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Simply Divine: Worshiping a God Who Lacks Nothing

Simply Divine: Worshiping a God Who Lacks Nothing

Simply Divine

Worshiping a God Who Lacks Nothing

The self-existent, simple God is the only God who is not lacking. He is the only God who is inherently loving, abundant, and inclined to be gracious.

Is Motherhood Real Work?

Is Motherhood Real Work?

Is Motherhood Real Work?

When we ask expecting moms when they will return to work after baby comes, we might subtly endorse a great lie: motherhood itself is not real, meaningful work.

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What Does Disunity Say? Three Common Types of Division

What Does Disunity Say?

Three Common Types of Division

Not all divisions are created equal in the church. Some arise from the flesh. Some enter through differences in maturity. Others are necessary to distinguish the false from the real.

When Death Does Us Part: Last Words of a Long Lost Love

When Death Does Us Part

Last Words of a Long Lost Love

When a long and happy marriage finally ends, nothing in this world can quite remove the wound a living spouse carries. But something beyond this world can.

Our Gentle and Terrifying God: How Justice Holds Out Mercy

Our Gentle and Terrifying God

How Justice Holds Out Mercy

We will not feel the full weight of God’s mercy toward us if we downplay or ignore the fury of his justice.

Martyr or Madman? The Unnerving Faith of Ignatius

Martyr or Madman?

The Unnerving Faith of Ignatius

What person would not only submit to martyrdom, but would embrace it, relish it, and even eagerly long for it? Ignatius of Antioch.

Transubstantiation: What Catholicism Teaches About the Supper

Transubstantiation

What Catholicism Teaches About the Supper

What are we eating in the Lord’s Supper? Is it bread and wine or the actual body and blood of Christ?

That They May All Be One? Why Unity Is Still Worth Pursuing

That They May All Be One?

Why Unity Is Still Worth Pursuing

On the night he was betrayed, Jesus prayed “that they may all be one.” So what do we make of all the different denominations within Christianity today?

Pastoring Through Opposition: The Painful and Fruitful Ministry of Charles Simeon

Pastoring Through Opposition

The Painful and Fruitful Ministry of Charles Simeon

The opposition a pastor faces can feel overwhelming. So how can pastors persevere through challenges that have ended many other ministries?

The Lost Awe of Majesty: Why I Love an Overlooked Attribute

The Lost Awe of Majesty

Why I Love an Overlooked Attribute

Our God is not only great, but good. Not only big, but beautiful. Not only strong, but stunning. He is, in a word, majestic.

Revive Us Again: Learning from the First Great Awakening

Revive Us Again

Learning from the First Great Awakening

Revivals are “the surprising work of God,” as Jonathan Edwards put it. Yet the history of revivals shows that God loves to work through means.

Where Will They Learn to Work? Teaching Children a Lost Ethic

Where Will They Learn to Work?

Teaching Children a Lost Ethic

Because of technology, we may not need children to do as much work in and around the home, but children still need to learn to work to live well.

Slow to Anger: The Beauty of God’s Perfect Patience

Slow to Anger

The Beauty of God’s Perfect Patience

The patience of God is not like our shallow, short-lived patience. It is deep and long, wide and high. And in the perfection of his patience, we find great hope.

Put Your Anger to Bed: Five Lessons for Young Couples

Put Your Anger to Bed

Five Lessons for Young Couples

Feeling angry over a spouse’s sin may not be wrong. But staying angry is.

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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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How Could Jonathan Edwards Own Slaves?

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See Glory, Be Glorious

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A Peculiar Disapproval of Gay Pride

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How We Take God’s Name in Vain

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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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