After reading my post on Zac Smith’s cancer a while back, a friend of mine saw a link in the sidebar to a related post, “The Grace of Cancer,” and left a comment challenging my choice of words when I repeatedly said that God gave cancer to a man from our church to bring him [...]
Tag Archives: John Piper
Was the Oil Spill an Act of God?
Rick Warren tweeted earlier today, “When people call an ocean oil spill caused by human drilling ‘an Act of God,’ THAT, friends, is taking God’s name in vain!” To my surprise, I enjoy a lot of what Warren tweets, but in this case I think he has it precisely backwards. Failing to attribute to God [...]
Cost of Discipleship and Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die—Free
ChristianAudio.com offers by The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper for free this month. Use coupon code MAR2010 for the first and MAR2010B for the second. You’ll have to place two separate orders since you can’t use two coupon codes at the same time.
Creation, Evolution, and the Age of the Earth
I’ve seen several posts recently on the subject of creation, evolution, and the age of the earth. If you missed them and are interested in these kinds of discussions, you may want to give them a read. Do you believe God created the earth in six literal 24-hour days? by Randy Alcorn Why I’m Not a Creationist [...]
Driscoll and Piper on Love and God’s Commands
I follow Mark Driscoll on Twitter and just watched a little 4:27 video that he tweeted about: “Song of Solomon Q&A 3.” I’ve embedded it below. It contains some solid practical advice for troubled marriages. On the whole, it’s good stuff. Two items caught my attention—particularly because of how they seem to be at odds [...]
The Second Best Book in the World
I read an endorsement recently that really grabbed my attention. A well-known individual described a book that is not very well known in these terms: This book is much better than any other book in the world, excepting the Bible, in my opinion. The individual was Jonathan Edwards. The book was Peter Van Mastricht’s A [...]
Piper on the Election
Good stuff. John Piper shares his heart on womanhood, race, abortion, the prophetic perspective, the sovereignty of God, and the gospel as they relate to the election. HT: JT
More Thoughts on Regret
About two months ago I wrote a blog post on the subject of regret, in which I raised some questions about whether regret will be a part of the experience of the glorified in the new creation. I suggested with some uncertainty that I’m inclined to think that it will not be. My thoughts were [...]
Interview with N. T. Wright
Said at Southern points to a video interview with N. T. Wright that took place at Asbury Seminary in November of 2007. (Here’s the announcement about Wright’s visit.) Several minutes in Wright shares some brief thoughts on Piper’s book The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright. The audio from Wright’s chapel talks [...]
“When I’m stumped . . . I go to Henry Alford.”
by Phil Gons on 23. May, 2008 in Exegesis, Greek, Software
Dan Phillips, who blogs at Biblical Christianity and Pyromaniacs, emailed me about a month ago and asked me about making Henry Alford’s The Greek Testament: With a Critically Revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to Verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary available for Libronix. In that email [...]