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Piper's Encouragement to Those Learning a Second Language
Risk is right, but it's also hard — or at least it is when it involves learning a second language. Many Christians who have answered a compelling call to the nations soon find themselves in a perpetual...
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Two Big Questions for Good Bible Reading
Good Bible reading is about meaning and application. We come to the Bible asking two questions: first, what does this text say? And second, what does it mean for me right now?What It MeansWe ask the...
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Seminar Notes on "A Hunger for God"
Thanks to everyone who joined us for this weekend's seminar on A Hunger for God. The notes from Pastor John are now available (PDF) and the full audio and video will be added to the site soon.
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Be Stressed Out and Do Not Sin
I love the Book of Psalms. As authoritative models of prayer and worship, we return to them often for help (When we don't know how to pray as we ought, the Spirit intercedes for us... and read some...
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Why God Created Us
Watch on Vimeo or see related sermons:"God Created Us for His Glory" (1980)"Is God for Us or for Himself?" (1984)"The Joyful Purpose of God" (1989)"All Things Are from God, Through God, and to God. The...
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Christian Leadership: An Interview with Dr. Albert Mohler
In the new episode of the Authors on the Line podcast, we put Dr. Albert Mohler on the line to discuss Christian leadership in the secular world and to talk about his new book, The Conviction to Lead:...
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You Are Valuable and I Love You
I was recently looking over The New York Times when I stumbled onto an article they recommended: British Conservatives Play the Abortion Card. And there it was. A health secretary wanted to reduce the...
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Our Failure to Live Up
Watch on Vimeo or see related sermons:"The Emergence of Sin and Misery" (1981)"Why We Need a Savior: Dead in Sins" (1995)"The First Dark Exchange: Idolatry" (1998)"Subjected to Futility in Hope, Part...
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R W Glenn on the Fatherhood of God
Do you know what it means that God is your Father?R W Glenn believes that many Christians miss out on experiencing the wonderful reality that we are truly loved. Because of Jesus, God's wrath toward us...
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This Week's Sermon: "The Sovereignty of God: 'My Counsel Shall Stand, and I...
Sermons like these face us with a crucial question: Will we praise God's power and bow in glad submission or will we resist God's power and shake our fists? God is sovereign over all things. Not a...
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Jesus Came into the World
Watch on Vimeo or see related sermons:"But God..." (1985)"There Is Salvation in No One Else" (1991)"God's Good News Concerning His Son" (1998)"The Gospel Is the Power of God unto Salvation" (1998)"God...
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Brothers, Train Up the Next Generation
I find there is a persistent temptation in my life and ministry. It is the temptation to just finish my own race faithfully. “What’s wrong with that?” you ask. It actually sounds fairly biblical,...
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How the Rescued Life Looks
Watch on Vimeo or see related sermons:"How to Do Good So That God Gets the Glory" (1980)"God Works for Those Who Wait for Him" (1982)"Without Faith it is Impossible to Please God" (1997)"Slaves to God,...
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Remember What’s Really Going On: Jesus Is Gathering His Sheep
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. (John 10:16)Jesus Christ is hard at work gathering the...
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The Consummation of All Things
Watch on Vimeo or see related sermons:"Hallowed Be Thy Name: In All the Earth" (1984)"Christ: The Lion and the Lamb" (1986)"Our Hope: The Appearing of Jesus Christ" (1986)"Glorification: Conformed to...
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John the Baptist's Doubt
Are you struggling with doubts in the middle of painful circumstances? So did John the Baptist. As he sat in Herod Antipas’s prison waiting likely execution, he was afflicted with doubts about...
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The Majestically Impassible Passion of God
From Rob Lister’s forthcoming book, God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion (Crossway; Nov. 30), pages 255–256:In the aftermath of the fall, we do not hate sin as we...
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Enjoy God (with Puritan Help)
We don’t often talk about our daily enjoyment of God with our friends — a deficiency J. I. Packer picked up some years ago when he compared this trend to the Puritan age:Communion with God was a great...
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Light for a Dark World: The Story of Tope Koleoso
His plans were frustrated again by a lousy generator. No matter how many times he pulled the rope, it would not start up. He was used to his rented generators stopping intermittently during his...
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Brothers, We Are Not Sisters
To say that one thing is not another thing is not to register a complaint against either.To say that the sun is not the moon is not to criticize the moon, and to say that the land is not the sea is not...
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