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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.

John Piper’s Senior Sermon at Fuller Seminary

Fuller Theological Seminary

One of the first sermons John Piper ever preached, as a 25-year-old seminary student.

The Image of God

The Image of God

An Approach from Biblical and Systematic Theology

First, I examine the Old Testament teaching on the image of God, then the New Testament, and then I work out a systematic, theological definition.

Resolved

The Opinion, v10 n3, pp. 5-6

I have often thought about how business went on as usual in Palestine while God was walking about her towns. I suppose most people of that time lived quite oblivious to the division of the history of creation. But then…

On the Possibility of Saying “I Love You, But I Don’t Like You”

The Opinion, v10 n2, pp. 5-7

The command to love is a call to the deepest and most thoroughgoing sanctification.

Devotion, Criticism and the Bible

The Opinion, v10 n1, p. 9

It's important to keep the intellectual study of Scripture together with heart application.

Book Review: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

The Opinion, v9 n5, pp. 7-9

John Piper recommends a book "so good that you won't be able to finish it without putting it down."

The Poverty of Theological Vocabulary

Without a language of the sense, theology can become lifeless and ineffective.

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