What are the marks of a good church elder? What kind of leadership does the church need?

We don't want to hire church staff for maintenance or comfort. We want staff who will mobilize the people for war.

Faithfulness means that you trust God and obey, no matter what impact it has on your safety or standard of living.

The long term effects of any conference depends on whether the truth and power of the messages and conversations abide.

Sixteen sayings of Scripture that should empower you to persevere.

It is possible for us to be guilty of another person's final lostness.

Doctrine is the new (and better) foundation of exuberance when the naiveté of childhood won’t work anymore.

There is laid upon the elders of the church of Christ a responsibility unique in all the world.

Is your routine so harmless in this evil world that it fits nicely with the way things are going?

If the elders care for the flock, who cares for the elders?

What does it mean in our culture to "take heed to all the flock"?

What do elders who have differing views on divorce and remarriage teach their church?

Can you say say from the bottom of your heart, "Lord, Jesus, there is nothing I want more in my life than what you bled to obtain"?

Pastor John introduces a paper about covenant commitments both in marriage and in church membership.

God created you male or female that you might be utterly and radically and uniquely devoted to the Lord.

Public praise from a pastor to his wife on Mother's Day.

The solution to bad harmonizing isn't to make everybody sing the same note.

John Piper spreads the word to his congregation about an immediate and crucial missions need.

Did God design men and women to express their equality in distinct ways?

An extensive redesign of the equipping process at Bethlehem that seeks to better prepare every saint for the work of ministry.

Jesus has done more than anyone to bring purity and harmony between men and women.

Prayer is not designed to compound hoarded pleasures. If we do not aim to love, we pray in vain.

Sin didn't create headship and submission; it ruined them, distorted them, and made them ugly and destructive.

What do you want from your church? Would you be satisfied if it fit you like a glove and saved few sinners?

Manhood and womanhood are most fulfilled when servant-hearted men lead God's church in ministry.

Eight evidences that God is mightily at work in the world to accomplish his redeeming purposes.

Life is more beautiful and more exciting because we are so different as male and female.

The flame of worship is a witness to God's exuberance for God.

Five changes that will occur if you vote for the church restructuring plan.

John Piper shares thoughts, prayers, and gleanings from his time at a conference on world evangelization.

Some Scriptures can only be fulfilled by recognizing the generation gap and owning up to the fact that it is good.

A taste test of John Piper's observations and reflections from Manila.

Youth is no excuse for not venturing something great for God.

John Piper announces and explains the search process for a new pastor, and then calls for prayer for the Lord to provide.

God is calling young and old to dream new dreams of reaching the whole world for Christ.

Finishing the race means you must recover the joy of the Lord again and again.

It is your sacred duty and joy to praise God continually with your lips.

John Piper shares in detail his new Sunday routine.

God is pleased with our doing good and our sharing because it demonstrates the success and power of the sufferings of his Son.

Let your light so shine before lost and needy people outside the camp, not just in the ease and comfort of your church and your home.

The heart of any saint can be passionate for God. It happens through prayerful immersion in Scripture.

If you trust Christ, you are already a permanent citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem.

Nine reasons from the Bible for believing that God wills to do great things with the gospel through prayer.

Be thankful, pay your vows, call for help. And when God delivers you from the day of trouble, glorify him with all your heart.

Biblical truth is utterly essential to spiritual life.

Sixty-six thousand people a day die without Christ among the unreached peoples. Knowing this, what should you do?

Confidence in missions comes mainly from the unshakable promises of God. But historical trends can help too.

Zeal for the glory of the Lord is zeal for the glory of his mercy or it isn't missionary zeal—and it isn't holy zeal.

Pray with steadfastness, with watchfulness, and with thanksgiving.

The answer to the most important questions in life is Jesus Christ, God's inexpressible gift to you.

Jesus Christ is alive and reigning over all the kings of the earth, and all the events of the world.

What might it look like if God clothed us with the fullness of power that many of his servants have known?

The light shines in the darkness—Jesus shines, the gospel shines, the church shines—and the darkness will not overcome it.

Foul language is a pitiful attempt to fill a void which God meant to be filled with gratitude to him and love to others.

John the Baptist came so that we might believe in Jesus and have life like we never had it before.

Divine power is necessary to counter the irrationality of evil.

Not everyone is a child of God. Are you?

Don’t let turning points pass with no special devotion to the Lord. Set apart some time for special fasting and prayer.

God came to live in a tent so we can watch him more closely. God wants to be seen and known in his Son.

Are you living in the fullest enjoyment of God's YES to you in Christ Jesus? Have you said yes to all of God's YES to you?

A collection of verses that identify how God would have us grow.

What is the nature of the kingdom of God? And what is the "power" that the kingdom exerts now in the church?

A request for prayer for the 1990 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors on Universalism and the Reality of Eternal Punishment.

Satan is not opposed to most ordinary things you do, as long as you do them like the rest of the world.

There are at least three generally-accepted principles of justice that stand in the way of justifying abortion.

Peaceful, non-violent, ready-to-suffer protest is one way that the truth and beauty of God's kingdom shines in this world.

The human mind may be fallen, but it's not useless.

Since Jesus has come, God exerts his right to rule in new and powerful ways.

The life of David Brainerd is a bright testimony to the long-suffering, severe mercy of God.

Jesus seems more eager to explode the false assurance of faith than he is to give assurance to people who are intent on living in sin.

The kingdom of God is present and future. There has been fulfillment, but there has not been consummation.

Matthew seems unusually burdened to alert us about the danger of thinking we are saved when we are not.

The kingdom has come and it has overcome the aimlessness and futility of our lives and given us an awesome reason to live.

Ten things to be thankful for and three things to be concerned about at a Vineyard conference.

Are there territorial spirits that darken whole regions or people? And should there be a concerted prayer effort to "bind" or disarm them?

Did the apostles have spiritual gifts that are now obsolete?

Can people still be saved even if they never hear the name of Jesus?

"Gifts of healings" and "workings of miracles" are for the church and the mission of Christ in the world today.

Jesus chose Twelve Apostles for a unique, unrepeatable role in the history of redemption.

James 5 is a rebuke to pastors that never have the faith to heal and churches that don't pray in the spirit of Elijah.

“Over the years I have come to see from Scripture and from life that manhood and womanhood are the beautiful handiwork of a good and loving God. he designed our differences and they are profound” (p. 13-14).

The spiritual gift of prophecy has not passed away, but is meant for the good of the church until Jesus comes.

It is wrong to view spiritual gifts as unpredictable, unconnected to reasoning processes, and free from the demands of objective observation.

Prophecy is prompted and sustained by the Spirit and yet does not carry intrinsic, divine authority.

A brief theology of the gift of prophecy and its implications for you.

God doesn't tell us to forsake thinking and just listen for messages. He tells us to be changed in the way we think.

It does not dishonor Christ to say that he is the only one who can service us with what we need most.

Deep down we know so much truth that we fear and therefore deny.

Announcement concerning the start of construction for a new sanctuary.