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Who we each are in Christ, with our specific giftings, matters. And who we are as members of the wider church also matters. One does not cancel the other.

Christ fills all things by dying and giving grace and gifts to his church. He is the head, and we are the body. As he reigns, so will we.

The same Jesus that came to earth, lived, taught, died, and rose, is the same Jesus interceding for us now in heaven.

When the Old Testament was written, was it written in light of what would be said in the New Testament?

God gives different gifts in different measures to different people, and he gives them to unite us, not divide us.

We long to belong. We long to be secure. We long for purpose. We long for riches. And all of these are satisfied in God as our Father.

What do you do when you are reading a tough text and not getting much help from commentaries? John Piper models his approach from Ephesians 4:1–6.

We must be eager to keep the unity that Christ purchased with his own blood.

Do you have a quick temper? Do you get angry and find it hard to forgive? If Christ has saved you, he calls you to a long-suffering love.

If biblical meekness does not just mean talking quietly or being soft, what does it mean?

Lowliness isn’t something that we should want just enough of to get by. We should desire “all humility” to glorify Christ.

Lowliness is fitting for the Christian because our redemption cost Christ his life. This should level any and every thought of boasting.

A heart worthy of our calling is lowly, meek, long-suffering, and willing to endure others in love — in other words, it is a heart like Christ’s.

When we are commanded to walk worthily, are we ultimately responsible or does God do this in us?

What does it mean to walk worthily of our calling? Does it mean we finally become deserving of our salvation?

The hope of the Christian calling is precious beyond measure. We walk toward a glory we can’t rightly imagine.

God calls us out of the tomb, out of death, out of condemnation, and out of slavery to sin. We are called into life and joy and freedom in Christ.

The radical life change that Paul calls for in Ephesians is built upon radical truths about God.

Join John Piper as he walks through the first three chapters of Ephesians, showing how the main points relate, all in under twelve minutes.

Do you have moments when you pause from your work, your studies, your responsibilities, your conversations to praise God? Oh, for hearts of worship.

We need more than descriptions of God’s love for us. We need the Spirit to help us know and feel God’s love for us.

Go wide with Christ, go long with Christ, go high with Christ, go deep with Christ. Ask God to immerse you in the love of Christ.

If every Christian already has the Spirit of God, why does Paul pray that the Spirit would dwell in believers’ hearts through faith?

The strength we need for the Christian life is not a strength we possess naturally. We need to be strengthened in the inner man through the Spirit.

How do you determine what a phrase like “the riches of his glory” might mean? Join John Piper as he walks through how he draws truth and reality out of Scripture.

O God, give us strength to comprehend the fullness of your love, that we might be filled with your fullness.

Believers everywhere and throughout time are a new family called by a new name: children of God.

Prayer comes before and after teaching because God must reveal the truth to us for doctrine to have any lasting effect on us.

When a man of God goes to be with the Lord, he is not to be pitied. We can rejoice for him as a man who made it home.

How do we increase our joy in the access we have to our holy God? Through increasing our faith in the crucified Christ.

Nothing that transpired in history as part of God’s saving plan was decided within history. Whatever happens now was planned long ago.

As the church preaches the gospel, demons are forced to watch and relive the glory of God’s triumph over evil.

We use the word “church” over and over in the Christian life, but what exactly does the word really mean?

Preaching, reading, thinking, praying can only get us so far. God must open eyes, awaken souls, enlighten minds, and answer prayer.

That the riches of Christ are unsearchable means that heaven will never become boring — that joy in God will never end.

We need grace to be saved, and to be kept saved. We need power to be made alive, and continual power to be kept alive.

The wonder of the cosmos is how wicked men can boldly approach the throne of the Holy One.

Reading is essential in the Christian life. But not just any reading will do. We must be good readers because God wrote a book.

Were men like the apostle Peter wrong to question the inclusion of the Gentiles in God’s people? Was it hinted in the Old Testament?

The great mystery revealed to Paul was that the Gentiles, former enemies of God, would be brought near by the blood of Christ.

The apostle Paul so believed in the goodness of God that when he suffered and was imprisoned for Christ, he counted it all as grace.

Do you hunger to be with God’s people? God is experienced in our gatherings in ways he cannot be experienced alone.

Are there still prophets today? And how did the prophets function alongside the apostles in the early church?

What exactly is the relationship between Israel in the old covenant and the church in the new?

We lived in fear that we would face the God of wrath in our sin, until Christ came and died so that we might call God, “Father.”

The crescendo of our salvation is that, together with the rest of God’s people, we have God as our Father.

The fundamental problem in our societies is not strife between man and man but strife between God and man.

The reason that Jew and Gentile are now one new man in Christ is because the law has been abolished. What does that mean?

The people of Christ cannot simply give up and walk away from each other in conflict, because we are a part of the same body.

In ripping down the barrier between God and his people, the cross also tore down the barrier between us as people.