Providences and Promises
Over at the Desiring God blog, Jon Bloom shares some timeless wisdom from Puritan Thomas Wilcox. You will be blessed, and challenged, by reading it.
This is a somewhat random aside, but I was struck as I read Jon's post that I should find great encouragement in the simple fact that Jon is posting such things on Desiring God. Why? Because Desiring God is the ministry of John Piper, and the fact that Jon Bloom and other men are posting well-reasoned, challenging material on his blog demonstrates that the ministry of John Piper will continue to impact the world long after God calls him home through those into whom he has poured his life. To be clear, I don't mean by this that I have believed Piper was not involved in training others as part of his ministry. I simply have not had the same awareness of the men he has trained as I have those of some other respected, high-profile pastors. And in that I am greatly encouraged.
This is a somewhat random aside, but I was struck as I read Jon's post that I should find great encouragement in the simple fact that Jon is posting such things on Desiring God. Why? Because Desiring God is the ministry of John Piper, and the fact that Jon Bloom and other men are posting well-reasoned, challenging material on his blog demonstrates that the ministry of John Piper will continue to impact the world long after God calls him home through those into whom he has poured his life. To be clear, I don't mean by this that I have believed Piper was not involved in training others as part of his ministry. I simply have not had the same awareness of the men he has trained as I have those of some other respected, high-profile pastors. And in that I am greatly encouraged.
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