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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.

United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 1

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 Or do you not know that all…

Is "Growing Without Growing" Working?

Farewell to Sovereign Joy Fellowship

God does not always wait for our strategies. In fact, our idea of "growing without growing" was an effort to catch up with what he seemed to be about. The train was moving. We thought it would be good to…

How Justified Sinners Love Each Other

Present Your Bodies to God I am taking a slight detour from Romans 6 today in order to speak from Romans 12 about small groups at Bethlehem. You might say, "That's not a slight detour. That's major." To jump from…

Are We to Continue in Sin That Grace Might Increase?

Believers are commanded to become in practice what we are in Christ: dead to sin and alive to God.

The Church Was Spoken Against Everywhere

Sometimes Christians have no favor in society. Even so, God can, and often does, pour out his power for effective witness.

The Triumph of Grace through Righteousness

God's purpose in giving the law was so that, in the end, grace would reign through Christ's righteousness on our behalf.

A Call to Greatness

Greatness in Jesus' eyes is serving the needs of others. And Jesus' eyes are the only ones that count in the end. He said "Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant" (Mark 10:43). So I am…

Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 5

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when…

How to Be a Refuge for Your Children

Dads, fear God and put your confidence in him so your children will have a refuge in you.

Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 4

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when…

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Dallas Theological Seminary Chapel

The pursuit of joy in God is not icing on the cake of the Christian life but is essential to glorifying God and loving people.

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Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Q&A

Calvinism does not teach that human responsibility is insignificant, but rather that humans do not have ultimate self-determination over their will, including their choice to be reconciled to God.

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Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job

Part 4

Like Job’s suffering, our pain is never meaningless. God orchestrates hardship for his eternal purposes.

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Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job

Part 3

Jesus bore our ultimate curse and punishment on the cross. Any discipline we now receive is not to punish us, but to spur us on in the path toward Christlikeness.

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Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job

Part 2

Good theology matters. But love and grace matter just as much in our application of theology.

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Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering

Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering

God’s sovereignty is a balm of relief for sufferers. He works through every pain for our good.

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Future Grace for Finishing the Task

Part 7

The goal of the Christian life is to be so satisfied in knowing Jesus that the fleeting pleasures of this world fade away as we give and give and give for God’s glory.

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Future Grace for Finishing the Task

Part 6

Having great faith doesn’t always equal having great success. Sometimes, our faith enables us to suffer and die well — all for the glory of Christ.

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Future Grace for Finishing the Task

Part 5

God hasn’t left us to our own devices to battle covetousness and greed. We have the eternal promises of our heavenly Father whose kingdom endures forever and ever.

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Future Grace for Finishing the Task

Part 4

We will never fully escape temptations toward lust, bitterness, and unforgiveness. But by the power of the Spirit, we can fight their allure with God’s great and precious promises.

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Future Grace for Finishing the Task

Part 3

We walk by faith not only by looking back to the cross with thankfulness, but by trusting God for a fresh, never-ending supply of grace to empower us for every new day.

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Future Grace for Finishing the Task

Part 2

Every Christian stands firmly rooted in Christ’s decisive past work. But grounded there, we now look expectantly forward for more and more of God’s grace.

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Future Grace for Finishing the Task

Part 1

God lives for the fame of his name, and so should we. But we’ll never honor and magnify him as we should unless we first learn that our delight in him glorifies him most.

We Took a Good Stand and Made a Bad Mistake

Reflections on the Baptist General Conference Annual Meeting, St Paul

Reflections on the Baptist General Conference Annual Meeting St Paul One of the most significant issues before us as a Conference at the recent annual meeting was whether we would embrace open theism as part of our corporate identity. Open…

Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 3

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned – 13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not…

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