25 years ago. In 1986 Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist was published. God has used (and is still using) that book and John Piper to reorient and reshape me into his image and likeness. Back in the fall of 1985 through the spring of 1986 I was taking “Perspectives on the World Christian [...]
Posts Tagged ‘John Piper’
Decisive Moments
Posted in Biblical Studies, Personal growth, tagged John Piper on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Desiring God Conference for Pastors live stream
Posted in Pastoral ministry, Personal growth, tagged John Piper on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite conferences that I have attended numerous times is the Desiring God (Bethlehem) Conference for Pastors, at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, where John Piper pastors. I wanted to attend this year, but was not able to, but still can get in on it live through their video streaming page. Sam Storms [...]
Piper, “Tornado” storm, and Godwin’s Law
Posted in contemporary culture, tagged internet, John Piper, technology on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Piper’s initial post on the tornado that just “happened” to hit the ELCA national conference in Minneapolis right before they were to discuss homosexual clergy has caused a little storm on the internet. He has followed up on it with another, clarifying post. The discussion about it is interesting and fascinating. A related post [...]
Don Carson and studying Scripture vs. devotional reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Pastoral ministry, tagged Don Carson, John Piper, Pastoral ministry on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Don Carson, in a talk on the Scholar as Pastor, made this excellent point on an issue that I have often struggled with as a pastor. It is worth reading, especially if you try to keep your devotional reading apart from your study to preach or teach. Fight with every fiber of your being the [...]
Looking for graduation gifts?
Posted in Books and articles, Personal growth, tagged Desiring God, gifts, graduation, John Piper, Piper on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am always looking for graduation gifts to give students, and I happened on some good deals from Desiring God. You can pick the essential Piper trilogy for $17.49. Or the Don’t Waste Your Life book & dvd set for $15.74. Finally, for those who like sermons on tape, there is the complete mp3 set [...]
Voting as though you were not
Posted in contemporary culture, tagged John Piper, voting on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Piper has a great post on the proper Christian perspective on voting, using 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 as his text. 29 This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though [...]
Overcoming our bent toward blindness in the wonders of the ordinary, Part 3
Posted in General, Personal growth, tagged Clyde Kilby, John Piper, joy, world on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it (Isaiah 42:5) A biblical theology of creation will influence how we view the ordinary things in [...]
Overcoming our bent toward blindness in the wonders of the ordinary, Part 2
Posted in General, Personal growth, tagged Clyde Kilby, I, John Piper, joy, world on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am continuing to quote from Clyde Kilby, whom John Piper cites in chapter 11 of When I Don’t Desire God, downloadable from Desiring God if you click on the title. (See Part 1 here.) 5. I shall not demean my own uniqueness by envy of others. I shall stop boring into myself to discover [...]
Overcoming our bent toward blindness in the wonders of the ordinary
Posted in Personal growth, tagged Clyde Kilby, John Piper, joy, world on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Clyde Kilby was formerly a professor at Wheaton College. He established the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton as a resource center for the study of seven British authors, including C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Kilby was one of the most influential instructors on the life of John Piper. Piper quotes him [...]
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