Please pray for two of our favorite authors:

Dr. Donald Whitney, author of Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life and other books is currently battling colon cancer. You can read updates on his health here.

Dr. John Piper, senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and author of Desiring God, The Pleasures of God, and many other books, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He wrote a letter to the people of his church which included these gospel-saturated words:

This news has, of course, been good for me. The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. The news of cancer has a wonderfully blasting effect on both. I thank God for that. The times with Christ in these days have been unusually sweet.

For example, is there anything greater to hear and believe in the bottom of your heart than this: “God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him” (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10)?

You can read his entire letter here.

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