{"id":840,"date":"2013-09-11T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=840"},"modified":"2013-09-11T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T19:04:27","slug":"dgcc-10th-anniversary-services-with-john-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/2013\/09\/11\/dgcc-10th-anniversary-services-with-john-piper\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCC 10th Anniversary Services with John Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we were privileged to have John Piper with us to celebrate God&#8217;s faithfulness over the first decade of Desiring God Community Church. The theme of the weekend was &#8220;Looking Back, Looking Forward, Pressing On: Gospel Ministry for the Joy of Our City and the Nations.&#8221; After an afternoon when many shared stories about what God has done over this decade, we joined other churches and ministries across the Charlotte area Saturday evening at <a href=\"http:\/\/stonebridgecharlotte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stonebridge Church Community<\/a> to worship together, to rejoice in ways we have partnered together in the past, and to spur us on to deeper partnership for God&#8217;s glory in the future. Pastor John brought us a message from John 10:7-18, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eqotw.org\/audio\/20130907-jpiper.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">I Have Many in This City Who are My People<\/a>.&#8221; Sunday morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/midwoodbaptist.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Midwood Baptist Church<\/a> graciously opened their doors to us. As the service focused on the joy of all nations in Jesus Christ, Pastor John spoke to us from Isaiah 12 on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eqotw.org\/audio\/20130908-jpiper.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Persevering in Gospel Ministry for the Joy of All Peoples<\/a>.&#8221; Follow the links for audio. DesiringGod.org will post video of both talks before too long.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Stonebridge, to Midwood, and to the many members of DGCC who worked hard to make the weekend a joy and a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we were privileged to have John Piper with us to celebrate God&#8217;s faithfulness over the first decade of Desiring God Community Church. The theme of the weekend was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[274,306,396,845,1606],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-planting","category-sermons","tag-charlotte","tag-church-plant","tag-desiring-god","tag-john-piper","tag-treasuring-christ-together"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}