Showing posts with label John Piper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Piper. Show all posts

Sunday, May 26, 2013

All Men Seek Happiness...

Blaise Pascal was the French mathematician and philosopher who correctly noted and wrote:

Tous les hommes recherchent d’être heureux; cela est sans exception; quelques différents moyens qu’ils y emploient, ils tendent tous à ce but. Ce qui fait que les uns vont à la guerre, et que les autres n’y vont pas, est ce même désir, qui est dans tous les deux, accompagné de différentes vues. La volonté ne fait jamais la moindre démarche que vers cet objet. C’est le motif de toutes les actions de tous les hommes, jusqu’à ceux qui vont se pendre.
Or in English, if you prefer:
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves. (Pensées [New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958], 113, Thought #425) 

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Piper Recommisioned at BBC

DG put together a good recap of the recommissioning service of Pastor John that we attended (we are by the fall wall, just left under the screen!).  


Attending meant for a very late night for our family (back home after 10 pm, when our oldest has never gone to bed after 8), but it was worth it. I was particularly blessed to hear Sam Storms' exhortation: "Give us more."

John Piper will be missed as pastor at BBC, but he does not plan to leave. Here are his future plans:
  • 1 year in TN
  • Continue working at DG full time
  • 4 book writing projects (at least)

Friday, October 22, 2010

Pastor John in South Africa

Pastor John Piper is attending the LCWE this week, and was invited to speak at a church that Elizabeth attended while she lived in Cape Town, South Africa.  We are thrilled that Pastor John and St. James Church's paths crossed: Pastor John preached today in one of the few churches in South Africa that was not segregated during apartheid.
(Pic via)

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Adoption and Christian Thought

Two conferences Elizabeth and I have highly anticipated are going on right now and we are trying to "attend virtually" as well as we can:
  1. Together for the Gospel in Austin, TX which you can live stream (with us)
  2. Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God in Minneapolis, MN

Monday, April 19, 2010

Worship: Theology to Doxology

A story that Tom Steller and John Piper onced shared with us when I was in TBI made an incredible mark on me:

In 1977, John Piper's Bethel students spontaneously sang the doxology at the culminating arc of Romans 9-11. Romans 11:36 was part of prompting that unplanned eruption of praise: “From him, through him, and to him are all things. To him be glory forever.”  Pastor John's point in sharing that story with us was that theology should lead to doxology; knowing God and His Word should prompt us to worship Him.