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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.

Men and Women in the Deaconate and in the Service of Communion

When the church enacted our “new” constitution in 1990, one aim was to clarify the role of men and women in relationship to the eldership and the deaconate. There are two offices in the New Testament: elders and deacons. Our…

Dying as a Means of Loving

Dying as a Means of Loving

You won’t discover freedom by indulging in whatever you want. True liberty begins when we submit our desires to God.

"It Doesn’t Matter What Happens to Me"

Those are the words that keep coming back to me as I try to express what Jesus meant when he said, "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if…

Summer Is for Seeing and Showing Christ

Without seeing Christ, the burden to show him to others becomes slave labor.

Be Inspired By Aristeides

To See and Show Christ this Summer

About 133 AD Aristeides, a teacher of philosophy, presented a defense of Christianity to Emperor Hadrian. From it we get a glimpse of what the early Christians were like and why the church grew the way it did, like wildfire…

Love One Another with Tender Affection

God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.

Summer Mindset

Thoughts on Colossians 3:2

If the mailman brings you a love letter from your fiancé, don’t fall in love with the mailman.

Love Her More and Love Her Less

The greatest gift you give your wife is loving God above her life.

The Limits of Love

More Thoughts on Sunday’s Text

One of my seminary professors, Lewis Smedes, wrote a book entitled Love Within Limits. The point was that real life puts real limits on the good you can do for people—and the good that you should do for people…

But I Say to You, Love Your Enemies, Part 2

Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.

Meditations on Bethlehem and the Marriage of My Son

I think more tears were shed at the Pastors’ Prayer Summit over children than anything else. Few things are more painful for a pastor than the waywardness of his children. One pastor I prayed with grieved over the alienation of…

But I Say to You, Love Your Enemies, Part 1

In this sermon on Matthew 5:43–48, John Piper explains how the Great Commission helps us understand the command to love our enemies. He shows us the basis for the Golden Rule.

Summer is for Seeing and Showing God

All-Church Schedule June 11–September 3

Here are the what and why of some summer schedule changes. Not all of them. The children’s and youth ministries are producing separate detailed schedules for their summer events and ministries. This article only relates to Sundays and Weekday Prayer.…

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, Part 2

Loving God sustains us through all the joy and pain and perplexity and uncertainty of what loving our neighbor should be.

Note On Assurance That God Loves Us

The fact that we love God is evidence that he loves us.

Two Mother’s Day Poems from Pastor John

Picking Up Where Mother Left Off My mother was a workin’ Frau: Teutonic blood flowed in her veins. The German sweat stood on her brow, And, like the flawless German trains, She kept appointments to the dot; And taught her…

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, Part 1

All of Scripture hangs on two great purposes: that God be loved with all our heart, and that we love each other as we love ourselves.

Doing Well and Doing Better

Even inside perfection, there is good, better, and best. And understanding this will help us love as we ought.

The Link Between God’s Love for Us and Ours for Others

The Link Between God’s Love for Us and Ours for Others

The link between our love and Christ’s is faith and the Spirit. Without the Spirit, we have no faith, and without both, we have no love.

Conference Message

Strategies for Fighting Sexual Sin

Strategies for Fighting Sexual Sin

1. Recognize that sexuality is a good gift from God. Genesis 2:24-25 For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and…

The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Freedom

Easter Sunday

Of all the great things that Easter means, it also means this: it is a mighty "I meant it!" behind Jesus' death.

Dreaming About Disappearing Mortgages

If you did not receive in the mail a copy of the new mortgage brochure, “Our Giving Account: God is Good!” please call the church or get one from the Information Table in the Commons Our new sanctuary was completed…

The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Lavish Benefits

Palm Sunday

God might have rescued us, sacrificed for us, forgiven us, and not gone any further. But instead he took us into his family.

The Great “Therefore” of the Resurrection

Ideas have consequences.

The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Undeserving Objects

God loved us while we were enemies. God sacrificed his Son for us while we were enemies.

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