Today’s Spurgeon reading came at a perfect time as I’ve found myself dwelling, perhaps a bit too much, on certain mysteries lately.
From September 5: (This is from the edited modern language version. If you are a traditionalist, replace all You’s with Thee’s and call it good).

Some things in nature remain a [...]

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So we all know John Piper’s perspective on being a people who have a tendency to shrink back when trial comes. In this sound bite (about 3:10 long) he really puts this into perspective concretely. The whole sermon is very good, but I found this particularly challenging.
From the sermon What Faith Knows and Hopes For, [...]

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Heard Piper say this in a sermon this morning.
“For most people today, if there is a god, he exists to be thanked briefly after a close call, and questioned thoroughly after a tragedy.”
I think this is true for most Christians. We need to regularly be strengthening and refining our doctrine of suffering. God is not [...]

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The sovereignty of God is certainly clear in many of the Psalms, but this one struck me this morning.
 
3 When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions. 4 Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the [...]

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Piper has a great blog post over at Desiring God:

Man is great. But compared to God’s greatness, “What is man that you are mindful of him?” The universe is designed to remind us of this distance between’s God’s infinite greatness, and man’s finite greatness. Man must reside on tiny planet earth in a seemingly infinite [...]

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Next time someone wants to reel you in and over-emphasize “cultural relevance” when it comes to sharing the gospel, remind them that the fads and trends we see today are no different from what Christians have seen throughout history. While it is possible to become irrelevant, presenting the gospel the way it has always been [...]

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After the Dateline program on the terrible 2006 crash that killed five Taylor University students and the subsequent case of mistaken identities, I kept thinking about the why God would allow such a thing to happen to his own. It seems bizarre and random, not the kind of thing that would happen to His chosen. [...]

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From Leviticus 19:
“You shall not hate your brother in your heart…”
“…but you shall love your neighbor as yourself…”
“…and you shall love [a stranger] as yourself…”
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Heb 13:8).
Praise be to God for his Word, both Old and New Testament!

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I found the below video clip of no surprise, but interesting. Don’t know if I fully like the melodrama of the clip, but I think the theological point is very valid. Of course this is not a true church any more than the Roman Catholic church is. However, by all accounts this is really taking off for Oprah. Oprah [...]

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Here’s a post from Fide-O. Interesting video from the Together For the Gospel conference. What Is The Gospel

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