(Listen to why we invited Crawford Loritts to speak at this year's pastors conference.) Crawford Loritts served for nearly 30 years with Campus Crusade for Christ. I knew that anybody who has given that long to Campus Crusade…

John Piper gives some guidance for figuring out where to invest your labors.

(Listen to why we invited Greg Livingstone to speak at this year's pastors conference.) Greg Livingstone is one of my heroes. He founded Frontiers, a mission to Muslims. He is not the president anymore, but he grew that…

When to quit your good work—not just scholarly work, but any work As the author of the Theologia Germanica says, we may come to love knowledge—our knowing—more than the thing known: to delight not in the exercise of our…

I'll go out of my way to listen to Don Carson any chance I get. He is a scholar of the first rank, and a pastoral scholar who has a love for the church. He is an evangelist who does…

John Piper talks about why it is important to raise your children as though they were in the faith.

The new birth does not give us a mere temporary resuscitation. It gives indestructible, imperishable life.

My father, Bill Piper, was an incredibly intense preacher of the gospel with a strong evangelistic bent. That's because he was an evangelist. He was not a pastor and never was a pastor. For 50+ years he served as an…

John Piper discusses how, under God's sovereignty, we should be able to both hate and give thanks for what he might will.

Sometimes the best mark of holiness is not griping that sin abounds but groaning and grieving Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves…

John Piper describes what does (and does not) disqualify us from eternal life.

Through his writings, Bill Piper holds out a timely word to us saints who are still in the world.

Sometimes scholarship rivals politics for warped renderings of the opponent. Consider this from Etienne Gilson, a Roman Catholic historian of philosophy For the first time, with the Reformation, there appeared this conception of a grace that saved a man without…

John Piper talks about the value of showing our concern for others when sharing the gospel.

Listen It's hard to say what my favorite part of the pastors conference is. I love the singing. I love to hear 1300 men sing at the top of their lungs about the greatest reality in the universe. So that's…

John Piper gives his counsel on how to lead your family in worship together.

May I encourage you to build a global dimension into your daily prayers? “Grant that your name be hallowed. Grant that your kingdom would come. Grant that your will would be done on earth as it is in heaven.” These…

James Henley Thornwell, the Southern Presbyterian theologian who died in 1862, got somethings very wrong, like slavery. But this he got right and it is amazingly up to date Our whole system of operations gives an undue influence to money…

Eric Redmond, pastor of Hillcrest Baptist in Temple Hills, MD, helps us see the lay of the land in the African-American church by doing two things He celebrates Anthony Carter’s and Thabiti Anyabwile’s books as rallying points for a different…

John Piper speaks practically about controlling our natural cravings.

John Piper explains why he doesn't recommend taking Catholic communion.