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New iPhone App: Ask Pastor John
It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the release of Desiring God’s new iPhone app Ask Pastor John, now available for free in the iTunes store.Just this January, on John Piper’s 67th birthday,...
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Jerry Bridges Talks Disciplemaking
For 60 years now, he’s been with The Navigators, known for their discipling. So don’t expect Jerry Bridges to be naive about the process of disciplemaking.Recently, when Bridges joined us at the...
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The Infallible Pilot
In the fall of 1782, a 57-year-old man walked the docks of Deptford, a South London port on the Thames river. Thirty miles inland from the sea, the port was the home of the Royal Navy Dockyards, and...
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Are You Being Deceived?
Deception works by making you think that there is more joy apart from gospel-shaped community. It makes sin feel more attractive than a righteous commitment to our brothers and sisters in Christ. And...
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How Christians Prepare for Suffering
The apostle Paul suffered. Did he ever.He was imprisoned. He was beaten, often near death. He took 195 total lashes from his Jewish kinsmen on five occasions. He took three pummels with rods. He was...
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Love Is Not Irritable
Irritability isn’t that big a deal, is it?Although we’re prone to believe it’s a lesser sin, Phil Ryken explains that irritability is actually a way of hating because it is “a way of non-loving.”In his...
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Seven Things to Pray for Your Children
Some years back a good friend shared with me seven Scripture texts that he and his wife prayed for their two daughters from the time they were infants. The girls are now grown. And it’s beautiful to...
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How Do I Help My Friends Stay Satisfied in God?
Pastor John recently tweeted, “Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other stay satisfied in God.” To learn more about how this gets worked out in practice, we asked him. In...
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A Sweet Legacy I Savor—Bible Memory
As I look back over 32 years of pastoral ministry at Bethlehem one of the sweet legacies I savor is the solid place Bible memorization has in the church. I am not the only, or even the main reason for...
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Finding Your Pleasure in God’s Pleasure
A few years ago, I became so disillusioned with how the word faith gets misused today that I wanted to propose we simply drop the word altogether, and perhaps use trust instead. But as I’ve aged, I’ve...
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New Sermon: “How to Give the Bible Functional Authority in Your Speech and...
Does your speaking and writing have authority?It does if you are tapping into the authority of the Bible.John Piper recently addressed the students and apprentices at Bethlehem College and Seminary...
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One Thing You Lack
Hey you, rich young ruler…Maybe you’re old for pro football, but you’re young to the rest of the world. And rich. You’ve negotiated salary-cap-friendly deals with your team, but that still has you at a...
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A New Poem: If You’re Alive, It’s Not Too Late
Too LateAt concourse G, gate seventeen, My sweat and panting pleas That obstacles were unforeseen May have been fantasies For all they cared of where I’d been. The door was locked...
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Love to the Uttermost (Free eBook for Holy Week)
Today we launch a new devotional eBook, Love to the Uttermost: Devotional Readings for Holy Week. Beginning Palm Sunday (March 24) through Easter Sunday (March 31), we invite you to join us in focusing...
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What Is Bi-Vocational Ministry?
Bi-vocational ministry is a strategic and challenging call. Danny Ovalle, a bi-vocational pastor in New England, recently joined us to talk about the rationale and practice of serving as a pastor while...
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Lecrae on Hope When Life Is Hard
Life isn’t easy, but God gives us truth to stand on.In this video, Lecrae talks about the biblical promise he turns to the most:The biblical promise that I turn to most is that all things work together...
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Single, Satisfied, and Sent: Mission for the Not-Yet Married
If you’re single, Satan is after you.Okay, he’s after all of us, but there are some unique dangers in singleness — especially in unwanted singleness. He loves to deceive and discourage single people in...
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What Is God’s Will for My Life?
What is God’s will for my life?We all want to know the answer to that question, right? I mean, could there be a more pressing subject? We’re talking about the sovereign God of all that is, the one who...
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Why a New Student Missions Conference?
The new website for Cross has just gone live.Cross is a new student missions conference. I serve on the leadership team — along with Thabiti Anyabwile, Kevin DeYoung, David Platt, Zane Pratt, David...
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Clarifying My Words About Roman Catholic “Heresy”
A few years ago, I was asked on camera what I would say to the Pope if I had two minutes with him. I said I would ask him what he believed about justification. The video ended with me putting the...
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