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Jesus Is Turning Your Shame into a Showcase of His Grace
You know that part of you that you really\ want others not to see — that stubborn weakness, humiliating failure, embarrassing illness, horrible past event, or present struggle with sin? There’s very...
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What to Do When You Can’t See Straight
Some mornings when I wake up I can’t see straight. This doesn’t have anything to do with my glasses or contact lens.I yawn, stretch, and shuffle into the kitchen for some coffee. By the time my bare...
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The Day God Disciplined John Piper with a Kiss
I know God disciplines me, because the Bible tells me so, but how do I know when I am personally experiencing God’s discipline for my sin?This question surfaced this week on the Ask Pastor John...
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The Mission of Saint Patrick
Don’t forget to wear your green tomorrow. It’s Saint Patrick’s Day.Before thumbing your nose at all the carousing and empty revelry that much of the day has become, it’s worth taking at least a brief...
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Dude, Watch Your Jargon
Here we go again.Have you ever thought that at the beginning of a story you’ve heard several times before? Once the person starts talking you know exactly where they’re going. You’ve heard it before....
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9 Reasons You Can Face Anything
God’s sovereignty is a precious reality.Now chances are this truth didn’t seem too precious when it first confronted you. The natural, fallen response to hearing we aren’t the ones in control is to...
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A Vision for Holy Week
Word pictures have power to put familiar wonders back where they belong — in the heart of worship. Isaiah pictured the Messiah as so tender he would not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick...
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Young, Restless, and Reformed — Five Years Later
Five years ago this month journalist Collin Hansen published his first book: Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists (Crossway, 2008). True to its title, the book is a...
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Ten Big, Daily Reminders
I wake up lost every morning. At least that’s what it feels like. Perhaps something similar is true of you.Somehow during the night I’ve forgotten the big realities about God and the universe and...
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Behind the Blog: An Interview with Jerry Bridges
Jerry Bridges’ first book, The Pursuit of Holiness, was published in 1978 and came as the fruit of his own sanctification struggles as a young Christian many years before. It is a fascinating story,...
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A Theater Called Holy Week
How did C. S. Lewis bungle The Chronicles of Narnia? For some critics, a major flaw is the way he interrupts the flow of the story by butting into the story as the narrator. You may remember it is...
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From Rubble to Restoration
But you are God, ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them. (Nehemiah 9:17)Jerusalem, the city meant to declare God’s name, lies in rubble on...
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When Jesus Makes You Wait in Pain
The reason there was a “Palm Sunday” was because Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 12:17–18). It was perhaps the most powerful, hope-giving miracle Jesus ever performed during his pre-cross...
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Dads, Let’s Learn from the Dying Edwards
Today in 1758 Jonathan Edwards died. He was 54 years old.It was a fever he had contracted from a small-pox inoculation just a month before. After weeks of worsening weakness and the recognition of his...
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John Piper’s Gestures
John Piper’s preaching gestures are quickly becoming legendary. There’s now a whole website dedicated to animated clips of his best preaching gestures. So this week we asked Pastor John two gesture...
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Every Calvary Step Was Love
Today is Palm Sunday, and so begins our journey with Jesus from Jerusalem’s gate to Golgotha’s cross to Easter’s triumph.In this Holy Week, we begin with “Hosanna,” walk solemnly toward “Crucify him,”...
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Meant to Make All the Difference
Theology makes all the difference in your life.In John 10, as John Piper explains, the doctrine of Jesus’s deity is presented in terms of its utmost impact on how we live. In short, because Jesus and...
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Grateful for His Greatest Gift (Interview with Ann Voskamp)
As Easter approaches, gratitude is a virtue most worthy of our cultivation. Indeed, in all the Christian life, gratitude is to be planted, watered, dressed, and harvested. Gratitude gets at the very...
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The Old Man and His Big Book
It felt as though we were traveling back in time.Snow was falling, the roads were icy, and civilization was in the rearview. Tony Reinke and I had landed an interview with a 96-year-old theologian...
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The Role of the Psalms in the Life of the Church
The Book of Psalms is an amazing gift to the church. Says John Piper, “The Psalms, more intentionally than any other book of the Bible, is designed to carry, express, and shape our emotions, to give...
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