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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.

Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 1

Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her…

God at Work in Every Womb

Sanctity of Life Sunday

If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves when they filed a complaint against me, what then could I do when God arises? And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him? Did…

The Meaning and Significance of Race

Session 3 – Part 1

Race is significant because one God created all of humanity through one man and redeems humanity through one man, and race is insignificant in terms of the releatively small differences that separate us.

The Solution Is Closer Than You Think

Three Ways of Seeing

Sometimes we are prepared to see what we see and sometimes our minds have to be changed before we can accept reality.

God’s Pursuit of Racial Diversity at Infinite Cost

God’s Pursuit of Racial Diversity at Infinite Cost

Racial Harmony Sunday

The cost of racial reconciliation and unity came not at the blood of any man, but of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Year End Thanks and New Year Hope

I wrote the first draft of this article on the last day of 2000 with a few hours left in the century and the millennium. Then I went to celebrate my 21st New Year's Eve communion service with the people…

Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 2

Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 2

What does it mean to pray in the Holy Spirit? And how do we pursue God through such prayer?

Conference Message

The Need for Christian Courage

The Need for Christian Courage

The Bible warns us about our truth-ignoring culture. But it also gives us the courage season our speech with Christ day after day.

Conference Message

College Men’s Rally: Family, Fatherhood, and God

Fatherhood isn’t just a natural responsibility, but a gift that God gives for men to shepherd and train impressionable souls, all to his glory.

Conference Message

Others' Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ

What does it mean to fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions? Do we, as mere followers, really have anything to add?

Conference Message

Our Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ

Part 2

By faith, God both delivers his people and grants them endurance to persevere through suffering, and in either case faith demonstrates our superior satisfaction in God.

Lullaby for Talitha

One option for how to lead your child to rest ... in God.

Conference Message

Our Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ

Part 1

Since God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, our lifelong vocation must be to earnestly pursue joy in him and bring others into that joy.

Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 1

Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 1

One essential way to keep yourself in the love of God is by praying to him through the power of the Holy Spirit.

John Mark

Part 2

John Mark sat by the winter flames In Ephesus with little James And Mary on the floor in front Of him, and watched the children hunt For words to ask why tears ran down His smiling face. He held a…

The Free Gift of God Is Eternal Life, Part 2

The Free Gift of God Is Eternal Life

Part 2

Sanctification is both something we do and something God does. We must work hard to obey, but only God’s grace sustains us in the fight.

John Mark

Part 1

Not far beyond Gethsemane, And bending toward the barren sea, Beyond the Kidron Valley, lay The "Hills of Hope," the name, they say, That Peter gave to Joseph's field When he had sold it, and then kneeled Before the Lord's…

The Free Gift of God Is Eternal Life

Part 1

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Why We Should Not and Cannot Go on Living in Sin Our focus this morning is mainly on the…

Do You Believe In Capital Punishment?

From the message, "Implications of Being Made in the Image of God."

Implications of Being Made in the Image of God

Session 2

The Bible repeatedly speaks of the inherent dignity of all people. Because God made us in his image, all people have value.

Joseph of Arimathea

Part 2

When all of Joseph's tears were spent, And all the secret love, long pent Behind the bars of fear, was loosed, And, like a swelling flood, reduced This polished nobleman to sobs, And left him weakened and with throbs Behind…

Slaves to God, Sanctification, Eternal Life

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22…

Hope-Giving Promises for Triumph over Sin

If God works to bring about obedience in our heart, then sin will not be lord over us, God will.

Joseph of Arimathea

Part 1

The evening sky behind the cross Was crimson as if all the loss Of blood from Jesus' veins had spread Across the heavens like a red Stain lifted from the earth. The Lord Hung limp and cast a shadow t'ward…

Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 2

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! Do you not know that…

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