Posts Tagged John Piper
Wolves in sheeps clothing…..
Posted by Phil in False Gospel on December 8, 2009
Over at Challies there was a link, to a new series from John MacArthur on the 'Fraudsters' masquerading as Christians.
In the weeks to come, we're going to be looking at the preposterous claims and false teachings of some of religious television's best-known figures. We'll analyze why a disproportionate number of celebrity faith-healers and prosperity preachers have succumbed to serious immorality. And we'll see what Scripture says about how Bible-believing Christians ought to respond. I hope this series will challenge you to take a more active stand against the phony miracles and false teachings that are being peddled in the name of Christ.
For the Link go here – Shephardsfellowship.org
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John Piper – Why I abominate the prosperity gospel
What is your treasure?
A video from Desiring God (Don’t waste your life:John Piper)
So what is your treasure?
John Piper: Desirng God
Posted by Phil in Books review, General on November 3, 2009
I have just been having my weekly dose over at Irish Calvinist’s blog, and he has highlighted that ‘Christian Audio’ for the month of November are giving away free, the audio book from John Piper, ‘Desiring God’.
- Desiring God (Unabridged) by John Piper
Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering classic, newly revised and expanded, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn’t truly exist: Delight is our duty.
You can get it here Christian Audio or visit Irish Clavinists blog here
What’s the difference between praying to Jesus and praying to the Father in the name of Jesus?
When we pray, do we pray to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit or is it a mixture of all 3 in one? I had never really put much thought into this until reading John pipers response to the question:
What’s the difference between praying to Jesus and praying to the Father in the name of Jesus?
Of course we pray to the Father through the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit, but don’t we also talk to Jesus, thanking Him and praising Him. I like how John puts it, below is Johns answer.
“The difference is whom you’re talking to. And I think it is both right and inevitable to pray to all members of the Trinity.
Having said that, I think it is normal, because of the way Jesus says it, to talk to the Father in the name of the Son. Because Jesus says, “Whatever you ask the Father in my name, I will give it to you.”
That’s the pattern that Jesus seemed to set up: “My Father is the great giver. I am the mediator between you and my Father. I have died to pay for all the answers to prayer that you will ever get.”
Therefore, the normal way to think about coming to God in order to receive blessing is coming by the Spirit, through the Son, to the Father. That’s just normal.
We should know how the Spirit works to stir us up to pray, how the Son works to purchase all the answers to prayer, and how the Father works as the great originator and giver of all things. And it’s good to know that, because they did it that way together.
The Trinity worked together to make answers to prayer possible. But once you know that, that they all teamed up to do this for you, you can’t not thank them! You can’t not say to Jesus, “Thank you for dying for me!” You can’t not sing to him.
I was just singing this morning a song (the chorus is, “No merit of my own His anger to suppress…”—that one) and it is sung about “him,” and I sang it once that way. And then I just said, “I’m going to see if this works with ‘you’ instead of ‘him.’ I want to sing to you!” So I sang to Jesus this morning.
And I think the Father was pleased and the Son was pleased. And I think the Spirit was especially pleased, because he was sent into the world to magnify the Son.
When I say “inevitable,” I think the saved heart so loves what the Spirit did, what the Son did, and what the Father did that he can’t not not tell them.”
Watch the video of John Piper here
Prosperity Gospel
John Piper, gets straight to the point.