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The Greatness of God in the Doctrines of Grace: TULIP Session 1
4 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 9 min
What are the doctrines of grace? Before we wade into the depths of these doctrines, we need to know something of the greatness of God.
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The People of His Majesty: Five Marks of a Marveling Church
27 september 2025 · 47 min
David Mathis | Those who cherish God’s majesty become a certain kind of people: a commending, called, candid, conquering, and soon-to-be crowned church.
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How to Pray When Trouble Comes
20 september 2025 · 36 min
Marshall Segal | How do mature Christians pray when trouble comes? David teaches us from Psalm 86: “Meet my need.” “Glorify your name.” “Teach me your way.” “Gladden my heart.”
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The Only Life Worth Living: A Live Lab on Christian Hedonism
13 september 2025 · 47 min
In Jesus Christ, we find a Treasure more precious than everything we have in life and everything we lose in death.
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Enjoying God: The Key to Christian Education
6 september 2025 · 46 min
How does the chief end of man — to glorify God by enjoying him forever — shape our approach to classical Christian education?
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Lay Your Buckets Down: Finding Life with the Woman at the Well
30 augustus 2025 · 37 min
Marshall Segal | No sin is too great, no place is too far, and no wall is too high to keep us from receiving the living water of Jesus — if only we’ll come to him.
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Creation Sings Through Human Lips
23 augustus 2025 · 33 min
Tony Reinke | No star or ocean, insect or tree, bird or cloud has a voice to speak God’s praise. But when we rejoice in God, we take creation’s worship and put it into words.
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God’s Mission Triumphs Through Prayerful Suffering
16 augustus 2025 · 42 min
As Jesus bleeds in Gethsemane and then submits to arrest, we see that the mission of God triumphs through prayerful suffering, not the self-defending sword.
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Will Christ Be Humiliated on the Last Day? To the Class of 2025
9 augustus 2025 · 19 min
When Jesus returns in glory, he will stand ashamed of those who were ashamed of him here. But what will it really mean for Jesus to be ashamed?
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Value the Human Body: Technology, Exercise, and the Pursuit of True Joy
2 augustus 2025 · 37 min
David Mathis | How might regular exercise serve not just our bodies but our souls, and so make us more ready to honor God by doing good to others?
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Habits of Love: The Graces of Sharing Our Joy
26 juli 2025 · 47 min
David Mathis | Our “habits of grace” prime us for witnessing, giving, and serving — and God uses even these outward expressions to give us even more grace.
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FEAST: Five Prayers for Daily Bible Reading
19 juli 2025 · 39 min
Marshall Segal | When our Bible meditation feels more like a job than a joy, these five short prayers can take us beyond discipline into delight.
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Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election
12 juli 2025 · 47 min
Why did God set his saving love on his people before the foundation of the world? So that we might praise the glory of his sovereign grace.
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The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus
5 juli 2025 · 26 min
David Mathis | Did Jesus endure the cross for his joy or despite it? The answer takes us to the heart of Jesus’s unusually human joy, and ours.
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Providence: The Purposeful Sovereignty of God
28 juni 2025 · 47 min
It’s one thing to know God is sovereign; it’s another to know just how far his sovereignty extends and the purposes for which he wields it.
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Do You Love Jesus? A Grand Finale of His Greatness
21 juni 2025 · 34 min
David Mathis | At the end of his Gospel, John gives us a grand finale of the mercy, wisdom, greatness, and never-ending glory of Jesus Christ.
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How Doubting Thomas Finds Faith
14 juni 2025 · 36 min
The story of Jesus and Thomas assures us that Jesus really rose bodily, that his patience surpasses our indwelling sin, and that we need not see to believe.
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Be Still and Know: A Crisis-Ready Vision of God
7 juni 2025 · 52 min
David Mathis | Where do we turn when the ground beneath our feet seems to buckle and shift? Psalm 46 offers a vision of God to keep us through any crisis.
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Where Does Radical Love Come From?
28 mei 2025 · 44 min
How can we be set free from selfishness so that, at any earthly cost to ourselves, we will love other people in a way that makes Christ look great?
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Authentic Preaching in the Age of AI
21 mei 2025 · 53 min
Tony Reinke | In the age of artificial intelligence, do we still need preachers? Answering that question well takes us to the heart of God-glorifying preaching.
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Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus
14 mei 2025 · 43 min
A camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, nor can we turn our own hearts from loving money to loving Jesus. But what is impossible with man is possible with God.
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Take Care How You Hear a Sermon
7 mei 2025 · 40 min
There is a way to see truth without seeing it — to hear without hearing. For all who listen to sermons, the words of Jesus stand: Take care how you hear.
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The Privilege of Preaching
30 april 2025 · 56 min
Though fraught with challenges and temptations to lose heart, preaching the word of God is a glorious privilege. John Piper gives ten reasons why.
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The Power of Preaching
23 april 2025 · 51 min
God has chosen to bind the fullness of his supernatural effectiveness to the human ministry of the word. So, how might we preach in ways that release his power?
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Big-God Preaching for God-Hungry People
16 april 2025 · 1 uur 4 min
David Mathis | Pastor, all your hearers are hungry for the living God, even if they don’t know it or can’t name it. And only big-God preaching will enduringly satisfy them.
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The Glory of Big-God Preaching
9 april 2025 · 57 min
When preachers herald the glory of God from the heart, the pride of man dies, all of life becomes meaningful, and we rejoice like never before.
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Foundations for the Future of Your Church
2 april 2025 · 49 min
A church endures in faithfulness only as its leaders and members rejoice in the glory of God, savor the word of God, and treasure the Son of God.
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We Will Go Out with Joy: Christian Fellowship as a Means of Grace
26 maart 2025 · 46 min
David Mathis | Fellowship is not a nice addition to personal Christianity but a vital means of grace. Through fellowship, we help each other hold fast till heaven.
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Blessed Satisfaction: The Sin-Slaying, Soul-Staggering Glory of Christ
19 maart 2025 · 51 min
We were made to see and savor, with everlasting satisfaction, the soul-staggering glory of Christ. Only then will our lusts lose their power.
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The Glory of God for Doubting Minds and Dull Hearts
15 maart 2025 · 56 min
When we see the glory of God in his word, we know for sure and we rejoice forever. Glory persuades and pleases, gives certainty and satisfaction.
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What the World Needs from Your Church
5 maart 2025 · 51 min
Chipper churches leave no lasting impression on the world. The greatest gift we have to give is indomitable joy in Jesus in the midst of suffering and sorrow.
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Supernatural Pastors: How to Minister in God’s Strength
25 januari 2025 · 50 min
Brothers, if we are going to do good — lasting good — to our churches, then we must preach and lead and counsel and serve in the strength that God supplies.
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Sorrows Are Normal for Now: What to Expect on Your Journey Home
15 januari 2025 · 53 min
David Mathis | In this fallen world, expect suffering and sorrows. But also know that, in Christ, they are limited, designed, and rewarded by a kind and gracious God.
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How to Feed a Pastor: The Secret Life of a Happy Man
11 januari 2025 · 58 min
David Mathis | As pastors, our first priority each day is not to serve God, help his people, or engage in other ministry, but to get our soul happy in God.
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I Want You to Be a Christian Hedonist
1 januari 2025 · 42 min
David Mathis | Do you want God to look good in your life? Then heed his invitation to find your deepest hunger, deepest thirst, and deepest longings satisfied in him.
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Slavery and Christ’s Supreme Lordship: How to Live Under Human Authority
18 december 2024 · 37 min
In a world of many authorities, we magnify the supreme lordship of Christ by the way we submit to the fading structures of this age.
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Countless Dangers, Continual Joy: How Is That Possible?
27 november 2024 · 55 min
Paul’s Christian life was one of countless dangers, continual sorrows, and constant joy. How is that kind of life possible?
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Bend the Ear of God: Three Wonders of Christian Prayer
20 november 2024 · 1 uur 21 min
David Mathis | God not only speaks to us — he bends his ear to hear us talk. Through the work of Christ and the help of the Spirit, we have the ear of God.
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Restore Our Joy in You: A Prayer for God-Centered Revival
13 november 2024 · 39 min
Marshall Segal | When our souls grow dull to spiritual reality, the character of God is our confidence. He has restored us before; he will revive us again.
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Doctrine Fails Without Delight: The Mind as Servant of the Heart
6 november 2024 · 33 min
By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.
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Do You Look to the Reward?
30 oktober 2024 · 33 min
David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.
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Do You Delight in God?
23 oktober 2024 · 26 min
David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.
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God-Centered Children: Teaching Our Kids the Biggest Vision
16 oktober 2024 · 50 min
Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.
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The Beauty of Reformed Theology
2 oktober 2024 · 53 min
Reformed theology is beautiful because the God of sovereign grace is beautiful. The doctrines are windows — he is the glory.
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Every Promise Is Yes in Him: The Privilege and Power of Union with Christ
25 september 2024 · 49 min
Apart from union with Christ, we would have no access to God’s promises and no reason to rejoice in affliction. But in Christ, every promise of God is Yes.
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Serious Joy: The Root of Sacrificial Love
18 september 2024 · 44 min
How can Christians be freed from selfishness so that, at any cost to ourselves, we love others in a way that makes Christ look great? Answer: joy.
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Jars of Clay: Pastoral Grit for the Glory of Christ
4 september 2024 · 53 min
The apostle Paul was no stranger to ministry’s many strains. Yet for all his afflictions, he neither lost heart nor tampered with the truth. How?
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No Neutrality: The Illusion of Indifference to Jesus
21 augustus 2024 · 41 min
No one can be neutral about Jesus Christ. Either he will have our heart and soul, our life and obedience — or hell will.
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Truth Triumphs Through Providence
14 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
When God makes a promise, he keeps it. And he keeps it through his purposeful, all-wise, absolute sovereignty — through his providence.
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Zeal: To Live with All Your Might
11 augustus 2024 · 17 min
God’s will is not simply that we obey God’s will, but that we obey it in a certain way: with all of our might for all of our life.