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Five Promises for Your Bible Reading and Prayer
Do you consistently seek God in the word and prayer? Or have you tried again and again, become discouraged, and given up? We are deep enough into January that this is the story for many us. Resolutions...
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The Compelling and Costly Grace of God
For all eternity, God’s people will marvel at the splendor of his grace. Ephesians 1 tells us three times, in one long sentence, that God does all he does “to the praise of his glory” (verses 6, 12,...
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The Seedbed of Big-God Preaching
In December, 1744, Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon foreshadowing The End for Which God Created the World, which he completed eleven years later, three years before he died. It’s title was...
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Am I Scared of God’s Goodness?
It’s kind of a hard question to ask. We know from the Bible that suffering plays an important role in the life of believers. We have even walked close with friends who have experienced intense pain....
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“Pilgrim’s Conflict with Sloth” (Video)
The poem I’m about to read is called “Pilgrim’s Conflict with Sloth.” It brings together three things that I am facing and loving: one is poetry, another is work, and another is this transition in my...
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Glory in the Mundane
God is big enough to make our most menial of tasks into something meaningful. He’s transcendent enough — and draws near enough to us — to make the mundane in our lives significant for his glory.As a...
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When Delight Means Doxology
But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!"David's prayer in Psalm 40:16 can absolutely change your life. At...
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Piper on Prophecy and Tongues
The Christian ministry is irreducibly supernatural. Even centrally supernatural.Desiring God’s 2013 Pastors Conference is fast approaching. On February 4–6, we’ll gather in downtown Minneapolis under...
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I Will Not Let You Go Unless You Bless Me
Is there a fear staring you in the face right now? Are you finding your faith in God’s promise shaking? If so, you are likely praying desperately for God to be with you. God will answer you. But you...
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Piper on Healing and Exorcism
What is the gift of healing? And are there “healers” today?The apostle Paul lists healing among the spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12, but has anything significant changed between then and now?What...
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Behind the Blog: Sorting Things Out
[Subscribe to Behind the Blog on iTunes]Kicking off the first episode this year, we talk Passion, podcasts, and prayer.Earlier this month John Piper spoke to over 60,000 college students in Atlanta. He...
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Ask Pastor John Podcast Relaunch
A week ago, John Piper celebrated his 67th birthday. On his birthday, we asked him about his prayer for this new chapter of ministry.“I really do feel remarkably vulnerable to distraction because of...
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Raise Your Hand If You Agree
I have no good memories of third-grade math. To be honest, I don’t remember most of my elementary school days, but math in Mrs. Smith’s classroom is strangely familiar. Maybe it is because that’s where...
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MLK’s Dream and the Nightmare of Black Genocide
Black genocide.That’s Clenard Childress’s term for abortion in America and its pervasive effects in the last generation, especially in the Black community. The statistics are outrageous. One in four...
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Martin Luther King Changed My World, and I Am Thankful
The racial world I grew up in and the one we live in today are amazingly different. Racism remains in many forms in America and around the world. But in the days of my youth the segregation was almost...
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Presidential Inaugurations and the Providence of God
At his second inauguration, Abraham Lincoln stood before a nation in civil war, deeply divided over great moral and political issues. Citizens of both North and South feared God and thought they were...
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We Know They Are Killing Children—All of Us Know
One biblical principle of justice is that the more knowledge we have that our action is wrong, the more guilty we are, and the more deserving of punishment (Luke 12:47–48). The point of this blog post...
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A Poem for the Crying, Coming Children (Video)
Here on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, many of us are mourning the loss of 50 million babies to legal abortion in the United States since 1973. To help the mourners, and to give hope in Jesus,...
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Marriage in the Cosmic Plan of God
How easy is it to detach our marriages from the finished work of Christ? Very easy.Tragically easy.This may be due to living in a society where marriage is ever pressed into molds defined by the...
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A Wife’s Submission in the Cosmic Plan of Christ
“I believe wives should be submissive to their husbands. And so do you. See? We’re the same.” My neighbor was mistaken.Her argument is quite common. Living overseas, we often hear people drawing the...
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