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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.

Why Deal With Racial Issues?

Session 1

Racial issue is an emotionally no-win issue. Despite its difficulty, God calls us to deal with it, and it’s worth it.

The Value of Learning History

A Lesson From Jude

God ordains history partly so that we will learn it and be wiser about the present.

Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 1

What is the Meaning of "Under Law" and "Under Grace"?

Part One: What Is the Meaning of "Under Law" and "Under Grace"? For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under…

A Prayer for Our Church

O Lord, by the truth of your Word, and the power of your Spirit and the ministry of your body, build men and women at Bethlehem Who don't love the world more than God, who don't care…

Thank God for the Mercies of Christ

Thank God for the Mercies of Christ

Festival of Thanksgiving

We don’t often see God's mercies in our moments of weakness, but we can take hope that he is working all things together for our good.

It Is Never Right to Be Angry with God

It is never right to be angry with God. And it’s never right to hide your anger from him, if you feel it.

Do Not Let Sin Reign in Your Mortal Body, Part 2

Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting…

Preaching and the Suffering of the People

Preaching and the Suffering of the People

Suffering is no accident. Preachers need to show their people that God’s hand is sovereign over every one of our pains.

Preaching and the Suffering of the Preacher

Preaching and the Suffering of the Preacher

Joy in God in and through suffering makes the worth of God shine more brightly than it would through ease and abundance.

Preaching and the Problem of Suffering

Preaching and the Problem of Suffering

Preaching that highlights God’s hand in our trials will help sustain people in the trials and suffering that will inevitably come in this life.

Do Not Let Sin Reign in Your Mortal Body, Part 1

Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God inChrist Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting the…

Going Deep with God by Having Him Carry Our Loads

One of the reasons we don't know God deeply is that we don't venture much on his pledge to carry things for us.

The Lord Stood By Me . . . That All the Nations Might Hear

Missions Week

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I…

Conference Message

A Biblical Alternative to Serving God

A life that is lived for God’s glory must not be a life motivated by gratitude, but by faith in future grace.

Conference Message

All the World Accountable to God

The need for missions is universal because all humanity has failed to know, love, fear, and glorify God.

Conference Message

The Path and the Price of Pursuing the Glory of God Among the Nations

Filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions means that we embrace suffering for the sake of bringing a personal presentation of the sufferings of Christ to the nations.

Conference Message

Pursuing the Glory of God in the Gladness of the Nations in God

God’s great purpose for the world is that he would be known, praised, enjoyed, and feared among the nations, and he blesses us to become the means of that purpose.

Justified to Break the Power of Sin

For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our…

The Goal of God’s Love May Not Be What You Think It Is

True love aims at satisfying people in the glory of God. Any love that terminates on man is eventually destructive.

It Is Sown in Dishonor, It Is Raised in Glory

Let us learn how to help each other die. It will not be easy, but, by grace, we will help each other say in our final pain, "To die is gain."

United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 3

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 do you not know that all of…

Do I Not Hate Those Who Hate You, O Lord?

The Verses We Skipped

How are we to understand those psalms that express hatred and call down curses upon the enemies of God?

United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 2

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of…

Conference Message

A Biblical Alternative to Serving God: Living by Prayer

The Bible calls us to serve God, but we need to remember that God’s own grace and passion for his glory enable and uphold everything we have to offer him.

Conference Message

Foundations for Prayer Toward the Global Purpose of God

God will sovereignly bring the nations to himself. But he will use our prayers and petitions to fuel a movement of the word that reaches the world.

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