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A Lesson for All from Newtown
Murdering a human being is an assault on God. He made us in his own image. Destroying an image usually means you hate the imaged. Murdering God’s human image-bearer is not just murder. It’s treason —...
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Wild, Free, and Wonderful: The Call of Christ in the Life of Mack Stiles
Most of us would have been scared away from the Middle East by the events of September 11, 2001. But not Mack Stiles.Not that he didn’t waver just a bit. Here’s the story.Loosening the RootsFor years...
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Jesus Understands Our Deepest Sorrow
The Lord Jesus Christ — the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, the one through whom all things were made — became human like us.I recently talked with Nancy Guthrie, author of Hearing...
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A Web Pioneer’s Wild Dream
Dear Friends,It may surprise you the way the Desiring God website began. That’s what this video is about: how one ordinary man got an extraordinary vision from God. I hope the story of Moe Bergeron...
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Keeping the Cross At the Center of Christmas
Ann Voskamp is the wife of a farmer, the busy mom of six kids, and a bestselling author. Throughout the year, Voskamp’s writings are a reminder that kindling thankfulness leads us to fellowship with...
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Joy Comes to the Rescue
Your heart matters. It really, really matters.The heart, after all, is the "noble faculty of the soul," as John Flavel explains in his 1668 publication now titled, Keeping the Heart. Most generally,...
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Clarifying Words on Wife Abuse
Several years ago, I was asked in an online Q&A, “What should a wife’s submission to her husband look like if he’s an abuser?”One of the criticisms of my answer has been that I did not mention the...
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Behind the Blog: Flavelicious
We sat down to record one more Behind the Blog before we split for Christmas. In this episode we talk about a web pioneer named Moe, and about how Puritan John Flavel's horseback encounter with the...
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Christmas in a Cold Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer awoke December 25, 1943 on a hard wooden bed. It was the first of two Christmases he would spend sequestered in a Nazi prison.This first Christmas would be celebrated in a lonely...
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Leadership Is About Responsibility and Sacrifice
"Jesus was not on a power trip when he came into the world," John Piper reminds us. "His aim was to die for his bride."Expounding Ephesians 5:25, Piper shows that if men are to be leaders like Jesus,...
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Don Carson on the Incarnation
We dare you to find a better, and shorter, summary for the doctrine of the incarnation than John 1:14: “The Word became flesh.”We grabbed Don Carson while he was in the Twin Cities earlier this month...
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A Stable of Desperation
A Christmas Reprise, A Christmas PrequelThis imaginative story, including character names, was written as a sort of prequel to John Piper’s moving story, The Innkeeper.The first Christmas night was a...
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So Where Was God?
The question is always the same. Where was God?After the initial shock and horror subsides, after the news crews go home, we’re always left with the same question: So where was he?Did he know ahead of...
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John Newton Understood Winter
It doesn't get above freezing, it's dark by 5PM, and snow is everywhere. Hello, Winter in Upper Midwest America. You are cold and long.But however cold and long, the the best way to bear Winter is to...
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The Story-Teller Who Entered In
God is an Author. This world is his story. We are his characters.I first heard of the analogy sitting in a college philosophy class, and I’ve used it ever since. I find it personally fruitful and...
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New Martyn Lloyd-Jones Apps
In the summer of 1968, between college and seminary, I read Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s Studies in the Sermon on the Mount. It was then, and is now, spiritually and theologically powerful. Lloyd-Jones was one...
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A Festivus for the Rest of Us
By now, most of us in the West are up to our necks in holiday commercialization. Far too many of us feel like we’re once again stumbling toward Christmas, exhausted and depleted by the most...
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Early Bird Deadline for Pastors Conference
A few Pastors Conference reminders:1. The early bird registration rate of $125 ends December 31 at 11:59 PM (CST). For groups of five or more we have a special rate of just $110 per person.2. Speakers...
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When You're More Blessed Than Mary
Jesus says, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" (John 19:29).What he means is that those who have never seen him in person and still believe in him are blessed.But that's not...
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The Glory of His Virgin Birth
Jesus was born of a virgin. This is a glory unique to the one God-man. Of the billions of humans who have lived throughout history, only one person entered the world in this way. There is only one...
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