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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.

The Lust of Ignorance and the Life of Holiness

The grace of God is the source of your hope and the holiness of God is the standard of your holiness.

How I Was Moved to Tears

What prayer commitments might God be nudging you to make?

Girding the Mind to Guard Your Hope

Avoid what numbs your mind to God and stay sober for the sake of hope.

Can We Give $300,000 in Six Sundays?

From a human perspective 5000 people could not be fed from five loaves and two fish. But that was not Jesus’ perspective.

What the Prophets Sought and Angels Desired

We should be amazed at the greatness of our salvation and that the prophets of God and the angels of heaven long to look into it.

Let's Find "Grace for a Well-Timed Help" Together

Hebrews 4:6 reminds us to seek God not only for the kind of grace we need but also for the timing of it.

True Christianity: Inexpressible Joy in the Invisible Christ

You love Jesus and trust him and rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory. This is true Christianity.

When Words Are Wind

When Words Are Wind

In their grief and despair, people often say things they otherwise would not say — and we need not always reprove them.

Let the Nations Be Glad

Missions Week

God blesses us so that the nations will be blessed.

An Amazing (Unused?) Means of Change

The ability to think is a gift from God and an immensely powerful means of our becoming what we ought to be.

Books That Have Influenced Me Most

What kind of reading has made the biggest difference for John Piper?

A Gift to You from CHEF

What’s that? And who’s Jon Bloom?

John Piper introduces the Christian Hedonism Expansion Fund (CHEF) and its mission.

Joy Through the Fiery Test of Genuine Faith

There is a design in your distresses as a Christian. God wills them, and he does so for your good.

How Do You Obey the Command to Be Born?

The call of God creates what it commands.

The Elect Are Kept by the Power of God

Our security is not in making heaven unconditional. Our security is in God's infallible commitment to fulfill the conditions of heaven.

Praying for What Cannot Fail

We pray, not because the outcome is uncertain, but because it is certain.

Practical Steps in the Pursuit of Joy

Practical Steps in the Pursuit of Joy

Practical steps in the pursuit of joy in God involve recognizing this pursuit as an ongoing fight, saturating yourself with Scripture, and praying for holiness.

God’s Great Mercy and Our New Birth

God’s Great Mercy and Our New Birth

Our response to being born again and being given a living hope with an imperishable inheritance in heaven should be nothing less than to bless God.

The Call of Christian Love

The Call of Christian Love

In order to love people truly we must pursue our own joy in God and seek to bring them into it.

Why Being Truth-Driven Is So Crucial

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God.

God’s Heart for His Glory

God’s Heart for His Glory

The foundation of Christian Hedonism is God’s passion for his own glory.

Divine Election: The Role of the Father and the Spirit

We are aliens not because men have rejected us, but because God has elected us.

Conference Message

Manhood, Womanhood, and God

Part 4

Loving and speaking the truth in a politically correct and sex-leveling world will require courage, humility, and a willingness to be maligned for the sake of Christ.

Join the Life Chain Again This Year

Do you have a plan to do something for the children who cannot speak for themselves?

Conference Message

Manhood, Womanhood, and God

Part 3

Marriage is a divine mystery that refers to Christ and the church; therefore, in marriage, husbands should take their cues to love their wives from Christ, and wives should take their cues to submit to their husbands from the church.

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