How Christ Enables the Church to Upbuild Itself in Love …
The New Testament gives no hint that worship services and classes are the sum total of what church was supposed to be.
September
The Providence of God (Part 2) …
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Paul's Ambition and Bethlehem's Mission …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
October
A Passion for the Supremacy of God for the Joy of All Peoples …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
Through Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.
"The Slow Fires of Misery" …
Enduring the Pain of Flawed Marriage
Abraham Lincoln’s marriage was a mess, but accepting the pain brought deep strength in the long run.
The Providence of God (Part 3) …
Bethlehem Baptist Church
By Treasuring All That God Is, All Whom He Loves …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the form of love that people can see.
Praying for All His Purposes, Meditating on All His Word …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Believing that the Bible is the Word of God is a gigantic event in the soul. Therefore God does not leave it merely to man.
God's Sustaining Grace …
Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Love Them Both …
Amnion Crisis Pregnancy Center Banquet
Sustained by All His Grace …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.
November
The Providence of God (Part 4) …
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Vision for the Harvest: 2000 by 2000 …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.
William Wilberforce and the Launchers of Love …
If we love people, we will be like William Wilberforce and spend time thinking about how to point them to Jesus.
The Providence of God (Part 5) …
Bethlehem Baptist Church
The Value of Relationships …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #1
All Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other stay satisfied in God.
Urban-Suburban Partnership …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #2
Our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in everything, including choosing where we live.
Is It a Detour If You Find Gold? …
Her First Words Were A Song—At Twenty
Your agonizing, unplanned detour is not a waste—not if you look to the Lord for his unexpected work, and do what you must do in his name.
December
Diversity in God-Centered Worship …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #4
The abiding foundation of our corporate worship is God-centeredness.
How Jesus Did Fresh Initiative #5 …
10 ways Jesus related to the poor.
The Providence of God (Part 6) …
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Good News to the Poor …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #5
The fact that Jesus was born to a poor couple in a cow stall tells us something about the way God meant to reach the world.
The Son of Man Came to Serve …
At the end of this season, receive the best present imaginable: Jesus giving himself to die for you and serve you.
Talitha Ruth Piper …
Announcing the adoption of John and Noël's fifth child and first daughter.
The Son of Man Came to Give His Life a Ransom for Many …
Christmas Eve Day
Were you ransomed when Christ died? Are you still under the guilt and power of sin when you might be free?
Incentives to Strive in Prayer …
God calls us from time to time, and some of us as a kind of vocation, to strive—to struggle, and wrestle, and persist, and prevail in prayer.
