http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:45:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en DgccBloghttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes [This devotion is taken from last Sunday's sermon. The audio for the entire sermon is available here.] How do you react when God answers “No" to your prayers? We are tempted to think of ourselves as potential worshipers of different religions, and thus of different gods. These different gods, are almost like ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/10/25/when-god-says-no/ [Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh preacher who ministered in Wales and in London in the last century. God used him mightily, particularly in holding up the value of expository preaching when most ministers had abandoned it. The following is taken from his sermon on Matthew 7:7-11, which includes the sentence: ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/10/17/asking-of-your-father-by-martyn-lloyd-jones/ [This devotion is taken from last Sunday's sermon - Coty] What task has God given you? What is the most important of all tasks? Is your most important task to do something great for God? Is your most important task, specifically, to fulfill the Great Commission: To go, make disciples of all ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/10/09/your-two-most-important-tasks/ [In last Sunday’s sermon, we looked at Matthew 18:1-4 to see how Jesus speaks of humility, and to learn how we can balance the biblical injunctions to be ambitious for God with that humility. We’ll continue to discuss those issues this Sunday. Here are three key questions about the Matthew ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/10/02/the-greatest-in-the-kingdom-of-heaven/ Does God want you to prosper? How can you go about answering that question? Jeremiah 29:11 reads: For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (NIV) After reading that, you might be ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/08/28/does-god-promise-to-prosper-you/ This Sunday we begin a series of sermons on the biblical image of us as little children and God as our loving parent. This week, we will look at Psalm 131. In this psalm, David compares himself to "a weaned child with its mother" - that is, like a child ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/08/23/like-a-child-resting-on-mommy/ “Give us this day our daily bread.” (Matthew 6:11) Do you ask God to give you the food you need every day? Why should a rich person ask God for his daily bread? Or – in case you don’t think you are rich (see this sermon for arguments that you are) – why ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/08/14/why-ask-for-daily-bread/ 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. What does it mean to say that Christ Jesus ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/08/07/why-a-mediator/ Last Sunday's sermon focused on the importance of having a clear conscience before God, and discussed how to guard your conscience. In this sermon excerpt from 1981, John Piper helpfully draws the link between maintaining a clear conscience and being diligent in our prayers for others. See the entire sermon ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/08/01/prayer-and-a-clear-conscience/ You’re in an African country on a short-term mission trip, interacting with a group of poor persons. One of them becomes sick, and needs $8 to buy penicillin. Should you buy the antibiotic? You are concerned about a poor area of an American city. Should your first step be to assess ... http://www.desiringgodchurch.org/web/2009/07/25/when-helping-hurts/