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Hope for the Hurting This Christmas (Video)
Dear Friends,Have you ever wondered what became of the innkeeper in Bethlehem who let Mary and Joseph have their baby in his barn? Did he have little children? When the soldiers came from Herod, did...
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Christmas and the Sting of Personal Loss: An Interview with John Piper and...
On this episode of Authors on the Line we talk with two authors — pastor John Piper and historian Paul Maier — about tragedy, loss, and the Christmas season.We talk with Maier to discover just how...
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The Unbaked Biscuit
I’ve had this thing going lately about biscuits. It is probably due to the colder (delicious) fall air. This is the season of comfort food. But to have comfort food, there needs to be a comfort person....
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Because God Leads: The Story of Jason Meyer
"There's something I want you to pray about, Jason," his grandfather said. Now this at least got his attention. Jason's grandfather was a successful farmer in rural South Dakota, and not to mention, a...
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Daily Devotional App Now on Android
Solid Joys is the daily devotional app from the ministry of John Piper, and it is now available free for Android devices. Get it from Google Play. (It’s also available in iTunes for Apple devices).The...
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Sorrowful, Yet Always Rejoicing
I have walked this earth a short 34 years, but in that time I have experienced a wide range of various trials. As a young child my parents struggled financially resulting in the occasional electricity...
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Christmas Bloodline: Notorious Women in Jesus’s Family
Buried in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew chapter one is a gospel treasure. That treasure is five women. Their inclusion in the list is notable because it’s a patrilineal genealogy — a record of...
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When We Don't Want to Wait
Where in the world is it? I couldn't find my electric beard trimmer. I opened the sink cabinets and moved around a few bath towels. Still nothing. Innate objects don't grow legs and walk away (my...
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To Those Hurting This Christmas
I know some of you are praying you’ll make it through Christmas — just make it through — not anticipating anything good will come from gathering with extended family and friends. It has become a cliche...
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Jesus Can Be Troubling
Jesus troubles those who don't worship him. That's the situation of Matthew 2, as John Piper explains in today's Advent reading:Matthew 2:1–4, Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days...
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Erik Thoennes on the Christian and Sport
Playfulness is vital to healthy Christianity, says pastor and professor Erik Thoennes. “To be a Christian means to take God very seriously, but not ourselves.”The great source of Christian playfulness...
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Top 12 Books of 2012
For seven years I’ve had the honor of tracking books released from Christian publishers, and in that span of time I would say 2012 was the most fruitful year of them all. Recently I gathered up my...
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Eyes Wide Open to God’s Created Beauty
This morning we posted a list of my 12 favorite books from 2012. In this episode of Authors on the Line we talk with pastor Steve DeWitt, the author of my choice for the book of the year: Eyes Wide...
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The Invincible, Irrefutable Joy
When the Nazis padlocked the doors of the Confessing Church seminaries in Germany in the Autumn of 1937, Dietrich Bonhoeffer took theological training underground and opened his own seminary in...
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God's Promise for the Disappointed
Maybe you have longed for healing, for a job or for a baby or for a wife. You have faithfully and earnestly prayed for weeks and months — even years. But you are still sick, still unemployed, still...
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How to Watch ‘The Hobbit’
At long last, Bilbo Baggins is back. Whether you’re fanatic enough to dress up for the midnight showing, or patiently awaiting a weekend outing, or even content to meander into a theater after the...
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Show Them the Light in the Bleak Midwinter Night
Isaiah 9:2,The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.Where I live Christmastime is cold. Just days ago Minneapolis...
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Christmas: The Dawn of Death’s Destruction
The Apostle Paul wrote, “O death, where is your sting?” (1 Corinthians 15:55). Anyone grieving the death of someone they love deeply will say that “sting” hardly begins to describe the pain.And...
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The Glory of Being Human
Have you ever stopped to ponder how amazing it is to be alive? To be not generic or arbitrary, but a human being, a man or a woman created in the image of God?It is no trifle, John Piper explains in...
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How Does Jesus Come to Newtown?
We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize . . . but one who in every respect has been tested as we are. (Hebrews 4:15)Mass murder is why Jesus came into the world the way he did. What...
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