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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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God's Passion for His Global Glory

God’s goal in all that he does is to uphold the fame and glory of his name. And that’s really good news for people made in his image.

The Place of Preaching in Worship

Why is the proclamation of the Word so prominent in corporate worship?

Panel Discussion

The Gospel In Contemporary Culture — Panel Discussion

Desiring God 1998 Conference for Pastors

In order to bring the truth of the gospel to bear upon modern culture we must not merely apply it to a person’s felt needs, but rather create in them biblical categories of need and preach Christ.

The Swan Is Not Silent

The Swan Is Not Silent

Sovereign Joy in the Life and Thought of St. Augustine

The End of an Empire On August 26, 410, the unthinkable happened. After 900 years of impenetrable security, Rome was sacked by the Gothic army led by Alaric. St. Jerome, the translator of the Latin Vulgate, was in Palestine at…

Amen

A Word Common to Many Languages

God’s beauty is magnified when it is echoed in prayer and preaching with agreements like “Amen!”

Where Does Child Killing Come From?

Sanctity of Life Sunday

Abortion is all about God because unborn children are made in his image, only God can forgive sins, abortion is a failure to love God supremely, and all laws to prohibit abortion are in his hands.

Every Race to Reign and Worship

Every Race to Reign and Worship

By gathering his redeemed from all the races of the earth, God undercuts ethnocentric pride and throws us back on free grace.

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The Living God Is a Missionary God

The ultimate goal of missions is to uphold and display the glory of God, for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every nation.

Wonderful Things from Your Word

Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law. Our Desperate Need for God's Illumination The three points we saw in this verse last week were: 1) there are wonderful things in the Word of God; 2)…

Open My Eyes That I May See

Open My Eyes That I May See

Prayer opens our eyes to behold wonders in God’s word, and to be changed by an extraordinary sight of his glory.

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God Is Glorified in Us When Christ Is Gain to Us

God Is Glorified in Us When Christ Is Gain to Us

‘Worship’ isn’t just for Sunday morning, but is rather the daily, all-consuming goal of every person made new by the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

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Did Christ Die for Us or for God?

Did Christ Die for Us or for God?

God didn't spare his own Son, but freely gave him up for us. Because of Jesus, we are pardoned and God remains just.

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Christian Hedonism with Questions and Answers

Christian Hedonism with Questions and Answers

The truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him is the ground for us to pursue genuine love for people and endure suffering.

Desire Starters and the Night of Prayer

If your desires are weak, here are thirty four desire starters.

Singing and Making Melody to the Lord

So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns…

Joseph

Part 4

Less than a month had passed since they Returned from Canaan where they lay Their father Jacob in the cave Of Machpelah, and made the grave Of Abraham complete. Three wives, Three God-intoxicated lives Of flawed and faithful patriarchs Now…

We Have Come to Worship Him

We Have Come to Worship Him

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying, 2 "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His…

Joseph

Part 3

The locks were checked, the bread was slid Beneath the doors, the keys were hid Where only Joseph and the head Of Pharaoh's prison knew. The red And golden rays of dusk, that he Had come to love, shone silently…

Magnifying God with Money

Magnifying God with Money

God calls his people to honor him with their bank accounts by simplifying and serving. Money isn’t only for our needs, but for God’s glory.

Summary of the Sovereignty of God in Salvation

The "Five Points" of Calvinism

Salvation is not finally in the hands of man to determine. His choices are crucial, but they are not the final, decisive power in bringing him to glory, God’s sovereign grace is. 1. God elects, chooses, before the foundation of…

Darwinism and Christmas

When humans celebrate Christmas, is it essentially the same as ants doing some instinctual dance?

Joseph

Part 2

For one last time the boy stood by The woods of Hebron to reply, If only by the stillness of A grateful heart for all the love, And good, and favor he had known, Now seventeen, and almost grown To…

The Lord's Supper as Worship

But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you because you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist…

The Enormous Ignorance of God

When God Doesn't Know the Future Choices of Man

In what follows, when I refer to God's knowing I mean his certain knowing, not his extraordinary ability to deduce probabilities from known facts. In the view that I am concerned to understand, namely, the view of Greg Boyd and…

Bodies, Breakfast and the Marriage Bed

Meditation on Daily Worship

You are always in a temple—your body. Therefore, always worship.

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