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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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The Blazing Center

Part 7

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, especially when we maintain satisfaction in him through suffering.

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The Blazing Center

Part 6

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others; therefore, we should pursue joy in God for the sake of love.

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The Blazing Center

The Blazing Center

Part 5

When we source our love in the joy only God can give, our hearts will overflow with compassionate, sacrificial care for those around us.

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The Blazing Center

The Blazing Center

Part 4

Our happiness in God isn’t merely an add-on to the Christian life, but an essential piece of our walk with Jesus.

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The Blazing Center, Part 3

The Blazing Center

Part 3

Nothing makes Jesus look better than when you are ready to lose everything to have him. He gets the most glory when your soul longs for him more than anything else.

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The Blazing Center, Part 2

The Blazing Center

Part 2

God desires our praise not because he vainly needs our compliments. He wants our worship because he alone can satisfy our souls.

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The Blazing Center

The Blazing Center

Part 1

God is not an idolater. He loves and values what is most worthy of honor and glory in all the universe: himself.

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Defending the Faith in the Public Arena

National Religious Broadcasters

Thesis The supremacy of God is an increasingly public issue and embracing the supremacy of God biblically is crucial for displaying and defending the gospel of Jesus Christ. Embracing the supremacy of God biblically means pursuing an all-satisfying, self-sacrificing passion…

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Use Means, but Trust in God

Use Means, but Trust in God

All our labors flow from the strength God himself supplies. And whatever we do through him channels glory back to him.

Continue in the Kindness of God

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, 18 do not be arrogant toward the…

Use Means, but Don’t Trust in Means; Trust in God

God wants us to use means to get his work done, but he wants us to trust in him, not in these means.

Stand Fast Through Faith

Stand Fast Through Faith

God saves us not on the basis of our ethnicity or socioeconomic status, but by his grace alone.

A Taste of Mueller and His God

George Mueller's life is a testimony to the surpassing power that belongs to God and not to us.

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Desiring God 2004 Conference for Pastors

Money matters are a function of our treasure and our delight in God, and how we spend can be a good test of what we value most.

George Mueller's Strategy for Showing God: Simplicity of Faith, Sacred Scripture, and Satisfaction in God

George Mueller's Strategy for Showing God

Simplicity of Faith, Sacred Scripture, and Satisfaction in God

George Mueller was a native German (a Prussian). He was born in Kroppenstaedt on September 27, 1805 and lived almost the entire nineteenth century. He died March 10, 1898 at the age of 92. He saw the great awakening of…

The (Jewish) Root Supports You through Your Faith Alone

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection…

Should Only Unanimous Decisions Guide the Church?

There will always be a range of maturity and wisdom in the church, but that shouldn't paralyze it from moving forward.

Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Sanctity of Life Sunday

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?” And the…

The Peril of Partiality

Riches and Race in the Christian Church

Showing partiality toward others, either because of their race or their riches, reveals a lack of trust in Jesus.

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God and Profitable

Thoughts on Bible translations and loving the Word of God.

Good English With Minimal Translation: Why Bethlehem Uses the ESV

Why I would like to see the English Standard Version become the most common Bible of the English-speaking church, for preaching, teaching, memorizing, and study. The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD…

What God Requires, Christ Provides

What God expects regarding human law-keeping, Christ accomplishes by becoming our substitute.

My Dream for the Prayer Life of Bethlehem

(In case you missed it in the sermon.) 1. Jesus said, in Matthew 6:6, “When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in…

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Don’t Waste Your Life

Don’t Waste Your Life

If you live to minimize your suffering and maximize your comfort, you’ll miss the point of this life: to magnify the great worth of Jesus.

Let Your Requests Be Made Known to God

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests…

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