John Piper’s recent sermon at Mars Hill in Seattle for Resurgence will make you wrestle, think, and hopefully worship. I highly recommend that you listen to it. Here are some of the self-examining questions that are posed in this sermon:

Is my discovery that God made me in his image and undertaken extraordinary lengths [...]

Ezekiel 13:2-3, 22-23:
“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the Lord!’ Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!… Because you have disheartened the righteous [...]

What does the bible say about the eternal destiny of those who never have an opportunity to hear the gospel?  Recent confusion over how to answer this question has effectively decentralized missions and evangelism from the evangelical church.  Pre-order Piper’s newest book, Jesus: the only way to God – Must you hear the gospel to [...]

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Ezekiel 11:17-21
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel.’ And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.  [...]

The reason why almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life: because they cannot bear to lose the sight of such a beautiful and lovely world – the ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, but bring a pleasure that, [...]

every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit as well as the sun in the heavens-that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their courses.  The creeping of an aphis over the rosebud is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.  He [...]

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The same power that made things to be, that first moment that ever they were, is now exercised to make them to be this moment and is continually exercised to make them to be every moment that they are.  God’s preservation of the world is nothing but a continued act of creation… Whenever a body [...]

This globe of the earth, if we attempt to conceive of it, appears a thing of a mighty bulk. Some other of the heavenly hosts are immensely greater in bulk. The sun is a body in comparison of which the earth is but a little speck, but this is as nothing in comparison [...]