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God’s Passion for His Own Glory

Is it right for God to pursue His own glory? We know it isn’t right for any of us to pursue our own glory, so is it ok for God? John Piper has worked throughout his long career of preaching and writing to explain why God must be for Himself in order to truly be...

The Conversion of C.S. Lewis

Jack (C.S.) Lewis was a 32 year old professor at Oxford, walking across campus with two friends – 39 year old Ronald (J.R.R.) Tolkien and 35 year old Hugo Dyson. Lewis was an atheist, Tolkien a devout Catholic and Dyson a committed Christian. Their stroll became...

Hope and Power to Change

We all struggle with various hardships and challenges. Some things are simply the result of living in a broken and fallen world. Others are the consequences of choices we have made – both for better and for worse. The question is: how can we get beyond just...

Rock Solid Reasons to Believe

Few historians question the fact that a Jewish Rabbi named Jesus of Nazareth lived and taught around 2,000 years ago. (We do, after all, divide history between the time before and the time after him.) Since the discovery of the Pilate Stone (the image to the right),...

The Light Went Out

This Sunday (April 29) we reach the central truth of the Gospel: Jesus died. We started with the foundational truth that Jesus Christ is Lord. He could accomplish His work only because of who He was. As the eternally divine Son of God in a fully human body Jesus was...