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About a decade ago, I followed John Piper and his ministry "Desiring God", with great joy. I listened to sermon after sermon; purchased books for me, my darling husband, sons and sent them as gifts for friends and family. I shared links to their blog articles, retweeted their tweets, shared their materials over every social media platform I participated in, just to soak up and share what I thought at the time, was  entirely, soundly biblical wisdom. Having decided to no longer be a Jonah or Moses when they were first called by God, I was hungry for the truth as I was coming to terms with the spiritual gifts God has given me (Faith, Exhortation, and Teaching). With this hunger and resolve to have a heart more like Abraham and Isaiah, I wanted to obey God immediately —with joy, and use the gifts He so graciously bestowed upon me, for the purpose in which He gave them: For the encouragement and edification of those within the Body of Christ (Eph 4:11-16) without ...

Mary Kassian  is an award winning author, internationally renowned speaker and a distinguished professor at Southern Baptist Seminary. She’s the author of multiple books including  Girls Gone Wise ,  and   co-author (with  Nancy Leigh DeMoss ) of  True Woman 101: Divine Design  and one of the speakers at the  True Woman Conference 2012  that will be held in Indianapolis, Ind., on September 20-22. (Look for the giveaway at the end of this article). “An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels...She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy...She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue...Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” ~Proverbs 31:10, 20, 26, 30 A woman who knows she was made to be a strong yet delicate, beautiful creation of God, is indeed an extreme rarity. Her value and contributio...

DEEPER 2008 DEEPER 2008 is just around the corner! Registrations have passed 2,000 and climbing fast. We are excited about the preaching, worship and fellowship we will experience together. There is still time to register and if you haven’t signed up your teenager….do that too! Kirk Cameron will be hosting a “teen track” at DEEPER. Your teenager or college student can get 2 hours of fast paced evangelism training along with hearing all the other DEEPER speakers. The teen track includes: 3 Keys to overcome fear and reach the lost. How to avoid 99% of all arguments by learning to make contact with your hidden ally in the heart of the unbeliever. Interactive sessions. Lots of video and on-the-street footage of live witnessing encounters. Real time role-play. Training manual to take notes and take home. Tell your youth pastor about this. Sign up 5 students @ $59 each and get the 6th free! Sign up today at: deeperconference.com Registration closes next week! The ...

Each “Deeper” attendee will receive a copy of Ray Comfort’s new book debuting at the conference: World Religions in a Nutshell: How to communicate with them

If you have a children from the ages of 13-24, or you know anyone who does, please pass this along. You won't want to miss this! Unfortunately, the conference in Charlotte is already closed. To register for this conference, click the link below: The Rebelution Conference 2008

Above are pictures of some of my favorite people in the whole world - my beautiful family and our brothers from Way of the Master/Living Waters ministries the night before the Transformed Conference they brought to Dallas. After communicating via email and phone for nearly two years, God granted us a moment to see one another in person! Our family has been so incredibly blessed by God through our faithful brothers & sisters at Way of the Master/Living Waters ministries whom He has used to edify us in the way of our Lord as we have never been edified before. We very much desire to live closer to them. Who knows, maybe some day!