John Piper says that pain is sometimes God's way of calling attention to an area of sin in our lives.

Yesterday Alexander Solzhenitsyn died at the age of 89. I pause here on my vacation in the woods of Wisconsin to say, Thank you, heavenly Father, for the inspiration of this man’s life. No one did more than Solzhenitsyn to…

John Piper says that parents must both teach and model the greatness of God to their children.

Seeing Bathsheba bathing led to David’s adultery with her (2 Samuel 11:2-3). David was a man after God’s own heart. David was born again. David wrote divinely inspired scripture. David was blessed with wisdom and power. David enjoyed an everlasting…

Having just preached three messages on the relationship between baptism and church membership, here is a small follow up. Paul Jewett’s compelling book on infant baptism gives a clear and persuasive interpretation to a puzzling text Here’s the text and…

John Piper says that some doctrines are more central than others.

John Piper says that coercion cannot be the means to our morality.

Jonathan Edwards put it this way God doubtless will entertain his saints according to the state of the King of heaven, when he comes to entertain them at the feast that he has provided.... We read of Ahasuerus, a great…

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so…

My theology is the conviction that this quote from St. Augustine tells us more about God’s good design than our bad depravity The desire for happiness is not in myself alone or in a few friends, but is found in…

John Piper mentions three ways a Christian wife can bless her husband.

John Piper says there's no correlation between obedience and earthly ease.

Is God completely truthful if he ordains lies?

Because the Psalms are so personal, they often do not represent the mood or the situation we are in when we read them. For example, a couple mornings ago I read Psalm 142. It says There is none who takes…

John Piper warns us of anger's long-term effects and identifies the remedy.

John Piper says Scripture has the power to persuade people of its message.

Dear Jon Your faithfulness as the creator and leader of Desiring God has been a gift to me beyond all deserving or imagining for these last fifteen years. Who would have dreamed the little church tape ministry would be Desiring…

John Piper says that God is the bottom line in both good and bad parenting.

One of the reasons God rarely gives micro reasons for his painful providences, but regularly gives magnificent macro reasons, is that there are too many micro reasons for us to manage, namely, millions and millions and millions and millions and…

All believers should join a church if possible, because the local church is an expression of the universal church.

John Piper says we can take heart knowing that our acceptance with the Father doesn't ultimately depend on us.

Happy birthday, John Calvin. Today we celebrate your 499th birthday. Your preaching inspires me to press on with this great and glorious task of heralding the Word of God T. H. L. Parker’s 1975 biography tells why: And so we…

John Piper warns against ever thinking that we can pay God back.