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      <title>Before You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like Jesus</title>
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      <title>The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year</title>
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      <title>Prince of What Peace? How Christmas Overcomes Our Conflicts</title>
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      <title>Secret Liturgies: The Private Worship of a Public Leader</title>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | When it comes to missions, reasons abound to stay rather than to go. But for every apparent obstacle, countless promises say, “It will be worth it.”</itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:subtitle>What Makes the Heart of God Happy</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | With time running short, how should we live? Live prayerfully, trust in God’s sovereignty, love your neighbors, and avoid frantic haste.</itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | Both disciplined and spontaneous prayer should flow from our confidence that God is already one hundred percent on our side.</itunes:summary>
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        <media:description type="html">John Piper | A holy ambition comes from immersing yourself in the word of God. Dive deep in the Bible and let it take hold of your desires.</media:description>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | God’s passion for his own glory is the great ballast not only for global missions, but also for our very own souls.</itunes:summary>
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      <description><![CDATA[John Piper | Christmas is for salvation. God sent his Son into the world to save it, not condemn it.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10730/16273283.gif" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | As once-adoring followers disappear, Jesus’s message becomes clearer and clearer: their resistance itself is in God’s hands.</itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>00:43:26</itunes:duration>
      
      <description><![CDATA[John Piper | We come to God not because we merely made a decision, but because God has called us, drawn us, and taught us who Jesus really is.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10730/16273287.gif" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | We come to God not because we merely made a decision, but because God has called us, drawn us, and taught us who Jesus really is.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Skeptical Grumbling and Sovereign Grace</title>
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      <itunes:author>John Piper</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>00:49:57</itunes:duration>
      
      <description><![CDATA[John Piper | When we come to Jesus, we come voluntarily and freely. And behind that change in us is a decisive work of the Father.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10730/16273289.gif" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <media:description type="html">John Piper | When we come to Jesus, we come voluntarily and freely. And behind that change in us is a decisive work of the Father.</media:description>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | When we come to Jesus, we come voluntarily and freely. And behind that change in us is a decisive work of the Father.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>Behold, Believe, Be Raised</title>
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      <itunes:duration>00:51:23</itunes:duration>
      
      <description><![CDATA[John Piper | We should hunger and thirst for God and all he has done in Jesus more than anything else in this world.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10730/16273291.gif" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | We should hunger and thirst for God and all he has done in Jesus more than anything else in this world.</itunes:summary>
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      <description><![CDATA[John Piper | Our greatest need is not physical but spiritual. We crave the bread of life more than bread for our stomachs.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10730/16273293.gif" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | Our greatest need is not physical but spiritual. We crave the bread of life more than bread for our stomachs.</itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>00:34:44</itunes:duration>
      
      <description><![CDATA[John Piper | We should accept our calling wherever God has placed us, including prison, and we should first and foremost be loyal to the Bible, not to a certain theological camp.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10730/16273295.gif" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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      <title>Do Not Labor for the Food That Perishes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[John Piper | Jesus offers himself to us freely as the food that endures to eternal life. No amount of working for God can make you taste him for the feast he is.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10730/16273297.gif" height="1" width="1"/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 9</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 8</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 7</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 6</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 5</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 4</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 5</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Why We Believe the Bible</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 4</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Why We Believe the Bible</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 3</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Session 2</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>What Man Does in the New Birth</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>John Piper | Satan will certainly remind you of your sinful failures. But Christ has defeated both the devil and sin to give you a redeemed passion.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>When I Am Raised Up, I Will Go Before You To Galilee</title>
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      <title>The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Community Worship Service</title>
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      <title>Jesus Is Able to Help Those Who Are Tempted </title>
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      <itunes:duration>00:39:07</itunes:duration>
      
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      <title>Sustained by Sovereign Grace — Forever</title>
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