I Will Meditate on All Your Work and Muse on Your Deeds …
Moment by moment, our vital union with Christ is sustained, shaped, and carried by the Word of God.
Moment by moment, our vital union with Christ is sustained, shaped, and carried by the Word of God.
How can our hope be steady on days like 9-11?
Prayer and meditation are as inseparable in the Christian life as the Spirit and the Word of God.
How does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
The people of Christ should not be known primarily for what we don’t do, but for what we do do.
No one's obstinance can stop them from being saved, because God can remove the hardness.
What does Scripture say about the Promised Land and Israel's rights to it today?
What is the balance between being in the world and yet not of the world?
If you see and savor mercy in Christ, you will love being merciful.
God is the one Being in all the universe for whom seeking his own praise is the ultimately loving act. For him self-exaltation is the highest virtue.
God teaches us things for our good, and he intends for us to share them for the good of our neighbor.
You can read every fairy tale that was ever written, every mystery thriller, every ghost story, and you will never find anything so shocking, so strange, so weird and spellbinding as the story of the incarnation of the Son of God.
Something has to happen if we are to be saved from the wrath of God. We must be profoundly changed.
Why was Jesus' ascension into heaven good news for his disciples?
Everything that you try to do will come to nothing unless you do it through a conscious, abiding dependence on the enablement of Christ.
The question that Jesus drives us to ask again and again is not, "How much should I give?" but rather, "How much dare I keep?"
The meaning of Scripture does not change with every new reader or every new reading. It cannot be twisted to mean whatever we like. It is what it is, unchanging and unending.
Every staff on which we try to lean in our pride will snap and pierce us through. One refuge will be secure: God.
To try to explain the change from Paul's pre-conversion persecution to his post-conversion passion for the gospel merely by the work of men is to grasp at a straw.
We are freed from the burden of the law when we are given the power to fulfill it from within. And that happens when Christ is formed in us.
The story of Noah and the flood is incomplete in itself. God still hates sin and no remedy was found. The story cries out for an epilogue.
Jesus did not come to snuff out your struggling flicker but to fan it carefully into a torch for his glory.
The life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. No matter where you are, if you love God, the best is yet to come.
There is no better way to spend a brief life on this little earth than to spend it in the ministry of the Word.
Anything that is not God can draw your heart away from God.
Preserve your freedom in Christ! Can you say with Paul, "I will not be enslaved by anything!"?
We need a Savior because we are spiritually dead and helpless without him, no matter how good we look on the outside.
Biblical hope not only desires something good for the future; it expects it to happen.
Heavenly-mindedness is what frees our hands to do the works of love.
You can live to HAVE, either legally or illegally. Or you can become a Christian and live to give.
God is never constrained to do a thing that he despises. He does whatever he wants.
The mark of living worthily of the gospel is a unified, fearless striving for the faith of the gospel.
We should aim at full doctrinal unity and full heart unity.
Giving the gospel away is one of the best ways of experiencing its power in your own life.
God gives special power, extraordinary power, for the extraordinary challenges of an expanding witness to Christ. How do we seek it?
Jesus has laid down his life so that he might make you a genuine offer of reconciliation.
Sin didn't create headship and submission; it ruined them, distorted them, and made them ugly and destructive.
Jesus Christ is alive and reigning over all the kings of the earth, and all the events of the world.
The spiritual gift of prophecy has not passed away, but is meant for the good of the church until Jesus comes.
We live between the beginning of the kingdom of God and the consummation of the kingdom. What is that like?
The preciousness of spiritual power is that it is finally in God's control, not ours.
Congregational authority and strong leadership under that authority are not incompatible. They are biblical, and they are vital.
Cornelius would not have been saved if no one had taken him the gospel. And no one will be saved today without the gospel.
God put sent Christ to die in order to demonstrate his righteousness.
God means to fill the universe with the glory of his Son by putting the church on display as the embodiment of his Son.
God designed prayer to give his disciples the joy of bearing fruit while God himself gets the glory.
How you handle your possessions shows where your heart is.
There is a number of martyrs appointed by God which must be fulfilled before the consummation comes.
God blesses us so that the nations will be blessed.
You love Jesus and trust him and rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory. This is true Christianity.
How do we get what we need to forgive those who sin against us?
If we are saved by Christ's death, what does his resurrection add?
Jesus shines bright when our hope is meek, fearless, well-defended, and zealous for good deeds.
The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. Let's follow him.
Fasting is God's testing ground—and healing ground.
Perhaps the Christian church has not used all the spiritual resources available to us in the effort to overcome darkness.
Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.
God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.
All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.
When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.
The sovereignty of God over the wills of men doesn't make evangelism unnecessary; it makes it hopeful.
Human reconciliation is much harder than financial donation.
The second Adam, Jesus Christ, defeated death and restored the hope of Psalm 8 for all who are in him.
Christ tasted death for everyone who has faith. Because the faith of everyone who believes was purchased by the death of Christ.
Do you have the disease of "dullness of hearing," and if so, how can you get well?
Christians have a hope that frees them to move toward need, not comfort.
John Piper offers seven points of counsel to those with homosexual desires, and five to their parents.
Even though language can sometimes confuse us--like when the same word carries multiple meanings--the Bible is not contradictory.
In this world you will have trouble, but in Christ it will only increase your joy and hope.
If your driving motive in life is to be liked and loved you will find it almost impossible to be a Christian.
John Piper thanks God for the lives of two saints and asks how it is that their deaths are "precious in the sight of the Lord."
One of the reasons we don't know God deeply is that we don't venture much on his pledge to carry things for us.
Let's not doubt Jesus' love—let's watch and learn what love really is.
The doctrine of justification is immeasurably precious to every area of life.
God's plan to glorify himself involves defeating Satan in stages.
George Mueller's life is a testimony to the surpassing power that belongs to God and not to us.
In Christ ethnic differences are not barriers. Rather, they are blessings that visibly express the glory of the gospel.
There are at least nine reasons--even from a secular perspective--for why sexually-explicit advertising is socially irresponsible.
Consider these 8 potential excuses for why a person can't do missions and what the Bible has to say about them.
A poem to remind us that, "None of us would live at all but by the Lord's triumphant call."
John Piper talks about the connection between abortion and racism.