John Piper: Christian Celebrity

A dear brother often voices his distaste for the Christian celebrity mindset. Today, John Piper posted on how we should avoid unholy ‘hero-worship’ of pastors, teachers etc, but that it is right when someone sees “evidence of God’s grace, and admires them for Christ’s sake…
What is the meaning of the attention given to well-known pastors? [...]

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The battle with sin

 In his book Battling Unbelief John Piper gives some great insight into the fight against sin:
Battling unbelief is another way of saying “living by faith in future grace”. The unbelief is the failure to trust the promises of God that sustain our radical obedience to the future…
Battling unbelief and fighting for faith in future grace means that [...]

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John Piper on Barack Obama

As many seem to look to Obama as some sort of world-hero, JP shares some thoughts on the new US President.
“I am writing these thoughts on the evening after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States. I cried twice today. There were two points when I was overwhelmed by the magnitude of [...]

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John Piper – God’s plan included sin

Piper shows how God’s plan to glorify his Son through the cross included sin from before the beginning.

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Strategic Righteousness and a Heart for the Nations

I’ve just been away at UCCF’s Forum Conference for Christian Union Leaders. John Piper opened up the book of Ruth in a way which was both biblically faithful and culturally relevant.
Ruth is a book about the providence of God for his people in the darkest of times, so that they will not lose hope.
I was [...]

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