Episode number 500 and who would have thought that we would make 500 of these and there's

a lot of work yet to be done Pastor John and the email questions are pouring in as fast

as they ever have before.

But as we near the end of our second year and as Pastor John and as 2014 closes we want

to stop and look back because there's so much to be grateful for, there's been much

grace poured out on Desiring God this year.

Pastor John, when you think back over the ministry of DG, what happened in 2014 and what's

to come in 2015?

What excites you the most?

Well, here's a front burner thing because it's always the personal that excites me

most, not just the stats, although I love those two.

I just got a letter just the other day from a woman who told me that she was at one

day in Tennessee, a year 2000s, that's 14 years ago, and 15 I guess, resolved not to

die collecting shells.

She went with a team then to China to a people group that had not had a Christian witness

she said since Hudson Taylor.

After a year with the team, she said the team was discouraged and depressed with unresponsiveness

of the people and someone suggested that the team watch the sermons on Romans 9 from

Desiring God.

9, not 8, not Romans 8, Romans 9, this is what surprised me in the letter and she said that

they did and that they had never, she said we had never heard such a vision of God's absolute

sovereignty and then she said to my wonderful amazement, it was exactly what they needed

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