When the master in Jesusâs parable gave talents to his servants and went away, two got busy multiplying their masterâs money, and one hid his talent in the dirt. Something similar can happen when people like us hear about the providence of God. On ...
When the master in Jesusâs parable gave talents to his servants and went away, two got busy multiplying their masterâs money, and one hid his talent in the dirt. Something similar can happen when people like us hear about the providence of God. On ...
The other night, my best friend and I watched a show together from a thousand miles away. If I canât fly to D.C. and she canât come to Mississippi, at least we can fire up our laptops and enjoy Anne with an E  at the same time, texting our commenta...
The other night, my best friend and I watched a show together from a thousand miles away. If I canât fly to D.C. and she canât come to Mississippi, at least we can fire up our laptops and enjoy Anne with an E  at the same time, texting our commenta...
What hasnât yet changed in your life because you havenât started praying for it? Prayerlessness, of course, comes in varieties. Some almost never pray, proving that prayer is nothing more than a formality, a greeting card to God when they have tim...
What hasnât yet changed in your life because you havenât started praying for it? Prayerlessness, of course, comes in varieties. Some almost never pray, proving that prayer is nothing more than a formality, a greeting card to God when they have tim...
Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things yo...
Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things yo...
When I left Islam to follow Jesus, I didnât know what it would cost me. I hadnât realized what it would take to deny myself, lay my life down, and take up my cross (Matthew 16:24). I wasnât aware that even the precious relationships of my family sho...
When I left Islam to follow Jesus, I didnât know what it would cost me. I hadnât realized what it would take to deny myself, lay my life down, and take up my cross (Matthew 16:24). I wasnât aware that even the precious relationships of my family sho...
Much to my surprise, I became a Christian as a teenager. But when I did, I was quite determined to be a secret Christian. This was partly because, to be honest, I didnât like most of the Christians I knew. But it was also partly because, living in a ...
Much to my surprise, I became a Christian as a teenager. But when I did, I was quite determined to be a secret Christian. This was partly because, to be honest, I didnât like most of the Christians I knew. But it was also partly because, living in a ...
A recent experience stirred in me a desire to share a word for fathers. I have fathers of younger children particularly in mind, those on the front end of their fathering days, when a man is seeking to establish godly habits so that, by his example, ...
A recent experience stirred in me a desire to share a word for fathers. I have fathers of younger children particularly in mind, those on the front end of their fathering days, when a man is seeking to establish godly habits so that, by his example, ...
Sometime around A.D. 95, Jesus, through the apostle John, came metaphorically knocking on the door of the church in Laodicea with an unsurpassed invitation: âBehold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I wil...
Sometime around A.D. 95, Jesus, through the apostle John, came metaphorically knocking on the door of the church in Laodicea with an unsurpassed invitation: âBehold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I wil...
Some of the sweetest and deepest promises of God are also some of the most neglected, often because they either feel too great to grasp or because they donât seem to immediately intersect with life today. For instance, is any promise more staggering ...
Some of the sweetest and deepest promises of God are also some of the most neglected, often because they either feel too great to grasp or because they donât seem to immediately intersect with life today. For instance, is any promise more staggering ...
ABSTRACT: âI worked harder than any of them.â Few figures in Scripture labor with the manifest industry of the apostle Paul. Where did such a prodigious work ethic come from? As one steeped in the Old Testament, Paul would have known and loved the ma...
ABSTRACT: âI worked harder than any of them.â Few figures in Scripture labor with the manifest industry of the apostle Paul. Where did such a prodigious work ethic come from? As one steeped in the Old Testament, Paul would have known and loved the ma...
Forty years ago, John Piper was not sleeping very well. It was October of 1979, and his brain hurt. For the past five months, he had been on a teaching sabbatical from Bethel College, just north of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. It was a scholarâs dre...
Forty years ago, John Piper was not sleeping very well. It was October of 1979, and his brain hurt. For the past five months, he had been on a teaching sabbatical from Bethel College, just north of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. It was a scholarâs dre...
Itâs been ten years since my father died. A decade. Already? Nearly 20 percent of my lifetime has passed since I last saw him. Where did the time go? My oldest child recently turned 24. To me it seems that almost yesterday I was holding that precio...
Itâs been ten years since my father died. A decade. Already? Nearly 20 percent of my lifetime has passed since I last saw him. Where did the time go? My oldest child recently turned 24. To me it seems that almost yesterday I was holding that precio...
