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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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Drinking Deep for God’s Sake

Drinking Deep for God’s Sake

Our aim in all we do is to go deep in our grasp of the greatness of God and to pursue passion in our love for the glory of God.

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Preaching for Radical Obedience

Every time a preacher steps into a pulpit, the canvas is clear for him to paint a fresh portrait of God’s supreme glory with the brushstrokes of Scripture.

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How Not to Blaspheme God in the Pulpit

What our pulpits need most is not self-help and how-to, but a God-entranced vision of the world and everything in it.

The Effect of Hypocrisy: Dishonoring God, Part 2

The Effect of Hypocrisy

Dishonoring God, Part 2

We who know the Bible need not only to teach others its life-saving truth, but we must be taught by the word itself.

Walk Worthy of God?

Can we deserve or earn anything good from God? If not, then what does it mean to be worthy of him?

The Effect of Hypocrisy

The Effect of Hypocrisy

Dishonoring God

No one honors and loves God as he or she should. For that, we deserve death. But Christ has come to give life. He is our only hope.

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Preaching Today: The (Almost) Forgotten Task, Panel Discussion

The sufficiency of Scripture in preaching does not mean there is nothing else useful to our lives except the Bible — like other good books — but that the Bible gives us all we need for what the Bible commands.

To Live Upon God That Is Invisible

To Live Upon God That Is Invisible

Suffering and Service in the Life of John Bunyan

“Bless You, Prison, for Having Been in My Life!” In 1672, about 50 miles northwest of London in Bedford, John Bunyan was released from twelve years of imprisonment. He was 44 years old. Just before his release (it seems) he…

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Deeper, Extended, Expanded Joy

What God-centered Living Is All About

Christians display God’s glory in this life by retaining their joy in God while suffering and by pursuing joy in God through suffering.

There Is No Partiality With God, Part 2

For there is no partiality with God. 12 For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; 13 for it is…

Brothers, Pray for Us

For 700 Pastors

That's a clear, straightforward plea to the church at Thessalonica by the apostle Paul. "Brothers, pray for us." I love its simplicity. It is emotionally understated. Can you hear the depth of need this apostle feels for God's help? "…

Visiting Orphans in a World of AIDS and Abortion

Sanctity of Life Sunday

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to…

Luther, Bunyan, Bible and Pain

One of God's gifts to us in suffering is that we see and experience depths of his Word that a life of ease would never yield.

Class, Culture and Ethnic Identity in Christ

Racial Harmony Sunday

It is impossible to believe that Christ indwells every believer and then mistreat one of a different race.

Pray Without Ceasing

But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction, 13 and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their…

The Lord Alone Will Be Exalted

Making War on Pride

What is God's attitude toward pride? What is the remedy for pride?

Meditate on the Word of the Lord Day and Night

Meditation on the Word is not only vital for the Christian life but for prayer as well. So what exactly is meditation?

Will We Love Christ Savingly At the End of 1999?

I know "savingly" is awkward. But how would you ask the question posed by 1 Corinthians 16:22? "If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed"? If we do not love Christ, we will not be saved…

There Is No Partiality With God

Part 1

Every person you will ever meet has God’s law written on their hearts. Even if they have never seen a Bible or heard of Jesus, they are still accountable to him.

For Noel On Our 30th Wedding Anniversary

Thirty Stanzas

Listen, listen, now to Jesus, Maker of the earth and sky, Is he not the One who frees us From the fear that we may die Listen, listen, now to Jesus, Loving whom he did betroth! O, the price he…

The Son of God Appeared to Destroy the Works of the Devil

The Son of God Appeared to Destroy the Works of the Devil

Jesus came to destroy sin, not because it's fun but because it's fatal.

Jonah

Part 3

Hosea's father let the boy Return to Jonah's place. The joy The lad brought home was so much more Than he had ever shown before, His father felt he couldn't hold Him back. It's good to be consoled, He thought…

The Final Divide: Eternal Life or Eternal Wrath, Part 3

The Final Divide

Eternal Life or Eternal Wrath, Part 3

Look to Christ. Only he can save you, only he can satisfy you. There is no other Savior, there is no purer joy.

Jonah

Part 2

The first to gather, as the sun Went down next afternoon, was one Brave lad who hadn't learned the tales Of Jonah's life. For him, like scales Fresh falling from his eyes, were all The words of Jonah's mouth. So…

The Final Divide: Eternal Life or Eternal Wrath, Part 2

The Final Divide

Eternal Life or Eternal Wrath, Part 2

God shows no partiality. Whether Jew or Gentile, all who love and do evil will face wrath, and all who trust Christ and obey God will have glory.

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