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Marriage on the Cosmic Stage
Christian marriage has been caught up into the cosmic drama of the gospel. In this first Authors on the Line podcast of 2013 we talk with Bible scholar G. K. Beale, the Professor of New Testament and...
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It Is Time for a Personal Revolution
Bible prophecy is the key, John Piper explains in the 1980 sermon, “All the Prophets Proclaimed These Days.” The text is Acts 3:17–26. Peter is preaching his first sermon since Pentecost to a crowd of...
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Retreat or Risk?
Retreat or risk?Throughout redemptive history, that question has confronted God's people. As John Piper references in the pages of the new book Risk Is Right (Crossway, 2013), it was the decision...
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What Matters Most to God
Infinitely more important than what matters to any Secretary of State is what matters to God.For decades, John Piper has traveled the country, and written book after book, saying that God what matters...
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What Love for God Looks Like
The greatest commandment is to love God (Matthew 22:36–37). But what that looks like can shock us, as it did Simon in Luke 7:36–50.He had the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 54:5) in his house, reclining at...
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Plentiful December, Faithful God, Promising Future
God did it again...One of the promises we turn to often at Desiring God is Philippians 4:19 – “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” We think we...
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Am I Willing?
Unpacking in our new home in a new state far from our families, I opened a box marked Fragile in big black letters. Inside, buried under bubble wrap, I found my framed wedding vows. While I searched...
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Why the Good News Turns Bad Without Adam
Picture the scene: George Whitefield has just been preaching. Everywhere, eyes are shining and people are talking of the wonderful grace of Christ. Thousands of hearts have been overthrown and melted;...
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Ask Pastor John Podcast Update
We released eight new episodes of the newly relaunched Ask Pastor John (APJ) podcast this week. And in episode 13 — “The Essential Warfare for Holiness” — we talked with Pastor John about the...
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13 Reasons Christians Don’t Have to Be Afraid
Fear is like the monster under my kids’ beds — it’s power is fueled not by what’s really there, but by what might be, what we imagine could be. Fear is a hollow darkness in the future that reaches back...
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Thanking God for a Courageous Missionary
John G. Paton believed in doing missions when dying is gain. The 19th century Scottish missionary to the New Hebrides, a chain of islands in the South Pacific, was no stranger to suffering. Soon after...
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Business As Ministry
Anyone working in a “secular” job will be tempted to think of work as less significant or less God honoring than that of, say, a pastor. I have struggled here, and over the years I have met many others...
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How John Piper Responds to Death Threats
Everyday gospel ministry requires courage. Whether it’s the courage to keep going when insulted, or honestly repent when you’ve been wrong, or not cave when threatened physically, public Christian...
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Getting Oriented on the Gifts of the Spirit
As you board the spiritual-gifts roller coaster, you know that some are committed to having their hands in the air, while others very intentionally keep them tucked away under the safety harness. But...
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Enjoying God’s Beatific Beauty
“How good is God,” wrote Jonathan Edwards, “that he has created man for this very end, to make him happy in the enjoyment of himself, the Almighty, who was happy from the days of eternity in himself …...
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Where Is Your Identity?
Stop looking at yourself in carnival mirrors. This is one plea from Paul Tripp’s new book, Dangerous Calling. Carnival mirrors give us a distortion of who we really are, and they’re everywhere we...
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We Are Wives of the Resurrection
I find it helpful to think in paradigms, particularly in terms of the biblical sequence creation-fall-redemption-recreation. The glorious vision of the recreation of marriage under and in Christ has...
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Grace for Monotonous Work
I love creative work, and in my world that translates into strategic planning, designing products, and kickstarting new and exciting initiatives. I find work energizing and intellectually...
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Future Grace: April Conference in South Florida
Miami metro, here we come. On April 5–6, 2013, we will gather, God willing, at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, for a Desiring God Regional Conference under the bannerFuture Grace:...
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Brothers, We Are Not Witchdoctors
We are not, in ourselves, the vehicle of God’s grace and kingdom-building. Making this mistake will eventually lead us to fatigue, even despair, says Russell Moore.Commemorating the release of John...
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