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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.

Running with the Witnesses

Running with the Witnesses

Though the fight is difficult and the race is long, the sidelines are filled with saints who cheer you on, encouraging you to finish with faith.

What? Me Hostile to God?

Meditation on Colossians 1:21–22

Most people imagine God to be the way they want him to be, which seldom includes the possibility that they might be his enemy.

Faith to Be Strong and Faith to Be Weak

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for…

Cherishing Truth for the Sake of Love

There is a biblical order to truth and love: truth first.

Liberated for Love by Looking to the Reward

Faith Makes the Difference When we Walk Through Crisis As we look at four more instances of what faith produces, keep in mind the definition from Hebrews 11:1: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of…

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A Mind in Love with God

My topic in this first address is "Jonathan Edwards, A Mind in Love with God: the Private Life of a Modern Evangelical." The point of the title is to say that the life and thought of Jonathan Edwards is relevant…

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Enjoying God and the Transformation of Culture

Jonathan Edwards and Social Issues Social issues per se, or culture, are not prominent in Edwards' writings. Discussions of social issues and public policies and programs have about as much place in his writings as they do in the New…

The Unashamed God

Meditation on Hebrews 11:16

Two things make God unashamed to be called our God: that he has prepared something great for us, and that we desire it above everything else.

The Hope of Exiles on the Earth

God honors faith and obedience by using all of his wisdom, power and love to turn that kind of life into one of great joy.

How Dispensable is Gender?

Twenty five questions about the significance of gender in the Bible.

The Faith of Noah, Abraham, and Sarah

Saving faith isn't merely the one-time act of receiving Jesus. It goes on trusting him.

Is It Right to Say, “If I’d Prayed, He Might Have Been Saved?”

When God predestines someone's salvation, he usually predestines a human agent too.

Bible Translation as Battleground

Bible Translation as Battleground

Problems in Gender Changes from the NIV to the NIVI

Translating the Bible is no simple task, but we should follow certain parameters when translating into modern language — especially on matters of gender.

When God’s Will Is That His Will Not Be Done

Meditations on 1 Samuel 2:22-25

Sometimes God ordains that sin continue for holy and just reasons, which is not sin on his part.

Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith though he is dead, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch…

Problems with Inclusive Language Translations of the Bible

Certain editions of the Bible risk letting contemporary cultural pressures distort the original meaning of Scripture.

What Faith Knows and Hopes For

As we begin our exposition of Hebrews 11, we need to see why it's here and what it has to do with your life. Go back with me five weeks and six verses to Hebrews 10:34. You may remember that…

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The Supremacy of God in Missions

The Supremacy of God in Missions

God will finish the Great Commission, but he won’t do it without his people being sent and sharing Jesus across cultures.

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The Supremacy of God in Prayer

The Supremacy of God in Prayer

We don’t honor God mainly by trying to do things for him, but by receiving strength, grace, and love from his endless fountain.

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The Supremacy of God in Preaching

The Supremacy of God in Preaching

The supremacy of God is the theme of redemptive history, our preaching, and of God.

What Baptism Portrays

And the Law came in that the transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our…

What Is Baptism and Does It Save?

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19 in which…

Lutheran, Episcopal and Catholic Views of Infant Baptism

Summaries of how three major traditions view and practice infant baptism.

Buried and Raised in Baptism Through Faith

This sermon on Colossians 2:8–15 deals with the differences between circumcision and baptism, and explains all that God has done in bringing us to life through the gospel.

How Old Is Infant Baptism?

What do the biblical references to "households" being baptized mean?

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