Christopher Asmus at Desiring
God - 1 day ago
[image: True Worship Displays, Not
Distracts] As a worship pastor, I’ve heard the concern voiced many times: “I
don’t want to raise my hands in worship because I don’t want to draw attention
to myself.” True worshipers want to make much of Christ through congregational
singing; they desire that others’ attention be fixed on God (Psalm 115:1), and
the thought of people being distracted by our raising of hands, or kneeling
down in worship, is cringe-worthy enough to make us give up such freedoms
quickly. “If my physical expressions of worship draw the eyes of people
standing behind ... more »
John Piper at Desiring
God - 1 day ago
Where will we find the emotional
power to keep us from returning evil for evil? Not in vague notions of grace,
but by trusting God’s specific promises. Watch Now
Phillip Holmes at Desiring
God - 2 days ago
[image: What Is Your Biggest Regret?]
Mankind has always been fascinated with time travel. The popularity of movies
and shows like the *Back to the Future* franchise and *Doctor Who* are evidence
of a genuine interest. Don’t believe me? Bring it up around your friends
sometime. We typically gravitate to a favorite era in history or particular
events in time that intrigue us. But if we really could go back in time, would
we really choose to visit an era or event? In 1997, a small magazine found
themselves in a bind. They were about to send their next edition to their
publisher when t... more »
John Piper at Desiring
God - 2 days ago
[image: Should Christians Be
Patriotic?] Pastor John discusses patriotism. Listen Now
John Piper at Desiring
God - 2 days ago
Husbands, your wife is not your
cook, maid, or personal babysitter. She is your wife, an heir of this world,
and a future queen of the universe. Watch Now
Jon Bloom at Desiring
God - 3 days ago
[image: The Home of the Brave] The
day Saul of Tarsus became a Christian he became a homeless man. Up till then he
had enjoyed a privileged cultural status. A “Hebrew of Hebrews” (Philippians
3:5) whose star was rising in the Pharisee party, Saul lived at the center of
Jewish religious and political life in the holiest city on earth. His future
looked bright. Then Jesus blinded him with a brighter light and all that
privilege got dumped on the side of the Damascus road. But whatever gain I had,
I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss
because ... more »
Mark Jones at Desiring
God - 3 days ago
[image: Why God Must Let His People
into Heaven] All Christians desire to be in heaven, but we aren’t always sure
precisely why we can have confidence of entering heaven. There are three
reasons why God must let his saints into heaven: the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit. With each person is one of three blessings that theologians
frequently draw attention to: justification, adoption, and sanctification.
These three blessings, and their peculiar relationship to each person in the
blessed Trinity, provide us with great assurance concerning whether God will
receive us into hea... more »
Marshall Segal at Desiring
God - 4 days ago
[image: When Our Hearts Revert to
Self-Reliance] Being saved by grace may be easy to stomach when we’re first
converted. That first time God opens our eyes to the gospel, we’re often
already painfully aware of the brokenness inside of us, with varying levels of
shame and regret over our past. The longer we’re “Christian” though, we can
slowly and subtly begin to feel less needy. Self-reliance can creep in,
corrupting our awareness of our own corruption and awakening fresh confidence
in our own energy and effort. Not long after embracing God’s grace in the
gospel, some Christians in ... more »
Abigail Dodds at Desiring
God - 4 days ago
[image: Are Women Onions or Apple
Trees?] Our culture is fascinated with identity — emphasis on the *I*. The
church can be as well. We all want to know, “Who am I?” Or for some, “What’s
unique about me?” The process of discovery often looks like an attempt to climb
inside our belly buttons and peer through any cracks to the innards. Maybe then
we’ll know who we are and why we’re special. We think of ourselves like an
onion with oh-so-many layers, and as we peel them back, we are as beguiled as
Mr. Tumnus in C.S. Lewis’s *The Last Battle*: “Yes, like an onion: except that
as you con... more »
John Piper at Desiring
God - 4 days ago
What should we believe the Bible
over any holy book in other religions? Here are two answers that might help you
dialogue with Muslims or Mormons in your life. Watch Now
Douglas Wilson at Desiring
God - 5 days ago
[image: LGBT Basics] I recently
returned from a large Christian conference, over a thousand in attendance, held
in a prestigious hotel. Over us all, hanging high in the atrium, was a large
rainbow flag, far out of reach, as much as to say that there was not a thing we
could do about it. This is LGBT Pride month, and there does not appear to be
anything much we can do about that either. Many Christians know *that*
something is wrong with the homosexual agenda, but because of the dearth of
teaching on this subject in the church, and because the world’s teaching on it
might be describe... more »
Scott Fitzgerald at Desiring
God - 5 days ago
[image: Four Anchors in the Crucible
of Pain] Last August I resigned my post as pastor for discipleship at a church
I deeply loved. Uncertain if I would again land in a fulltime vocational
expression of ministry, I accepted a job in the marketplace in an unfamiliar
city with very unfamiliar people. A day before the orientation process began at
my new job, I answered an emergency phone that my 66-year-old father had
fainted and was in need of an emergency quadruple bypass. Due to the severity
of the situation, he was bumped up in the surgery queue and underwent the
procedure on a We... more »
John Piper at Desiring
God - 5 days ago
More than a third of you will have
cancer at some point in life. Do you have a few verses to cling to when the
diagnosis comes? Watch Now
Steve Kroeker at Desiring
God - 6 days ago
[image: The Agony and Joy of Waiting
for Matthew] Two years ago last month, my wife and I looked each other in the
eye, took a deep breath, and said *yes* to this crazy adoption journey. Two
years of social workers, adoption classes, books, fundraisers, penny-pinching,
delays, frustrations, and heartache — lots and lots of heartache — these were
the most gut-wrenching two years of our lives. Every day we longed and ached to
bring our son home. And now that he is finally with us, I can look back on
those two years of heartache and say that I wouldn’t trade it for anything. God
was t... more »
Jon Bloom at Desiring
God - 6 days ago
[image: My Friend Was Like Grass] As
I write, I’m preparing to bury a good friend. Another victim of cancer. Another
casualty of the Fall. Another reminder of the ignoble prosaic ending to the
poem so noble and full of wild glory that neither tongues of men nor angels can
fully capture: a human life. An ordinary human life. There actually exists no
such thing: an ordinary human life. It is a great misnomer, an oxymoron of
colossal proportion. To think a life ordinary is to believe a delusion and
reveals the shameful fact that we can barely bear true beauty. We tire quickly
of sunset... more »
David Mathis at Desiring
God - 1 week ago
[image: Ask Your Child to Forgive
You] I will never forget my father asking for my forgiveness. Few moments, if
any, were as arresting, as moving, and as unforgettable as when Pop admitted to
me — at age five or seven or ten — that he had overreacted, and that he was
sorry. I was most moved, at least in every case I remember, because I was not
an innocent victim. My disobedience, rebellion, and immaturity were the
catalyst for our clashes. I had sinned first, and I knew I was in the wrong.
But Pop had joined a Bible study, and his heart was becoming more tender to the
word of God. ... more »
John Piper at Desiring
God - 1 week ago
Christians can show the world the
hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and
serve, rather than return evil for evil. Watch Now
David Mathis at Desiring
God - 1 week ago
[image: No Normal Sundays]
Worshiping Jesus together with his church is an awesome privilege. God’s own
voice sounds in the reading and preaching of his word. The community of the
redeemed responds together in prayer and song. Pastors care for the souls of
their flock through their preparation of the service and leadership from the
front. Congregants offer, as act of worship, their humble, but sacrificial,
financial partnership in the mission of the church. Take a careful inventory,
and you will find that most weeks this is the single most important hour of the
week — and yet we ar... more »
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