Just heard some tragic news. Send some prayers out on behalf of the Warren family. (CNN) –After a lifelong battle with mental illness, the youngest son of Pastor Rick Warren has committed suicide, his family said. Matthew Warren, 27, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday, said Deputy Daniel Aikin, with the Orange […]
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John Piper reflects on his first day after retiring from the pastorate
I’ve been thinking about how much I love finishing things. I get great pleasure in finishing — a poem, a sermon, a book, or cutting the grass, or fixing the dripping faucet, or selling our car. It’s hard for me to walk away from something half done. But, of course, anything that takes longer than […]
John Piper’s final sermon at Bethlehem Baptist Church
God Raised Your Great Shepherd from the Dead from Desiring God on Vimeo. On January 27, 1980 I preached my candidating sermon at Bethlehem on Philippians 1:20, “It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be magnified in […]
Quotes from Charles Stanley about Prayer
My whole life has been wrapped in asking, Who is God? How do I have an intimate relationship with him? How can I listen to him knowing that he’s the one doing the speaking? I want the Holy Spirit to interpret the truth to me. I think that quiet intimacy with him, for me, is […]