“Cancer quickly reveals who and what we ultimately trust. It can bring life into eternal perspective, so long as we don’t despair in our illness. If we feast on Christ, we will find our sins don’t taste so rich any longer. Even well-known pastors must fight this battle. They might appear to have it all, but they actually have more cause for despair that we usually imagine. Thousands turn out to hear them speak in conferences. Thousands more buy their books. Megachurches sprout where they serve. But cancer threatens to end that influence. Of all people, they are tempted to think they are too important for God to take.”

- Collin Hansen (“When the Pastor Suffers“)

From “I’ll Be Honest”

John Piper – You Must Suffer from I’ll Be Honest on Vimeo.

John Piper – You Must Suffer

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“We engage as recovering fools with empathy for the foolish.”

- John Piper

I put this together after the 2006 DG National Conference that I attended.  The music is from “The Rock”.  Enjoy.

Download audio file (Desiring_God_2006_(excerpts).mp3)

Absolutely great stuff.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ca469PTa1I

“Don’t Waste Your Life” by Lecrae from the new Rebel album, with clips from the “Don’t Waste Your Life” sermon by John Piper.

Download audio file (Dont_Waste_Your_Life_(Piper_Mix).mp3)

This is just too good.

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The Desiring God Blog announced a very interesting evening of lectures by D.A. Carson and John Piper on what it means to be a Pastor-Theologian.

More info can be found here.

“Our posture shouldn’t be one of anger and triumphalism but compassion and humility. We remember that what saved us from our foolishness wasn’t a political debate or a ballot box but the gospel about Jesus and the sovereign working of God.

We engage as recovering fools with empathy for the foolish.”

- John Piper (emphasis added)

The full post can be read here.

Came across this on the Desiring God blog.

Test Revival with Doctrine

Excellent words by Brother Piper.

I finally listened to Piper’s sermon “How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice” (GREAT sermon by the way) from Together for the Gospel 2008, and I wanted to share this quote from that sermon:

“A radical willingness to risk, sacrifice, suffer is the only authentic ministry.  Because, Jesus said that you will, if you’re serious about him, suffer.  Not may suffer, will suffer.”

- John Piper

Here is a small sampling of some of today’s posts from the Reformed Blogosphere:

The Church, The State, & The Christian – New Attitude

The Fad-Driven Church – Team Pyro

We Get the Feast, He Gets the Fame – Desiring God

John Frame Talks About Going to Seminary – SWBTS Bloggers

Recap: Spurgeon is the Man Week – The Resurgence