We may content ourselves by saying over the sin of Adam and Eve what Joseph said over the sin of his brothers when they sold him into slavery: “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Gen 50:20).
As for you, Adam and Eve, you meant evil against God as [...]
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Oh What an Infinite Good He Planned through Your Fall!
Posted in Suffering and the Sovereignty of God on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Greatest Display of the Glory of God’s Grace
Posted in John Piper, sovereignty, suffering on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The suffering of the utterly innocent and infinitely holy Son of God in the place of utterly undeserving sinners to bring us to everlasting joy is the greatest display of the glory of God’s grace that ever was, or ever could be.
This was the moment — Good Friday — for which everything in the universe [...]
Looking Straight Past Satan to God
Posted in John Piper, sovereignty, suffering on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the academic classroom and in the apologetics discussion, the agency of Satan in our suffering may lift a little of the burden of God’s sovereignty for some; but for others, like Job, there is more security and more relief and more hope and more support and more glorious truth in despising Satan’s hateful hand and [...]
The Popular God of Fun-Church
Posted in Christ and Culture, John Piper, contextualization, irrelevance, suffering on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible, much of the church is choosing, at this very moment, to become more light and shallow and entertainment-oriented, and therefore successful in its irrelevance to massive suffering and evil. The popular God of fun-church is simply too small and too affable to hold a hurricane in [...]
Infinitely Relevant and Intolerably Repulsive
Posted in Jesus, John Piper, abortion, health and wealth, not of this world, politics on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That liberals justify their support for butchery in the name of freedom, and conservatives justify their indifference to the miseries of poverty in the name of freedom, does not conceal the selective nature of the freedoms they want. The one says, Keep your hands off my body. The other says, Keep your hands off my [...]
Whatever Conversation or Dialogue or Debate Is Appropriate
Posted in John Piper, doctrine, education on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The fact that we all have blind spots and profit from perspectives different from our own does not imply that we should hire someone to teach those perspectives in our pulpit or class room. It means we read and listen and carry on whatever conversation or dialogue or debate is appropriate.
In my 22 years of [...]
Christ is All, and in All
Posted in John Piper, Paul, racism, sermons on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Christ ethnic and social differences cease to be obstacles to deep, personal, intimate fellowship. Colossians 3:9-11, “You have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and [...]
Piper’s Mother
Posted in John Piper, racism, sermons on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My mother, who washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, “Shut up!” to my sister, would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially. She was under God the seed of my salvation in more ways than one. When our church voted not to admit [...]
Job
Posted in John Piper, Poetry, sovereignty, suffering on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Light candle one, and count the cost;
And ponder everything we’ve lost.
And let us bow before the throne
Of God, who gives and takes his own,
And promises, whatever toll
He takes, to satisfy our soul.
Come learn the lesson of the rod:
The treasure that we have in God.
He is not poor nor much enticed
Who loses everything but Christ
…
This candle [...]
