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Great Audiobooks for Free from ChristianAudio.com

For the month of March you can download—for free—the audiobooks for Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship and John Piper’s Fifty Reasons Jesus Came to Die. These are both excellent books that everyone from Peace Lutheran should read..or listen to……. Use … Continue reading

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Why we should admire God and not humanity

God loves it when man boasts in God, and God hates it when man boasts in man. “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord” (2 Corinthians 10:17). “Far be it from me to boast except in the cross … Continue reading

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Christ will give you Himself….

“I am not coming with a health, wealth and prosperity gospel, or on a health, wealth and prosperity mission. I am not bringing the message that Christ will make you healthy, Christ will make you wealthy, Christ will make you … Continue reading

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The Pastor Recommends: Stand: A Call for the Endurance of the Saints

The book description from the Crossway web site: Many people seek to better their lives by leaving, changing, swapping, or modifying their commitments. But God’s Word holds up a beautiful value that, while difficult, leads to deep satisfaction and great … Continue reading

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Why God Doesn’t Fully Explain Pain

  If you have been following along in the sermon series on 1st Peter you know that the Apostle worked diligently to keep disciples of Jesus Christ attuned to how God was at work in the midst of their struggles.  … Continue reading

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God’s Plan, Baseball, and Heaven

“As genuine human beings, from Genesis 1 onward, we are given the mandate of looking after creation, of bringing order to God’s world, of establishing and maintaining communities. To suppose that we are saved, as it were, for our own … Continue reading

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What the New Testament Church Prayed For….

What the New Testament Church Prayed For By John Piper January 1, 1995 They called on God to vindicate his people in their cause. And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he … Continue reading

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