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In 1980, Bethlehem Baptist Church hired 34-year-old John Piper as lead pastor. Pastor John reflects on the life experience and biblical worldview that prepared him for ministry. 

Modern psychology defines happiness as “self-fulfillment.” But without God, our souls will always long for greater satisfaction and joy. 

Can God act as a Christian’s enemy through suffering? Pastor John explains how God’s painful providences do not conflict with his enduring love for his children. 

<p>Friends, there’s a great temptation for us to turn the Lord into a distant spiritual entity or a difficult moral taskmaster. We incorrectly believe that we have to crawl our way to the divine by our own heroism, merit, and effort. But this is not the case. In actuality, God, i ... Show More

What if you’ve been missing your purpose because you’ve been looking in the wrong place? Learn how to see God moving right where you are.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

As readers of the Bible, we often get caught in the mindset of reading the Bible to find ourselves. It is true that the Bible is full of the ways that God loves us, the beautiful ways that God created us, and how He longs to be invited into our lives. These are beautiful truths; ... Show More

It is said that God was in the world for the world was created by Him but the world did not recognize Him. We have made images of God that are more unlike Him than like Him. Therefore, the first thing we need to do if we want to find God is have the readiness to realize that our ... Show More

<p>Friends, for this Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our first reading from the marvelous book of Wisdom presents an old biblical trope: If you were to ask God for something, or if God were to come to you and say he will give you whatever you want—what would you ask for? T ... Show More

Listen today as Derek brings us back to the Garden of Eden to take a closer look at what God said and how Adam and Eve became alienated from God. What were Satan’s subtle strategies? When we are aware of them, we will be better able to resist him. Determine to press into God’s Wo ... Show More