recent sermon on Christian Hedonism, Pastor John recounts the day he first discovered C. S. Lewis’s answer to the dilemma of why God, in demanding that he be praised, "was not like an old vain...
View ArticleThe Grunt Work of the Gospel
"I am concerned," writes David Platt, "about a general vagueness that has existed in contemporary Christianity regarding the next step..." We have seen that God blesses us so that his glory might be...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Special Season of Seminary
My seminary education was unbelievably special. It was a unique and weighty privilege to give myself for a season to the intense, disciplined, and uninterrupted study of God in his word. I graduated...
View ArticleHow the Battle Against Evil Is Transformed
Joy changes everything, including our battle against evil. John Piper explains in this two-minute video: Christian Hedonism changes our combat with evil. Jeremiah 2:13 — the Christian Hedonist...
View ArticleDelighting in the Trinity
In this second episode of the Authors on the Line podcast I talk with author, theologian, and historian Michael Reeves about his new book Delighting in the Trinity (IVP, 2012). We discuss the nature of...
View ArticleThe Great Story and the Single Verse
In my neck of the Christian woods, words like narrative, meta-narrative, story, storyline, biblical theology, and big picture abound. I would like to sound a note that may encourage some who, like me,...
View ArticleTiger Mom, Brave Mom, or Desperate Mom?
Any woman who willingly delivers her baby in a harsh and dilapidated hospital in Djibouti is a brave mom. That was Rachel Pieh Jones’s experience on the fourth anniversary of 9/11 when she delivered...
View ArticleA Big-Leaguer Who Learned to Lean on God
As the Giants and Tigers take the field tonight for Game One of the World Series, the Minnesota Twins sit comfortably at home after a disappointing 96-loss summer. While it was a bleak season for the...
View ArticleGlory Dust
We are inextricably embedded in this world, in the material world. The wind scrapes our faces as much as the branches of low hanging trees. Words and images ricochet through space and time like chisels...
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