For eighteen centuries men have laboured to find some other medicine for weary consciences, but have laboured in vain. Thousands, after blistering their hands, and growing grey in hewing out ‘broken cisterns that can hold no water’ (Jeremiah 2:13), have been obliged to come back at last to the Old Fountain, and have confessed in [...]
Theology
Related: This audio excerpt is from a message John Piper delivered at the 2004 Desiring God National Conference entitled “Sex and the Supremacy of Christ – Part 2.” You can read or download the message at Desiring God.
Related: This audio excerpt is from a sermon John Piper delivered on November 26, 2006 entitled “God Strengthens Us by the Gospel.” You can read or download the message at Desiring God.
Question: What is the chief end of man? Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. Source: The Westminster Shorter Catechism – Question 1
We are not justified by the doctrine of justification by faith. We can believe this doctrine, give intellectual assent to its truth, and even contend for it with our all without ever having the faith that alone will justify us. Our justification is not accomplished by a profession of faith. The evangelical world has never [...]
Truth revealed to any, carries with it an immovable persuasion of conscience that it ought to be published and spoken to others! —John OwenThe Duty of Pastors and People Distinguished
One of the reasons missions is at the heart of Christianity is that Jesus teaches us to see the world utterly differently that we ordinarily see it. If you simply view the world the way it is seen in television and secular media and public education and theater, missions will make no sense and be [...]
The prevailing doctrine of justification today is not justification by faith alone. It’s not even justification by good works or a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in Western culture today is justification by death. It’s assumed that all one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of [...]
There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the Gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive distortions or over simplifications. People think they’re preaching the Gospel to you when they tell you, “you can have a purpose to your life”, or that “you can [...]
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is [...]
