From the DWYL podcast: SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wow. Don’t Waste Your Life.", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2009/07/05/wow-dont-waste-your-life/" });

“God’s work in us does not eliminate our work; it enables it.  We work because he is the one at work in us.  Therefore, the fight for joy is possible because God is fighting for us and through us.  All our efforts are owing to his deeper work in and through our willing and working.” - John Piper (still looking for in which of his books I first read this) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Enabled", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2009/02/06/enabled/" });

John Piper: “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The idolatrous false-gospel of the prosperity gospel", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/07/04/the-idolatrous-false-gospel-of-the-prosperity-gospel/" });

A while back my email inbox had an article from John Piper in it: "When Satan Hurts Christ’s People: Reflections on Why Christians Suffer Losses ." Knowing loss (to some degree) first hand in my life and desiring to want to learn how to grieve better, I was enamored with the topic. Indeed "Why?" is one of the predominant questions in our society, and we as Christians want to not just give pat answers (argh!) but to love and encourage and be able to communicate God’s answers (which people may not want) for questions they are asking, and in forms they can readily grasp. In...

From dontwasteyourlife.com (DWYL on YouTube ) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Preach God’s thoughts, not just your own", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/05/05/preach-gods-thoughts-not-just-your-own/" });

By its nature, saving faith loves God and delights in God as the sum of all that could ever satisfy the soul. —John Piper, Future Grace , p. 252. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Saving faith delights in God", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/04/24/saving-faith-delights-in-god/" });

In a Theology course we are working through personal doctrinal statements; one of the first was on Jesus Christ. The inherent problem with black letters on white paper is they do not convey the infinite beauty and worth of the One being depicted. (That is my weakness, not Christ’s.) Oh that I could state the supremacy of Jesus Christ with precision and passion in which John Piper does: From “Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, Part 2” 2004 Desiring God National Conference SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Had to add some passion to my doctrinal statement", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/04/18/had-to-add-some-passion-to-my-doctrinal-statement/"...

John Stott writes in Between Two Worlds: It is my contention that all true Christian preaching is expository preaching. Of course, if by an “expository” sermon is meant a verse-by-verse explanation of a lengthy passage of Scripture, then indeed it is only on possible way of preaching, but this would be a misuse of the word. Properly speaking, “exposition” has a much broader meaning. It refers to the content of the sermon (biblical truth) rather than its style (a running commentary). To expound Scripture is to bring out of the text what is there and expose it to view. The...

God glorifies Himself toward the creatures also in two ways: 1) By appearing to . . . their understanding. 2) In communicating Himself to their hearts, and in their rejoicing and delighting in and enjoying the manifestations which He makes of Himself . . . . God is glorified not only by His glory’s being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it, God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart. (Jonathan Edwards, The “Miscellanies,” ed. by Thomas Schafer, The Works...

Pride is an issue of where your satisfaction is. —John Piper, Future Grace , p. 91. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pride + satisfaction", url: "http://www.deTheos.com/2008/03/30/pride-satisfaction/" });