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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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Desiring God 2002 Conference for Pastors

Because of the gospel, ethnic harmony is a cause for the church to press into, not once we know all the details of how to pursue it but out of eagerness to love our neighbor and glorify God.

Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals, and the Political Welfare

Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals, and the Political Welfare

Reflections on the Life and Labor of William Wilberforce

If you want to understand and appreciate The Life and Labor of William Wilberforce, one of the wisest things you can do is to read his own book, A Practical View of Christianity first, and then read biographies. The book…

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The Sovereignty of God and the Soul Dynamic: Why This Topic?

Desiring God 2002 Conference for Pastors

I want to begin by answering the question Why this title—The Sovereignty of God and the Soul Dynamic: God-centered Theology and the Black Experience in America, Past and Future? And, if God would give me the grace to do it…

How to Kill Sin

How to Kill Sin

Our fight against sin does not earn our way to God, but it evidences that we belong to God’s army.

God’s Glory Is the Goal of Biblical Counseling

John Piper argues that the glory of God is the goal of all biblical counseling. This article is adapted from a talk given at CCEF’s Living Faith conference, November 9, 2001.

"Father, Forgive, For We Know What We Are Doing"

Sanctity of Life Sunday

Two others also, who were criminals, were being led away to be put to death with Him. 33 When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the…

A Call for Coronary Christians

Having recently celebrated back-to-back days that cry for justice, I summon Bethlehem to be coronary, not adrenal, Christians in the cause of racial harmony and human life. I have in mind National Sanctity of Human Life Day (as President Bush…

Jesus Is the End of Ethnocentrism

Racial Harmony Sunday

With Jesus came a radically new way of defining the people of God: all who have faith in the Messiah.

Planting a Passion for God: A Dream for Bethlehem in 2002

A Call to Focused Prayer, Soul-Searching, and a Church-Wide Dream

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to…

Planting a Passion for the Supremacy of God in All Things

A Call to Focused Prayer, Soul Searching, and a Church-Wide Dream

Are there enough churches in America? The answer is no.

Glad About Glory

Seeing the glory of God is a greater gift of love than life.

All We Will Get in 2002 Is Mercy

Let us make crystal clear at the beginning of 2002, all we will get from God this year as believers in Jesus is mercy. Whatever pleasures or pains come our way will all be mercy. This is why Christ came…

Hold Fast to the Word and Pray for Us

How the Spirit and the Word Produce Change

Prayer and meditation are as inseparable in the Christian life as the Spirit and the Word of God.

Uriah (original 1989)

When he was small his mother told Him many times the tales of old, When Hittites ruled the mountains and The plains, and conquered all the land From western seas to rivers in The west. She said they used to…

The Word Was Made Flesh

The Word Was Made Flesh

Christians must know Jesus well so that they can discern between the Christ of Scripture and the Christ that other religions claim to honor.

The Prodigal's Sister

Part 3

Four nights they walked, and slept by day. Beneath the Carob branches lay The daughter fast asleep from hard And weary nights; and keeping guard Beside her, lay the prodigal, His moving lips inaudible, Still restless and awake, transfixed On…

Christian, Know Whose You Are

You Have the Spirit of Christ

What are the essential distinctions between true Christians and non-Christians?

Toward a Definition of the Essence of Biblical Counseling

What are 10 basic characteristics of good Christian counseling?

What Does Jesus Want for Christmas?

What Jesus wants most is that his elect get what they want most: eyes to see and savor the Son of God.

The Prodigal's Sister

Part 2

The old man leaned against the beam Beside his ramp, and watched a dream Unfold before his weakened eyes, And prayed that Hahyaneta's prize Would be her brother's life. He raised His empty arm and smiled, amazed That ten years…

What Does It Mean to Fulfill the Law in Romans 8:3–4?

What Does It Mean to Fulfill the Law in Romans 8:3–4?

Twelve Theses

Jesus’s perfect righteousness is yours through faith. He obeyed perfectly so that the Father could welcome you wholly.

The Sadness of Our City Fathers At the Star Tribune

This morning's paper (12-4-01) carries an unsigned editorial on "Condoms: A Secret Weapon in Short Supply." It addresses the issue of AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. The issue is worthy. The crisis is huge. The pain is unfathomable. And the…

The Prodigal's Sister

Part 1

It has been ten years since the Prodigal Son left everything he knew – his home, his sister, his older brother, and his father. And now the prodigal’s sister intends to fulfill her promise, to find the Prodigal dead and…

Why and How We Walk According to the Spirit

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death,…

Reasons Believers in Christ Need Not to Be Afraid

How can I have peace or joy while living in a dangerous world?

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