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John Piper

John Piper is founder and teacher of Desiring God and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Foundations for Lifelong Learning: Education in Serious Joy.
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What Does It Mean Practically to Keep the Sabbath Holy?

Dec 26, 2008
John Piper reminds us that God wants us to set aside time each week to rest and to reverence his name.
John Piper
Dec 26, 2008
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Are Short-Term Mission Trips Worth Doing?

Dec 24, 2008
John Piper is for short-term missions, most of the time.
John Piper
Dec 24, 2008
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Christmas Eve Meditation

Christmas Eve Meditation

Dec 24, 2008
Good news changes everything. Our circumstances may not change, and we may still feel stuck, but the good news of Christmas will never leave us the same.
John Piper
Dec 24, 2008
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How Can I Long to Be Married Without Obsessing About It?

Dec 22, 2008
John Piper says we handle strong desire best by desiring God more.
John Piper
Dec 22, 2008
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Destroy This Temple, and in Three Days I Will Raise It Up

Dec 21, 2008
Jesus is the new temple. Authentic worship is no longer attached to any place. It is attached to Jesus.
John Piper
Dec 21, 2008
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On Our 40th Wedding Anniversary

Dec 21, 2008
Today Noël and I have been married for 40 years. I thank God for her and for these years with all my heart.
John Piper
Dec 21, 2008
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How Should a Husband and Wife Manage Having Opposite Sex-Drives?

Dec 19, 2008
John Piper says that sex—or no sex—is an occasion for serving your spouse.
John Piper
Dec 19, 2008
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How Can We Keep Christmas Giving Christ-Centered, Especially With Young Kids?

Dec 17, 2008
John Piper explains how he and Noël have sought to keep Christ central at Christmas.
John Piper
Dec 17, 2008
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The Shy Virtue of Christmas

Dec 17, 2008
Jesus' humility is at the heart of Christmas.
John Piper
Dec 17, 2008
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Not Heartwarming Christian Fiction

Dec 17, 2008
Dripping sweat on the paperback's pages, I speed-walked and read for one hour and twenty minutes holding this book in my hand so that I could finish it before my routine was over. That was two weeks ago. Since then…
John Piper
Dec 17, 2008
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What Did Christmas Day Look Like In Your Home As Your Kids Grew Up?

Dec 15, 2008
John Piper describes the peculiar and the more popular ways that his family celebrates Christ's birth.
John Piper
Dec 15, 2008
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Obedient Son, Ultimate Purifier, All-Providing Bridegroom

Dec 14, 2008
3 of Christ's glories on display in John 2.
John Piper
Dec 14, 2008
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God Isn't Grateful

Dec 13, 2008
It is good news that we will never be thanked by God Not thanking us is a form of love. We need to adjust our expectations of what it feels like to be loved by God compared to what…
John Piper
Dec 13, 2008
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What Is the Difference Between Good and Bad Self-Promotion?

Dec 12, 2008
John Piper says that self-promotion must die for the sake of promoting God.
John Piper
Dec 12, 2008
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Happy Birthday, Abraham

Dec 12, 2008
Happy birthday, Abraham Piper. Thanks for all your work on this website.
John Piper
Dec 12, 2008
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Pursue Mature Manhood and Womanhood

Dec 11, 2008
God created male and female to declare beautiful truths about himself. Compromising these distinctions does not make us better man and woman. It belittles his design.
John Piper
Dec 11, 2008
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Should a Pastor Skip Teaching Some Passages Because He Lacks Confidence In His Own Interpretation?

Dec 10, 2008
John Piper says to draw as much as you can out of a passage, but then to be honest about the rest.
John Piper
Dec 10, 2008
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Prostitutes Go in Before Priests

Dec 10, 2008
The last reference to John the Baptist in our four Gospels is in the final week of Jesus’ life. Jesus mentioned him to explain this astonishing statement to the chief priests and elders Truly , I say to you, the…
John Piper
Dec 10, 2008
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John Milton’s 400th Birthday

Dec 9, 2008
Today is the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest English poets, John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) His greatest work, the epic poem Paradise Lost, was dictated between 1658 and 1664. He…
John Piper
Dec 9, 2008
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How Does Abortion Relate to Spreading a Passion for the Supremacy of God In All Things?

Dec 8, 2008
John Piper says that knitting babies is God's work, and we shouldn't mess with that.
John Piper
Dec 8, 2008
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Son of God, Son of Man, King of Israel

Son of God, Son of Man, King of Israel

Dec 7, 2008
Jesus’s many titles show his divinity and universal rule, yet his identity is what drove man’s wickedness to reject and kill him.
John Piper
Dec 7, 2008
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A Glimpse of a Pain-Free Life

Dec 7, 2008
Here is a three-second experience that might encourage you I was sitting at my desk slowly reading and praying over Job 29 and 30. The thought came over me that at this moment I am pain-free. In fact, I feel…
John Piper
Dec 7, 2008
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How Does Talk About the Grandeur and Glory of God Heal a Bruised Heart?

Dec 5, 2008
John Piper says we hurt people if we only give them soft answers to the hard questions of suffering.
John Piper
Dec 5, 2008
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John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God

John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God

Dec 5, 2008
John Piper fires readers' passion for the centrality and supremacy of God by unfolding Calvin's exemplary zeal for the glory of God. God rests all too lightly on the church's mind in our time. Consequently, the self-saturation of his people…
John Piper
Dec 5, 2008
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Why Is John Piper on the Planet?

Dec 4, 2008
I gave a presentation at the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, last month titled "Why God Is Not a Megalomaniac in Demanding to Be Worshiped." It is probably the shortest public presentation I have made in…
John Piper
Dec 4, 2008

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