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John Piper has always been one of my favorite scholar/pastors. All may not agree with his statements, but as my family walks through a difficult medical season with my father-in-law, John's words on the eve of his own surgery for prostate cancer seem especially poignant and apropo:
"I believe in God’s power to heal—by miracle and by medicine. I believe it is right and good to pray for both kinds of healing. Cancer is not wasted when it is healed by God. He gets the glory and that is why cancer exists. So not to pray for healing may waste your cancer. But healing is not God’s plan for everyone. And there are many other ways to waste your cancer. I am praying for myself and for you that we will not waste this pain.
1. You will waste your cancer if you do not believe it is designed for you by God.
It will not do to say that God only uses our cancer but does not design it. What God permits, he permits for a reason. And that reason is his design. If God foresees molecular developments becoming cancer, he can stop ...
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10 Leader Choices
Several years ago I had the opportunity to interview and perhaps go to work for Perry Noble, Senior Pastor at NewSpring Church in South Carolina, but came to Birmingham instead. I still follow Perry and have always been impressed with ...
Why I’m Catholic
I have a confession to make: I'm not Catholic. In fact, for much of my life "Catholic" was a four-letter word. My childhood church thought heaven was going to be a small place because: (1) most other Baptists were going to hell. ...
Gandalf vs. Scripture
"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable," says Leviticus 18:22. For years, perhaps centuries, the world has wrestled with this and other passages concerning the topic of homosexuality. It's a battle that ...
Calling All Saints
I grew up in a self-described "independent, fundamental, bible-believing, Baptist church." You'll notice that I capitalized Baptist and not bible. Oddly enough, I typed it that way before I'd even realized. Perhaps my heritage is more ingrained in me than ...
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