If you've explored our Resource Library, you've likely discovered our Online Books section, which contains over 60 John Piper titles available in English as free downloads.

What you may not have discovered is the tab that enables you to sort them "By Language," which ultimately reveals a list of 25 other languages in which you can find free ebooks.

One of the most popular titles between these languages is Piper's book Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die, which is currently available for download in 8 different tongues:

1. English – Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die

2. German – Fünfzig Gründe, warum er kam, um zu sterben

3. Hindi – पचास कारण की यीशु क्यों मरने आया

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Last Friday was the first public announcement of the Romanian version of the Desiring God website. But it didn't happen here. Cristi Chivu, our translation partner, presented it to the Romanian crowd who had just heard John Piper give his second message at the God Is the Gospel conference in Bucharest.

The Romanian version of our website, like the other versions (see the list at the top right of our homepage), hosts John Piper's writings in a fully-translated web environment. So things like the site's navigation, the resource topic names, and the content of the About Us page are all translated, in addition to the resource itself.

The goal with these sites is to remove as many barriers a…

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It's been a long time since our last update on what translations we've been adding to this website. But God has continued to provide us resources, and we wanted to announce at least a few of those that have come in recently.

As always, you can visit our language index to see all the resources we have in any particular language.

Oh, and don't forget the translated versions of our website (we added Persian just this week!). You can access all eight of them by mousing over the "International" button at the top right of our website.

Here's just a sampling of what we've posted recently:

• Albanian sermons, like Triumfi i Ungjillit në Qiellin e ri dhe Tokën e re ("The Triumph of the Gospe…

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You may have noticed today's Google Doodle commemorating International Women's Day (IWD). It has been celebrated every year on March 8th for almost a century now.

Setting aside a day to more publicly celebrate and honor women, as well as to advocate for more equality in their rights and treatment, is a God-honoring, good thing. But, as Mary Kassian notes in her post today, there is an unfortunate assumption among most advocates of IWD that for women to be treated as equals among men, they must be treated the same. In other words, their roles and responsibilities must be interchangeable.

Mary responds to this assumption with an insightful word for both men and women:

We don’t need w…

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English is the most dominant global language ever. So why are we at Desiring God doing so much work to translate our resources into other tongues? Why not just spend the same amount of time, money, and effort teaching people to read our English resources rather than doing the hard (and sometimes messy) work of translation?

To answer this and other questions about translation, I've written an article titled "A Justification for Translation." It is mainly an attempt to distill the wisdom that scholars Andrew Walls and Lamin Sanneh have shared on the subject.

If you're pressed for time and just want the main idea, here's an outline:

1. Translation is essential to the Christian faith because it …

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Tim Challies has done a helpful work in compiling a list of at least 12 songs (10 of which are hip-hop) that either feature John Piper preaching or have been directly influenced by him or one of his books.

The list consists of

• "Don't Waste Your Life" by Lecrae
• "Make War" and "This Song's for You" by Tedashii
• "All-Consuming Fire" and "My Portion" by Shai Linne
• "Who He Is" by Json
• "Unstoppable" and "Desiring God" by Voice
• "Sanctification" by Timothy Brindle
• "Actions Speak Louder" by Swoope
• "The Glory of God" by Matt Papa
• "The Best Is Yet to Come" by The Joy Eternal

See Challies' post for links to watch or listen to these songs.

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).

Being a Christian doesn’t only mean that you assent to a certain set of doctrines. There are other equally important things that must be true. Jonathan Edwards explains.

It is essential to Christianity

• that we repent of our sins,
• that we be convinced of our own sinfulness,
• that we are sensible we have justly exposed ourselves to God’s wrath,
• that our hearts do renounce all sin,
• that we do with our whole hearts embrace Christ as our only Saviour;
• that we love him above all, and
• are willing for his sake to forsake all, and
• that we do give up ourselves to be entirely and forever his.

Religious Affections, 334; bullets added.

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Along with the amazing growth of the church and the Internet in China, Christian publishing is also blossoming in a remarkable way.

We posted Michael Haykin’s thoroughly interesting and informational article about this last January. In it he listed some encouraging statistics, like,

• There are 167,000 bookstores in China.
• Over the past ten years, more than 200 Christian bookstores have opened throughout China.
• 6.3 billion domestically-published books were sold in China in 2007.
• Currently, the total number of Christian books in legal circulation in China is approximately 600, using a broad definition of “Christian.” About 50 to 60 new titles are being added each year.
• Of that 600,…

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The church isn’t the only thing growing in China. Like in so many other countries these days, Internet use is booming too. At the Chinese government’s last official counting (June, 2010), 420 million of its people were online. No doubt there are millions more by now.

Along with the Internet, social media is also catching on. China Daily recently reported that over 300 million Chinese are registered micro-blog (think Twitter) users.

We’re excited about this growth because the Internet and social media are quick, inexpensive, and strategic ways for us to make gospel-centered resources available for the growing Chinese church.

Here are some ways we're working to serve Chinese speakers…

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