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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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A Prayer for Bethlehem One Hundred Years From Now

To Be Put in the Time Capsule in the New Building

May 15, 2002
Because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever, we are bold to pray for you who will live and minister decades from now.
John Piper
May 15, 2002
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Jesus Christ: The End and Ground of Tolerance

May 12, 2002
The events of September 11 last year unleashed in the Christian community a tidal wave of compassion and cowardice. The compassion at ground zero and beyond has been beautiful, and is owing to the life that remains in the tree…
John Piper
May 12, 2002
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What Wonderful and Wild Thing Might God Be Up To?

May 8, 2002
How do you lead your church through financial and logistical surprises?
John Piper
May 8, 2002
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Subjected to Futility in Hope, Part 2

May 5, 2002
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of…
John Piper
May 5, 2002
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Subjected to Futility in Hope, Part 1

Apr 28, 2002
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of…
John Piper
Apr 28, 2002
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How Do We Love God?

God-Centered Love, Part 3

Apr 24, 2002
Pursuing joy in God at all costs must be our constant vocation as Christians because in various ways the Bible demonstrates that joy is not optional to the Christian life, but essential.
John Piper
Apr 24, 2002
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How Is God Supreme in Loving Us?

God-Centered Love, Part 2

Apr 23, 2002
At every stage of redemption history, God is making himself central in all of his love toward us.
John Piper
Apr 23, 2002
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What’s It Like to Be Loved by God?

God-Centered Love, Part 1

Apr 22, 2002
The love of God is not that he makes much of us, but rather that at great cost to himself he frees us to enjoy making much of him forever.
John Piper
Apr 22, 2002
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Children, Heirs, and Fellow Sufferers

Children, Heirs, and Fellow Sufferers

Apr 21, 2002
Suffering is a great mercy that keeps us from loving this world more than we should.
John Piper
Apr 21, 2002
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Ten Effects of Believing in the Five Points of Calvinism

Ten Effects of Believing in the Five Points of Calvinism

Apr 20, 2002
How do the doctrines of grace affect us personally and publicly?
John Piper
Apr 20, 2002
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Do Jews Have a Divine Right in the Promised Land?

Apr 17, 2002
Those who break covenant with God forfeit any claim on his promises.
John Piper
Apr 17, 2002
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The Spirit-Led Are the Sons of God

Apr 14, 2002
The Holy Spirit testifies that we are children of God by creating affections for him within us.
John Piper
Apr 14, 2002
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How Open Theism Helps Us Conceal Our Hidden Idolatries

Apr 10, 2002
If we deny God's power over evil and suffering, do we deny his wisdom?
John Piper
Apr 10, 2002
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Kill Sin with the Word of God

Kill Sin with the Word of God

Apr 7, 2002
The sword of the Spirit is our weapon of choice in the war against sin.
John Piper
Apr 7, 2002
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Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting

Session 4

Apr 3, 2002
Fasting is a way to say with our bodies that our appetite for God is greater than our appetite for food.
John Piper
Apr 3, 2002
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Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting

Session 3

Apr 2, 2002
Prayer is about offering up our desires to God for things that are in agreement with his will, our greatest desire of all being for God himself.
John Piper
Apr 2, 2002
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Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting

Session 2

Apr 2, 2002
The word of God is the most vital means that God has given us for communion with himself.
John Piper
Apr 2, 2002
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Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting

Session 1

Apr 1, 2002
Communion with God takes place primarily in his word as we depend upon it by faith and receive the comfort and assurance of his promises in the gospel.
John Piper
Apr 1, 2002
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The Risen Christ: Satisfied with His Suffering

Easter Sunday

Mar 31, 2002
Jesus' delight in dying and rising was to enable others to rise from the dead and enjoy his majesty forever.
John Piper
Mar 31, 2002
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Jesus Declares His Kingship

Palm Sunday

Mar 24, 2002
When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and…
John Piper
Mar 24, 2002
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Teaching Doctrine to a Six-Year-Old

Mar 13, 2002
How and why to teach kids the complex and essential doctrines of the Bible.
John Piper
Mar 13, 2002
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Greg Boyd on the "The Eternal Suffering of Agents Who Have Been Annihilated"

Mar 6, 2002
Greg Boyd, in Satan and the Problem of Evil (Downers Grove, IL InterVarsity Press, 2001), attempts to handle the texts used to argue for the eternal conscious torment of hell and the texts used to argue for annihilationism by "affirming…
John Piper
Mar 6, 2002
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The Ripple Effect of the Word

More Thoughts on Reading and Writing

Feb 20, 2002
Fresh statements of old truth are always needed, because without them people will read error.
John Piper
Feb 20, 2002
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Kill Sin by the Spirit

Kill Sin by the Spirit

Feb 17, 2002
We will die if we are not killing sin, and we won’t be killing sin if we are not living by the Spirit.
John Piper
Feb 17, 2002
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Is It Conceit or Compassion?

Feb 13, 2002
Christ is the Messiah. So is it arrogant or loving to proclaim him to Jews?
John Piper
Feb 13, 2002

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