Fifty years ago this fall, C.S. Lewis quietly crossed from this life into the next.

While the assassination of John F. Kennedy captured the world’s attention on November 22, 1963, one Clive Staples Lewis — his friends called him Jack — breathed his last and took one big step toward becoming the kind of glorious creature in the coming new creation he speaks about in his famous sermon “The Weight of Glory.”

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you…

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The new website for Cross has just gone live.

Cross is a new student missions conference. I serve on the leadership team — along with Thabiti Anyabwile, Kevin DeYoung, David Platt, Zane Pratt, David Sitton, and Mack Stiles — and want to be among the first to invite you to come.

It will take place in Louisville, Kentucky, December 27–30, this year. I would love for the Desiring God regulars to get in on the $50 registration cost for the first 500 to sign up.

Why a new student missions conference? Here’s my seven-point answer.

1. With 7,000 schools of higher learning, and 15,000,000 students, and a spread of 5,000 miles (from Maine to Hawaii), there is room in America for another conferenc…

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Miami metro, here we come. On April 5–6, 2013, we will gather, God willing, at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, for a Desiring God Regional Conference under the banner

Future Grace:
The Purifying Power of the Promises of God

Join us Friday evening and Saturday morning for two extended sessions from John Piper on the what and how of Christian sanctification, a Q&A panel on the theme (featuring Piper, Tullian Tchividjian, Felipe Assis, and Al Pino), and worship in song led by Pat Sczebel.

The Miami metro is one of the most diverse in the United States, and we’re eager to have you and friends and family join us from all ethnicites— Spanish, Haitian, Indian, Jamaican,…

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Everyday gospel ministry requires courage. Whether it’s the courage to keep going when insulted, or honestly repent when you’ve been wrong, or not cave when threatened physically, public Christian ministry necessitates many kinds of courage — whether the society is increasingly post-Christian or not.

It’s not just the death threats — which John Piper has received — but the daily friction against the gospel that demands courage, but in this 5-minute clip, Piper recounts the story of a death threat he received early on in his pastoral ministry and talks about how to have the spiritual wherewithal to respond in God-honoring courage.

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Related videos from John Piper:

• Piper on Prophecy a…

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It has been said by one great Reformed theologian that we are living in the most anti-intellectual age in the church’s history. We are the TV generation, making way for the Internet generation. Images tickle our eyes, and sound-bites massage our brains. We are, compared to our Puritan fathers, ignorant shepherds leading sensate sheep in a dry and dusty land. Surely what we need then is more thought, more scholarship, more earnest hours spent pouring over the ancients in our studies. Right?

We are worldly when we, like the world around us, give ourselves to an entertainment mentality, when we amuse ourselves to death. We are still worldly, however, when we rightly reject the eye candy and f…

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John Knight says that churches need pastors who love the word of God. That's one central aim of the upcoming disability conference November 8.

In this short video, John challenges pastors to set forth a faithful vision of God from Bible — a God who is more relentless than disability and who fulfills his good design.

Learn more about the conference and register at the event page.

It speaks volumes when a pastor addresses the reality of disability with biblical authority.

In this 3-minute video, John Knight, father of a child with multiple disabilities, explains how "The Works of God" conference is aimed at equipping pastors and leaders to care for the "weaker members."

"The Works of God" conference is Thursday, November 8 at Bethlehem Baptist Church (North Campus) in Minneapolis. Learn more information and register at the event page.

If you're not able to join us in Minneapolis for the conference this weekend, each of the main sessions will be live-streamed in both English and in Spanish at www.desiringgod.org/live.

Transmisión en Español provista por MisiónVirtual.org.

The following is a schedule for the live-stream feed (all times Eastern). The live-stream feed will not include musical worship. Messages marked with an asterisk (*) are approximate start times only. The actual start times may vary based on the length of musical worship prior to teaching. Be sure to tune into the stream a few minutes earlier than scheduled for these sessions.

Friday, September 28

8:30* – 9:30 PM, John Piper, Prelude to Acting the…

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God and his word are the most important things you can share with anyone, including someone who is suffering because of disability. And not far behind are testimonies of God’s extraordinary goodness, even amid the most difficult circumstances.

Greg Lucas was one of the first people considered when the idea of a conference related to disability and the Bible started to come together. He clearly articulates God’s goodness in all things, seeing his disabled son through the lens of the Bible, not the perceptions of the culture or even his own.

His book, Wrestling with an Angel, sets a high standard for how to talk about one’s own experience of suffering while pointing to our all-sufficient …

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This conference is not solely about comfort; it is also about conquest

If you think a conference about God and disability is going to be mostly about comforting those who are hurting, you are only seeing half of the potential. It is certainly about providing hope from God’s word. And it is also about fighting a war:

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12)

Who will the cosmic powers hate more than those God has called indispensible (1 Corinthians 12:22)? Who are they most likely to seek out to destroy,…

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