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Jellyfish Christians: The Costs of Thin Christianity

Jellyfish Christians: The Costs of Thin Christianity

Jellyfish Christians

The Costs of Thin Christianity

The deepest, fullest, most vibrant unity is found in embracing, not a few favorite verses, but everything God has said in his word.

American Prodigal: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Alexander Hamilton

American Prodigal: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Alexander Hamilton

American Prodigal

The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Alexander Hamilton

As the United States celebrates 246 years of independence, and Americans newly remember the ten-dollar founding father, what lessons might we learn from the rise, fall, and redemption of a prodigal son?

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The Quiet and Crucial Work of Deacons

The Quiet and Crucial Work of Deacons

Deacons are not only handy, administrative, or good at meeting needs. They are also holy, humble, and unusually sacrificial. Deacons are spiritual giants who bow low.

Is Jael a Model Woman? Feminine Fight in a Feminist Age

Is Jael a Model Woman?

Feminine Fight in a Feminist Age

Some today hold up Jael as a model of feminine strength, but how much should we imitate the tent-peg-wielding heroine?

Tweeted To and Fro: Surviving a Distracted and Divided Age

Tweeted To and Fro

Surviving a Distracted and Divided Age

It’s easy to misunderstand and rage against those we disagree with online, and much harder in person. That means meals can be indispensable weapons for unity.

Learn, Go, Send, Pray: How Pastors Support Global Missions

Learn, Go, Send, Pray

How Pastors Support Global Missions

Again and again in the Bible and the history of the church, God has brought light from darkness through missionaries who gladly left home to bring others gladness.

‘In Faithfulness You Have Afflicted Me’

‘In Faithfulness You Have Afflicted Me’

In his faithfulness, God promises not only that he will deliver us from affliction, but that we will do something good through the affliction.

Conceited Motherhood: Three Temptations Moms Face

Conceited Motherhood

Three Temptations Moms Face

Motherhood is humbling work, calling for many humbling sacrifices through endless humbling days. Which makes pride one of a mother’s greatest foes.

A Wife No Man Would Want: Lessons from the Hardest Marriage

A Wife No Man Would Want

Lessons from the Hardest Marriage

The moments when marriage feels most challenging are often the moments with the most potential to say something profound about Jesus.

Harry Potter Turns 25: What I Saw While Reading to My Sons

Harry Potter Turns 25

What I Saw While Reading to My Sons

Today marks 25 years since the first Harry Potter book released. What Christian lessons might we take away from the bestselling series?

Love the Church Like Christ Does

Love the Church Like Christ Does

No matter how much the world mocks her, and no matter how many criticize and condemn her, Christ says boldly and adoringly, “My church is beautiful. I have made her so.”

Is Discipleship More Challenging Today? Five Modern Hurdles to Ministry

Is Discipleship More Challenging Today?

Five Modern Hurdles to Ministry

Young adults may seem more distracted and doubtful now than they have in recent memory. How can we minister faithfully and effectively to this generation?

Casual Church: What Happened to Christian Reverence?

Casual Church

What Happened to Christian Reverence?

Where reverence withers, worship suffers.

The Paradox of Christ for a Polarized World

The Paradox of Christ for a Polarized World

The love of Jesus undoes us all in one way or another. And if we will humble ourselves before him, the same Jesus will heal us and bind us together.

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John Piper

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John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently What Is Saving Faith?

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Jon Bloom

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Jon Bloom serves as teacher and cofounder of Desiring God. He is author of three books, Not by Sight, Things Not Seen, and Don’t Follow Your Heart. He and his wife have five children and make their home in the Twin Cities.

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