Update 5/4: Reaching the Muslim World — On the Web

Our vision at Desiring God is increasingly global. If you've had the chance to read John Piper's blog post from last week, you might recall that one of the things he mentions is this highly encouraging statistic: in the last 12-months we've seen a 40% increase in Website visits from outside the United States.

For those who might be interested, here is a country-by-country ranking, and how it compares to historical data.

From April 25, 2010 to April 25, 2011, we had 2,848,264 visits from outside the United States

From April 25, 2011 to April 25, 2012, we had 4,063,757 visits from outside the United States

Most notably, we sa…

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Update 4/24: My Future at Desiring God.

Bethlehem Baptist is one step closer to commissioning John Piper from the local church pastorate to greater involvement with Bethlehem College and Seminary and to a wider ministry nationally and internationally through Desiring God.

The Bethlehem elders are announcing to the congregation their candidate for Associate Pastor for Preaching and Vision and, God willing, John Piper's eventual successor as the church's senior pastor.

Jason Meyer, 36-year-old Assistant Professor of New Testament for Bethlehem College and Seminary, is the elders' recommendation for congregational consideration and vote at a special May 20 all-church meeting. Meyer …

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Desiring God is seeking an experienced front-end developer to join our web team on-site in Minneapolis. This person will work together with the director of marketing and lead web developer to develop the Desiring God website.

The ideal candidate will . . .

• Appreciate that web standards, accessibility, and usability are essential to uphold.
• Find joy in taking flat design comps and making them interactive interfaces.
• Have intermediate-level skills with XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, and Illustrator that are rooted in best practices, validation, testing, compatibility, and performance.
• Be talented users of JavaScript libraries such as Scriptaculous, Protype or jQuery - but especially jQuery (an…

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Update 4/24: My Future at Desiring God

Increasingly, our vision for Desiring God is global. The Internet is our main way of spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ. And the Internet is global. We are continually amazed who is downloading articles and messages.

Jesus has global goals for his church. He has all authority in heaven and on earth. No inch of the planet is not his! And he promises that his gospel will reach all the people groups of the world as a testimony (Matthew 24:14). And he commands that we teach everything he has commanded to all these groups (Matthew 28:20). So we see our Internet presence as bearin…

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Pastor John talks about an end-of-year practice that's helped him take a step back to assess his life and ministry:

Watch the entire End-of-Year Video Update.

Pastor John on the heart of Christian Hedonism, from Psalm 16:11:

Watch the entire End-of-Year Video Update.

Our 2012 Conference for Pastors (Jan 30 to Feb 1) is quickly approaching. Just a friendly reminder to register before December 30 at 11:59 PM (CST) to qualify for the early bird rate of $130.

Senior pastors, given the theme of this year's conference, consider using this as an opportunity to build into the lay leaders and elders of your church. We have a group discount of $100 (per person) when you bring five or more guys from your church.

Conference speakers and topics (full schedule):

• Doug Wilson, leading the home and leading the church
• Darrin Patrick, being and building men for the local mission
• Crawford Loritts, lessons learned from his father
• Ramez Attalah, pastoring…

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Dear Friends of Desiring God,

Desiring God exists to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ, especially by focusing on the truth, and its implications, that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

We want to spread that truth and all of its amazingly God-exalting, practical implications everywhere in the world. So when the world passes beyond the seven billion population mark, we look at the 15 million or so people that checked us out last year on the web and say, hmmm, that's about 0.21%. And we say: There is some work to be done here. And we aim to do it with all our might and as globally …

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With the world's population just crossing the seven billion mark, Pastor John talks about the amazing power of the web to reach people everywhere with the truth of the gospel and Christian hedonism:

Watch the entire End-of-Year Video Update.

In this one-minute video, Pastor John reflects on John 12:24, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."

Watch the entire End-of-Year Video Update.