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Are You Content with Weaknesses?
Every day, as we seek to follow Jesus, we deal with incessant weaknesses in our bodies, emotions, relationships, families, vocations, and churches. We are “beset with weakness” (Hebrews 5:2). And they...
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Knowledge Doesn’t Mean Maturity
Our heads learn faster than our hearts, and that means danger.Just because you can communicate an idea does not mean you have submitted yourself to it. And if we are not careful, we will mistake the...
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Why Expand ‘Brothers, We Are Not Professionals’
The bread and butter of Christian ministry is supernatural.It’s been a decade since John Piper made his plea to fellow pastors, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals. Ten years later, he stands by that...
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More Than Month-Long
February is Black History month. In 1976 the United States government officially acknowledged this month as an annual celebration of noted Black historians, scholars, educators, and publishers. School...
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Safety Is a Myth
Recently Pastor John released his short book Risk Is Right, a significantly expanded version of a chapter originally published in Don't Waste Your Life. In Risk Is Right, Pastor John claims the...
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Watch Out or the Devil’s Gonna Get You
In rural America, off a country road, on the soft soil of a weathered field, stands a sobering message for every passer-by: Go to church or the devil will get you!The words are neatly strewn across a...
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7 Book Recommendations for Pastors
1. Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry2. Jonathan Edwards, End for Which God Created the World3. David Daniell, William Tyndale4. Joel Beeke, A Puritan Theology5. Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My...
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Day 1: Welcome and Prayer
Live-Stream ScheduleWatch the live-stream at www.desiringGod.org/live, beginning at 2:30 PM EST today.Updates on the conference will be available through Desiring God’s Facebook page and Twitter...
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Day 2: Schedule and Prayer
Live-Stream Schedule: Tuesday, February 5Watch the live-stream at www.desiringGod.org/live.Updates on the conference will be available through Desiring God's Facebook page and Twitter account (hashtag...
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Day 3: Schedule and Prayer
Live-Stream Schedule: Wednesday, February 6Watch the live-stream at www.desiringGod.org/live.Updates on the conference will be available through Desiring God’s Facebook page and Twitter account...
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Discerning Good and Evil in a Complicated World
The doctrine of the Christian life — also known as ethics — is about Christian wisdom.It is not about merely having the proper answers to a list of tricky moral questions, but discerning between good...
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He Wants Your Heart: A Word to Church Planting Wives
When God called my husband and me to plant a church, I said yes. My yes to church planting echoed the vow I made on my wedding day, that I would support my husband in any ministry God might give him....
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Dispel the Loveless Nightmare
Darwinian theorists say that our obsessive selfishness is programmed into our genes. No disagreement there. We know that. The Bible describes the effects of the fall as pervading everything. This would...
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Audio and Video from the 2013 Conference for Pastors
Minnesota is not the first place most people would choose to visit in February. But you wouldn’t have guessed it this past Monday to Wednesday in the warm confines of the Minneapolis Convention Center....
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When the Light Comes On
My oldest daughter isn’t sleeping well. It’s the dark. From fear of what might be under her bed, to who might be looking through her window, she has her reasons for preferring the lights on.In fact,...
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Christian Hedonism and the Challenge of Depression
It was another full week in the Ask Pastor John podcast series, and we covered a few of the more difficult questions of Christian Hedonism.First, we asked Pastor John whether there are times in the...
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Fill in the Cracks of Your Life with Black History This Month
Of course Black History is worthy of the chunks of your life as well as the cracks. But I’m laying claim to the unused parts of dressing, and brushing your teeth and driving and walking.I am listening...
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The End of Theology
The Bible is amazing. God has spoken to us in a book — a glorious story about his glory and grace centered on the God-man, Jesus Christ. But the life he saves us to — our life in Christ — plays out in...
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What We Need More Than Anything
Our fundamental problem is that we’re sinners. But our fundamental problem doesn’t mean it is our most severe.In John 4, Jesus and his disciples traveled through Samaria. They came to a town called...
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Sow Seeds of Immeasurable Gospel Moments
Years ago John Piper said something about reading that I have found to be spot on:It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful...
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