A nice article and a neat photo of John Piper doing some thrifty shopping here. I was able to do a bit of cross-country skiing this winter because of some good thrift store discoveries.

In the latest “Ask Pastor John“, John Piper answers the question “Is it a sin to smoke or eat junk food?”

Check out Eight Ways to Improve Your Daily Bible Reading from the ESV Bible Blog.

And you should also listen to John Piper explain why he — and good pastors in general — emphasize Bible reading and prayer so much. Listen to the audio or read the transcript.

Charles Spurgeon — A Defense of Calvinism

John Piper on Ten Effects of Believing in the Five Points of Calvinism

Mark Dever’s ten post blog series, Where’d All These Calvinists Come From?

Articles at DesiringGod.org on The Doctrines of Grace

John MacArthur’s The Doctrines of Grace series sermon audio

John MacArthur Answering the Key Questions About the Doctrine of Election

What Calvinism is not — Monergism.com on Hyper-Calvinism

From: Ken Pierpont

The Desiring God National Conference, Christ in a Postmodern World, was held over the weekend. The audio is now available online.
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Desiring God Radio has announced that they will be leaving the airwaves soon–Radio Without Radio? Why Desiring God Will No Longer Air on Radio Stations–but they aren’t done broadcasting. They’ll be focusing their energy on making their radio programs available on the internet instead of pushing the program through Christian radio stations.

Their announcment notes these interesting statistics…

“The folks at OnePlace.com tell us that Desiring God is among their most requested programs (50,000 to 70,000 requests per month). And our iTunes podcast consistently ranks in the top ten most requested programs in the “Religion & Spirituality” category (total subscribers currently unavailable). We frequently hear from online listeners. In fact, 85-90% of responses we receive from people who listen to our program come from those who listen online. But we’re not seeing growth in responses from radio station listeners, even though new stations were added this year.”

Currently reading…

Don’t Waste Your Life! I read Piper’s book by the same title earlier this year and highly recommend it. Doug McHone suggests that listening to John Piper’s sermon, Boasting Only in the Cross, will “[put] a whole new spin on New Year’s resolutions.” In the message Piper hits on the same theme you’ll find in the book–don’t waste your life.

When you’re done with the first part of Piper’s sermon get the rest of it here–Boasting Only in the Cross (part 2).