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Why I Tweet | by John Piper
I see two kinds of response to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others. One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink...
Should we teach that good works come with saving faith?
By John Piper I don’t think that question will ever be settled at the experiential level. You may settle it in a group with some sentences that are biblically grounded, but the reason it won’t be settled experientially is because human beings are wired to be legalists. We are wired to trust in what we...
How can I explain God's love to a suffering child?
My guess is that children, maybe even more than adults, are able to understand that God’s final deliverance will make up for all the pain of the present. They may not be able to grasp with great sophistication the fact that this very moment God’s love is being manifested in and through suffering. But a...
Is it possible to not worship Jesus and still be moral?
If we don’t value God for who he really is, then our behavior, which is intended to be the outgrowth of our valuing of God, is going to reflect that skewed understanding of God. The very essence of morality is not the deed we’re doing—for example, not stealing, or helping somebody change a tire on...
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