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If God Is Your Father, Grace Flows Continually: Colossians 1:1–2, Part 5 – John Piper
The people who have God as their Father are the recipients of his inheritance, namely, boundless grace and perfect peace. Watch Now Read More Desiring God
End of the Global South? Updating the State of World Missions – F. Lionel Young III
ABSTRACT: In the early 1980s, missionary and researcher David Barrett published the World Christian Encyclopedia, a massive survey of global Christianity and missions. Since then, the work of Barrett and…
God So Loved Himself – David Mathis
What is the good that makes the gospel good news? If the present, and especially the future, that the Christian gospel offers is undesirable, unimpressive, boring, bland, and unenjoyable, then…
Caring for Families with Cross-Dressing Children – John Piper
Should parents allow children to cross-dress? Pastor John explains why this cuts across the grain of God-created reality and how to offer counsel to Christian parents. Listen Now Read More…
The Ministry of the Pew: Sunday Morning for Normal Christians – Greg Morse
The first step is to survive the coordinated attacks from the children. An ex-nihilo stain suddenly appears on my daughter’s dress. An episode from my son responding to his sister’s…
No Little Moms, No Little Homes – Tanner Swanson
We must remember throughout our lives that in God’s sight there are no little people and no little places. (The Lord’s Work in the Lord’s Way & No Little People,…
Productive Imprisonment and Beloved Partners: Colossians 1:1–2, Part 4 – John Piper
Prison, for the apostle, was not a time for pity parties, but for productive labor on behalf of local churches. Watch Now Read More Desiring God
Should the World Like Us or Hate Us? – John Piper
Jesus promised that his followers would be “hated by all,” but Paul said pastors must be “well thought of by outsiders.” So should the world like us or hate us?…
Why Do Christians Struggle to Love? – Jon Bloom
Why do Christians find it so hard to love one another? I don’t ask the question as just one more critic of the church’s failures — I have trouble enough…