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• When God Became My Song 2026-08-08
  Marshall Segal | God’s presence makes heaven worth wanting. Because of his salvation, Christians not only rest in him and trust in him but sing to…
• Fear That Sings and Dances 2026-08-01
  David Mathis | The hostile army ignored God as long as they could, but when he looked down at them, they panicked. Then his people’s newfound fear…
• Jesus: A Priest After the Order of Melchizedek 2026-07-25
  For the writer to the Hebrews, understanding Melchizedek means understanding Jesus. But how can an ancient king help us know the true King of glory?
• Honor Jesus by Cherishing His Church 2026-07-18
  David Mathis | Why is the writer of Hebrews so enthralled with an often weak and wavering church? He sees her calling, her splendor, and her…
• Sing to the Lord, All the Earth 2026-07-11
  Marshall Segal | Why do we gather to sing week after week, and why should we sing even more? God has saved his people, and all of creation joins in…
• What Stirs the Church to Sing? A Live Lab on Ephesians 1:1–6 2026-07-08
  When the church sets aside every boast and embraces God’s ancient plan of grace, she sings with all her heart for God’s glory alone.
• The Strange and Wonderful Love of Christ 2026-07-04
  Love moved Jesus to let Lazarus die. Why? Jesus wanted Lazarus, his family, and the watching crowd to taste his all-satisfying glory.
• Enjoy Jesus Through His People: Fellowship as a Means of Grace 2026-06-27
  David Mathis | What happens when believers meet together? Christians both give and receive grace from the God who gathers them in true fellowship.
• ‘Moses Wrote of Me’: The Messianic Hope of the Law 2026-06-20
  Jesus claimed that Moses wrote about him long before he ever walked the earth as man. If that’s true, how could anyone miss Jesus in the words of…
• David’s God-Entranced Song: Know It, Feel It, Say It, Sing It 2026-06-13
  When David wrote a song about becoming king, he ascribed all his victories to the God who gave them. How do we join David in such God-besotted praise?
• Steep Your Soul with Christian Meditation 2026-06-06
  David Mathis | How is meditation different from simply reading the Bible? Slowing down and sinking deep into God’s word aids our joy and draws us…
• Graduates, Remember the Rich Young Man: To the Class of 2026 2026-06-03
  There once was a man who gave up everything important so he could cling to things that fade. If we want to follow Jesus, we cannot be like that man.
• Reset Your Mind on Jesus: A Live Lab on Colossians 3:1–4 2026-05-30
  Paul doesn’t just want Christians to know the truths of the Bible — he wants us to set our minds on them. But what does that mean, and how do we do…
• Get Your Heart Happy in God 2026-05-23
  Scott Hubbard | To his friends, George Müller embodied Psalm 23 even under the towering burdens of orphan ministry. What kind of communion with God…
• Make War on Sin with Exercise 2026-05-16
  David Mathis | How can exercise equip us for the daily fight against sin? Training the body for our joy, mind, and will frees us to pursue every…
• The Glory of God in His Glorious Church 2026-05-09
  God fulfills his purpose for the church by his work in the church: He magnifies his grace by beautifying his people.
• Hear His Voice in the Thunder 2026-05-02
  David Mathis | God’s voice thunders through the forests and the pages of Scripture, calling heaven to rejoice and setting his people at peace. Do…
• Radiance, Power, and Purification: The Superiority of Jesus Christ 2026-04-25
  Sharing God’s nature and upholding creation by his word, the heir of all things suffered in our place to purify us from sin. Who is like Jesus Christ?
• The Everyday Bride of Jesus: How Christology Shapes a Local Church 2026-04-18
  David Mathis | The church depends on Jesus Christ for its existence, authority, and ultimate joy. But how does the God-man’s nature direct the…
• Plead for the Insight You Need: Word + Spirit in Pastoral Study 2026-04-11
  For the preaching pastor, each sermon demands a fresh hunt for insight in service of a hungry people. How do we find that life-giving truth?
• Navigate the Impossible: Word + Spirit in Pastoral Wisdom 2026-04-04
  David Mathis | To lead the church faithfully, we need supernatural, sober-minded wisdom. God meets us in his word, by his Spirit, through prayer,…
• True Faith Tastes Future Joy 2026-03-28
  Jesus endured for the joy set before him. Moses obeyed, expecting the Messiah. The early church suffered for a better reward. This is faith.
• Six Paths to Self-Forgetfulness 2026-03-21
  Scott Hubbard | Self-awareness can be good, but it can also go too far. Our thoughts of self often grow quieter when we look to God and follow where…
• Why Would a Christian Exercise? 2026-03-14
  David Mathis | Exercise may seem like a distraction from a life of serving others, but God can use our movement to deepen our joy and broaden our…
• Lead with Your Life: How to Influence in Your Twenties 2026-03-11
  Marshall Segal | When the Bible talks about setting an example, does it mean only super-Christians? No, even the humblest high-school mentor can…
• Be an Iceberg Christian: Setting an Example in Your Youth 2026-02-28
  David Mathis | Pursuing a holy ambition means seeking maturity in Christ more than we seek influence in the world. An enduring example takes hidden…
• Living in God’s Sovereign, Sustaining Grace 2026-02-21
  When God ordains sufferings for the good of his people, he also sustains them and cares for them with all the strength of his love.
• The Power of Hoping in God’s Meticulous Providence 2026-02-14
  Because God’s purposeful sovereignty reaches absolutely everywhere, his gospel can satisfy, his mission will succeed, and his people can never be…
• This Body Must Be Raised: Four Reasons for Your Resurrection 2026-02-07
  Jesus’s glorified body, his purpose for believers, his astonishing power, and the glory of the new creation all insist that the resurrection must…
• Why You Do Not Believe 2026-01-31
  Marshall Segal | Jesus’s sheep are happy to be his, and Jesus will never leave them behind. But why would anyone reject this patient, kind, and…
• The Supremacy of Christ Our Hope 2026-01-24
  There has never been, nor will there ever be, a greater reality than the God we see when we look at Jesus Christ. His very supremacy is our deepest…
• Is God Dishonored When We Grieve? 2026-01-17
  David Mathis | How can we sing in the valley of sorrow? In Christ, joy and grief can coexist — and grief now prepares for us far greater joy in the…
• Sing in the Fullness of the Spirit: A Live Lab on Ephesians 5:15–20 2026-01-10
  What is the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and how does it relate to making music to God in a church gathering? God opens our eyes so we can sing to…
• Enjoying Jesus in Sexual Purity 2026-01-03
  Marshall Segal | Where will we find true blessedness? Sexual sin tempts us to find it in fleeting, false pleasures — but God’s promises hold out a…
• Word, Prayer, and People: Three Habits for Enjoying Jesus 2025-12-27
  David Mathis | Where do we find more of God’s grace to increase our joy in Christ? God has created patterns for us to follow in reading, prayer, and…
• What King Would Come Like This? The Surprising Advent of Jesus 2025-12-20
  David Mathis | When Jesus came to Bethlehem, and later to Jerusalem, he was not the king we expected. He was far, far better.
• Is Joy in Jesus a Christian Obligation? 2025-12-13
  Joy in Jesus is an invitation and a privilege. Is it also a duty? John Piper lays out six reasons joy in God is essential to the Christian life.
• Saving Faith as the Awakening of Joy in Jesus 2025-12-06
  When we believe in Jesus, we receive him as living water, bread of life, and all-satisfying treasure. Saving faith is the awakening of joy in Christ.
• What to Do When Your Spirits Sink 2025-11-29
  David walked with God through disasters, diseases, attacks, and his own sins. What pattern of life did he follow to depend on God through it all?
• Contrite Courage: How the Guilty Lean on Grace 2025-11-15
  How do Christians respond to God’s fatherly indignation against our sin? The prophet Micah teaches us: Respond with brokenhearted boldness, with…
• Enjoy Him: The Call to Commune with Jesus 2025-11-08
  David Mathis | God invites us to quench our thirst by hearing his voice, having his ear, and belonging to his body. So, come stand under the…
• Our All-Nations Charge: What It Means to Be a World Christian 2025-11-01
  Cowardice, consumption, and comfort often stand between us and God’s global work. What can set us free to be world Christians?
• Our Pursuit: Joy Overflowing in Love 2025-10-25
  David Mathis | Does seeking joy in God ruin our love for others? Jesus meant what he said: Remembering God’s radical reward frees us to serve those…
• Jesus’s Pursuit: His Father’s Glory (and His) Through Joy 2025-10-18
  David Mathis | As the Son of God, Jesus pursued his joy and God’s glory in an unrepeatable way — but as man, he stands forth as an example for our…
• God’s Pursuit: His Glory in Our Joy 2025-10-11
  David Mathis | Christian, your joy in God shows the kind of God he is: awesome and glorious, happy and holy, beautiful and delightful beyond…
• The Greatness of God in the Doctrines of Grace: TULIP Session 1 2025-10-04
  What are the doctrines of grace? Before we wade into the depths of these doctrines, we need to know something of the greatness of God.
• The People of His Majesty: Five Marks of a Marveling Church 2025-09-27
  David Mathis | Those who cherish God’s majesty become a certain kind of people: a commending, called, candid, conquering, and soon-to-be crowned…
• How to Pray When Trouble Comes 2025-09-20
  Marshall Segal | How do mature Christians pray when trouble comes? David teaches us from Psalm 86: “Meet my need.” “Glorify your name.” “Teach me…
• The Only Life Worth Living: A Live Lab on Christian Hedonism 2025-09-13
  In Jesus Christ, we find a Treasure more precious than everything we have in life and everything we lose in death.
• Enjoying God: The Key to Christian Education 2025-09-06
  How does the chief end of man — to glorify God by enjoying him forever — shape our approach to classical Christian education?
• Lay Your Buckets Down: Finding Life with the Woman at the Well 2025-08-30
  Marshall Segal | No sin is too great, no place is too far, and no wall is too high to keep us from receiving the living water of Jesus — if only…
• Creation Sings Through Human Lips 2025-08-23
  Tony Reinke | No star or ocean, insect or tree, bird or cloud has a voice to speak God’s praise. But when we rejoice in God, we take creation’s…
• God’s Mission Triumphs Through Prayerful Suffering 2025-08-16
  As Jesus bleeds in Gethsemane and then submits to arrest, we see that the mission of God triumphs through prayerful suffering, not the…
• Will Christ Be Humiliated on the Last Day? To the Class of 2025 2025-08-09
  When Jesus returns in glory, he will stand ashamed of those who were ashamed of him here. But what will it really mean for Jesus to be ashamed?
• Value the Human Body: Technology, Exercise, and the Pursuit of True Joy 2025-08-02
  David Mathis | How might regular exercise serve not just our bodies but our souls, and so make us more ready to honor God by doing good to others?
• Habits of Love: The Graces of Sharing Our Joy 2025-07-26
  David Mathis | Our “habits of grace” prime us for witnessing, giving, and serving — and God uses even these outward expressions to give us even more…
• FEAST: Five Prayers for Daily Bible Reading 2025-07-19
  Marshall Segal | When our Bible meditation feels more like a job than a joy, these five short prayers can take us beyond discipline into delight.
• Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election 2025-07-12
  Why did God set his saving love on his people before the foundation of the world? So that we might praise the glory of his sovereign grace.
• The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus 2025-07-05
  David Mathis | Did Jesus endure the cross for his joy or despite it? The answer takes us to the heart of Jesus’s unusually human joy, and ours.
• Providence: The Purposeful Sovereignty of God 2025-06-28
  It’s one thing to know God is sovereign; it’s another to know just how far his sovereignty extends and the purposes for which he wields it.
• Do You Love Jesus? A Grand Finale of His Greatness 2025-06-21
  David Mathis | At the end of his Gospel, John gives us a grand finale of the mercy, wisdom, greatness, and never-ending glory of Jesus Christ.
• How Doubting Thomas Finds Faith 2025-06-14
  The story of Jesus and Thomas assures us that Jesus really rose bodily, that his patience surpasses our indwelling sin, and that we need not see to…
• Be Still and Know: A Crisis-Ready Vision of God 2025-06-07
  David Mathis | Where do we turn when the ground beneath our feet seems to buckle and shift? Psalm 46 offers a vision of God to keep us through any…
• Where Does Radical Love Come From? 2025-05-28
  How can we be set free from selfishness so that, at any earthly cost to ourselves, we will love other people in a way that makes Christ look great?
• Authentic Preaching in the Age of AI 2025-05-21
  Tony Reinke | In the age of artificial intelligence, do we still need preachers? Answering that question well takes us to the heart of…
• Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus 2025-05-14
  A camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, nor can we turn our own hearts from loving money to loving Jesus. But what is impossible with man…
• Take Care How You Hear a Sermon 2025-05-07
  There is a way to see truth without seeing it — to hear without hearing. For all who listen to sermons, the words of Jesus stand: Take care how you…
• The Privilege of Preaching 2025-04-30
  Though fraught with challenges and temptations to lose heart, preaching the word of God is a glorious privilege. John Piper gives ten reasons why.
• The Power of Preaching 2025-04-23
  God has chosen to bind the fullness of his supernatural effectiveness to the human ministry of the word. So, how might we preach in ways that…
• Big-God Preaching for God-Hungry People 2025-04-16
  David Mathis | Pastor, all your hearers are hungry for the living God, even if they don’t know it or can’t name it. And only big-God preaching will…
• The Glory of Big-God Preaching 2025-04-09
  When preachers herald the glory of God from the heart, the pride of man dies, all of life becomes meaningful, and we rejoice like never before.
• Foundations for the Future of Your Church 2025-04-02
  A church endures in faithfulness only as its leaders and members rejoice in the glory of God, savor the word of God, and treasure the Son of God.
• We Will Go Out with Joy: Christian Fellowship as a Means of Grace 2025-03-26
  David Mathis | Fellowship is not a nice addition to personal Christianity but a vital means of grace. Through fellowship, we help each other hold…
• Blessed Satisfaction: The Sin-Slaying, Soul-Staggering Glory of Christ 2025-03-19
  We were made to see and savor, with everlasting satisfaction, the soul-staggering glory of Christ. Only then will our lusts lose their power.
• The Glory of God for Doubting Minds and Dull Hearts 2025-03-15
  When we see the glory of God in his word, we know for sure and we rejoice forever. Glory persuades and pleases, gives certainty and satisfaction.
• What the World Needs from Your Church 2025-03-05
  Chipper churches leave no lasting impression on the world. The greatest gift we have to give is indomitable joy in Jesus in the midst of suffering…
• Supernatural Pastors: How to Minister in God’s Strength 2025-01-25
  Brothers, if we are going to do good — lasting good — to our churches, then we must preach and lead and counsel and serve in the strength that God…
• Sorrows Are Normal for Now: What to Expect on Your Journey Home 2025-01-15
  David Mathis | In this fallen world, expect suffering and sorrows. But also know that, in Christ, they are limited, designed, and rewarded by a kind…
• How to Feed a Pastor: The Secret Life of a Happy Man 2025-01-11
  David Mathis | As pastors, our first priority each day is not to serve God, help his people, or engage in other ministry, but to get our soul happy…
• I Want You to Be a Christian Hedonist 2025-01-01
  David Mathis | Do you want God to look good in your life? Then heed his invitation to find your deepest hunger, deepest thirst, and deepest longings…