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Douglas Wilson

Douglas Wilson is pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, and the writer of numerous books, including Same-Sex Mirage: Phantasmagoria at the Altar & Some Biblical Responses.

Prepare Your Heart to Lead Your Home: Advent Advice for Fathers

Prepare Your Heart to Lead Your Home

Advent Advice for Fathers

Resist the temptation to prepare from the outside in this Advent. Focus on your heart before you try to prepare your home.

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage

These short devotionals by John Piper, Francis Chan, and others are designed to shape, challenge, and inspire your own vision of marriage and God.

LGBT Basics

Many Christians know that something is wrong with the homosexual agenda, but we may know what we think without knowing why.

Every Mother’s Son

Every Mother’s Son

A Meditation for Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is a wonderful opportunity to render genuine honor that is more than something that Hallmark demands of us

We Always Need a Brother

We Always Need a Brother

Technology and Presence in Biblical Teaching

As long as we’ve had books, we’ve had bookworms. Now that we have the Internet, we not only have video-game ninjas, but astute theologians also.

Love and Respect: Basics for Marriage

Love and Respect

Basics for Marriage

Think of it as two kinds of cars that run on different kinds of fuel — diesel and regular, say. Husbands run on respect, and wives run on love.

How to Be a Puritan Husband

How to Be a Puritan Husband

Over the course of my ministry, one of the things I have sought to emphasize is the need to embrace “reforming marriage.” Another time in the history of the church when this same emphasis arose was in the great Puritan…

Superior Women

And the Men Who Can’t Out-Give Them

If a man sacrifices himself for his wife as Christ did for the church, he will find she is his thirty, sixty, and one hundred fold who brings out his strengths.

What Is a Kind Husband?

What Is a Kind Husband?

Five Characteristics of True Kindness

If we are too accustomed to the phrasing of Paul’s command to love our wives, it might help us to think of this central duty in terms of kindness.

Definite Atonement

Theology Refresh: Podcast for Christian Leaders

It is, by far, the most contested of the Five Points. And confusion over the term makes it all the trickier. “Limited Atonement” is the middle letter in TULIP, but as author and pastor Douglas Wilson explains, that name might…

The Romantic Rationalist

The Romantic Rationalist

God, Life, and Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis

Lewis saw beauty and wonder everywhere. And his writing sings with these realities, resounding with passion that always points to God.

Reformation and the Critics

Reformation and the Critics

The Reformation was a great work of the Holy Spirit of God, and it was a royal mess. Is there a problem? One of the problems we have when we remember and appreciate great events from the past — which…

Still Not Professionals

Still Not Professionals

Ten Pleas for Today’s Pastors

In this collection of writings, nine veteran pastors challenge and encourage the next generation of church leaders.

God | Jesus | Bible

A Roundtable Discussion with John Piper, Tim Chester, and Doug Wilson.

How can you encourage a Christian feeling overwhelmed and inadequate in their busy life? Remember the Sunday school answers: God, Jesus, and the Bible.

Conference Message

Doug Wilson Interviews John Piper and Tim Chester

What’s the difference between “missional” and “missions”? What are the key points of agreement and disagreement between John Piper and Douglas Wilson regarding eschatology?

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Undragoned: C.S. Lewis on the Gift of Salvation

Plenary 3 — 2013 National Conference

In this message Wilson argues that Lewis was at least a sympathetic observer of historic Reformation theology, or — at most — an asystematic adherent of it..

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

2013 National Conference

C.S. Lewis is a great example of defending truth in a relativistic age, and he also can aid us in bringing our head and heart together as we follow Christ.

Who Is P.G. Wodehouse, and Why Should It Matter to Us?

On one level, reading the works of P.G. Wodehouse provides its own justification — provided you are looking to justify the reading of light comedy at the beach. But who actually needs to justify that kind of thing? To consume…

Meaning and Metaphor: An Interview with Douglas Wilson

Authors on the Line

Sometimes spiritual truth is best communicated in straightforward prose, and sometimes spiritual truth is best communicated through the imagination. The imagination was designed by God as one way we receive truth, and I think this explains why the book of…

Brothers, We Are Not Sisters

To say that one thing is not another thing is not to register a complaint against either. To say that the sun is not the moon is not to criticize the moon, and to say that the land is not…

Finitude, Creation, and a Well-Mowed Lawn

As I have been thinking about the theme of an upcoming conference we are hosting — on Makers — a number of thoughts have occurred to me. One of them is that God makes things for his pleasure, and so…

Panel Discussion

Speaker Panel: John Piper, Crawford Loritts, Darrin Patrick, Doug Wilson, Ramez Atallah

Desiring God 2012 Conference for Pastors

How do we surround ourselves with godly men? How does Christian worship threaten the pattern of this world? In this discussion, the panelists answer these questions and more.

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The Supremacy of Christ in All of Life: The Pastor and His Worldview

Desiring God 2012 Conference for Pastors

What are the similarities and differences between John Piper and Douglas Wilson? How have Jonathan Edwards and C.S. Lewis influenced them? In this two-hour-long conversation, John Piper and Douglas Wilson address these questions and more.

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"Father Hunger" in Leading the Church

Desiring God 2012 Conference for Pastors

Worshiping the Father in the name of the Son and by the power of the Spirit is the only way that fatherhood will be revitalized in the church and in the broader culture.

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“Father Hunger” in Leading the Home

Desiring God 2012 Conference for Pastors

Fathers must imitate God in their leadership and carry out their role in light of the gospel.

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