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‘Help, I’m Struggling to Believe Anything Is True’
25 november 2024 · 11 min
When we continually struggle with doubts and unbelief, how can we know what is true? How can we believe that truth even exists?
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Will We See God in Eternity?
21 november 2024 · 8 min
Will we be able to see God when we get to heaven? If so, how does that fit with Scripture passages that say no one can see God?
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What’s True and False in Job?
18 november 2024 · 12 min
How do we discern what’s true and what’s false in Job? Pastor John provides a grid for the entire book to help us interpret it accurately.
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Can a Church Require Tithing?
14 november 2024 · 10 min
Should church leaders require Christians to tithe since God commanded tithing in the Old Testament? Pastor John commends a better approach.
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Can We Know Truth with Complete Certainty?
11 november 2024 · 13 min
Arguments, logic, and careful analysis may give us 99 percent certainty for some doctrine or truth claim. But what about the remaining 1 percent?
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Ministry After God Takes a Beloved Wife
7 november 2024 · 12 min
Why did God take the life of Ezekiel’s wife and then command Ezekiel not to mourn? Pastor John considers the perplexing yet merciful ways of God.
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I Want God’s Wrath on My Enemy
4 november 2024 · 11 min
How can we love our enemies when they treat us horrifically? Pastor John appeals to six biblical realities to help us face unimaginable darkness.
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How Not to Respond to Suffering
31 oktober 2024 · 13 min
“Curse God and die.” Why does the author of Job relate the apparent despair of Job’s wife? What purpose does she play in the message of the book?
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Perfectionism Makes Me Indecisive — What Can I Do?
28 oktober 2024 · 11 min
How can perfectionists make decisions without getting paralyzed by fear? Pastor John shares seven encouragements for those who feel stuck.
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When Are Good Grades Good Enough?
24 oktober 2024 · 11 min
How much should we sacrifice in order to do excellent work? Pastor John encourages perfectionists to find wisdom from a strong, spiritually mature community.
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What Future Judgment Will Christians Face?
21 oktober 2024 · 13 min
If Christians are no longer under wrath, why does Paul say that we will stand before God’s judgment seat? Pastor John clarifies the Christian’s future judgment.
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How Much Money Do I Need to Retire?
17 oktober 2024 · 14 min
How much money should we set aside for retirement? Pastor John commends three biblical principles to apply in our various contexts.
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How God Guards You
14 oktober 2024 · 14 min
Does God ultimately sustain our faith, or do we? Pastor John unfolds 1 Peter 1:4–5 to show how God guards us to the end.
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Does Free Will Exist?
10 oktober 2024 · 12 min
Do humans have free will — and if so, what is it? Pastor John considers the depravity of the human heart and the sovereign grace that saves us.
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Do Christian Hedonists Deny Self-Denial?
7 oktober 2024 · 12 min
Does God’s command to deny ourselves contradict Christian Hedonism? Pastor John clarifies the God-centered, pleasure-seeking aim of all Christian self-denial.
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Joy’s Triumph over Spiritual Sloth
3 oktober 2024 · 13 min
How does zeal for God relate to joy in God? With help from Jonathan Edwards, Pastor John traces the crucial connection in four steps.
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Overcoming Spiritual Laziness
30 september 2024 · 12 min
How do we overcome half-hearted spiritual laziness? Pastor John appeals to the apostle Paul and Jonathan Edwards to commend a life totally devoted to Christ.
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Rome’s Seven Deadly Errors
26 september 2024 · 10 min
The Roman Catholic Church teaches numerous unbiblical doctrines. So, can devout Catholics be genuinely saved?
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The Busy Soul Learning to Wait for God
23 september 2024 · 13 min
How can active, impatient doers learn to wait on God? Pastor John describes spiritual waiting — and shows how we can answer such a question for ourselves.
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DG’s Slogan, Coined 36 Years Ago Today
19 september 2024 · 9 min
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” How did John Piper craft this memorable motto? Tony Reinke tells the story.
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American Church, Is Your Christ Too Cheap?
19 september 2024 · 13 min
Why do so many American Christians bear the marks of worldliness? Too often in our churches, Christ is too cheap, heaven is too distant, and earth is too big.
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Why Do I Exist?
16 september 2024 · 13 min
Why do you exist? Why does anything exist? Pastor John shows from Isaiah 43:1–7 that God created his people to glorify him by enjoying him.
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Will God Forgive My Worst Sin?
12 september 2024 · 14 min
Will God forgive my very worst sin? Pastor John shares seven powerful encouragements for those paralyzed with guilt.
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The Pitfalls of Being a Thinker
9 september 2024 · 13 min
Thinking is indispensable — but thinking is also dangerous. How can we use our minds to glorify God rather than puffing up ourselves?
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On Hoarding
5 september 2024 · 15 min
How can we help those struggling with hoarding? Pastor John shares five underlying factors and five practical suggestions for those who seem stuck.
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How to Find the Meaning of a Bible Verse
2 september 2024 · 12 min
How do we make sense of Bible passages that we don’t understand? Pastor John demonstrates how to patiently interpret Scripture with Scripture.
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What Is ‘White-Hot Worship’?
29 augustus 2024 · 11 min
Though our response to God often feels frustratingly inadequate, he is worthy of all our heart, soul, and mind. He is worthy of “white-hot worship.”
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Did My Negligence Kill My Baby?
26 augustus 2024 · 14 min
What comfort does God give to those who feel responsible for tragic loss? Pastor John offers eight words of hope to a brokenhearted mom.
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Defining Success in My 9-to-5 Job
22 augustus 2024 · 11 min
What does it mean to “work heartily, as for the Lord” in our 9-to-5 jobs? Pastor John considers five qualities of faithful work from Paul’s words in Colossians 3.
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Your Holy Deeds Are Not Filthy Rags
19 augustus 2024 · 11 min
In Christ, the righteous deeds you do by faith are emphatically not “filthy rags.” Pastor John corrects a common and profound misunderstanding.
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Are Motorcycles for Fools?
15 augustus 2024 · 11 min
If God is sovereign over life and death, does it matter what risks we take? Pastor John considers the place of precautions beneath God’s providence.
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Should We Ever Speak Directly to the Devil?
12 augustus 2024 · 11 min
Scripture gives us a category for addressing the devil, but our normal way of defeating him is by trusting the promises of God and killing our own sin.
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Seven Encouragements for Parents of Prodigals
8 augustus 2024 · 10 min
How can we not lose heart over children who wander from Christ? Pastor John opens the parable of the prodigal son to offer encouragement after encouragement.
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Can We Pray for God to Teach Someone a Lesson?
5 augustus 2024 · 11 min
Can Christians ask God to teach the unrepentant hard lessons? Pastor John helps us pray against others’ sins without presuming to be God.
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Should My Construction Company Help Build a Casino?
1 augustus 2024 · 11 min
Should a Christian construction worker help to build a casino — or any other building that facilitates sin? Pastor John offers principles for the Christian conscience.
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When Love Wanes, the Marriage Covenant Remains
29 juli 2024 · 12 min
Staying married is not first about staying in love. It’s about keeping a covenant that reflects Jesus’s own faithfulness to his bride, the church.
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Can a Single Pastor Date in His Church?
25 juli 2024 · 12 min
Where should an unmarried pastor look for a wife? Pastor John encourages single men in ministry to take practical steps while trusting God’s providence.
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What Makes a True Friend?
22 juli 2024 · 12 min
What makes for a true friend, according to God’s word? Pastor John sketches the nature and importance of friendship across the Scriptures.
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God Is Eager to Work for You
18 juli 2024 · 14 min
God looks throughout the earth, eager to work for those whose hearts are whole toward him. Pastor John unfolds glory from a favorite verse.
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Will God Judge People for Being Born Muslim?
15 juli 2024 · 11 min
Will God condemn someone for being born into another religion? Pastor John responds to a former Muslim deeply worried about her loved ones.
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On Repetitive Worship Songs
11 juli 2024 · 11 min
“For his steadfast love endures forever” appears 26 times in Psalm 136. What might we learn from this psalm about the right kind of repetition in worship?
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Let the Bible Smash Your Bad Theology
8 juli 2024 · 10 min
If you want more of your thoughts to become captive to Christ, open the Bible and pray, “Anything in my thinking that needs to be destroyed, destroy it.”
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The Good Grace of Being American
4 juli 2024 · 13 min
American citizens enjoy lavish blessings of common grace. Pastor John calls us to give thanks without giving away our far deeper allegiance to God’s special grace.
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Is My Joy Commanded or Spontaneous?
1 juli 2024 · 11 min
If joy in God is a gift from God, why does he also command us to rejoice? Pastor John takes us into a paradox that lies at the heart of the God-glorifying life.
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The Next Generation of Missionaries
27 juni 2024 · 10 min
The local church’s task of sending and sustaining long-term missionaries rests on several deep biblical assumptions. Pastor John shares five.
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How Your Heart Governs Your Mind
24 juni 2024 · 11 min
At the root of our sin is not a mind ignorant of God’s ways, but a darkened love, a hardened heart, and a will bent away from God’s ways.
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Resurrection Power for Our Pain
20 juni 2024 · 12 min
In this fallen age, resurrection power does not keep us from pain. Instead, it brings life to others as we keep loving Jesus in our pain.
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The Emotional Roller Coaster of Bible Reading
17 juni 2024 · 12 min
Bible reading can bring comfort, but Bible reading can also bring fear. How can we rightly embrace both the comfort of God’s promises and the fear of his warnings?
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Taste Test Your Way to God’s Will
13 juni 2024 · 9 min
Paul says that the renewed mind discerns God’s good will “by testing.” What does that testing look like in the thousands of everyday decisions we make?
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God’s Purpose in Our Boredom
10 juni 2024 · 13 min
Our boredom in this world is meant to point us to another world — a world where the infinitely interesting God will banish boredom forever.