Posts Tagged: worship

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Apr 11

Desiring God’s John Piper answers my question…

John Piper and the Bethlehem Baptist Seminary are hosting live webcasts of class discussions over Piper’s book Desiring God.  During these live webcasts, Piper takes questions from his students and also questions submitted via Twitter.

I asked Pastor John the following question stemming from the recent trials with my health:

“How does a Christian Hedonist worship joyfully in the midst of suffering & affliction brought by God? Is it possible?”

I found his response  incredibly helpful.  First, by illustrating that not only can we worship with joy in the midst of affliction brought by God, but that its actually a command: “we rejoice in our sufferings…” (Rom 5:3).  Listen to his response via the video which begins at minute 6 with my question being read followed by his response and explanation of Romans 5:1-5:

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Jul 10

Emotion Meets Reason: a marriage

I’m an extremely emotional individual; I always have been.  Even as a young child, I felt everything with extreme depth and poignancy. Through a formula of heart-hardening ingredients, I was taught that my emotions were arrogant back seat drivers.  They called out from the back row of the minivan, but reason was at the wheel and only seldom did he make a wrong turn.

But then I met Jesus in another man’s life in college.  I’ve been un-learning and re-learning ever since.  One of the ways I’ve been flying upside down unawares, was in thinking that emotions played a tertiary role in life.

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