Episodes
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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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Get Your Heart Happy in God
Scott Hubbard | To his friends, George Müller embodied Psalm 23 even under the towering burdens of orphan ministry. What kind of communion with God made such peace possible?
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Make War on Sin with Exercise
David Mathis | How can exercise equip us for the daily fight against sin? Training the body for our joy, mind, and will frees us to pursue every good work.
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The Everyday Bride of Jesus: How Christology Shapes a Local Church
David Mathis | The church depends on Jesus Christ for its existence, authority, and ultimate joy. But how does the God-man’s nature direct the church’s health?
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Six Paths to Self-Forgetfulness
Scott Hubbard | Self-awareness can be good, but it can also go too far. Our thoughts of self often grow quieter when we look to God and follow where he leads.
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Why Would a Christian Exercise?
David Mathis | Exercise may seem like a distraction from a life of serving others, but God can use our movement to deepen our joy and broaden our love.
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Be an Iceberg Christian: Setting an Example in Your Youth
David Mathis | Pursuing a holy ambition means seeking maturity in Christ more than we seek influence in the world. An enduring example takes hidden work.
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Living in God’s Sovereign, Sustaining Grace
When God ordains sufferings for the good of his people, he also sustains them and cares for them with all the strength of his love.
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Enjoying Jesus in Sexual Purity
Marshall Segal | Where will we find true blessedness? Sexual sin tempts us to find it in fleeting, false pleasures — but God’s promises hold out a better, surer joy.
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John Piper: Would You Help to Expand Free Access?
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Contrite Courage: How the Guilty Lean on Grace
How do Christians respond to God’s fatherly indignation against our sin? The prophet Micah teaches us: Respond with brokenhearted boldness, with contrite courage.
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Enjoy Him: The Call to Commune with Jesus
David Mathis | God invites us to quench our thirst by hearing his voice, having his ear, and belonging to his body. So, come stand under the waterfall of his grace.
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Enjoying God: The Key to Christian Education
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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Value the Human Body: Technology, Exercise, and the Pursuit of True Joy
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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Blessed Satisfaction: The Sin-Slaying, Soul-Staggering Glory of Christ
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
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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Sorrows Are Normal for Now: What to Expect on Your Journey Home
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
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
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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Join Our Mission for 2025
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Bend the Ear of God: Three Wonders of Christian Prayer
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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Every Promise Is Yes in Him: The Privilege and Power of Union with Christ
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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Go Where God Walks: The Everyday Paths of Astonishing Grace
David Mathis | God does not leave us to ourselves after saving us. His grace continues to flow to us through his appointed means: Bible reading, prayer, and fellowship.
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When You Pray: Speaking to God Alone and Together
David Mathis | Our God isn’t just a speaking God — he’s a listening God. Whether we come to him in secret or side by side, God delights to hear his people pray.
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We Read to Get God: Scripture as the Chief Means of Grace
David Mathis | When Christians read the Bible, we’re after more than understanding God’s words. We’re after enjoying God’s Word. We’re after Jesus.
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Know Your Covenant: Christian Habits for the New Era
David Mathis | The new covenant is not a renewed, updated, or expanded covenant — it is actually new. And the new-covenant era calls for new-covenant habits.
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Lord, Savior, and Treasure: The Complex Beauty of Jesus Christ
David Mathis | In Jesus, we find the complex beauty our hearts were made to behold: meekness and majesty, nearness and transcendence, the might of the Lion and the mercy of the Lamb.
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When God Listens: His Ear and Our Access
David Mathis | When we stop and look, we find that we know a lot more about Jesus’s spiritual disciplines than we might think. What can we learn from the prayer life of the Savior?
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How Church Rescues: Christ’s Body as His Means
David Mathis | When we think of spiritual disciplines, we might immediately think of our time alone with God, but the Christian faith is a community project. We all need the body of Christ.
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Where Jesus Travels: Introducing the Means of Grace
David Mathis | Whomever God justifies, he also sanctifies. What means has he given us to keep growing in holiness?
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Where Does Technology Come From? 2024 Scudder Lecture
Tony Reinke | How should Christians orient toward technology? Should we ignore it, embrace it, be suspicious of it, or shun it altogether?
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Before Division Comes: A Playbook for Pastoral Unity
David Mathis | Even among pastor-elder teams, conflict comes. Disagreements are inevitable. How then might we navigate conflict with a constant eye toward God-honoring unity?
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The Word of God Kept Him: Funeral Message for Sidney Boyd (1948–2023)
Why do God’s people wake up as believers day after day until they die? Because the same word that made us goes on keeping us to the end.
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The ‘Ask Pastor John’ Book Is Available
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Appeal from John Piper
John Piper | Your prayers and financial support help us bring more people into the fullest enjoyment of the greatest treasure ever found. For every $10 per month you give, we can reach 70 more people with God-centered resources. Would you join us as a monthly partner? https://dsr.gd/Give
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One Countercultural Calling: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 3
David Mathis | Of the fifteen elder qualifications, “one-woman man” and “not quarrelsome” may be the two most at odds with our promiscuous, petty age.
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Two Main Tasks in Ministry: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 2
David Mathis | Scripture says elders should be “able to teach” and “sober-minded” — but why? The two correspond to a pastor’s most important tasks: feeding and leading.
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Two Ways to Deal with Jesus: Learning Worship from the Wise Men
Matthew’s Christmas story shows two ways to deal with Jesus: try to get rid of him like Herod, or fall down and worship him like the wise men.
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Three Contrasts in a Leader’s Heart: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 1
David Mathis | What does Christ call church leaders to be and do? Like him, they labor heartily and happily, not for selfish gain, but for their people’s joy.
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If God Speaks: One Voice That Changes Everything
David Mathis | To read the Bible is to read the very words of God. Do we grasp the significance, the reality-shaking impact, of this seemingly simple truth?
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Not Dead Yet: Fighting Nine Fears of Old Age
As we age, fears can multiply like wrinkles. But for every concern, we have a blood-bought promise far, far older than our fears.
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Ordinary Elders, Part 2: Governing as Men Who Teach
David Mathis | Pastors are first and foremost teachers, but they are not only teachers. They feed the sheep and lead the sheep — and they lead by feeding.
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Ordinary Elders, Part 1: Working for the Joy of Others
David Mathis | The pastors we all want are men who want to pastor, who want to see God move in them and through them for the joy of others.
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How Majestic Is Our Lord?
David Mathis | When speaking of God, we grope for fresh language to name the greatness of God. Might we learn to reach more often for the word “majesty”?
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Ten Looks at Jesus, Part 2
David Mathis | “For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” How happy might we be if we heeded Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s counsel?
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Ten Looks at Jesus, Part 1
David Mathis | “For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” How happy might we be if we heeded Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s famous counsel?
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The Purposes of God in the Pain of the World
Before he created the earth, God knew pain would plague this world. And not only knew, but planned. And not only planned — but purposed.
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Good Preaching Takes Hard Work
David Mathis | Good preachers carry many burdens before preaching, while preaching, and after preaching — and the rewards still outweigh the costs.
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How to Meet with God for a Lifetime
David Mathis | How do we meet with God in his word for a lifetime? Every morning, seek to gather a day’s portion.
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The Humbled Win the World
David Mathis | Before we step out to attempt big, ambitious things for Jesus, we need to prepare ourselves to receive and embrace the humbling that will inevitably come.