In 2003, I was a college student in Romania in need of some encouragement from pastors and teachers back in the U.S. An American pastor friend of mine recommended I listen to the preaching of two pastors: Rob Bell and James MacDonald. (Amazing that just eight years ago the ministries of these two men were [...]
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Piper: "Care About All Suffering Now, Especially Eternal Suffering Later"
February 3, 2011 – 3:14 am
Suffering in this world is terrible and limited, but suffering in the next world is terrible and eternal. And love sees it that way. Love does not shut its eyes to this world or that world. Love reckons with the reality of suffering here, and the worse reality of suffering there. And what I see [...]
Which Counterfeit Gospels are Most Prevalent Today?
January 20, 2011 – 3:04 am
The temptation when writing a book like Counterfeit Gospels is to focus on everything wrong with everyone else. I didn’t want to write that kind of book, as it didn’t strike me as particularly constructive. Instead, I thought long and hard about the doubts and struggles of people in my congregation. I also looked within [...]
