Sometimes, I meet people and they have been legitimately wounded by others from their past. And as they go through life, they see life through the lens of their wounds. Everyone has let them down. Everyone is sinful. Everyone is selfish while THEY are completely innocent. And even if you counsel such people, they can’t […]
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Philippians 2: Humility is Reality (pt2 of 3)
Going back to Paul rejoicing on the one hand about Christ being preached even though the preachers were preaching out of rivalry, and then, on the other hand, Paul telling the Philippians to do nothing out of rivalry or conceit–what can we make of this apparent contradiction? Here is my take. Scripture is clear. It […]
2 Corinthians 4 – Teaching #3: The Gospel of Christ (pt1 of 3)
Main thesis: Sin makes us crave darkness, produces ignorance and causes us to pursue self-glory while the gospel shines light, illumines minds and frees us to pursue the glory of God. I want you to be able to walk away from this sermon with this one line. Sin does 3 things and the gospel does […]
Matthew 2-3 – True Repentance (pt1 of 4)
Happy Mother’s Day! Hope you had a chance to thank your mom today. Husbands, I trust that you’ve been extra nice to your wife. If you haven’t already, take her out to a nice dinner. Cook, do the dishes, laundry, give her a break. Being a mom is very hard and often a thankless job. […]
Sex, Lies, Arrogance: What Makes Powerful Men Behave So Badly?
Here is a Time article written by Bruce Crumley and Jeffrey T. Iverson / Paris; Jeffrey Kluger / New York; and Massimo Calabresi and Katy Steinmetz / Washington on May 19, 2011. When her husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn was preparing to run for President of France five years ago, Anne Sinclair told a Paris newspaper that […]
John Piper's Upcoming Leave of Absence
As you may have already heard in the sermon from March 27–28, the elders graciously approved on March 22 a leave of absence that will take me away from Bethlehem from May 1 through December 31, 2010. We thought it might be helpful to put an explanation in a letter to go along with the […]