Today we are discussing John Piper's massive and greatly beneficial book Providence.
In Relatione (relevant links)
Eowyn's Recommendation: Katie and the Mona Lisa & Katie in London
You can find the whole Katie series here.
John Piper on the Prosperity Gospel
Ex Interrete (a hodgepodge of Internet items that I enjoyed)
Leading a Church Out of Casual Culture
John Piper made a splash a while back with a tweet about drinking coffee during the Lord's Day gathering. Even if you think his thoughts on coffee are a bit much, it is worth hearing what he has to say.
"We will never out-entertain the world. I just need to settle that. We’ll never out-entertain the world, nor should we try, because we have something infinitely better, something our souls were made for.
"And most of our people don’t know this. They don’t know what’s better than the fun they have in watching videos and other kinds of entertainment. They just don’t know. They’ve never tasted the real thing. Something profoundly stabilizing, strengthening, refining, and satisfying at the depths of our being is what people long for, and they don’t know what they’re longing for until they’re shown it over time."
"We meet for corporate worship on the Lord’s Day morning. The service is oriented around the Word, prayer, and the sacraments. We have catechism instruction for the youth and for grown-ups. We go home to eat (and sometimes we share a meal together between services). We come back on the Lord’s Day evening for another public service where we open the Word again and pray. That is our program."
