Audio and video from the 2012 Conference for Pastors is now available for free streaming and download.

"Father Hunger" in Leading the Home
Doug Wilson

Lessons on Biblical Manhood Learned from His Father
Crawford Loritts

Being and Building Men for the Local Mission
Darrin Patrick

"The Frank and Manly Mr. Ryle" — The Value of a Masculine Ministry
John Piper

"Father Hunger" in Leading the Church
Doug Wilson

Pastoring with Vision, Creativity, and Courage in Hard Places
Ramez Atallah

Speaker Panel
John Piper, Crawford Loritts, Darrin Patrick, Doug Wilson, Ramez Atallah

The Supremacy of Christ in All of Life: The Pastor and His Worldview
A Conversation with Doug Wilson and John Piper

Careful here, brothers. Conferences can make a lot of hearers, but we're called to more than that. May God give us grace to fulfill our roles as men in the home and in minist…

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In this book Pastor John describes his journey toward one great, single passion—endless joy in the crucified Christ—and challenges the reader to the same pursuit. The cost is great. But the joy is worth any cost.

(Offer good only for purchases made through our online store and while supplies last.)

Update: We have SOLD OUT of Don't Waste Your Life. You still purchase the book from WTS Books ($7.49) or Amazon ($9.99).

Other Specials

• Finally Alive ($5)
• The Dangerous Duty of Delight($5)
• Think ($5)
• A Holy Ambition ($5)
• Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ ($5)
• Fifty Reasons Jesus Came to Die ($5)
• The Gadarene ($5)
• Portrait of Calvin ($3)
• God Is the Gospel ($5)
• With Calvin in the Theater of God ($5)

“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”

Peter was grieved. Sitting on the beach after breakfast, Jesus had just asked him for the third time if he loved him. Peter had already wholeheartedly answered yes twice. What else was he supposed to say?

With these questions, the Lord was putting his finger on a very tender wound in Peter’s heart. Peter’s failure on the night of Jesus’ trial had been simply horrible. In the hour of his Lord’s greatest anguish, Peter had denied even knowing him. This sin shook Peter to the core of his being.

Jesus had told him that he would do it.¹ But in the Upper Room, over the Passover meal, with his fellow disciples around him, Peter did not believe it. He could still hear himself proclaim, “I will lay down my life for you.”²

He had had no idea how weak he really was. He had imagined himself boldly standing before the Sanhedrin side …

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Psalm 119:25,

My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word!

Have you ever felt something of a schizophrenic relationship to the Bible? At times our hearts are alive to the word of God, while at other times our hearts feel dull and almost dead. This is not merely a frustrating dynamic; it is a fearful condition.

But we find a kindred spirit in a surprising place: Psalm 119.

I say “surprising” because Psalm 119 is a poem of love for the word of God. Going here with our problem seems like a person struggling with singleness going to a wedding celebration! Help, however, comes in the stanza devoted to the Hebrew letter daleth (Psalm 119:25–32).

The Struggle of Dust

The psalmist cries out in anguish that his “soul melts away for sorrow” (Psalm 119:28). His struggle, however, is not simply sorrow. The psalmist confesses that his soul “cling…

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The Bible is clear. While we can't exhaustively comprehend it all, the divine authorial intention communicated through the human authors is suffuciently clear for all purposes of salvation (WCF 1.7).

But why is Scripture clear? Here's one of the most basic and solid arguments:

John Frame writes,

Since Scripture is God’s word, it is his communication to us. In Scripture, God speaks, not primarily to himself or to the angels, or to the winds and waves, but to us human beings. God cannot fail to accomplish his purpose, so his communication cannot be anything less than successful. If words are unclear, they fail to communicate; they are not communication. So Scripture must be clear.

The Doctrine of the Christian Life, (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2008), 147.

"All Are Yours" is a new column featuring quotations from living authors writing from a God-centered, …

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Reflecting on 500 years of Calvin’s legacy, John Piper, David Mathis, and other contributors invite us to join Calvin in the theater of God and see how the biblical vision of the glory of God in Christ is the most practical reality in the universe. This volume includes chapters by Julius Kim, Douglas Wilson, Marvin Olasky, Mark Talbot, Sam Storms, and John Piper.

You can now order the book for just $5.

(Offer good only for purchases made through our online store and while supplies last.)

Other Specials

• Finally Alive ($5)
• The Dangerous Duty of Delight($5)
• Think ($5)
• A Holy Ambition ($5)
• Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ ($5)
• Fifty Reasons Jesus Came to Die ($5)
• The Gadarene ($5)
• Portrait of Calvin ($3)
• God Is the Gospel ($5)

Joe Rigney, Instructor of Theology and Christian Worldview at Bethlehem College and Seminary, has assembled a list of resources from John Piper and Doug Wilson that characterize their similarities, influences, and distinct emphases.

C. S. Lewis

• A Conversation on the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (DW)
• Ask Doug: Was C.S. Lewis a Calvinist? (DW)
• Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul: Learning from the Mind and Heart of C.S. Lewis (JP)

G. K. Chesterton

• The Sovereign God of Elf-land (JP)

Christian Hedonism

• Piperian Hedonism 3.0 (DW)
• A Full Tank of Gas and Wyoming Ahead (DW)
• The Barkity-Bark Midnight Dog (DW)
• Math Problems in a Dark Room (DW)
• Creation Is Thick, I Tell You (DW)
• A Tornado with Boots (DW)
• When I Don’t Desire God, Chapter 11 (JP)
• How I Became a Christian Hedonist (JP)
• Rebuilding Some Basics of Bethlehem: Christian Hedonism (JP)
• Getting to the Botto…

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Session 6, Ramez Atallah on "Pastoring with Vision, Creativity, and Courage in Hard Places" —

• "Obligated, eager and not ashamed. These should characterize a church with the gospel."
• "A Christian leader has to have a vision — he must see things other people don't see and empower them to capture it and incarnate it."
• "When I came to understand the gospel for the first time, I knew that this was what my peopled needed."
• "What approach would not threaten the Egyptian Orthodox church? Answer: Inductive Bible study: Observe, understand, and apply the text."
• "Effective leaders should have vision which empowers others."
• "Trust in God's sovereignty gives meaning to even failtures."
• "Creavitiy which transforms obstacles into opportunities."
• "Faith respects people who are eccentric and marginal."
• "Humility allows us to be mission oriented, rather than gift oriented."

Next messag…

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The wonder and majesty of the gospel are that we are given the greatest gift imaginable: God himself.

The glorious truth that God is the gospel touches us at the root of life where practical transformation gets its daily power. It awakens our longing for Christ and opens our eyes to his beauty.

You can now order the book for just $5.

(Because our inventory is limited, this offer is good while supplies last; only available over the web)

Other Specials

• Finally Alive ($5)
• The Dangerous Duty of Delight($5)
• Think ($5)
• A Holy Ambition ($5)
• Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ ($5)
• Fifty Reasons Jesus Came to Die ($5)
• The Gadarene ($5)
• Portrait of Calvin ($3)

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our new Arabic website, attuuqlilaah.org.

Last September, just before our National Conference, we told you about the need for more online resources in Arabic, and the opportunity we had to create a website. And we invited you to join in supporting that work.

Through gifts made on the web and at the conference, the Lord raised all that we needed and much more. Praise him! We are using that extra money to develop even more resources for the site.

There are already 20 Arabic resources available. Many more are on the way, which we will be adding gradually over the coming months (God willing).