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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.

Some Questions to Ask When Considering a Job

Twelve questions and the Scripture passages that prompt them.

Purified to Serve the Living God

How can people destroyed by their sin draw near to a perfect God?

"Please Feed Me More!"

The Cry of Dying Faith

If you are dissatisfied with your Christian courage, joy, and purity of heart then you should check the way you are feeding your faith.

Thy Word I Have Treasured in My Heart

Thy Word I Have Treasured in My Heart

Do you hate sin in your life? As a Christian you should. Here is some practical help to fight sin.

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Is Christian Hedonism Valid?

Is Christian Hedonism Valid?

Christian Hedonism says that when you are saved, your joy is in God as your supreme Treasure. But is this tenable?

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Building a God-Focused Ministry

Building a God-Focused Ministry

Successful ministry isn’t based on programs and events, but on a passion for God and his word that pervades the entirety of a church’s life.

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Passion for the Supremacy of God

Passion for the Supremacy of God

God loves his glory more than you and this is great news of great joy because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

Crossway Books Interview with John Piper on A Hunger for God

1. What do you mean by calling Fasting a homesickness for God? Matthew 9:15 "The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is…

Pray This Letter into the Hands of Hundreds Who Don't Own a Bible

This is the letter that will go out with the free Bibles that people will call to receive after our banner goes up this week. Since I presume to speak for you all, I thought you should read the letter!!…

Praying from the Fullness of the Word

I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. 3…

The Cyrenian Cycle: Rufina

The synagogue of Freedmen in Jerusalem, for years had been A place of passion for the law Of Moses. There they held in awe The Temple and the holy priests, The sacrifices, and the feasts. For these were men who'd…

Jesus: Mediator of a Better Covenant, Part 2

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would…

The Cyrenian Cycle: Lucius the Centurion

His name was Lucius, second son By birth, and second to be done With his Cyrenian home. And he Was violent, and of the three, The neighbor children feared him most. He dreamed that on the northern coast Of Africa…

Jesus: Mediator of a Better Covenant, Part 1

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would…

Six Shadows Flee at Christmas

The meaning of Christmas is that the substance of true religion belongs to Christ.

The Cyrenian Cycle: Simon of Cyrene

Rufina's oldest son despised Her faith. At sixteen all he prized Was what would make him great, he thought, Like land and power. All she taught Him seemed a loss, and all her prayers A waste. He'd stand beneath the…

Our High Priest is the Son of God Perfect Forever

Five reasons for why Jesus' priesthood is superior to all others.

What’s It Like to Write Advent Poems?

People ask me about the advent poems. How long does it take? Where to do you get the ideas? Is it hard The first thing I want to say is that the advent poems are not Scripture. They are not…

The Cyrenian Cycle: Malchus the Slave

Cyrene, city on the coast Of northern Africa, could boast Her poet Callimachus — and Her son, Carnéadés, the grand Philosopher who founded an Academy in Greece, a man Who plundered Stoics just to mock Their certitudes — and then…

Jesus: From Melchizedek to Eternal Savior

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the…

Bethlehem Is Debt-Free and God Is Not Perspiring

God wants more work because more work means more demonstrations of power and wisdom and love.

From Thy Hand We Have Given Thee

Celebration of Freeing the Future: Being Debt Free as a Church

So David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, "Blessed art Thou, O LORD God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory…

Hope Anchored in Heaven

Hope Anchored in Heaven

We can hold fast to our hope in heaven because God himself holds us fast. He anchors our souls in his eternal promises.

When Does God Swear?

God swears by his own name in order to give his people unwavering confidence in his promises.

Denying Foreknowledge of Human Choices and Undermining the New Covenant

There is a revival underway of old false teaching. It denies that God can foreknow human choices. The reasoning goes like this: choices are free, and free means self-created, and self-created means outside of knowability before they are created. Not…

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