Alongside the emergence of Bethlehem Seminary, there is a sister institution, Bethlehem College. The fall of 2010 will mark the admission of its first four-year class The reason I can thank God for it, though it hasn’t happened…

One of the strangest things about the book of Job is how the three “friends” (Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar) are restored to Job and to God. It is very round-about and teaches us surprising lessons about prayer After the LORD…

John Piper shares why and how he maintains his Twitter account, and what he watches out for.

Carolyn Mahaney wrote “Homemaking Internship ” especially for moms with daughters. It’s about how to pass on to the next generation of young women some of the most important things in life. She says,  But the truth is that…

In September, 2009, we admitted the first class in the four-year program of Bethlehem Seminary. Here at the end of the year I want to give public thanks to God and take some of you with me into this…

John Piper says that, though all parents are sinful, Scripture still commands children to submit to them.

The fact that hundreds of the pages of God’s inspired word are devoted to poetry moves me. One of the effects is to make me aware that God thinks the sound of language matters.  God has blessed and humbled me…

John Piper says we can speak the word of God to those who can't read.

Noël and Talitha and I recorded a Christmas greeting for you and a “glimpse” into our home and traditions And since I didn’t write the advent poems this year, I wrote this Christmas poem to read at our Christmas Eve…

John Piper gives three arguments for why he trusts the Bible.

December 21, 2009 In echoes of Capernaum the Lord Inquired of me, his happy friend, and said, “Will you, like these five thousand, take my bread And leave?” But I replied, “Who can afford To lift his little hand and…

When G. K. Chesterton was arguing against a rationalist who denied miracles on the ground that experience is against it, he cited this There was a great Irish Rationalist of this school who, when he was told that a witness…

John Piper offers three observations about miracles in the church.

Reflecting on why God put Abraham’s faith to the test by commanding him to offer his son, Lewis says “If God then is omniscient, he must have known what Abraham would do, without any experiment. Why then this needless torture?”…

Doug Birdsall, Christopher Wright, and Lindsay Brown join John Piper in discussing what things are happening in the world that are relevant to the spread of the gospel and how the Lausanne movement relates to them.

John Piper says he would talk to the pope about justification.

John Piper tells why and how he thinks it's OK to use "conception control."