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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.

Back to School: A Biblical Perspective

The business of education is God’s business. To ignore him in it is to be profoundly uneducated.

For an Eternal Weight of Glory: Called to Suffer and Rejoice

For an Eternal Weight of Glory

Called to Suffer and Rejoice

Though our outer self daily wastes away, we do not lose heart. We have an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

Changes Are in the Wind

A New Fall Focus on Being the Church

What does it mean to be the “church of God”?

To Finish the Aim of Christ’s Afflictions

To Finish the Aim of Christ’s Afflictions

Called to Suffer and Rejoice

The world sees the suffering love of Christ for sinners in the suffering love of his people for sinners.

That We Might Gain Christ

Called to Suffer and Rejoice

We come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.

For Holiness and Hope

Called to Suffer and Rejoice

God has a purpose for every obstacle and every frustration and every pain and every affliction that comes into our lives.

How Can Elsie Run?

It is possible for the sick and aged to win the fight of faith because it is a fight against lost hope, not against lost health.

How Then Shall We Run?

How Then Shall We Run?

Our eternal destiny hinges on the way we run our race. Let us strive to win the eternal prize.

What Is a Christian?

Christianity is not merely believing a set of ideas about Christ’s love. It is an experience of being constrained by that love.

Olympic Spirituality: Beyond the Gold

Olympic Spirituality

Beyond the Gold

As we run our races, eternity hangs in the balance — disqualification and death, or victory and life.

Sermon Series, Olympic Fever, and Suffering

For the next six Sundays that remain through Labor Day weekend I feel strongly led of God to preach from biblical texts on suffering for the cause of Christ. Let me tell you how this theme has pressed itself on…

Beliefs about Homosexual Behavior and Ministering to Homosexual Persons

Resolution Passed by the Baptist General Conference in Annual Meeting Estes Park, Colorado

We the delegates to the 114th Annual Meeting of the Baptist General Conference gathering in Estes Park, Colorado, June 22-28, 1992, endorse the following two-part resolution: Part One Our affirmation that the Bible is the infallible Word of God with…

A Million-Dollar Love Affair

One test of our love is the way we support the ministry financially during the summer.

The Echo and Insufficiency of Hell, Part 2

Behold the Kindness and Severity of God

Fear of hell is no proof of love for God.

When a Friend Takes a Wrong Turn

The Bible teaches that hell is everlasting torment, not the loss of existence.

The Echo and Insufficiency of Hell, Part 1

Behold the Kindness and Severity of God

The horror of hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

Should Not I Pity That Great City...Minneapolis?

The Day of Praise Procession

God has made the cities of this world, and he cares for them. So should we.

Does God Have Civil Rights?

Los Angeles, the 14th Amendment and God

Until God is given his rights, no human rights will have significance beyond convenience.

Why the NASB for a Preaching Bible

I love the Word of God. I love His promises and His commandments and His descriptions of reality. I say with the Psalmist, “More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and…

Behold, I Make All Things New

God wants us to have assurance that no matter how much evil and suffering and futility we see now, he will make all things new.

The Times They Are a Changin’

Sounds sort of sixties doesn’t it? I can’t seem to shake it. What I mean is that changes are always happening around Bethlehem Old Days Worship Planning The first year I was at Bethlehem (July 1980 - August 1981) I…

Christ and Those in Him Will Never Die Again

Easter Sunday

What if it's true that Christ rose from the dead?

The Fruitful Tree

In Memory of Dr. George Henry (Noël's Father)

No tree was ever meant to be / A never-ending shade for me / Or you. Save one: where Jesus died / With bleeding branches spread as wide / And far as faith for sinful men.

God Sanctifies His People

Palm Sunday

Assurance does not come from making holiness optional. It comes from knowing God is faithful.

God Called Us into Life and Hope

God Called Us into Life and Hope

God’s call is effective. It doesn’t go out and then return empty, but creates the faith it commands.

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