Exciting Days Ahead for Desiring God

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 26 December 2013

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Help through tragedy. Global Impact. App Development. Pastor John reflects on past grace and anticipates future grace to and through the ministry of Desiring God.

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0:00.0	As we draw near the end of 2013, we look back on God's grace on Desiring God and it's been
0:09.8	wonderful grace.
0:10.8	There's a lot going on at Desiring God now, lots of plans for the future.
0:15.6	Pastor John, when you think of the ministry of Desiring God, what happened in 2013 and
0:19.8	what's to come in 2014, Lord willing, what excites you?
0:24.4	Tony, it's strange, perhaps, but the first thing that comes to my mind when I think
0:29.6	about the blessings to Desiring God and through Desiring God is the impact on the life of
0:40.2	suffering people.
0:43.1	One of the favorite texts that our ministry is sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, 2 Corinthians
0:50.5	16.
0:51.5	I mean, everybody who knows us knows that we stand for Christian hedonism.
0:55.7	Here are the people who say that joy is essential, that God is glorified in us when we're
1:00.6	satisfied in Him, and yet the most consistent testimony to the benefit of the website in
1:10.3	my ears anyway, as I travel, is people saying thank you for help in getting through
1:18.3	a tragedy.
1:21.1	So I'm thankful for the theology of suffering that pervades the website through many tribulations,
1:30.4	Christians must enter the kingdom.
1:34.4	The prosperity gospel, I'm just back from the Middle East and from Africa and everywhere
1:38.7	I went, I dealt with people from dozens of countries who tell me that they have been
1:48.0	affected and the people around them have been affected by the prosperity gospel.
1:52.4	And they thank me that Desiring God gives a perspective on suffering that is a corrective
2:00.1	to the over realization of future blessing that prosperity preachers push into this life
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