Showing posts with label John Piper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Piper. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
John Piper on His Annual Writing Leave
John Piper is about to embark once again on his annual writing leave. He has some really great projects in the works and I encourage you to join with me in praying for him during this time. He writes:
Thank you for supporting me in these focused times away. They are not vacation. I usually work longer hours during writing leave than during regular ministry seasons.Also, he includes why he values and pursues writing in the way that he does. One particular reason he writes greatly hits home to the passion that dwells within me for writing:
So please pray for me that I would love my family well and that I would be very productive for the glory of Christ. Pray that I would devote more time to prayer, not less; that I would give more time to read and meditate on the Scriptures, not less; and pray that I would see beautiful truth in God’s word and be able to write about it in spiritually compelling ways.
...there is an inner impulse that I cannot explain that drives me to write. I would write if there were no possibility of publication. I have hundreds of pages that no one has ever seen but me, and it would not matter ultimately if they were destroyed. I wrote them not to be published but because there is an impulse from within.You can view his plan for his writing leave, as well as his other reasons for writing (perhaps the greatest reason being that he writes to make God look great) here. Read more...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
A Sweet and Bitter Providence
John Piper just released a new book entitled A Sweet and Bitter Providence regarding the story of Ruth. Many people I know are reading this book, along with myself, so I thought I would post a video of Piper reading some excerpts from the book.
HT: JT
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Why John Piper Doesn't Have Television
John Piper has a great post on why he doesn't have a television and rarely goes to movies. He writes: It’s the unremitting triviality that makes television so deadly. What we desperately need is help to enlarge our capacities to be moved by the immeasurable glories of Christ. Television takes us almost constantly in the opposite direction, lowering, shrinking, and deadening our capacities for worshiping Christ. One more smaller concern with TV (besides its addictive tendencies, trivialization of life, and deadening effects): It takes time. I have so many things I want to accomplish in this one short life. Don’t waste your life is not a catchphrase for me; it’s a cliff I walk beside every day with trembling. TV consumes more and more time for those who get used to watching it. You start to feel like it belongs. You wonder how you could get along without it. I am jealous for my evenings. There are so many things in life I want to accomplish. I simply could not do what I do if I watched television. So we have never had a TV in 40 years of marriage (except in Germany, to help learn the language). I don’t regret it.
Read his full reasoning here.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Twittering in Church
Joshua Harris and John Piper both have great posts regarding using twitter and other forms of social media while in church. Harris writes in his post:
God's word preached is so important, so precious, I don't want anything to distract me from hearing it. What if those two minutes in which I'm distracted are the two minutes my soul needs the most?Read the rest of his post here and Piper's complimentary post here. Read more...
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