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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.

The Joy and Ministry of Leaving

Earlier this year God gave us, we believe, the vision of GROWING WITHOUT GROWING. This means that not growing is not a Biblical option. "The Lord added to the church daily as many as were being saved" (Acts 2:47) -…

The Pleasures of God

The Pleasures of God

Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God

We can only know the greatness of God’s glory if we know what makes him glad. Therefore, we must understand the pleasures of God.

Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 2

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…

Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 1

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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Let the Nations Be Glad

Let the Nations Be Glad

Jesus has sheep that are not of our fold. He has ransomed a people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation.

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Counting It All Joy

Jesus Christ is magnified in the life of his people whenever they find their highest joy in him — especially in seasons of suffering and pain.

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Questions and Answers

Both in tenderness and toughness, we must follow the example of Jesus as we upset the world.

Thank You, Bethlehem, for Overflowing Love

You have washed us with love. You have covered us with the aroma of kindness. You have clothed us with the garments of peace. You have adorned us with the flowers of praise. We have become still and quiet, lest…

Twenty Years, Then Romans

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned- 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin…

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Boasting Only in the Cross

Boasting Only in the Cross

When you die, only what you do for Christ will last. You have one life. Don’t waste it on insignificant comforts.

Dorothy Sayers on Why Hell Is a Non-Negotiable

It is not out of antiquarian allegiance that we love the truth—even the hard ones. It is out of love to Christ and to the people who need his truth.

The Legacy of Sovereign Joy

The Legacy of Sovereign Joy

God’s Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin

As we consider the flawed but fruitful lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin, we behold the glory of God and find strength to overcome our weaknesses.

How to Get a Camel through a Needle's Eye

With God all things are possible. That is the basis of our prayer and our giving and our evangelism.

The Overflow of Easter

A Whole Theology of Resurrection in One Chapter

In just one chapter Paul outlines a whole theology of the resurrection.

Jesus Christ: Alive and With Us to the End

Easter Sunday

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave. 2 And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred for an angel of…

The Sons Are Free

Palm Sunday

And while they were gathering together in Galilee Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men; 23 and they will kill Him, and He will be raised on the third…

If the Lord Wills

Education for Exultation: Humbly Under God

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." 14 Yet you do not know what your life will…

The Isaac Factor

The Isaac Factor

Education for Exultation: Beyond the Possible

There’s nothing too difficult, too complicated, or too tiresome for God. With him, all things are possible.

The Gideon Venture

Education for Exultation: Debt-Free

Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him, rose early and camped beside the spring of Harod and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in…

One Generation Shall Praise Your Works to Another

One Generation Shall Praise Your Works to Another

Education for Exultation: in the Next Generation

It is the Biblical duty of every generation to make sure that the next generation hears about the mighty acts of God.

Conference Message

Marriage Lived for the Glory of God

Marriage Lived for the Glory of God

The point of marriage is the glory of God, therefore marriage must not be the ultimate focus of our lives but God himself as our greatest treasure.

Truth and Love

Truth aims at love; love aims at truth. Love shapes how to speak the truth; truth shapes how to show love.

Let All the Peoples Praise Him

Education for Exultation: Among the Nations

Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God. 8 For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given…

Building Our Lives on the Bible

Education for Exultation: By the Word

Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith patience, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!…

Fulfilling the Law of Love

Education for Exultation: Through the Spirit by Faith

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. 2 Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of…

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