Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:13 Yesterday, a wonderful group of high school students gathered in my home for our weekly early-morning-before-school Bible study. We opened to Psalm 90 and were reminded that as Moses prayed this prayer, he may … More Satisfy us, God!
John Piper on 1 Corinthians 13:4 “Love Does Not Brag and Is Not Arrogant” Or take the descriptions of love in the middle of verse 4: “Love does not brag and is not arrogant.” We all love to be made much of. We like to be admired. We like it when people notice our successes and miss … More “Love Does Not Brag and Is Not Arrogant”
From the Desiring God BLOG: Reach Records and Desiring God are partnering this summer to spread Don’t Waste Your Life in urban centers around the country. We would encourage you to check out the upcomingDWYL Tour 09 for details and to see seven satirical promotional videos we produced for them. Desiring God also produced the music video for LeCrae’s single, Don’t … More Don’t Waste Your Life
John Piper preached 2 sermons on “Body Pains.” Here is the introduction: When the special grace of salvation mixes with the common grace of personhood there is a unique manifestation in human life of the Spirit of God. This is what the church is for in the world. This is our calling. We are … More Body Pains
John Piper, in a sermon, “The Lord’s Supper as Worship”, says that we express the value of Christ by “remembering,” by “proclaiming,” and by “nourishing.” Reminding First, the Lord’s Supper expresses the value of Christ by reminding us of him. Notice the word “remembrance” twice. Once in relation to the bread in verse 24 and … More Expressing the Value of Christ in the Lord’s Supper
John Piper, in a sermon, “Idolatry, the Lord’s Supper, and the Body of Christ” The Two-Sided Error of the Corinthians What 1 Corinthians 10 is about is the way the Corinthians had overestimated the power of the Lord’s Supper as sacramental food, and had underestimated the purpose of the Lord’s Supper as spiritual fellowship with … More The Two-Sided Error of the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 9:19-23 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) … More “Becoming All Things to All Men to Save Some”
John Piper asks, “Will the Next Generation Know?” referring to Judges 2: In summary, there was a sequence like this: first, the people revered and served the true God because Joshua and his generation kept the memory of God’s mighty acts alive among the people. Second, a new generation arose who for some reason did … More Will the Next Generation Know?
John Piper, in a sermon on 1 Corinthians 7, “Satan Uses Sexual Desire,” Satan does not create sexual desire. It is good and he never produced anything good. His whole aim is to ruin what God created to be good. There are two ways you can ruin a pearl. You can cut it out … More Piper on Pearls, Pigs and Pendants
1 Corinthians 6:20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. John Piper asks, “What Does It Mean That Your Body Was Bought?” When Christ paid the price for his people, he bought our bodies. So let me try to show you from this passage of God’s Word what … More You Were Bought With a Price
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