Look at the Book

As pastors, we must actively strive to make it clear that we do not do what we do for money.

God counts it a beautiful thing when churches show that their treasure is in heaven by giving to kingdom work on earth.

How can I go hungry to the glory of God? How can I lose a child to the glory of God? How can I receive a promotion to the glory of God?

We tend to think contentment in Christ is hardest when life is hard, and easier when life is more comfortable, but reality says the opposite.

If we are truly content in Christ, our contentment will increasingly silence all our grumbling.

The secret to overcoming obstacles is not believing that you can do anything you put your mind to, but doing whatever you do in the strength of Christ.

Real happiness is untethered from this world. Whether we abound or are brought low, we have Christ.

A wise person not only knows what he wants to say, but how others will hear him say it.

How can I live to experience peace in the presence of God?

What do you think about most? How you answer the question will reveal how much of the peace of God you experience.

One way to find peace beyond our circumstances is to set our minds on things above our circumstances.

The peace of God is not a calm stream to jump in when life becomes difficult. It is a home we live in, at all times, as we wait for heaven.

Replace anxiety with this way of life: In whatever would make you anxious and cause you not to rejoice, go vertical in prayer.

Paul says, “Do not be anxious about anything,” but does that really mean anything? Is any Christian anxiety good?

“The Lord is at hand.” The apostle Paul wrote that more than 2,000 years ago, so why hasn’t Jesus come yet?

Let people hear your gentle responses. Let God hear your cries for help.

How could we possibly, in our world full of sin and death, “rejoice always”?

Countless ways exist to ruin your eternity and go to hell. Only one Way leads to eternal life: Jesus Christ.

Sin’s burden breaks the soul’s back. Jesus’s burden strengthens the soul and leads to rest.

Christ invites you to lay down self-sufficiency and come find rest for your soul in him, a rest that can never be taken.

Thousands saw Jesus, but did not see him. Millions read the Bible and do not worship Jesus. Salvation belongs to the Lord.

The pride of man is eternally humbled by the simple fact that unless God reveals himself to us, we could never have repented or believed.

If God does not reveal himself to us, even the wisest, the strongest, the richest will not find him.

God has hidden works from some that if performed would have caused them to repent. Why?

Some cities, Jesus says, are worse than Sodom. How they responded to him increased their judgment.

Even healing can be dangerous, if we do not reckon with the purpose of our healing: repentance.

The frustrations and grievances we carry against other Christians would feel different if we could see their names written in the book of life.

Pastors are not called to create unity in the body of Christ. They are called to help their people maintain it.

Reconciliation between believers in our churches will require more than the pastor’s preaching or our private Bible reading.

Christians share more than the same worldview. They share the same heart, the same mind, the same body, and the same Savior.

Some people who teach the Bible should not be teaching the Bible. Here is an example from the Bible.

Jesus is not a small Savior for small sins against God. Jesus is the global Savior for a world full of children of wrath.

From the small and lowly city of Bethlehem came the great ruler of the whole world.

The prophecies of the Bible can be confusing. One way to help us interpret them is to understand how prophets saw the future.

If men and women and children could see rightly, they would fall over themselves to enter the kingdom of a King like ours.

Only he whose hands bear the scars of nails, hands strong enough to bear our wrath, can hold the scepter over the redeemed people of God.

When God came to conquer his enemies, he prevailed so thoroughly that they became useful for his purposes and our good.

The Bible is beautifully coherent. Join John Piper as he studies the great prophecy given of Jesus in Isaiah.

If you read the Bible and don’t feel anything, cry out to God, “Satisfy me in the morning with your steadfast love.”

We are so prone to distraction. Has the prayer “Unite my heart to fear your name” ever been more relevant?

God must give us both eyes to see his glory in the word and hearts to love that glory.

What can I do when I don’t want to read my Bible?

When Paul thought of Christian ministry, he thought of a soldier, an athlete, and a farmer. Do you?

You do not need new curriculum to disciple someone in the Bible; you need supernatural strength from God.

If you think you have received grace but have no new power to seek God and kill sin, you may not have received God’s grace.

Those who expect to have spiritual insight without thinking hard do not know how God gives understanding.

If you desire God to get glory from your life, take your joy in him very seriously.

Pursuing greater, deeper joy in God increases, not diminishes or hinders, our love for other people.

Suffering with joy in this world is one of the greatest advertisements for the reality of the next.

Joy in Christ is not passive or timid. It severs, with holy aggression, all boasting and self-pity still within us.