Category: September

Piper: look at your life, think hard about what you are doing, and get ruthless about what stays and what goes.

September 22, 2011

John Piper, on Hebrews 12 One more illustration: in Hebrews 12:12-13 the writer says, “Strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.” He is talking in … More Piper: look at your life, think hard about what you are doing, and get ruthless about what stays and what goes.

Stiff Neck?

September 22, 2011

Proverbs 29:1 He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing. Steve Miller writes at the “Little Red Blog of Wisdom” I am one who is often reproved, and am tempted then to simply give up on trying to do right.  But this proverb says that if I stiffen my … More Stiff Neck?

Piper: all those who have lived by faith crowd the marathon route to urge you on

September 22, 2011

Hebrews 11:39-40  And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,  since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. John Piper, in a sermon “Running With the Witnesses” I take verse 39 to mean that when the believers in the … More Piper: all those who have lived by faith crowd the marathon route to urge you on

He is Risen!

September 22, 2011

Coty Pinckney on Luke 24:1-12 “He is Risen!” The women have seen where Joseph laid Jesus’ body. They plan to pay their respects to their beloved master by anointing the body after the Sabbath. So early in the morning on the first day of the week, they arrive. To their shock, they see that the stone … More He is Risen!

Piper: Having true faith in God is no guarantee of comfort and security in this life.

September 20, 2011

John Piper, in a sermon on Hebrews 11:29-38, “Faith to Be Strong and Faith to Be Weak” God does not always work miracles and acts of providence for our deliverance from suffering; sometimes by faith God sustains his people through sufferings. That’s the point of verses 35b-38. Or another way to put it would be … More Piper: Having true faith in God is no guarantee of comfort and security in this life.

Isaiah 53: A beautiful revelation of Christ’s saving death in the place of sinners and a stunning validation of its truth

September 20, 2011

John Piper, in an introduction to a series of sermons on Isaiah 53: Nowhere in all the Old Testament does the gospel of Jesus Christ shine more clearly than in Isaiah 53. Seven hundred years before Jesus came into the world, God opened the eyes of his prophet to see into the very heart of … More Isaiah 53: A beautiful revelation of Christ’s saving death in the place of sinners and a stunning validation of its truth