Take Care How You Listen! Part 1 …
For Whoever Has, to Him More Shall be Given
There are four ways to hear a sermon, but only one of them leads to life.
There are four ways to hear a sermon, but only one of them leads to life.
10 ways to prepare yourself to hear Sunday's sermon.
The great aim of our ministry should be the same as Paul's: to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of God's glory.
Grace makes you a debtor, not to God, but to others who need grace.
The gospel elicits shaming behavior in those who will not believe it and it gives freedom from shame to those who do.
How is the wrath of God being revealed in this present age?
The reason the mind evades, distorts, and suppresses the truth of God is mainly because of our moral, not mental, deficiency.
God means for the beauty of worship to be dramatized in the right ordering of our sexual lives.
John Piper offers seven points of counsel to those with homosexual desires, and five to their parents.
Every form of evil ultimately comes from failing to know, approve, and love God above all things.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the perfect and only remedy for what people already know about themselves.
God's justice does not demand that he punish us for our sins immediately. His kindness leads him to forbear and to be patient with us, to a point.
Jesus came to destroy sin, not because it's fun but because it's fatal.
It is impossible to believe that Christ indwells every believer and then mistreat one of a different race.
Who are they whose condemnation is just? Those who play games with the Word of God.
What are some implications of the fact that God has founded Christianity on a book that has difficult passages?
Christianity is not a narrow, provincial, or tribal religion. It declares things that have to do with the whole world.
Boasting matters to Paul because it is the outward form of the inward moral corruption that lies behind all the evils and miseries of the world.
The moral law in the Old Testament is not a ladder for climbing, but a track for riding in the power of the Holy Spirit.
God is one, and everyone he justifies is justified in the same way. Therefore he is God not only over the Jews but over all peoples.
Even though language can sometimes confuse us--like when the same word carries multiple meanings--the Bible is not contradictory.
The way God constituted his people under the old covenant is different than how he does it today.
What does it mean to be an heir of the world?
Your faith is called into being out of nothing. That is the meaning of grace and the reason why God can guarantee his promises to you.
Whatever else you do or say or feel, of this you can be certain: God wills that you rejoice in the hope of seeing his glory.
In this world you will have trouble, but in Christ it will only increase your joy and hope.
The biblical portrait of Jesus must be the essential content of your joy in God.
Moment by moment, our vital union with Christ is sustained, shaped, and carried by the Word of God.
Social involvement is demanded by a biblical orientation toward life.
It is the Biblical duty of every generation to make sure that the next generation hears about the mighty acts of God.
Why does God make us depend on him for what is humanly impossible?
With God all things are possible. That is the basis of our prayer and our giving and our evangelism.