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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.

What Everybody Knows Before the Gospel Comes

Maundy Thursday Communion Meditation

There is knowledge that is communicated to all through nature, and then there is knowledge that is only communicated in the gospel: “Everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins.”

Radical Effects of the Resurrection

How can our hope of future resurrection kill our current materialism and consumerism?

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Radical Effects of the Resurrection

Radical Effects of the Resurrection

Jesus calls his people to risk everything for him. But that temporary risk is nothing compared to all that God is and will be for us.

The Peculiar Mark of Majesty, Part 1

Palm Sunday

The glory of God is unique because of the lowly ways he chooses to show it.

Things I Have Learned

John Piper shares some insights he found while he was going through his father's papers.

Willpower Is Not Enough

Sam Storms is on the Edwardsean and biblical wavelength when it comes to understanding the role of joy in radical God-centered Christian living. If you don't know Sam's website you might want to. It's called Enjoying God Ministries. The…

Why Is Initiating Reconciliation Always the Responsibility of a Husband and Father?

One essential part of spiritual protection in a family is initiating reconciliation Watch John Piper talk about why dads and husbands should always take responsibility to make things right in their family. (This excerpt is from the message, "Lionhearted…

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We Work With You for Your Joy

We Work With You for Your Joy

The call of a gospel minister is to follow the apostolic ambition of being a worker for the joy of the church.

Lionhearted and Lamblike

Lionhearted and Lamblike

What Does It Mean to Lead? Part 2

Husbands should take the primary role in providing for and protecting their families.

The Morning I Heard the Voice of God

The Morning I Heard the Voice of God

The God who keeps watch over the nations, this God still speaks today. I heard his very words. He spoke personally to me.

How Is Marriage a Mystery?

Listen to John Piper talk about why Paul calls marriage a mystery.

What Do Headship and Submission In Marriage Mean?

Listen to John Piper briefly define husbands’ and wives’ roles in his sermon, “Husbands Who Love Like Christ and the Wives Who Submit to Them.”

Lionhearted and Lamblike: The Christian Husband as Head, Part 1

What is the husband's role as head? What is the foundation of this headship?

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The Challenge of Relativism

Our theme is relativism. Let’s begin by working on a definition. Since almost all of us here take that word relativism to refer to something bad, a helpful way to clarify what we mean by it is to ask how…

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Faith and Reason

Faith and Reason

Faith does not oppose reason, nor does reason oppose faith. We think over God-given truth in order to understand.

How Do You Press On to Make It Your Own?

Further Reflections from the Funeral Sermon for My Father

Further reflections from the sermon John Piper preached at his father's funeral.

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Funeral Message for William S. H. Piper

Everybody with a little life experience knows that in many cases parting is sweet sorrow. The experience is so common that we have proverbs to express it. Actually, it comes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet—which is more than incidental…

Hello, My Father Just Died

John Piper’s journal entry narrating his father’s death on Tuesday, March 6, 2007.

Dr. William S. H. Piper Is with Jesus

Dr. Bill Piper Obituary for the Greenville (S. C.) News, written by John Piper William Solomon Hottle Piper, 88, of Shepherd’s Care, Greenville, S. C., died Tuesday, March 6, 2007. Widowed twice, he was preceded in death by Ruth M…

Eight Reasons Why I Believe That Jesus Rose from the Dead

Eight Reasons Why I Believe That Jesus Rose from the Dead

Jesus’s resurrection transformed a skeptic into a martyr, a murderer into a missionary, and a minor movement into the majority religion.

Foreword to “Pierced for Our Transgressions”

What Jesus accomplished when he died is not a mere academic dispute. Our present peace and our eternal life hangs on this work of Christ.

Pierced for Our Transgressions

One of my joys during the sabbatical last spring in Cambridge was meeting with two of the authors of the upcoming book Pierced for Our Transgressions by Mike Ovey, Steve Jeffery and Andrew Sach. Their vision for the truth of…

Marriage: Pursuing Conformity to Christ in the Covenant

Grace is not just forgiving and forbearing but also changing to become more like Jesus. John Piper preaches a sermon about marriage from Ephesians 5.

Tribute to William Wilberforce, #3

One more tribute to Wilberforce: The day the victory came, and how Wilberforce responded The night—or I should say early morning—of victory came in 1807. The moral vision and the political momentum for abolition had finally become irresistible. At one…

Tribute to William Wilberforce, #2

Here’s another tribute to Wilberforce on this historic anniversary. We should celebrate the unbounded joy that God gave him in spite of decades of defeat in Parliament James Stephen, recalled after Wilberforce’s death, “Being himself amused and interested by everything…

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