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When Should I Follow My Heart?
17 augustus 2020 · 11 min
If a Christian desires God above all, then shouldn’t he follow his heart? Or are our hearts so deceitful that we can never trust them at all?
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Ten Reasons to Read the Bible Every Day
14 augustus 2020 · 12 min
If we are going to grow up into maturity in Christ, we need to feast on Scripture — and not just here and there, but every day.
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How Does Christ Change How I Work?
12 augustus 2020 · 11 min
When you come to know Jesus Christ, something about everything in your life changes — including how you approach your vocation.
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How Do I Lead Someone to Christ?
10 augustus 2020 · 15 min
To lead someone to Christ is a spectacular gift from God. But what should you actually say and do in the moment?
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Do We Need Extrabiblical Texts to Understand the Bible?
7 augustus 2020 · 11 min
Extrabiblical sources can help fill in some details of our Bible study, but all the gold we need to mine for life and godliness is in our English Bibles.
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Did God Save Me to Call Attention to Himself?
5 augustus 2020 · 8 min
Over and over in the Bible, God says that he saves us in order to draw attention to himself. Why did God design salvation that way?
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Are Christian Couples Required to Have Kids?
3 augustus 2020 · 13 min
The Bible is clear that children are a gift from God. So is there any room for a Christian couple to decide not to have any?
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Can a Christian Hedonist Get Depressed?
31 juli 2020 · 12 min
If we glorify God by enjoying him, how do we think about seasons of darkness in the Christian life, when joy seems far away?
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How Do I Wait for God?
29 juli 2020 · 13 min
God works for those who wait for him. But what does it mean to wait for God?
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John Piper Interviews J.I. Packer
28 juli 2020 · 1 uur 16 min
In a 72-minute interview, John Piper and J.I. Packer discuss the Puritans, theology, the Christian life, and our heavenly hope.
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How Do I Glorify God in My Daily Life?
27 juli 2020 · 12 min
God created us to glorify him by enjoying him forever. But how do we fulfill that purpose in the little things, in the small moments, in the day to day?
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Am I Wasting My Life in a Secular Job?
24 juli 2020 · 11 min
Our vocation doesn’t automatically determine our fruitfulness for Jesus. God uses all kinds of people in all kinds of places to accomplish his purposes.
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How Does God Become Totally for Me?
22 juli 2020 · 8 min
God won’t settle for anything less than perfection from us. Either we depend on Christ’s perfection in our place, or we keep the entire law.
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How Do I Wage War on My Self-Pity?
20 juli 2020 · 12 min
At the cross, Christ canceled all our sins through his blood. Now, by the Spirit, we work to conquer every canceled sin.
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A Seriously Happy Puritan: Praising God for J.I. Packer
19 juli 2020 · 38 min
On the morning of July 17, J.I. Packer passed into glory. Pastor John shares a tribute to the man he looked up to as a father in the faith.
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Seven Lessons for Productivity
17 juli 2020 · 19 min
After fifteen hundred episodes of the Ask Pastor John podcast, Pastor John shares seven lessons that have inspired him to labor faithfully over decades.
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What Does Freedom from the Love of Money Look Like?
15 juli 2020 · 10 min
Our hearts were never meant to find their meaning in money. God made us for something far more valuable.
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How Can I Disagree with My Husband and Still Submit?
13 juli 2020 · 14 min
How can a wife disagree with her husband about a decision while still submitting to his leadership in the home?
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How Do I Know If I’m Doing Enough for God?
10 juli 2020 · 13 min
Before you get overwhelmed by all of the Bible’s commands, remember your right standing with God and focus first on the anchors of faithful obedience.
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Why Do I Need to Be Saved?
8 juli 2020 · 13 min
At the cross, God not only clears a path for sinners to himself. He also vindicates his righteousness after passing over centuries of sin.
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Why Does ‘Atonement’ Disappear in the New Testament?
6 juli 2020 · 11 min
The word “atonement” appears all over the ESV’s translation of the Old Testament, but never in the New. Didn’t Jesus make atonement for our sins?
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How Much Patriotism Is Too Much Patriotism?
3 juli 2020 · 15 min
If Christians are first and foremost citizens of heaven, then is it ever appropriate to show patriotism for a homeland?
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How Can I Be Free from Materialism?
1 juli 2020 · 8 min
For many Western Christians, materialism has transformed our wants into needs and distorted our view of biblical Christianity. How can we be free?
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Did Moses Think Sinners Could Keep the Law?
29 juni 2020 · 14 min
The Mosaic law requires obedience over and over again. Does that mean old-covenant believers earned their way to a right standing with God?
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Do I Need to Understand the Trinity to Be Saved?
26 juni 2020 · 14 min
What does someone need to know about the Trinity in order to have saving faith in Jesus?
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How Do I Find Freedom from Worry?
24 juni 2020 · 11 min
In the moment when troubles come or worries rise, we need the precious truth of specific promises from God’s word.
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Would God Have Been More Loving Not to Create Anyone?
22 juni 2020 · 12 min
If God knew before he created the world that millions of people would suffer eternally in hell, would he have been more loving not to create at all?
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Which Characters in Job Can We Trust?
19 juni 2020 · 14 min
Job is a famously difficult book to understand and apply. But God has not left us without interpretive guides to help us discern the book’s message.
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Update from John Piper and How You Can Help Us
18 juni 2020 · 20 min
Hear from Pastor John on his latest ministry projects, and learn how you can partner with us to spread joy in Jesus Christ for years to come.
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What Do You See When You Look at the Sky?
17 juni 2020 · 9 min
All creation rings with its Maker’s praise. If we pause to look and listen, God can show us glory in all that he has made.
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Why Does Christ Want Some Not to Believe?
15 juni 2020 · 12 min
If God desires all people to be saved, why did Jesus sometimes speak in a way that kept people from believing?
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How Should Christians Respond to Climate Change?
12 juni 2020 · 13 min
Climate-change activists warn of dire consequences if nations and individuals refuse to care for the environment. How should Christians respond?
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Why Must Our Bodies Get Resurrected?
10 juni 2020 · 8 min
Our resurrection bodies will allow us not only to experience life without disease and decay, but also to enjoy God in the bliss he intended.
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Does the Law Aggravate Our Sin Nature?
8 juni 2020 · 17 min
The Mosaic law raises countless questions for Christians. But how might we begin to understand the function of the law in redemptive history?
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What Are the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven?
5 juni 2020 · 11 min
Jesus gave his disciples the keys to the kingdom of heaven so that they could loose and bind. What does that mean for Christians today?
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What Do You Say to Evangelicals Who Affirm So-Called ‘Same-Sex Marriage’?
3 juni 2020 · 11 min
When someone close to you affirms so-called “same-sex marriage,” how do you respond in both faithfulness to Scripture and love for that person?
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My Pastors Don’t Preach Against Sin — Is That Okay?
1 juni 2020 · 16 min
Addressing sin and repentance may sound harsh to some, but genuine biblical preaching names and denounces specific sins.
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Does John Piper Deny Personal Assurance?
29 mei 2020 · 14 min
God gives believers warnings not to strip us of our assurance, but to keep us clinging to Christ and killing sin by the Spirit.
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What Are God’s Purposes in a Recession?
27 mei 2020 · 7 min
God has thousands of purposes in all that he does — including recessions. What does Scripture tell us about God’s designs in our financial uncertainty?
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How Much Joy Did the Curse Cost Me?
25 mei 2020 · 11 min
Because of the fall, we are by nature dead to joy in God. Because of the cross, we can experience more joy in God than we ever could have had in Eden.
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Do My Sins Ruin God’s Plan for My Life?
22 mei 2020 · 12 min
Some sins unalterably change the course of our lives, leaving us to live with the consequences. Do these sins sabotage God’s best plan for us?
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The God over Viruses
20 mei 2020 · 9 min
If we say God is sovereign, does that mean he’s in charge of everything — even down to the tiniest molecule?
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Does Christ Govern Every Storm?
18 mei 2020 · 13 min
Jesus stilled a storm for his disciples two thousand years ago, but does that necessarily mean he controls every single storm today?
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Am I Living by Faith or Unbelief?
15 mei 2020 · 12 min
The Bible calls us to walk by faith, but how can we actually know if we are living by faith instead of unbelief?
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Could a Recession Serve Our Joy?
13 mei 2020 · 10 min
Sometimes it takes a recession to dig up the roots of our lives and replant them in soil that causes us to bear the fruit of generosity.
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What Is Hyper-Calvinism?
11 mei 2020 · 13 min
Doctrinal systems can help us summarize the Bible’s teaching, but they are never a substitute for Scripture itself.
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What’s the Comfort If the Coronavirus Is Judgment?
11 mei 2020 · 17 min
Even in the most bitter providences, Christians have comfort to offer. The gospel is best news in the world for the hardest moments in the world.
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What Is Grace?
8 mei 2020 · 11 min
We often define “grace” as “undeserved favor.” But the grace of God has another meaning in the Bible that is filled with encouragement and comfort.
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How Can I Receive Christ?
6 mei 2020 · 11 min
The help Jesus offers isn’t a commodity you can buy with money or morality. To have the Son, you must receive him by faith.
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Is the Calvinist-Arminian Debate Really Important?
4 mei 2020 · 15 min
Are Calvinism and Arminianism just points of debate for theologians, or do they actually have real-life implications on our relationship with God?