A few more biblical thoughts about abortion

With the passing of the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade this weekend, there were a number of insightful posts about abortion. You might consider reading some of the following: The Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade, and Abortion Law – Justin Taylor. Roe v. Wade: Is It Really All About Doctors’ Rights? – Desiring God. […]

Submission defined

I have found John Piper’s statements on what submission is and is not to be very helpful in understanding what Paul means in Eph. 5:22-24. What is submission? What then is submission? It is the disposition to follow a husband’s authority and an inclination to yield to his leadership. It is an attitude that says, […]

Grab bag

A few things spotted recently around the web: John Piper’s 8-month leave of absence ended at the end of December. Last Sunday he resumed preaching with the sermon, “Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name.” He also wrote an article entitled, “Why I Am Full of Hope About Bethlehem’s Future,” and while it is written […]

John Piper’s report on his leave of absence

At the end of April, John Piper took an 8-month leave of absence from ministry — no preaching, writing, blogging, meetings, or any other responsibilities, apart from a few select opportunities that were agreed upon with his wife and elders. That leave ended at the end of December, and he is now returning to his […]

The Innkeeper

For years, John Piper would write four poems each advent season to commemorate the coming of Christ. One of my personal favorite — and evidently the favorite of many others as well — is called, “The Innkeeper”. You can listen to it here, as well as hear about the two influences that motivated him to […]

Sunday Leftovers (12/5/10)

One final thought about music and worship comes courtesy of John Piper: We must make it our aim that the joy awakened by music be joy in God. Not all pleasures of music are pleasures in God. Then the effort to delight in God through music will involve a prior shaping of the mind by […]

True gratitude

One last thought about Thanksgiving. John Piper helps define what real gratitude and thankfulness looks like: Gratitude that is pleasing to God is not first a delight in the benefits that God gives (though that will be part of it). True gratitude must be rooted in something else that comes first — namely, a delight […]

Thanksgiving thinking, Part 5

The turkey that cooks were desperately trying to thaw yesterday morning are now carved into multiple pieces, chilling again in the frozen climes of the freezer, awaiting transformation into multiple manifestations of last-minute leftovers on another day. Aluminum wrapped packages line the doors and shelves of refrigerators. It’s enough to make a cook wonder, at […]

Free audio copy of Don’t Waste Your Life

This month’s free book from Christian Audio is John Piper’s, Don’t Waste Your Life. Just go to the Christian Audio website, put the book in your shopping cart and check out. It’s that simple.

John Piper honored with a new book

At the Desiring God National Conference last weekend, John Piper was honored with a festschrift. The volume, appropriately entitled For the Fame of God’s Name, is edited by Justin Taylor and Sam Storms and includes articles by colleagues at his church and Desiring God, and long-time friends and co-laborers — men like D. A. Carson, […]

Some overlooked Piper quotes

Part of the problem of the technological age in which we live is that some things which should be forgotten and disappear into the vapor of air as soon as they are said, is that they are instead recorded, processed, transcribed, printed and disseminated in a variety of media forms, most notably, the Internet. On […]

Book Review: Jesus: the Only Way to God

Title: Jesus: the Only Way to God Author: John Piper Publisher: Baker, 2010; 123 pp. $5.99 Recommendation (4-star scale): The gospel is always under attack. Recently I read this statement — from someone who for many years was considered to be in at least the same corridor of conservative evangelicalism, if not in the classroom […]

The anniversary of Augustine’s death

Today marks the 1680th anniversary of Augustine’s death. He died on this day on 430 A.D. Augustine was influential in articulating the gospel of justification by faith and was the godly inspiration of many who would follow more than a millennium later in the reformation. Thinking of Augustine’s death reminded me of one of my […]

Following Christ and entertainment

John Piper asks a helpful question: “Do you glorify God in your movie watching?” I just think we need to test our hearts big time. Big time. Why are we able to enjoy hell bound, God ignoring, Christ dishonoring, false world views because we can give it a little twist at the end that it […]

Justification and its fruit

John Piper has a brief but helpful discussion of the relationship between justification and sanctification. He emphasizes why it is important to understand justification as imputed — a declaration of our position before God: The only instrument by which I am made a participant in Christ’s righteousness is God’s acting through my faith. I am […]