Episodes
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William Tyndale’s Gift to the World
The road of sacrifice took William Tyndale from the Roman Catholic Church to the translator’s desk, giving us the first ever English version of the Greek New Testament.
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Take a Risk for Life and Fruitfulness
God often uses risks to bring life to others and to end long-standing fruitlessness in our lives. What would it look like to step out for the sake of Christ?
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Jesus: A Priest After the Order of Melchizedek
For the writer to the Hebrews, understanding Melchizedek means understanding Jesus. But how can an ancient king help us know the true King of glory?
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What Stirs the Church to Sing? A Live Lab on Ephesians 1:1–6
When the church sets aside every boast and embraces God’s ancient plan of grace, she sings with all her heart for God’s glory alone.
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The Strange and Wonderful Love of Christ
Love moved Jesus to let Lazarus die. Why? Jesus wanted Lazarus, his family, and the watching crowd to taste his all-satisfying glory.
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Give Great Joy in a Big God to the Next Generation
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‘Moses Wrote of Me’: The Messianic Hope of the Law
Jesus claimed that Moses wrote about him long before he ever walked the earth as man. If that’s true, how could anyone miss Jesus in the words of Moses?
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David’s God-Entranced Song: Know It, Feel It, Say It, Sing It
When David wrote a song about becoming king, he ascribed all his victories to the God who gave them. How do we join David in such God-besotted praise?
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Graduates, Remember the Rich Young Man: To the Class of 2026
There once was a man who gave up everything important so he could cling to things that fade. If we want to follow Jesus, we cannot be like that man.
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Reset Your Mind on Jesus: A Live Lab on Colossians 3:1–4
Paul doesn’t just want Christians to know the truths of the Bible — he wants us to set our minds on them. But what does that mean, and how do we do it?
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The Glory of God in His Glorious Church
God fulfills his purpose for the church by his work in the church: He magnifies his grace by beautifying his people.
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God Created Us for His Glory
God’s glory and our happiness are never at odds. His pursuit of his own fame is a full commitment to our deepest joy.
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Delighting in the Law of God
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The Wisdom We Speak
The remedy for the darkness of man's mind is not mindlessness but light.
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The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
In his first sermon as pastor at Bethlehem, John Piper explains the source of his authority and the reason for his fear.
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John Piper’s Candidating Sermon at Bethlehem Baptist
John Piper candidated at Bethlehem Baptist Church in January of 1980. Six months later, he was installed to the pastorate, where he spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for more than three decades.
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John Piper’s Candidating Testimony
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John Piper’s Senior Sermon at Fuller Seminary
One of the first sermons John Piper ever preached, as a 25-year-old seminary student.
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For Our People and for the Cities of God
There are six things that should characterize every effort at team ministry in the church.
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What Do Answers to Prayer Depend On?, Part 2
Our prayers should always aim not merely at our own satisfaction, but also at the benefit of others.
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Why Did God Create Sexual Desire?
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Sanctified Sex Before Marriage
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Sanctified Sex Before Marriage
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How I Became a Christian Hedonist
Christian Hedonism teaches that morality is not destroyed, but rather upheld, by pursuing our fullest and longest lasting joy.
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Pray for Kings and All in High Positions
Let your prayers embrace all kinds of people: high and low, white and black, democrats and republicans, Soviet premiers and Iranian Ayatollahs. Enlarge your heart until it embraces the world.
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What Do Answers to Prayer Depend On?, Part 1
If we are unloving and unrepentant then we should not think that God is likely to answer our prayers.
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The Line of Prayer
Beware of a church that runs on the momentum of tradition rather than the power of prayer.
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I Have Kept the Faith
For me, the end of a year is like the end of my life. And in these last hours, I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say "Well done, good and faithful servant"?
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Christmas and the Cause of Truth
You can read every fairy tale that was ever written, every mystery thriller, every ghost story, and you will never find anything so shocking, so strange, so weird and spellbinding as the story of the incarnation of the Son of God.
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Jesus Is the Horn of Salvation
There is a deadly disease and an awesome enemy. And every one of us will die from this disease and be devoured by that enemy if there is no horn of salvation for us.
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Christmas Joy Vs. the Kirchensteuer
If God values joyful, loving generosity so much as to give his beloved Son to create it in his people, then we can be absolutely assured that when we are more generous, we will be more happy and more fulfilled because God is bound to work mightily for those whose behavior he values so highly.
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All the Prophets Proclaimed These Days
Since the first Christmas we have been living in the last days.
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I Will Magnify Him with Thanksgiving
What does an all-sufficient God, who owns and controls all things, demand from the creature he has made? That we cease to be great in our own eyes and become small that he might appear great.
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Christ Did Not Send Me to Baptize
Baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Jesus (Matthew 28:19, 20). And for that very reason it should never divert our attention away from Christ onto a man. It should express our desire to rely on Christ alone for salvation and to boast only in him.
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Who Should We Invite to Thanksgiving Dinner?
Who you invite to share in your abundance shows where your treasure is.
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Make a Case for Your Hope
The way to get ready to make a case for your hope is to get hopeful. Apply yourself to settling the questions of your own heart.
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The Savior's Supper and the Second Coming
Lord's Supper is a memorial service looking back to Jesus' utterly unique death—a death that so satisfied the righteous demands of God that Jesus was granted to rise from the dead and come again as King of all. The sacrifice of Christ set the charge for the explosion of his second coming.
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The Lips of Knowledge Are a Precious Jewel
God teaches us things for our good, and he intends for us to share them for the good of our neighbor.
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It's My Pleasure!
The humble Christian does not crave the praise of men. He longs for God to be praised and thanked and for truth to be honored.
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What We See When the Spirit Reigns: Love
If we are unmerciful, unforgiving people, if we hold grudges or cherish resentments or plan revenge, then what we are saying in effect to God is, "This is the way I prefer life to be."
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The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life
The death of Christ does not turn away the wrath of God from all people. In order to benefit from the work that God has done outside of us, we must now experience the work that he does within us by the Holy Spirit. What is this work and how is it related to the gift of justification?
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The Shepherd, the Host, and the Highway Patrol
God pursues us with goodness and mercy in both joy and trials — all for his name’s sake.
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How Is It Right to Justify the Ungodly?
We unseat judges with indignation who acquit the guilty. Our moral sensibility is outraged when wrong and guilt are given legal sanction. Yet at the heart of our gospel stands the sentence: God justifies the ungodly who trust in him.
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Restful Words for Labor Day
It seems that with this passage of Scripture, more than any other, to recite it is also to experience its reality. The psalm itself is green pasture, the psalm itself is still water, the psalm itself restores my soul.
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Final Judgment: Eternal Life vs. Wrath and Fury
Every responsible person, on the basis of their actions and attitudes, will meet the final judgment of God.
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How to Argue with God
Don't let your sinfulness hinder your prayers. Run into the arms of God and fill his ear with arguments that aim for His honor.
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Whatever Is Not from Faith Is Sin
Anything, absolutely any act or attitude which is owing to a lack of trust in God is sin, no matter how moral it may appear to men. God looks on the heart.
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Christ and Cancer
If God is in control of everything, why do we suffer? Here are six affirmations to hold you through seasons of suffering.
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Is God for Us or for Himself?
When we clamor for praise, we are prideful and petty. But when God commands us to praise him, he is loving us to the uttermost.
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How to Do Good So That God Gets the Glory
God gets glory not from our heroic exertion but from our reliance upon his strength—when we serve as one who serves with the strength which God supplies.
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