John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org; he is author of more than 50 books and travels regularly to preach and teach. New messages are posted to this podcast as they become available. Piper’s sermons, books, articles, and more are available free of charge at desiringGod.org. We want people everywhere to understand and embrace the truth that God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in him.
Only One Life: Christ’s Invincible Gospel and Global Mission
God is sovereign, and he has purposed his gospel to spread to the ends of the earth. Those who give themselves to that purpose are invincible, even through suffering.
2/25/2024 • 47 minutes, 25 seconds
How Jesus Met with God: The Pace and Patterns of a Perfect Life
David Mathis | Jesus had a full and fruitful ministry, but unlike us, he never seemed hurried or frantic. What can we learn by observing his holy habits during his earthly life?
2/17/2024 • 18 minutes, 8 seconds
His Voice in Yours: How Christ Wins the World
God will have worshipers from every nation on earth. He will win them, and do so through us. We have only to tell them.
1/21/2024 • 33 minutes, 36 seconds
How to Please a Happy God: Six Glimpses of the Christian Life
David Mathis | What does it look like to walk in a way that is pleasing to God — to live so that God delights in the aroma of our lives?
1/14/2024 • 43 minutes, 57 seconds
Gain What You Cannot Lose: The Joy of World Mission with Jesus
John Piper | When Christ calls us to the mission field with him, he calls us to deny shallow pleasures, die to ourselves, and enjoy greater and greater delight in him.
1/7/2024 • 38 minutes, 29 seconds
Do Not Believe Every Spirit: The Threat and Defeat of False Teaching Today
Are biblical warnings about false prophets still relevant? Yes, the threat looms as large today as in the first century.
12/31/2023 • 36 minutes, 8 seconds
Appeal from John Piper
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12/29/2023 • 5 minutes, 17 seconds
One Countercultural Calling: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 3
David Mathis | Of the fifteen elder qualifications, “one-woman man” and “not quarrelsome” may be the two most at odds with our promiscuous, petty age.
12/27/2023 • 52 minutes, 55 seconds
Two Ways to Deal with Jesus: Learning Worship from the Wise Men
Matthew’s Christmas story shows two ways to deal with Jesus: try to get rid of him like Herod, or fall down and worship him like the wise men.
12/24/2023 • 10 minutes, 30 seconds
Jesus Came to Save: Ten Great Realities of Christmas
The birth of John the Baptist was great, but the birth of Jesus Christ was infinitely greater. John prepared for salvation, but Jesus purchased it.
12/23/2023 • 38 minutes, 35 seconds
Two Main Tasks in Ministry: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 2
David Mathis | Scripture says elders should be “able to teach” and “sober-minded” — but why? The two correspond to a pastor’s most important tasks: feeding and leading.
12/20/2023 • 47 minutes, 59 seconds
Christmas Was and Christmas Is: The Whole Story of Advent
David Mathis | How do you need God’s help this Advent? What need seems most pressing? Press into the message of Christmas, and you’ll find hope and help in time of need.
12/17/2023 • 39 minutes, 19 seconds
Christmas Was and Christmas Is: The Whole Story of Advent
David Mathis | How do you need God’s help this Advent? What need seems most pressing? Press into the message of Christmas, and you’ll find hope and help in time of need.
12/17/2023 • 39 minutes, 19 seconds
Three Contrasts in a Leader’s Heart: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 1
David Mathis | What does Christ call church leaders to be and do? Like him, they labor heartily and happily, not for selfish gain, but for their people’s joy.
12/13/2023 • 50 minutes, 10 seconds
What’s It Like to Be a Christian? Faith, Obedience, and Living as Strangers
David Mathis | What is Christian faith? Hebrews 11 not only answers the question but tells us what faith feels like, and how it leads to obedience, and living as exiles in this world.
12/10/2023 • 39 minutes, 39 seconds
If God Speaks: One Voice That Changes Everything
David Mathis | To read the Bible is to read the very words of God. Do we grasp the significance, the reality-shaking impact, of this seemingly simple truth?
12/6/2023 • 50 minutes, 1 second
Before You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like Jesus
David Mathis | Good pastors are not naive: ministry comes with many costs. Even so, Christ has not called us to an impossible, joyless task. The cross proves otherwise.
12/3/2023 • 48 minutes, 2 seconds
Man of War and Grace: The Greatest of Israel’s Kings
David Mathis | Some may not think of David, the shepherd king, as particularly masculine, but Scripture paints him in a far more manly and glorious light.
11/25/2023 • 34 minutes, 17 seconds
Whose Son Is the Messiah? King David and the God of Israel
John Piper | When Jesus asks the Pharisees how David calls the Messiah “Lord,” they refuse to answer. What made that seemingly simple question so incendiary?
11/19/2023 • 39 minutes, 8 seconds
God Is: The Life-Altering Reality of Sheer Divine Existence
God is. No reality is more mind-boggling, more valuable, more life-altering, more electrifying than the absolute being of God.
11/12/2023 • 38 minutes, 9 seconds
Grace Will Order All Your Pain: Retirement Message for Dana Olson
What is sovereign, sustaining grace? It is not grace that spares us pain, but grace that orders our pain — and then sustains us through the pain.
10/15/2023 • 42 minutes, 33 seconds
The Leader You Long to Follow
David Mathis | From principals to presidents, leadership failures fill the news. We long for someone in power to lead with wisdom and fairness. Praise God, the ideal king has come.
10/4/2023 • 40 minutes, 7 seconds
The Spell That Opened Heaven: Funeral Message for Daniel Fuller (1925–2023)
Romans 8:32 is perhaps the greatest verse in the Bible. No other text quite describes how far God has gone for our salvation and will go for our joy.
9/10/2023 • 23 minutes, 52 seconds
The Final Hours of Suffering: Funeral Message for Nancy Nelson (1952–2023)
God’s word speaks to the mysteries of suffering. We will only bear pain well as we begin to see it like he does.
8/6/2023 • 25 minutes, 23 seconds
Why We Sing About the Blood
David Mathis | Why do Christians sing about blood? Because of what happened at the cross, the otherwise morbid topic becomes one of glory, thanks, and praise.
7/22/2023 • 40 minutes, 20 seconds
More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed
What excites a Christian most? Our deepest, truest joy does not flow from completed degrees or flourishing ministries, but from the God who saved us.
7/12/2023 • 19 minutes, 1 second
Happy Pastors Make Healthy Churches
Christ’s blood bought more than our pardon, precious as it is. His death also purchased the power we need to live a radical Christian life.
7/2/2023 • 40 minutes, 52 seconds
Why Bethlehem Has a College: Biblical Foundations for Church-Based Education
What makes a college distinctly Christian? Education is not an end in itself, but a means to knowing and loving Christ.
6/18/2023 • 41 minutes, 15 seconds
Hamilton: An American Prodigal
David Mathis | Neither biographers nor Broadway can ignore Alexander Hamilton’s late-flowering Christian faith. He, like the prodigal son, finally came home after his journey into the far country.
6/3/2023 • 53 minutes, 5 seconds
Not Dead Yet: Fighting Nine Fears of Old Age
As we age, fears can multiply like wrinkles. But for every concern, we have a blood-bought promise far, far older than our fears.
5/28/2023 • 52 minutes, 45 seconds
Press Afresh into Jesus: Four Truths About Genuine Faith
David Mathis | Genuine faith welcomes, enjoys, fears, strives after, and rests in God. And in doing so, genuine faith perseveres.
5/18/2023 • 40 minutes, 58 seconds
The Demons, the Fever, and the Word of the King
While on earth, Jesus spoke with unmatched power. Demons obeyed him, and fevers fled at his word. Everything was subject to him — then and now.
5/14/2023 • 44 minutes, 37 seconds
Do Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors
David Mathis | For pastors to be “well thought of by outsiders” certainly isn’t everything, but it made God’s list of requirements. Is it still on ours?
5/7/2023 • 37 minutes, 48 seconds
The Story of the Greatest Coronation
David Mathis | When Christ ascended into heaven, an otherworldly ceremony commenced. Here was the long-awaited Son of David, the only man angels ever worshiped.
4/16/2023 • 40 minutes, 34 seconds
Danger Averted, Destiny Attained: Funeral Message for Lois Nelson (1919–2023)
When a Christian goes home to be with the Lord, we who remain have the chance to rehearse God’s loving design in every believer’s death.
4/13/2023 • 24 minutes, 3 seconds
A World God Could Admire: Recovering His Pleasure in Creation
Marshall Segal | Do you ever stop, slow down, and marvel at something God has made? If we could see it all like he does, we’d see far more than we do.
3/26/2023 • 57 minutes, 46 seconds
What Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages?
When our hearts run dry, and our good works languish, the Bible bids us: “Consider the end.”
3/5/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
It Will Be Worth It: Overcoming Obstacles to World Missions
When it comes to missions, reasons abound to stay rather than to go. But for every apparent obstacle, countless promises say, “It will be worth it.”
1/29/2023 • 25 minutes, 6 seconds
Ordinary Elders, Part 2: Governing as Men Who Teach
David Mathis | Pastors are first and foremost teachers, but they are not only teachers. They feed the sheep and lead the sheep — and they lead by feeding.
1/20/2023 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
Ordinary Elders, Part 1: Working for the Joy of Others
David Mathis | The pastors we all want are men who want to pastor, who want to see God move in them and through them for the joy of others.
1/19/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 15 seconds
Is Jesus an Egomaniac? Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian Faith
What do we call an obsessively self-centered person? An egomaniac. Then what should we call God, who demands all our praise? We call him gracious.
1/8/2023 • 51 minutes, 30 seconds
The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year
When we pray for God to preserve us, we ask that he would be not only our Lord, but our life — not only our God, but our highest and everlasting good.
12/29/2022 • 46 minutes, 25 seconds
Prince of What Peace? How Christmas Overcomes Our Conflicts
At the root of all conflict is man’s conflict with God. At Christmas, we celebrate that God took the initiative to establish true peace.
12/25/2022 • 45 minutes, 15 seconds
How Majestic Is Our Lord?
David Mathis | When speaking of God, we grope for fresh language to name the greatness of God. Might we learn to reach more often for the word “majesty”?
12/18/2022 • 40 minutes
The Joy of the Puritans
The Puritans took joy seriously because they read the Bible carefully. They saw that delight in God is at the heart of all true obedience.
12/11/2022 • 0
Ten Looks at Jesus, Part 2
David Mathis | “For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” How happy might we be if we heeded Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s counsel?
12/5/2022 • 42 minutes, 52 seconds
Ten Looks at Jesus, Part 1
David Mathis | “For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” How happy might we be if we heeded Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s famous counsel?
12/4/2022 • 47 minutes, 36 seconds
He Delighted to Crush His Son: The Pleasure of God in the Gospel
David Mathis | The Father not only planned for his Son to die, but was pleased to crush him. And for those in Christ, this can be as comforting as it is astonishing.
12/1/2022 • 57 minutes, 6 seconds
The Purposes of God in the Pain of the World
Before he created the earth, God knew pain would plague this world. And not only knew, but planned. And not only planned — but purposed.
11/27/2022 • 53 minutes, 50 seconds
How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners?
You will not be perfect in this life, but you can be pleasing to God. You can become a real ingredient in the divine happiness.
11/20/2022 • 59 minutes, 15 seconds
God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings
The individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.
11/17/2022 • 37 minutes, 29 seconds
Secret Liturgies: The Private Worship of a Public Leader
David Mathis | Blessed is the leader who meditates on God’s law day and night — not just in public, but all the more in secret.
11/6/2022 • 0
Fall Back to the Banner: Four Lessons for Our Devastations
David Mathis | When loss surrounds us, when fears assail us, we have a banner to which to flee. We turn to the God who has spoken, and there find real hope and strength.
10/30/2022 • 38 minutes, 24 seconds
Good Preaching Takes Hard Work
David Mathis | Good preachers carry many burdens before preaching, while preaching, and after preaching — and the rewards still outweigh the costs.
10/23/2022 • 0
How Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love?
When glad in God, we bend low in love for others. We imitate Christ, who not only bowed the knee but hung his body on the tree.
10/2/2022 • 43 minutes, 24 seconds
God Can Handle Your Crisis
David Mathis | Psalm 46 teaches us God can handle the earth’s undoing and nations raging against his people — and that if he can do that, he can be a very present help in our trouble.
8/21/2022 • 36 minutes, 55 seconds
Water from the Rock for Undeserving People
God promises us his life-sustaining presence, even as he leads us into waterless regions of suffering and loss.
8/7/2022 • 41 minutes, 40 seconds
Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away
Faith does not shipwreck upon the rocks of history, logic, science, or ethics, but on the mountains of sinful desire.
7/3/2022 • 18 minutes, 17 seconds
The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
Humility flourishes in hearts that focus not on being humble, but on gladly exalting Jesus, who is superior to us in every possible way.
6/26/2022 • 41 minutes, 6 seconds
The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ
David Mathis | We boast on Sunday because Christ died on Friday. No cross, no favor with God. No crucifixion, no resurrection. We live because he died.
6/5/2022 • 39 minutes, 8 seconds
What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’?
David Mathis | What is freedom in Christ? Freedom from trying to earn God’s acceptance, and freedom to know and enjoy God forever.
5/15/2022 • 36 minutes, 51 seconds
Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It
There is a kind of unhealthy preaching that fails to make plain the effective connection between the sin-bearing work of Christ and the sin-killing work of the Christian.
5/8/2022 • 52 minutes, 37 seconds
We Rejoice to Suffer for You: Pastoral Pain and the People’s Joy
Why does the apostle Paul speak so much about himself and his suffering? Because his suffering for the sake of others makes the love of Christ tangible to them.
5/1/2022 • 43 minutes, 42 seconds
Brother Ass: Stewarding the Body as Christian Hedonists
David Mathis | Why would Christians exercise? Working and pushing these bodies, as God designed them, serves our learning, our joy, and our love.
4/24/2022 • 37 minutes, 29 seconds
Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News
David Mathis | What if, with some intentionality, the news could become a source of refreshment rather than a continual distraction and discouragement?
4/17/2022 • 37 minutes, 20 seconds
The Supremacy of Christ in Everything
The sovereign supremacy of Christ both keeps us from error and enables us to persevere through hardships with patience and joyful thankfulness.
4/14/2022 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds
‘The Joy of the Lord Is Your Stronghold’
Joy in God becomes our stronghold when we are awakened to see and savor him as our greatest joy.
4/10/2022 • 53 minutes, 43 seconds
Bible Reading Has Been My Life: Personal Reflections for Christian Fathers
What does Bible reading look like for John Piper? In this message to fathers, he tells personal stories and shares how he has weaved Bible reading into all of life.
3/27/2022 • 0
How to Meet with God for a Lifetime
David Mathis | How do we meet with God in his word for a lifetime? Every morning, seek to gather a day’s portion.
3/20/2022 • 15 minutes, 46 seconds
Harnessing the Lightning: Tesla’s 3,000-Year Backstory
Tony Reinke | Is a lightning rod — and by extension, all other tech — an act of faith or an act of God-thwarting unbelief?
3/13/2022 • 39 minutes, 45 seconds
The Humbled Win the World
David Mathis | Before we step out to attempt big, ambitious things for Jesus, we need to prepare ourselves to receive and embrace the humbling that will inevitably come.
3/6/2022 • 17 minutes, 51 seconds
23 Tips from 23 Years of Book Reading
Tony Reinke | Many of us today love to swipe, scroll, and stare, but hardly read. Tony Reinke shares 23 tips for reading more and better in a digital age.
1/23/2022 • 45 minutes, 14 seconds
Prayer Vocalizes Our Abiding in Christ
Prayer says more than the words it speaks. The act of praying vocalizes a profound reality: God himself abides in us, and we abide in him.
1/10/2022 • 45 minutes, 43 seconds
Show Us Your Glory: Prayer That Sparks Reformation
David Mathis | Moses made an audacious request. God answered — but only in part. And what he revealed at Sinai pales in comparison to Calvary.
1/3/2022 • 34 minutes, 42 seconds
The Fearlessness of Christmas Joy: Six Wonders of Christ’s Lordship
John Piper | The first Christmas brought good news. With it came fearless, great joy for all those who confess, “Jesus is Lord.”
12/23/2021 • 47 minutes, 26 seconds
The Global Glorification of the Merciful God
John Piper | The church exists for missions — and because of missions. God plans for his people to come from the peoples, a promise he first made to Israel.
12/19/2021 • 45 minutes, 6 seconds
The Pleasures of God’s Faithfulness: Reflections on Bethlehem’s 150 Years
John Piper | In 2021, Bethlehem Baptist celebrated 150 years as a church. As part of the celebration service, former pastor John Piper reflects on how a church could endure, and bear fruit, over generations.
12/12/2021 • 31 minutes, 51 seconds
Workers for Your Joy: The Call of Christ to Christian Leaders
David Mathis | God made us to be led, every one of us. He designed us to thrive, not in autonomy, but under the wisdom and care of worthy leaders.
11/14/2021 • 46 minutes, 44 seconds
We Win the World with Singing
God plans to win the world with singing. Here are five connections between our joy-filled worship and the finishing of the Great Commission.
11/7/2021 • 23 minutes, 32 seconds
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11/4/2021 • 1 minute, 20 seconds
Who Are the Nations? Discovering God’s Global Mission
The Lamb who was slain will one day receive the reward of his suffering — people will come to him in joyful faith from every tribe, tongue, and nation.
8/8/2021 • 51 minutes, 15 seconds
‘Rejoice When You Are Slandered’: How to Do the Humanly Impossible
One of the most challenging commands in all the Bible is to rejoice when reviled. It’s not just difficult; it is humanly impossible.
7/25/2021 • 38 minutes, 14 seconds
Serious Joy for Leaders Who Last: To the Class of 2021
John Piper | Christian leaders often carry great burdens. But God never leaves them without the opportunity to know serious joy, even in the hardest trials.
7/11/2021 • 24 minutes, 36 seconds
The Achievement of Christ Without Which There Would Be No Others
Christ has secured innumerable benefits for his people. But without this central, most foundational achievement, all the rest would collapse.
5/9/2021 • 50 minutes, 10 seconds
Can Joy Come in Sorrow? Lessons for an Authentic Christian Life
How do joy and sorrow mingle in the Christian life? Does joy come only after sorrow passes, or can it come in the very midst of our griefs?
5/2/2021 • 48 minutes, 24 seconds
‘Hallowed Be Your Name’: The Greatest Prayer in All the World
The lines of the Lord’s Prayer tend to pass by our eyes, and through our mouths, in a routine manner. But what might we be missing in our familiarity?
2/21/2021 • 39 minutes, 10 seconds
Doing the Right Thing Never Ruins Your Life: A Belief That Prevents Abortion
Abortion holds out hope that ending the unborn child’s life will spare you misery and hardship. But doing the right thing will never ruin your life.
1/28/2021 • 42 minutes, 7 seconds
Faith That Satisfies — and Saves: What It Means to Come to Jesus
The nature of genuine saving faith isn’t mere mental assent, but receiving all that God is for us in Jesus Christ.
1/17/2021 • 36 minutes, 5 seconds
Is Love for Jesus, or Faith in Jesus, the Root of Ministry and Obedience?
Believing in Jesus, according to the Gospel of John, overlaps with love because it involves an act of the soul whereby one receives Jesus as their soul-satisfying bread, thirst-quenching water, and life-giving vine.
1/10/2021 • 32 minutes, 58 seconds
Leading by Feeding
The central work of pastoral ministry is leading the people of God by feeding them with the word of Christ.
1/10/2021 • 34 minutes, 14 seconds
Singing, Suffering, and Scripture: How God Keeps Us Through Song
Suffering may quiet our singing for a time, but God designed singing to sustain our souls. And one day, we will sing forever with unrestrained joy.
11/8/2020 • 33 minutes, 46 seconds
Every Letter Kills, Including Shakespeare: Pressing Through Texts in the Power of the Spirit
John Piper | To exposit a text is only one part of preaching and teaching. We must drill down into the words and unearth the reality that holds the text together.
7/19/2020 • 18 minutes, 41 seconds
Exposition or Imposition? How Gospel-Centered Preaching Can Go Wrong
Preachers, instead of taking your text and making a beeline to the cross, take the cross and make a beeline to your text.
6/28/2020 • 50 minutes, 14 seconds
The Second Coming: Not Before the ‘Man of Lawlessness’
As we look forward to Christ’s second coming, what matters most is not that we have the timing and details down, but that we hold fast to Jesus as our great hope.
6/21/2020 • 1 hour, 37 seconds
Does God Intend Evil for Our Good? Providential Peril for Joseph, Jesus, and You
What sinners and Satan intend for evil, God always superintends for good. Our all-wise God brings restoration from ruin and deliverance out of danger.
6/14/2020 • 51 minutes, 49 seconds
The Secret of Christ-Magnifying Contentment as the Path to Costly Love
True contentment in Christ not only guards against our ever-changing circumstances, but frees us to overflow in costly love to others — even our enemies.
5/17/2020 • 30 minutes
The Second Coming: Wrath and Rescue
Suffering, pain, and trouble never have the last word for the people of God. He is our hope and our joy, and he will bring us all the way home.
4/5/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 47 seconds
Do Not Take God’s Name in Vain: The Weight and Wonder of the Third Commandment
To take God’s name in vain is about far, far more than avoiding foul language. Our reverence for God’s name cuts to the very core of our worship in all of life.
3/8/2020 • 45 minutes, 27 seconds
Live for Your Greatest Desire: Jesus
Jesus’s call to deny ourselves isn’t a demand to give up happiness but an invitation to walk with him on the path to deep, lasting joy.
2/23/2020 • 45 minutes, 6 seconds
Serious Joy, Cultural Conflict, and Christian Humility: Thoughts on Christian Education
True Christian education fills our hearts and minds with a joy so serious and strong that our society loses its power to control where we stand and what we say.
1/19/2020 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Christ Magnified in His World Through Servants Satisfied in His Worth
John Piper | God will not settle for redeeming people from just a few parts of the globe. He will have people from every tribe, tongue, and nation.
1/12/2020 • 38 minutes, 17 seconds
Seek the Things That Are Above
Every believer in Jesus Christ has a potent spiritual superpower. With the Spirit’s help, we now can seek the very things of heaven above.
12/29/2019 • 45 minutes, 41 seconds
How Does Humility Lead in Conflict? A Charge to Christian Leaders
John Piper | The humblest response to our culture’s tirade against objective truth isn’t to retreat, but to lovingly and kindly contend for what the Bible says.
12/8/2019 • 32 minutes, 41 seconds
‘How God Made Me Happy in Him’: John Piper’s Journey to Joy
Glory and joy appear all over the Bible, but how they relate is not readily obvious. Listen to John Piper tell the story of how God connected the dots between the two.
11/17/2019 • 27 minutes, 51 seconds
Seven Reasons We Must Pursue Supreme Satisfaction in God
Enjoying God, being satisfied in him, is essential in glorifying him as he deserves. God is not as glorified by mere duty as he is by delight.
11/10/2019 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 5 seconds
A Peculiar Act of Worship: Preaching as Expository Exultation
John Piper | The preacher’s task is not merely to teach or inform, but to rejoice with his people over the wonders of Scripture.
11/3/2019 • 55 minutes, 23 seconds
The Explosive Power of the Resurrection — Now
Jesus’s resurrection not only guarantees that we too will rise, but that we can taste steadfast, heavenly joy here and now — even in suffering. John Piper preached this sermon at the Sing! Conference in Nashville.
10/6/2019 • 25 minutes, 58 seconds
Christians Care About All Suffering and Injustice
John Piper | Suffering and injustice infect every inch of our world. But Jesus grants his people the resolve to labor for change that makes an everlasting difference. John Piper preached this message at the Sing! Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
8/25/2019 • 25 minutes, 48 seconds
How to Preach in the Power of the Spirit
Sermons are not speeches. Preaching isn’t a lecture. When a pastor speaks God’s words to his gathered people, in the power of the Spirit, miracles happen. John Piper delivered this message at the Sing! conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
8/18/2019 • 50 minutes, 2 seconds
Even When It Hurts: How Christ Reveals Himself in Pain
In this life, we will not be able to see all God is doing through sickness and pain, but we can trust that he will reveal more of himself to us through every trial and trouble.
8/11/2019 • 40 minutes, 4 seconds
The Glory of God and Why We Sing
The greatness of God’s glory invites a response that moves his people beyond mere words. And so we sing. John Piper preached this sermon at the Sing! Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
7/28/2019 • 51 minutes, 21 seconds
Our Worth Is Not in What We Own: Fifteen-Minute Gospel Presentation
We will never find true worth in what we have or who we are. True, full, lasting satisfaction can only come through all that God is for us in Jesus Christ. After the congregation sang “My Worth Is Not in What I Own,” John Piper presented this gospel message at the Sing! Belfast conference.
7/21/2019 • 14 minutes, 24 seconds
Who Will Give My Head Waters? Seven Reasons to Pray for Holy Tears
John Piper | Tears, crying, and weeping are all a proper response to the God-ordained sorrow and pain we face. Just because God is sovereign doesn’t mean we ignore our pain.
6/24/2019 • 32 minutes, 16 seconds
Pharisaism, Money, and the Greatness of God
What makes the heart of a legalist tick? You might be surprised how often, despite appearances, it is simply this: the love of money. John Piper delivered this message at a chapel for Crossway Books.
6/10/2019 • 23 minutes, 24 seconds
What Do Christians Care About (Most)? To the Class of 2019
John Piper | Christians care about all injustice in our fallen world. But our outrage against wrongdoing will fizzle out unless we root our concern in God himself. We care especially about injustice against God. John Piper preached this message at the 2019 Bethlehem College & Seminary commencement.
5/17/2019 • 22 minutes, 49 seconds
Christ Has Purchased Global Praise: The Blood, the Beast, and the Boast of Race
Jesus has already paid the price to ransom a global people who live to praise him. And he wants to use you to spread the astoundingly good news. John Piper preached this message at Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis.
5/8/2019 • 47 minutes, 30 seconds
The Golden Stitches of Sovereignty: What Holds Our Gospel Together
The death of Jesus Christ was no mere product of coincidences. God planned every detail to ensure the salvation of his people. John Piper preached this message at The Gospel Coalition 2019 National Conference.
4/1/2019 • 1 hour, 5 minutes
What Kind of Heart Does Christ Deserve? The Call of Christian Hedonism
John Piper | Jesus is worthy to be praised with our every thought and deed. But what about our feelings? The Bible’s clearest answer is also the best of news. John Piper preached this message at the Bethlehem 2019 Conference for Pastors + Church Leaders in Minneapolis.
1/28/2019 • 43 minutes, 6 seconds
Is It Right to Seek More Joy Than We Have Through Justification?
John Piper | Jesus not only paid for our full acceptance with God, but he also purchased grace for us to embrace obedience. This is the second message John Piper preached at the Bethlehem 2019 Conference for Pastors + Church Leaders in Minneapolis.
1/28/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 55 seconds
The Invincible Power of Joy for World Missions: For Cowards, Consumers, and the Comfortable
John Piper | Safety tempts us to stay put. Luxury tries to lure us. Comfort wants to keep us. But God has a bigger, global dream for his people. John Piper preached this message at the G3 2019 conference in Atlanta.
1/17/2019 • 53 minutes, 37 seconds
Make Your Life Count: The Greatest Missions Letter Ever Written
John Piper | One day soon, people from every nation will bring God praise and glory. But they won’t encounter everlasting hope until God’s people go and send.
Piper preached this message on January 4, 2019, at the CROSS Conference in Louisville, where thousands gathered to discern their call to the nations.
1/4/2019 • 48 minutes, 24 seconds
You Are Anointed: How the Truth Becomes Precious
Jesus anoints every believer with his Spirit so that we taste how precious he is.
11/18/2018 • 34 minutes, 27 seconds
Sorrowful Love Springs from Serious Joy
Every act of Christian love springs from serious joy in Jesus. When your hope is secure in him, you can give whatever it takes to serve others.
10/28/2018 • 34 minutes, 55 seconds
Are We Adopted for Us or for God?
The more gladness we have in our Father, the more we bring glory to his name. Our happiness in him shows off his holiness in us.
10/7/2018 • 44 minutes, 28 seconds
The Key to Simultaneous Sorrow and Joy
John Piper | Jesus has purchased something infinitely better than anything this world has to offer: the glory of God himself. We have every reason to boast in him.
9/21/2018 • 47 minutes, 21 seconds
The Devil Can Do Exposition, but He Can’t Preach
John Piper | The pulpit isn’t just a place for a lecture or even mere teaching. Every sermon should sing with worship over the glories of God’s word. John Piper delivered this message during a breakout seminar at the Sing! 2018 Conference in Nashville.
9/13/2018 • 48 minutes, 5 seconds
Your Emotions Matter to God: Learning from the Bible’s Songbook
Satan is trying to steal your joy. God gave us the Psalms to fight back.
9/11/2018 • 37 minutes, 8 seconds
An Impossible Covenant — And How It Becomes a Permanent Joy
Jesus bought an unbreakable covenant for his people. He takes hardened rebels and transforms them into a beautiful bride for their eternal joy.
6/16/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 42 seconds
Joy Makes All Things New
John Piper | Joy is not a wishful add-on to the Christian life, but essential to knowing and worshiping God. When we finally discover joy in Jesus, everything changes.
6/3/2018 • 52 minutes, 43 seconds
Lord, Teach Us to Fight: The Double Battle in Gethsemane
Jesus took the cup of God’s wrath so that we would never have to. And now he beckons each of us to join him in speaking and sharing the good news of his victory.
6/2/2018 • 46 minutes, 16 seconds
God Rules the Heart of Every Man: Elijah’s Battle with the Prophets of Baal
The people of God may appear weak, but God loves to be at a disadvantage — just before he wins.
6/2/2018 • 53 minutes, 14 seconds
Your Thorn for the Shaming of Satan: To the Class of 2018
Your pains and weaknesses are not obstacles to everything you want to accomplish, but the very instruments God uses to make you more like his Son.
5/28/2018 • 23 minutes, 17 seconds
New God, New Gospel, New Gladness: How Is Christian Joy Distinct?
John Piper | The most basic distinction between the church and the world is not godly decisions, good deeds, or even true doctrines, but glad delight in God himself.
4/27/2018 • 56 minutes, 12 seconds
How to Get Wisdom: Become a Fool
Wisdom from God is more valuable than gold. It may look foolish to a watching world, but the lasting path of happiness comes only in the guidance God gives.
4/20/2018 • 36 minutes, 59 seconds
If I Could Start All Over: Six Lessons for Your Twenties
What would John Piper say to those with most of their adult life ahead of them? Here are six rules he would live by.
4/11/2018 • 14 minutes, 39 seconds
The Glory of Christ and Racial Unity: On the 50th Anniversary of MLK’s Death
When we come to Christ, we don’t lose our ethnic or cultural identities. But we all put on his insignia and find new possibilities for unity in him.
4/4/2018 • 45 minutes, 46 seconds
From Darkness to Delight: A Fresh Call for Christian Hedonists
If you find Jesus boring or unsatisfying, you haven’t really discovered yet who he is.
2/27/2018 • 27 minutes, 11 seconds
Right with God, Right with Man: The Power of Superior Pleasure
Receiving Jesus as our greatest joy unlocks right standing with God and right living with others.
2/22/2018 • 54 minutes, 40 seconds
Jesus Raised Jesus from the Dead — And Why It Matters
A one-of-a-kind death, and a one-of-a-kind resurrection, has been carried out by this one-of-a-kind Person who is more valuable than all else.
1/29/2018 • 32 minutes, 30 seconds
How to Preach with Supernatural Power
John Piper | Christian preaching is not simply an exchange of information, but a channel through which the Holy Spirit works his miracles in both preacher and hearers.
1/17/2018 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 4 seconds
How to Seek the Holy Spirit
John Piper | Without the work of the Holy Spirit, we are helpless. Seek him, and he will rest upon you — especially in your hour of greatest need.
1/15/2018 • 53 minutes, 58 seconds
What Is It Like to Enjoy God?
God created you not mainly to do things for him, but to delight in him. The more we enjoy God, the more he is honored, and our very purpose in life is fulfilled.
1/2/2018 • 50 minutes, 57 seconds
Joy Changes Everything: An Invitation to Christian Hedonism
When you finally recognize that God wants to make you happier than you could ever dream, nothing will ever be the same again.
11/12/2017 • 58 minutes, 8 seconds
What Made Jonathan Edwards a Christian Hedonist?
John Piper | The supreme goal of all Jonathan Edwards’s life and work was that God would be glorified through his people being supremely satisfied in him.
11/11/2017 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 4 seconds
Reformation 500 Sermon: Stand on Your Head for Joy
Tuesday, October 31, 2017, marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation with Luther’s nailing of his 95 Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg.
10/29/2017 • 44 minutes, 15 seconds
Heart Comes Before Head: Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God in Scripture
When a Christian reads the Bible, a supernatural event takes place. Our regenerate souls meet the inspired word in a divine encounter.
10/28/2017 • 53 minutes, 9 seconds
Better to Lose Your Life Than Waste It
Only what’s done for Christ will last. Any risk, any trial, any tribulation is worth the risk when your aim in all of life is to make others glad in God.
10/27/2017 • 48 minutes, 12 seconds
Our Eyes Are on You, Lord: Thoughts on Pastoral Succession
Sooner or later, every leader will hand off the baton to the next generation — and where better to center pastoral succession than in the word of God himself?
10/12/2017 • 46 minutes, 53 seconds
How to Find Gold in God’s Word: Reading the Bible with Supernatural Help
All the Bible knowledge in the world won’t help you unless you cherish God’s truth. We’re nothing more than Pharisees unless we taste the glory of God in his word.
9/22/2017 • 54 minutes, 3 seconds
Faith Alone: How (Not) to Use a Reformed Slogan
No truth was more central to the Reformation that turned the world upside down 500 years ago: God justifies sinners by faith alone.
9/13/2017 • 40 minutes, 41 seconds
Soli Deo Gloria: Heart and Soul of the Reformation
God works every dot on the timeline of history for his glory. Nothing stands outside the scope of his plan to bring fame to his name, for the joy of his people.
8/30/2017 • 36 minutes, 29 seconds
Did Christ Die for Us or for God?
We often live as though we are God, but biblical thinking assumes that God is the center of all reality.
5/31/2017 • 57 minutes, 4 seconds
Christ’s Urgent Call: Don’t Waste Your Life
John Piper | Christ calls us to live and die in such a way that we magnify his worth. Anything less is a wasted life.
5/30/2017 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 26 seconds
The Tipping Point of Sacrificial Missions: The Overflow of Joy in Jesus
Only a love sustained by genuine joy in God will propel us to take the gospel to the hardest places in the world.
5/28/2017 • 57 minutes, 52 seconds
God’s Purposes in a World of Pain
Pain and suffering exist to make plain the horrors of the sinful heart and the wonders of the sovereign Christ.
5/28/2017 • 42 minutes, 49 seconds
The Gospel-Shaped Mouth: Preaching the Glories of Christ
Genuine preaching aims to display the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
5/25/2017 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 27 seconds
The Gospel-Shaped Mind: Knowing the Glories of Christ
In the fight for faith, our minds serve our hearts. Right knowledge fuels true passion.
5/24/2017 • 50 minutes, 6 seconds
The Gospel-Shaped Heart: Treasuring the Glories of Christ
John Piper | The ultimate goal of the gospel is that God would be glorified in our enjoyment of him. God’s glory and our satisfaction are not two different ends, they’re one.
5/23/2017 • 50 minutes, 24 seconds
Sacred Book, Sovereign God, Serious Joy: Why Study Liberal Arts in College
True Christian education prepares us to enjoy God and love our neighbors even more than it prepares us for the workforce.
5/19/2017 • 21 minutes, 33 seconds
Sacred Schizophrenia: A Meditation on Self-Denial
John Piper | The Christian life is a fight. But our deadliest enemy doesn’t attack us from the outside, but from within.
5/12/2017 • 24 minutes, 59 seconds
Treasure God, Magnify Christ, Love People: The Way of Christian Hedonism
John Piper | Real love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others, especially when it’s costly.
4/30/2017 • 40 minutes, 28 seconds
We Need Each Other: Christian Fellowship as a Means of Perseverance
John Piper | Christians don’t fly solo. Our faith won’t survive unless brothers and sisters in Christ keep us accountable.
4/19/2017 • 43 minutes, 30 seconds
No Other Gospel: The Formal and Material Principles of the Reformation
Five hundred years ago, the Reformers fought to recover the true gospel. Fifteen hundred years before, God used Paul to pen the Reformers’ central text for justification by faith alone.
4/3/2017 • 55 minutes, 53 seconds
The Pastor, the People, and the Pursuit of Joy
Your joy in God multiplies exponentially as you seek the good of your brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.
2/26/2017 • 45 minutes, 47 seconds
Gospel Worship: Holy Ambition for All the Peoples to Praise Christ
John Piper | God has a place for every single one of us in missions. Some of us send, some of us go, but we must all have a gospel ambition.
1/31/2017 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 57 seconds
Gospel Depths: Why God Revealed the Depths of Salvation in Eternity Past
John Piper | The only reason any of us know God is because he chose us before the foundation of the world. Nothing we’ve done can earn our way to him — it’s all grace.
1/30/2017 • 57 minutes, 22 seconds
Seven Resolutions for Aging and Dying Well: A Funeral Message for Verna Erickson
At the end of your life, as your energy fades, God will be your refuge and strength.
1/10/2017 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds
The Ultimate Essence of Evil: The Majesty of God, the Triumph of Christ, and the Glory of Human Life
The very essence of evil is running to anything but God for ultimate joy. Watch, read, or listen to John Piper’s message from Passion 2017.
1/3/2017 • 46 minutes, 44 seconds
No Global Mission Without God’s Mighty Spirit
We are living in the third great era of world history — the era of the Spirit. Our only hope for advancing God’s mission is to lean on the power of his Spirit.
12/28/2016 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 21 seconds
The True Grace of Christian Camaraderie
John Piper | Grace is always personal. God mediates his grace to undeserving sinners through the warm affections of his divine family, the church.
12/16/2016 • 30 minutes, 14 seconds
How We Know the Bible Is True: The Beauty of Scripture as the Ground of Its Truth
John Piper | Satan believes the Scriptures are God’s very words. But the difference between us and him is that he doesn’t treasure that truth.
11/16/2016 • 47 minutes, 17 seconds
Sons of Freedom and Joy: How a Christian Relates to the State
John Piper | Christians claim their true citizenship in heaven. When we submit to earthly governments, we do so out of allegiance to Christ’s eternal kingdom.
11/2/2016 • 41 minutes, 49 seconds
Put the Attorneys to Work: How to Give the Bible Functional Authority in Your Speech and Writing
John Piper | Christian leaders should exude the Bible. They need to test everything they speak and write through the grid of biblical teaching.
10/25/2016 • 58 minutes, 13 seconds
Teach the Nations to Do the Impossible
Jesus’s supreme authority empowers his Great Commission. We go, teach, and teach others to teach in the confidence that Jesus himself is with us.
10/16/2016 • 41 minutes, 19 seconds
Fifteen Dreams for the Future of Christian Hedonism
Central to biblical Christianity is the pursuit of our joy in God. John Piper expresses fifteen hopes for the future of maximizing our joy in God.
10/7/2016 • 48 minutes, 27 seconds
Volcanic Joy
God’s volcanic passion for his own glory erupts in overflowing delight for his Son and unceasing joy for his children who share in God’s own glorious bliss.
10/7/2016 • 36 minutes, 26 seconds
The Natural Act of Reading the Bible Supernaturally
John Piper | In all true Bible reading, we think and God gives. We work hard to comprehend the authors’ intended meaning while we simultaneously rely on God to help us understand.
9/25/2016 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 26 seconds
The Supernatural Act of Reading the Bible
Whenever we read the Bible, we depend on God’s supernatural power to illumine the words, sentences, and paragraphs with his glory.
9/24/2016 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 28 seconds
The Ultimate Goal of Reading the Bible
The Bible is indispensable to the Christian life. Without the written word, we simply could not know the Incarnate Word.
9/23/2016 • 58 minutes, 49 seconds
Jesus Is the Test of True Faith
Christians embrace both the New Testament and the Old because every single page of the Scriptures points to Jesus who fulfills them.
8/28/2016 • 48 minutes, 34 seconds
Jesus Christ Egomaniac? What Piper Said at Google
John Piper | God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is not the act of a needy ego, but an act of infinite giving.
7/29/2016 • 55 minutes, 46 seconds
The Inexplicable Life: Humility, Hope, and Love in Suffering
Christians can show the world the hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and serve, rather than return evil for evil.
6/18/2016 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 51 seconds
Life-Risking Courage in the Cause of Love
God supplies the sustaining grace we need to love others well as we seriously pursue our joy in him.
6/4/2016 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 17 seconds
Why God Created the World
John Piper | God created the world, and sustains it every second, to show the worth of his Son’s redeeming work.
6/2/2016 • 47 minutes
Prayer: How to Do the Humanly Impossible
John Piper | God is glorified when Christians humble themselves openly as people who are not ashamed to beg for help.
5/25/2016 • 49 minutes, 41 seconds
The Heart of the Gospel: The Righteousness from God that Depends on Faith
Christ’s righteousness imputed to sinners through faith undergirds the whole of the Christian faith.
5/24/2016 • 49 minutes, 41 seconds
The Roots of Fearless Unity in the Gospel
Humble unity in the gospel beautifully displays to a watching world that Jesus is more satisfying than getting your own way.
5/23/2016 • 50 minutes, 4 seconds
The Glory of Christ: Ultimate Goal, Alienating Problem, All-Transforming Answer
John Piper | God’s pursuit of his own glory opens the door to a feast of beauty and truth that satisfies the human soul forever.
5/22/2016 • 47 minutes, 6 seconds
How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
God doesn’t merely give us arguments for his love, but he gives us a real, authentic experience of his love!
5/1/2016 • 38 minutes, 18 seconds
How We Know the Bible Is True
You don’t need complicated arguments to know the Bible is true. You can see the Glory for yourself.
4/28/2016 • 48 minutes, 56 seconds
Living and Loving by Faith in Future Grace
Where will we find the emotional power to keep us from returning evil for evil? Not in vague notions of grace, but by trusting God’s specific promises.
4/22/2016 • 57 minutes, 22 seconds
How Our Children Can Know the Bible Is True
I want to help parents (and leaders of children’s ministries) see how the Bible shows itself to be true — and how to communicate this vital truth to our children.
4/15/2016 • 59 minutes, 20 seconds
The Bondage of the Will, the Sovereignty of Grace, and the Glory of God
For Martin Luther, the issue of man’s bondage to sin, and moral inability to believe or obey, was the root issue of the Reformation — and the lynchpin of Protestantism.
4/13/2016 • 1 hour, 41 seconds
Love Her More, Love Her Less: Living for God’s Glory in Marriage
You love your spouse more when you love them less than God. If God is not central, your marriage will not glorify God as he intended.
4/11/2016 • 22 minutes, 43 seconds
Seven Resolutions for Finishing Well
John Piper | There won’t be any phoniness in heaven. There will only be complete authenticity. We will discover what childlikeness was really meant to be.
3/11/2016 • 22 minutes, 32 seconds
Three Sightings of the Glory of Jesus
John Piper | There isn’t anything greater than to see the Son of God in all his divine beauty and radiance and greatness, and be supremely and increasingly happy in him forever.
1/29/2016 • 14 minutes, 46 seconds
Preaching to a Persecuted People: The Pastor as Leader, Comforter, and Guide
John Piper | In the new America, a stage is being set as never before for the display of the glory of God through the joy of his grieving people.
1/26/2016 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 50 seconds
Precision with God’s Words, Love for God’s Glory
John Piper | We are raising up a generation of Christian leaders who love the glory of God and handle the word of God carefully.
1/26/2016 • 18 minutes, 7 seconds
Think It Not Strange: Fiery Trials and the Testimony of Christ
We should not be surprised or ashamed when we suffer in the name of Jesus. God refines us and displays the worth of Christ in and through our suffering.
1/25/2016 • 1 hour, 46 seconds
The Beast, the Book, and the Beauty of the Lamb
“The Book of the Life of the Lamb who was Slain” is an eternal book, pledging God's redemptive act in history, and securing God's eternal praise from his redeemed.
1/3/2016 • 52 minutes, 3 seconds
One Design
John Piper | Manhood and womanhood are not traits to be ignored, but God-given gifts we can cherish together as both genders reflect God’s good design.
12/29/2015 • 48 minutes, 45 seconds
One Mission
John Piper | The mission given to every Christian is to declare and demonstrate that the glory of Christ is more precious than life.
12/29/2015 • 47 minutes, 58 seconds
One Passion
There is an all-permeating passion that belongs in the saved human soul, and that will not be crushed by the moral chaos of these days, or by the suffering that Christians must endure.
12/29/2015 • 46 minutes, 47 seconds
One Gospel
John Piper | The more horrible, foreign, startling, fearful, uncertain, and stomach-turning the days become, the more relevant the gospel of Jesus Christ is.
12/28/2015 • 46 minutes, 7 seconds
You Cannot Obey God Without God
John Piper | How do we set about obeying the hundreds of commands in the Bible? John Piper explores what it means to be born again and how it happens.
11/11/2015 • 11 minutes, 16 seconds
The Glory of God as the Ground of the Mind’s Certainty and the Goal of the Soul’s Satisfaction
John Piper | In the Bible, the glory of God reveals itself to be inescapably real to the mind, and incomparably rewarding to the heart. Nothing could be more true, and nothing could be more precious.
10/9/2015 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 38 seconds
All Authority in Heaven and Earth
John Piper | The audacity to make disciples for Jesus from followers of other lords and other religions is based on the rock solid foundation of the words — and the reality — “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”
10/8/2015 • 56 minutes, 35 seconds
How to Know the Will of God: Finding Direction with the Renewed Mind
God wants to make you new more than he wants to reveal his secret plans for tomorrow. That’s his good purpose for you in all things.
9/27/2015 • 53 minutes, 15 seconds
You Are Not Appointed for Wrath
The word of God is meant to be our unshakable rock and comfort in times of trouble, and we should encourage each other with its precious truths.
9/13/2015 • 47 minutes, 19 seconds
Don’t Be a Sucker
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8/21/2015 • 30 minutes, 40 seconds
The Path to Full and Lasting Pleasure
Psalm 16 gives us some of the clearest, most powerful words about our greatest happiness.
8/11/2015 • 54 minutes, 32 seconds
Money, Sex, and Power: The Potential
Money, Sex, and Power. Three precious gifts of God. Three dangers ready to destroy our souls. Three beautiful possibilities for worship and love.
6/28/2015 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Money, Sex, and Power: The Dangers
The glory of God is the brightest beauty, and the greatest treasure, the sweetest pleasure in all of reality, and is, therefore, never to be exchanged for what sex, money, or power can bring.
6/27/2015 • 55 minutes, 48 seconds
Money, Sex, and Power: Definitions and Foundations
Money, sex, and power are three good gifts of God. We know the basic definition of each — but is there more underneath the surface?
6/27/2015 • 39 minutes, 40 seconds
How You Can Know You’re a Child of God
Everyone struggles with doubts at some point, but God doesn’t want us to wallow in uncertainty. He gives us his Spirit to testify to our new life.
5/31/2015 • 49 minutes, 26 seconds
Called to Be Lights in the World
John Piper | John Piper begins this session with God’s purpose in saving anyone he saves. He ends with a few words about serving and suffering in a broken and ungodly world.
5/24/2015 • 25 minutes, 47 seconds
Destined to Obey, or Disobey
John Piper | In this session, John Piper takes up the question: How does the absolute sovereignty of God relate to the disobedience and rebellion of nonbelievers?
5/24/2015 • 19 minutes, 19 seconds
Born Again by the Book
John Piper | When you were born again, what happened? In twelve minutes, John Piper explains how God brings about the miracle of the new birth.
5/24/2015 • 12 minutes, 57 seconds
The Infinite Price of Your Freedom
John Piper | God calls us to live in a way that says Jesus’s blood is infinitely valuable. In fifteen minutes, John Piper tells us how.
5/24/2015 • 15 minutes, 32 seconds
New Passions Are the Path to Holiness
John Piper | The vast majority of what you do flows from what you value. In less than twenty minutes, John Piper grounds and inspires our hope in Jesus, and then calls us to follow God’s path to new desires and passions. Hope is the enabling power for our growth in godliness.
5/24/2015 • 18 minutes, 55 seconds
A Faith More Precious Than Gold
John Piper | Your faith is the most valuable thing you will ever have or experience in this life. In twenty minutes, John Piper explains just how valuable your faith is, and why it means so much to God. He also paints a picture of what’s coming at the end of all our waiting, when our faith finally becomes sight.
5/24/2015 • 21 minutes, 44 seconds
Simultaneous Joy and Sorrow
John Piper | How can someone have unshakeable joy in Jesus and deal with the painful realities of life? In fifteen minutes, John Piper embraces and explains the necessary tension between joy and sorrow in the Christian life. With every trial we face, God has given us a specific grace designed for that trouble.
5/24/2015 • 15 minutes, 36 seconds
Why Your Faith Will Not Fail
John Piper | What makes you think you will be a Christian tomorrow morning? In 15 minutes, John Piper builds a foundation for the perseverance of your faith through all the world’s temptations and all of life’s trails. Your faith will not fail because God holds your faith and is utterly committed to keeping you.
5/24/2015 • 15 minutes, 6 seconds
Born Again to a Living Hope
John Piper | What does the new birth mean for our lives today? The glorious effects do not wait for heaven, but bring light back into everything we experience here on earth, even the hardest trials. In twenty-five minutes, John Piper reminds us of all that is promised to those who hope in Jesus Christ.
5/24/2015 • 25 minutes, 2 seconds
The Word Awakens Joy and Worship
John Piper | Peter begins his letter not merely with statements of truth, but with worship. He rejoices over the realities he has seen about who God is and what he has done. In twenty minutes, John Piper walks through these first verses to understand the role of the Bible in our new birth and daily worship.
5/24/2015 • 20 minutes, 47 seconds
Set Apart by the Spirit
John Piper | Following Jesus Christ will make us exiles in the world we live. That does not mean we should try and make ourselves exiles part from the Holy Spirit. In eleven minutes, John Piper confronts modern Pharisees. He also tries to help people who struggle to think like the biblical authors.
5/24/2015 • 20 minutes, 47 seconds
Exiles on the Earth
John Piper | The Bible’s book for people who feel like exiles on this earth is 1 Peter. Suffering of all kinds unsettles us and makes us long to be home with the Lord. In thirty minutes, John Piper opens the first verses of 1 Peter, highlighting who Peter is and explaining what it means to be an exile of heaven.
5/24/2015 • 28 minutes, 4 seconds
Basics for Reading the Bible
John Piper | After introducing the hostile context in 1 Peter, John Piper lays out pivotal principles for reading and understanding the Bible. The meaning of “meaning” is massive and elusive. Before we can agree on what a verse of the Bible means, we have to define our terms and linger over several key texts.
5/24/2015 • 36 minutes, 8 seconds
A Survey of Suffering in 1 Peter
John Piper | In this first session on 1 Peter 1–2, John Piper traces the theme of suffering. Peter is writing to exiles on the earth, helping them endure the darkness and opposition of this world with joy. He also explains the heart and vision behind the method of Look at the Book for studying the Bible.
5/24/2015 • 24 minutes, 45 seconds
Friendship with Jesus and the Aim of Education in Serious Joy
John Piper’s commencement message on the relationship between friendship with Jesus and the aims of higher education — specifically the educational aims of Bethlehem College & Seminary.
5/15/2015 • 21 minutes, 8 seconds
Life-Risking Courage in the Cause of Love
John Piper | Without sourcing our love for others from our joy in God, we will never be able to risk whatever it takes draw more people to Jesus.
5/2/2015 • 37 minutes, 38 seconds
It Is Right to Live for Maximum Pleasure
John Piper | Every one of us desires to find happiness and joy. But does the Bible really teach us to chase after our own delight?
5/1/2015 • 37 minutes, 39 seconds
The Pain of the World and the Purposes of God
We may never be able to explain every instance of suffering, but we can trust that God is near, he is in control, and he is bringing us unimaginable good — even through pain.
4/26/2015 • 52 minutes, 53 seconds
Biblical Foundations for Seeking God's Justice in a Sinful World
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4/14/2015 • 59 minutes, 17 seconds
The Shoot from Jesse, the Nations, and Israel
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4/14/2015 • 56 minutes, 6 seconds
What Jesus Demands from the World
John Piper | Jesus demands the impossible, whole-hearted love for God and others, but he does not abandon us to the task.
4/14/2015 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 24 seconds
Suffering, Faith, and the Sign of Fearlessness
God graciously gives his people suffering and faith so that they might enjoy magnifying Christ to their adversaries through fearlessness of faith and humble love.
4/9/2015 • 43 minutes, 1 second
A Living Hope Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
If you have been born again, you have a living, indestructible hope by the mercy of God.
4/5/2015 • 48 minutes, 15 seconds
Undaunted by the Darkness – Invincible Joy for the Sake of the Nations
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3/7/2015 • 44 minutes, 5 seconds
Make War: The Pastor and His People in the Battle Against Sin
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2/3/2015 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 58 seconds
What Is Sin? The Essence and Root of All Sinning
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2/2/2015 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 40 seconds
The Plundering of Your Property and the Power of Hope
We can joyfully accept hardship in this life because our true home is in heaven. Our best life is yet to come.
1/18/2015 • 55 minutes, 32 seconds
The Glory of God in the Good Resolves of His People
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1/4/2015 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 11 seconds
Why Do Christians Preach and Sing?
No other religion or movement on the planet preaches and sings like Christians.
1/3/2015 • 54 minutes, 30 seconds
Such a Great Salvation
The Son of God brings many sons to glory through his own suffering — and this is more fitting than we can begin to know.
12/7/2014 • 47 minutes, 11 seconds
The Gospel of the Grace of God
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11/22/2014 • 33 minutes, 34 seconds
Gospel-Centered History and Gospel-Centered Living
All of history led to and flows from the cross. If the center of reality isn’t the center of our lives, we are tragically off course.
11/16/2014 • 59 minutes, 3 seconds
Ten Effects of Seeing God’s Sovereignty
John Piper | Romans 9 is one of the most difficult and rewarding passages of Scripture. Here are ten ways John Piper has identified the passage has impacted his life.
11/15/2014 • 11 minutes, 47 seconds
God Is Totally Free to Save You
In all of salvation — election and justification — works count for nothing, but only the free act of God.
11/15/2014 • 27 minutes, 7 seconds
Why Would God Ordain Evil?
God loveswhen we struggle and wrestle with his word if our wrestling is to understand and love him more. Let all our questions be asked in faith.
11/15/2014 • 20 minutes, 15 seconds
God Saves Whom He Wills
As we come to realize how big God is and how horrifying our own sin is, we will come to understand election as an unimaginably great grace.
11/15/2014 • 41 minutes, 37 seconds
The Difference Between Calvinists and Arminians
John Piper | The Bible is clear that God’s election is true. Here are four reasons why it is also good and beautiful.
11/15/2014 • 26 minutes
Your Joy Depends on Election
John Piper | God’s gift of salvation does not depend on anything that we do or are in ourselves. It depends on God’s own sovereign, gracious freedom.
11/15/2014 • 26 minutes, 35 seconds
Who Is the True Israel?
The promises of God are, and always have been, for the children of promise born by the miracle of God.
11/15/2014 • 18 minutes, 23 seconds
Unrelenting Sorrow and Relentless Joy
John Piper | Even as Paul’s heart broke for his unbelieving kinsmen, his hope and joy was in the God of indomitable promise.
11/15/2014 • 24 minutes, 39 seconds
Does God Keep His Promises?
John Piper | What good are the glorious promises in Romans 8 if God breaks his promises? This is where Romans 9 begins: showing that the word of God never fails.
11/14/2014 • 41 minutes, 24 seconds
All of God’s Promises Rest on God
Our hope in God’s promises depends on his trustworthiness to keep his word. How can we know that God will keep his great promises?
11/14/2014 • 21 minutes, 46 seconds
Six Reasons to Read the Bible Every Day
John Piper | There are millions of books in the world — why should we spend time in the Bible? Here are six reasons this book earns our effort more than any other.
11/14/2014 • 28 minutes, 19 seconds
Introduction to Romans 9
John Piper | No passage in the Bible may give you as much trouble as Romans 9. And no passage can give you as much hope in the promises of God.
God is most satisfied in us when we are most satisfied in him. A fresh angle for the Christian Hedonist from Psalm 131.
9/14/2014 • 44 minutes, 27 seconds
Bitter Providence and Barley Harvest
John Piper | The bitter providence of God is never the final word for his people because he always has a bright design for their future.
8/31/2014 • 47 minutes, 19 seconds
Are You Worthy of Jesus?
Are you worthy of Jesus? We not only can be — we need to be.
8/28/2014 • 48 minutes, 35 seconds
Death Is Not the End of Life
In Jesus, we have eternal life if we do and keep his word. Though we all will die, death is not the end of life for all those in Christ.
8/10/2014 • 40 minutes, 11 seconds
The Life of the Mind and the Love of Man
John Piper | God calls each one of us to love him with all our minds. The hard work of thinking rightly honors him and loves our neighbors when our minds move to action.
8/8/2014 • 29 minutes, 9 seconds
Responding to God According to His Word
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6/27/2014 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 5 seconds
A Spectacular and Scary Promise: Assurance, Suffering, and Our Great Inheritance
God promises unimaginable blessings to every one of his children – if we have the courage to walk with Jesus through suffering.
5/1/2014 • 54 minutes, 55 seconds
The Glory of God and Gladness of Man
John Piper | God’s glory and our gladness do not have to be at odds, but are in fact one and the same pursuit. John Piper demonstrates how with the help of Jonathan Edwards.
4/23/2014 • 48 minutes, 19 seconds
What Is the Joy of All Your Joys?
John Piper | God promises innumerable benefits to all who trust in him. But those gifts aren’t an end in themselves. Our greatest joy is God himself.
4/23/2014 • 35 minutes, 1 second
Persuading, Pleading, and Predestination: Human Means in the Miracle of Conversion
In his 2014 plenary message at T4G, John Piper preaches about the seeming tension between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility in all our efforts to convert the lost.
4/10/2014 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 13 seconds
Renewing Women
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4/8/2014 • 14 minutes, 55 seconds
The New Calvinism and the New Community
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3/12/2014 • 53 minutes, 47 seconds
Preparing to Know Christ Deeply Through Suffering
In suffering, we come to hope more fully in God and put less confidence in the things of the world. We also come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.
3/2/2014 • 51 minutes, 39 seconds
A Tender Word to Pharisees
John Piper | God opens his arms to both prodigals and Pharisees — to those who know they don’t deserve mercy, and those who have worked for mercy their whole life.
2/16/2014 • 39 minutes, 36 seconds
Pilgrim Worship
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2/15/2014 • 57 minutes, 1 second
The Ministry of Hudson Taylor as Life in Christ
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2/5/2014 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 16 seconds
The Ministry of Hudson Taylor as Life in Christ
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2/5/2014 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 16 seconds
Glorifying God by Bearing Fruit in Union with Christ
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2/3/2014 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 5 seconds
Don’t Waste Your Seminary
We always face the threat of ruining any season of grace. Don’t waste your seminary years, but more importantly, don’t waste your life.
1/23/2014 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 53 seconds
A Radical Revelation of the Cross: The Sovereignty of God and the Sacrifice of Jesus
When we embrace Christ’s cross and the unswerving foundation of God’s sovereignty, we will be kept by merciful and omnipotent glory.
1/12/2014 • 47 minutes, 27 seconds
A Spectacular and Scary Promise
If you are a child of God, then the Holy Spirit lives and works in you to kill sin and depend on God.
10/27/2013 • 55 minutes, 7 seconds
The Sweetest Good of the Good News
John Piper | Forgiveness is precious for one ultimate reason — one sweet, high, glorious reason: We get God back.
10/20/2013 • 46 minutes, 44 seconds
Saying Well as a Way of Seeing Wonder
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10/19/2013 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 42 seconds
Doug Wilson Interviews John Piper and Tim Chester
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10/18/2013 • 52 minutes, 12 seconds
Why Is the Glory of God at Stake in Making People Plural?
God is ransoming a people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation. Therefore, missions is a call to the people groups of the world, not just the countries of the world.
10/18/2013 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 25 seconds
Is Jesus an Egomaniac?
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10/17/2013 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 48 seconds
The Highest Good of the Gospel
Jesus won innumerable benefits for his people, but the greatest good he brings us is God himself.
10/17/2013 • 48 minutes, 28 seconds
Zeal for God: Deadly or Indispensable?
The New Testament not only says that you can have a zeal and not be saved, but it also says that you cannot be saved without a zeal for God.
10/10/2013 • 33 minutes, 24 seconds
Identity and Desire
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10/3/2013 • 43 minutes, 20 seconds
What God Made Is Good — And Must Be Sanctified: C.S. Lewis and St. Paul on the Use of Creation
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9/29/2013 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 24 seconds
C.S. Lewis, Romantic Rationalist: How His Paths to Christ Shaped His Life and Ministry
John Piper | Lewis’s romanticism and rationalism were the paths on which he came to Christ — and the paths on which he lived his life and did his work.
9/27/2013 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 54 seconds
The Cost of Love in the Call to the Nations
Being deeply satisfied in Jesus as your supreme treasure gives you the power to lay down your life for the good of the nations.
9/16/2013 • 33 minutes, 57 seconds
Perseverance in God-Centered Missions
When our souls drink deeply from God’s delights, we can’t help but overflow and invite others to join us.
9/8/2013 • 53 minutes, 41 seconds
Doctrinal Depth and Gospel Advance
Doctrinal depth is crucial for the work of gathering Christ’s lost sheep through the proclamation of the gospel.
9/7/2013 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 42 seconds
The Glory of God in the Sight of Eternity
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7/26/2013 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 6 seconds
Glorifying God by Reaching the Lost
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7/18/2013 • 38 minutes, 54 seconds
Glorifying God by Being Compelled by God’s Love
You are precious to God, and the greatest gift he has for you is not to let your preciousness become your god, but to enable you to make much of him as your God.
7/16/2013 • 47 minutes, 44 seconds
Glorifying God . . . Period
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7/15/2013 • 42 minutes, 1 second
All Things Are Yours
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5/17/2013 • 24 minutes, 12 seconds
Reflecting on 33 Years in the Pastorate
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5/8/2013 • 50 minutes, 6 seconds
God Works for Those Who Wait for Him
There are many gods, but there is no God like our — a God who works for those who wait for him.
5/5/2013 • 51 minutes, 34 seconds
Live in Hope, Live in Holiness, Live in Holy Fear
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5/3/2013 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 22 seconds
Jesus Is Most Magnified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him
John Piper | We are all created for God’s glory, and the way we most glorify God is by being satisfied in him.
4/28/2013 • 51 minutes, 4 seconds
What Happens in the New Birth
John Piper | The new birth is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit that cleanses us from all our sin and makes us into a new creation.
4/27/2013 • 58 minutes, 36 seconds
Farewell Words to Bethlehem Baptist Church
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4/14/2013 • 13 minutes, 47 seconds
The Life and Ministry of Charles Spurgeon
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4/10/2013 • 58 minutes, 39 seconds
Jesus the Son of God, the Son of Mary
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4/8/2013 • 58 minutes, 2 seconds
Future Grace (Part 2)
Trusting future grace in all that God promises to be for us in Jesus is the only way to successfully put sin to death and live a life of love.
4/5/2013 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 12 seconds
Future Grace (Q&A)
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4/5/2013 • 54 minutes, 20 seconds
Future Grace (Part 1)
John Piper | Faith in future grace is essential for God to be glorified in our lives of holiness.
4/4/2013 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 25 seconds
Thanks to the Bethlehem Staff
Pastor John addresses the Bethlehem staff in the transition of his pastoral role in 2011 concerning 20 things he is thankful for.
3/31/2013 • 23 minutes, 14 seconds
God Raised Your Great Shepherd from the Dead
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3/31/2013 • 40 minutes, 28 seconds
The Essential and Prominent Place of Preaching in Worship
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3/21/2013 • 40 minutes, 53 seconds
A Hunger for God: The Foundation for Faithful and Effective Ministry
John Piper | Every pastor must work hard for the joy of his people. But he can only do this from the overflow of a hunger for God.
3/19/2013 • 59 minutes, 36 seconds
Q & A with Eric Metaxas and John Piper
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3/8/2013 • 48 minutes, 25 seconds
How to Give the Bible Functional Authority in Your Speech and Writing
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3/7/2013 • 38 minutes, 2 seconds
The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation
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3/2/2013 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 43 seconds
The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation
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3/2/2013 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 23 seconds
The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation
John Piper | Watch Now
3/2/2013 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 55 seconds
The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation
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3/2/2013 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 36 seconds
The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation
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3/1/2013 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 9 seconds
The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation
John Piper | The promises of God stand only if he is supremely sovereign. What does that mean for our individual salvation?
3/1/2013 • 55 minutes, 29 seconds
Life Together at the End of the Age
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2/25/2013 • 50 minutes, 24 seconds
All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God: Continue in It
In light of opposition to Christianity in culture, we must hold fast to the Scriptures according to the pattern of 2 Timothy 3:14–17.
2/17/2013 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 20 seconds
Sailing to the Nations to Finish the Task
Every Christian should have a holy ambition that is rooted in the word of God and aimed at meeting needs in the cause of world evangelization.
2/15/2013 • 42 minutes, 27 seconds
Sailing to the Nations to Finish the Task
The essence of worship is the experience of being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
2/15/2013 • 44 minutes, 34 seconds
The Sadness and Beauty of Paul’s Final Words
A life of ministry is a life of hardship. But Jesus will strengthen us to endure every trial and struggle when we press on in faith.
2/14/2013 • 35 minutes, 11 seconds
Saying Beautifully as a Way of Seeing Beauty: The Life of George Herbert and His Poetic Effort
George Herbert’s work and effort shows that words in our life matter. And how we use them can help us capture what’s really beautiful.
2/5/2013 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 55 seconds
Saying Beautifully as a Way of Seeing Beauty: The Life of George Herbert and His Poetic Effort
George Herbert’s work and effort shows that words in our life matter. And how we use them can help us capture what’s really beautiful.
2/5/2013 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 55 seconds
The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God
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1/20/2013 • 17 minutes, 23 seconds
Thinking Seriously About the Lost People You Love
John Piper | We don’t have the power to save the lost ones we love, but God can. Pray to him and share the good news of a glorious Redeemer.
1/18/2013 • 41 minutes, 28 seconds
Joy as the Power to Suffer in the Path of Love for the Sake of Liberation
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1/3/2013 • 39 minutes, 40 seconds
Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing
What the world needs from the church is our indomitable joy in Jesus in the midst of suffering and sorrow.
12/29/2012 • 45 minutes, 14 seconds
God Created Man Male and Female: What Does It Mean to Be Complementarian?
John Piper | God has designed men for Christlike servant-leadership, and God has designed women to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership.
11/24/2012 • 43 minutes, 45 seconds
Living by Faith in Future Grace
John Piper | Though our faith is founded on past acts of redeeming grace, the way faith works now is by looking to the boundless fountain of future grace.
11/17/2012 • 45 minutes, 29 seconds
The Price and the Prize of the Gospel
The gospel is the good news that God in Christ paid the price of suffering, so that we could have the prize of enjoying him forever.
11/10/2012 • 42 minutes, 21 seconds
When Jesus Meets Disability: How a Christian Hedonist Handles Deep Disappointment
God reigns so supreme, that he can even turn our deepest disappointments into our greater good.
11/8/2012 • 59 minutes, 8 seconds
Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer
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11/3/2012 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 11 seconds
The Sovereignty of God: ‘I Will Accomplish All My Purpose’
From galaxies to molecules, God rules over all. His power encompasses everything.
11/3/2012 • 47 minutes, 19 seconds
Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer
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11/3/2012 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 36 seconds
Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer
John Piper | The sacred Scriptures are the lifeblood of our relationship with God. Don’t disconnect yourself of the restoring, rejuvenating effects of God’s word.
11/2/2012 • 1 hour, 51 minutes, 27 seconds
ABCs for Following God ’s Call
John Piper | John Piper walks through eight facets of making decisions for the glory of Christ.
10/28/2012 • 24 minutes, 9 seconds
Missions Exists Because Worship Doesn’t
God will spread the fame of his name to every tribe, nation, and tongue, but he won’t do it without his people sending and going.
10/27/2012 • 39 minutes, 23 seconds
A Spectacular and Scary Promise: Fellow Heirs with Christ If We Suffer
John Piper | The Holy Spirit wants to assure us that we are God‘s children. All he owns belongs to us — if we suffer alongside his Son.
10/21/2012 • 52 minutes, 32 seconds
Don’t Waste Your Life
John Piper | The unwasted life is a life of pursuing joy in God at all costs, including the sacrificial love that brings people into that joy.
10/17/2012 • 56 minutes, 26 seconds
God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him
God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.
10/13/2012 • 52 minutes, 4 seconds
Should We Celebrate Interracial Marriage?
God is concerned with our purity of faith, not race. He never forbids marriage between ethnicities, but between believer and unbeliever.
10/3/2012 • 29 minutes, 32 seconds
Ten Ways to Pursue Ethnic Harmony in Your Church
Christ calls us to pursue unity in diversity, but what does that look like in a local church? John Piper offers ten ways forward.
10/3/2012 • 41 minutes, 39 seconds
Act the Miracle: Future Grace, the Word of the Cross, and the Purifying Power of God’s Promises
Christians tap into the sin-killing power of God when we believe a blood-bought promise and embrace it as a more precious treasure than any temptation in front of us.
9/30/2012 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 28 seconds
Prelude to Acting the Miracle: Putting Sanctification in Its Place
John Piper | God will bring our feelings, thoughts, and actions into conformity to his infinitely satisfying worth. If we are in Christ, it is as good as done.
9/28/2012 • 57 minutes, 24 seconds
Why Did God Create the World?
John Piper | God created and sustains everything in this universe to display his glorious grace in Jesus.
9/22/2012 • 45 minutes, 42 seconds
Eternal Security Is a Community Project
God designed his church so that her members endure in belief by giving and receiving faith-sustaining words of life.
9/15/2012 • 44 minutes, 6 seconds
Reflections on Pastoring Three Decades Downtown
Three decades of ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church demonstrate five important things that pastors should rememember for their ministries.
9/9/2012 • 24 minutes, 26 seconds
‘I Am Who I Am’
John Piper | There is nothing more foundational, pervasive, and necessary than the truth and reality that God absolutely is who he is.
9/8/2012 • 48 minutes
He Stood by Me and Strengthened Me for the Sake of the Gospel
No matter how rough the road of your life, Jesus is a rock-solid friend who encourages and strengthens you to press on.
8/26/2012 • 48 minutes, 21 seconds
God's Delight in Being God
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8/25/2012 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 50 seconds
God's Delight in Being God
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8/25/2012 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 23 seconds
God's Delight in Being God
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8/24/2012 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 13 seconds
Preach the Word, For the Time of My Departure Has Come
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8/18/2012 • 50 minutes, 5 seconds
All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God — Continue in It
In all your troubles, pain, joy, and pleasures, continue to stay in the Scriptures, because there’s no better way to invest than in God’s very words.
8/11/2012 • 43 minutes, 47 seconds
When a Lover of Good Thinks About Evil
It will cost you to stand up against evil in our day. But God will deliver you and bring you safely into his heavenly kingdom.
8/4/2012 • 47 minutes, 4 seconds
He Cannot Deny Himself
John Piper | We’re not called to run from suffering in the toils of ministry. We’re called to embrace suffering with confidence in Christ for the sake of his gospel.
7/21/2012 • 40 minutes, 16 seconds
In the Throne Room: The God of Holiness and Hope
When we say that God is holy, we have sailed to the end of language and must worship in silence and wonder.
6/23/2012 • 44 minutes, 58 seconds
The Search for Joy and the Supremacy of God in the Gospel
In the gospel, God removes everything that makes our happiness fail, and he reveals everything that makes our happiness full.
6/22/2012 • 44 minutes, 48 seconds
Let Marriage Be Held in Honor
John Piper | So-called same-sex marriage dishonors the partners involved and disregards God’s good design.
6/16/2012 • 51 minutes, 8 seconds
My Peace I Give to You
John Piper | When Jesus went to the cross, he not only desired our faith, joy, and peace; he also secured them.
6/9/2012 • 53 minutes, 18 seconds
If Anyone Loves Me, He Will Keep My Word
Loving Jesus is not a matter of doing excellent things. It’s a matter of delighting in an excellent Savior.
6/2/2012 • 51 minutes, 5 seconds
Doing the Works of Jesus and Greater Works
God equips his people with everything we need to serve him. And we will do even greater works than Jesus himself.
4/21/2012 • 44 minutes, 22 seconds
Reflections on the Life of Isaac Newton
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4/20/2012 • 36 minutes, 55 seconds
The Sum of God's Word Is Truth
We believe the Bible is real because God opened our eyes. Can blind men see the sun? Can seeing men pretend they do not?
4/13/2012 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 1 second
Glory, Majesty, Dominion, and Authority Keep Us Safe for Everlasting Joy
If you had to keep yourself believing, you’d never make it. God himself sustains you every second.
4/12/2012 • 1 hour, 20 seconds
The Risen Christ — His Peace, Power, and Purpose
Be reconciled to God: receive as a free gift his peace, his power, his purpose.
4/7/2012 • 39 minutes, 3 seconds
I Planted, Apollos Watered, But God Gave the Growth
God is supreme not only in the ministry of the church, but also in the planting and watering, and in causing faith and giving the growth.
3/31/2012 • 53 minutes, 39 seconds
Race and the Christian
John Piper and Tim Keller address the topic of race in America and discuss Piper’s book ‘Bloodlines.’
3/28/2012 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 44 seconds
I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life
John Piper | Jesus prepares a place in paradise for all his people. Trust him now, and you’ll reap untold riches — now and forever.
3/23/2012 • 42 minutes, 31 seconds
Controlled by a Holy Ambition
Immerse yourself in the word of God and seek him for a holy ambition so that your life will not be wasted, but instead will count for God’s glory among the nations.
3/22/2012 • 38 minutes, 54 seconds
The Pleasures of God Roundtable
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3/21/2012 • 58 minutes, 53 seconds
The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
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3/17/2012 • 2 hours, 46 minutes, 51 seconds
As I Have Loved You, Love One Another
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3/17/2012 • 45 minutes, 31 seconds
The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
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3/16/2012 • 2 hours, 48 minutes, 19 seconds
The Solid Logic of Heaven Holds
If God did not spare his only Son, but gave him up for us, he will surely give us all things with him.
3/15/2012 • 28 minutes, 14 seconds
The Pleasures of God Roundtable
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3/14/2012 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 28 seconds
You Cannot Follow Me Now
Only Jesus could do the saving work we needed. Only he could bear the awesome weight of our sin.
3/10/2012 • 44 minutes, 3 seconds
The Pleasures of God Roundtable
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3/7/2012 • 58 minutes, 23 seconds
The Supremacy of Christ in All of Life: The Pastor and His Worldview
Joe Rigney explores the beliefs and ministries of John Piper and Douglas Wilson — both their similarities and differences — in this two-hour conversation.
2/1/2012 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 59 seconds
“The Frank and Manly Mr. Ryle” — The Value of a Masculine Ministry
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1/31/2012 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 50 seconds
“The Frank and Manly Mr. Ryle” — The Value of a Masculine Ministry
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1/31/2012 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 50 seconds
Let’s Be Rich Toward God
The movement of your money expresses the movement of your heart. Where your treasure is, your heart will be also.
1/28/2012 • 48 minutes, 40 seconds
They Poured Out Innocent Blood
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1/22/2012 • 48 minutes, 25 seconds
From Bloodlines to Bloodline
God takes people from every racial and ethnic bloodline and leads by the gospel us to the one bloodline of Jesus Christ.
1/14/2012 • 48 minutes, 14 seconds
The Word of God Is at Work in You
Walking by the Spirit is a continual depending, praying, trusting, acting, and thanking God all out of faith.
1/7/2012 • 48 minutes, 33 seconds
Piper One on One
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1/1/2012 • 12 minutes, 49 seconds
Seeing and Savoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ Above All Things
Seeing and savoring the supremacy of Jesus Christ frees you from the slavery of sin for the sacrifices of love.
1/1/2012 • 45 minutes, 57 seconds
One Life: Don’t Waste It
The life that exalts Christ, enjoys him, and happily overflows to meet the needs of others — that life will never be wasted.
1/1/2012 • 40 minutes, 24 seconds
One Life: Enjoy It
We honor God most not just by obeying what he commands, but by finding our deepest satisfaction in all that he is for us.
12/31/2011 • 43 minutes, 53 seconds
For Men: Augustine, Sin, and Sovereign Joy
The life of Augustine shows us that the only way to truly sever the deadly pleasures of sin is by having superior pleasure in the sovereign joy of God.
12/31/2011 • 55 minutes, 16 seconds
A Savior Is Born: Glory to God, Peace to Man
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12/24/2011 • 49 minutes, 2 seconds
For His Sake and for Your Joy, Go Low
John Piper | All Christians have the high, spiritual status of being a child of God. And with this high standing, there is a call to go low.
12/17/2011 • 51 minutes, 12 seconds
Belief in Jesus: Its Barriers and Blessings
God is sovereign not only over our belief, but also our unbelief. He plans both for his glory in all things.
12/10/2011 • 48 minutes, 35 seconds
For This Purpose I Have Come to This Hour
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12/3/2011 • 35 minutes, 29 seconds
Chosen to Know and Believe and Witness That I Am He
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11/20/2011 • 31 minutes, 2 seconds
Gravity and Gladness
John Piper | John Piper lays out some practical implications for corporate worship in relation to the previous sessions, which covered the intensification of worship as an inward experience of the heart and the essence of worship as being satisfied in God.
11/12/2011 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 29 seconds
If a Grain of Wheat Dies, It Bears Much Fruit
The Christian life is far from being easy. It’s no stroll in the park. But God guarantees that our journey will end in glory.
11/12/2011 • 45 minutes, 9 seconds
Gravity and Gladness
John Piper | God making much of God, in communicating his glory to our minds and hearts, is the greatest act of love toward us.
11/12/2011 • 43 minutes, 33 seconds
Gravity and Gladness
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11/11/2011 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds
Gravity and Gladness
John Piper | The essence of worship is the experience of being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
11/11/2011 • 1 hour, 46 minutes, 11 seconds
Leave Her Alone, Judas — This Is for My Burial
If Jesus is your greatest treasure, then your affections for him should be lavish and unbounded.
11/5/2011 • 40 minutes, 51 seconds
Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian
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11/3/2011 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 34 seconds
Jesus Died to Gather the Children of God
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10/29/2011 • 51 minutes, 50 seconds
How the Offspring of Isaac Blesses the Sons of Ishmael
God invites everyone to embrace the good news of Jesus. And he uses his people to proclaim and spread the message.
10/22/2011 • 42 minutes, 37 seconds
Get a Holy Ambition — and Skip Adultolescence
John Piper | Adultolescence impedes the advance of the gospel. Skip years of immature indulgence and get a holy ambition.
10/22/2011 • 44 minutes, 52 seconds
Sovereignty, Substitution, and Solidarity
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10/18/2011 • 24 minutes, 35 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad!
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10/15/2011 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 36 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad!
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10/15/2011 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 37 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad!
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10/14/2011 • 40 minutes, 31 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad!
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10/14/2011 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 23 seconds
We Were Eager to Share with You Our Own Souls
God made us to live life together. We can only flourish with brothers and sisters in Christ at our side.
10/1/2011 • 47 minutes, 50 seconds
Let the Peoples Praise You, O God, Let All the Peoples Praise You!
Missions exists because the knowledge of God, the praise of God, the enjoyment of God, and the fear of God don’t exist among the nations.
9/25/2011 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 7 seconds
Thoughts on Christ, Weakness, Insults, and Homosexuality
John Piper | True contentment that is able to weather all kinds of hardship comes from knowing Christ as our surpassing treasure.
9/23/2011 • 25 minutes, 51 seconds
Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life
God does not mainly love us in this life by sparing us from suffering. He mainly loves us by giving us more of himself and his glory.
9/17/2011 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds
The Pleasure of God in Everything He Does
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9/15/2011 • 27 minutes, 20 seconds
Victor Watters Converses with Death: A Meditation on 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
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9/11/2011 • 22 minutes, 15 seconds
This Illness Is for the Glory of God
Jesus loved Lazarus so much that he allowed him to die. But he also raised Lazarus to life and promises to do the same for all who trust in him.
9/10/2011 • 38 minutes, 10 seconds
God’s Passion for Others’ Joy
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others; therefore, in order to love people we must pursue our deepest joy in God.
9/3/2011 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 21 seconds
God’s Passion for Our Joy
The way we glorify God is to pursue and live out of superior satisfaction in him at all costs.
9/3/2011 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 16 seconds
God's Passion for His Glory
God pursues his own praise, which is the greatest act of love not because he won’t be God until he gets it, but because we won’t be happy until we give it.
9/2/2011 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 10 seconds
Show Christ
Showing Christ is a work of love, which will only take place as the overflow of our joy in all that God is for us in Jesus reaching out to meet the needs of others.
8/31/2011 • 1 hour, 37 seconds
Think Christ
God is honored in our affections when our affections are rooted in knowledge of the truth.
8/30/2011 • 57 minutes, 27 seconds
Preach Christ
In order to preach Christ faithfully we should preach his supremacy theocentrically, preach his love as the gift of himself, preach the cross from eternity to eternity, preach conversion as a miraculous gift, and preach sanctification as an effect of seeing the glory of Christ.
8/30/2011 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 5 seconds
Feel Christ
The truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied with him has profound implications for the life of the church, pastoral ministry, preaching, and the broader evangelical world.
8/29/2011 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 44 seconds
God's Passion for His Glory in Christ
God’s passion for his glory is not egomania but love, and it is manifested in his acts of predestination, creation, incarnation, propitiation, sanctification, and consummation.
8/29/2011 • 56 minutes, 48 seconds
Proclaiming Christ
Proclaiming Christ in such a way that people receive him and see him as their supreme treasure can only be done in the power of the Holy Spirit.
8/25/2011 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 39 seconds
Don't Waste Your Life
God owns us and has determined what the unwasted life is: living and acting in such a way that displays the supreme value of Christ.
8/25/2011 • 54 minutes, 9 seconds
I and the Father Are One
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8/20/2011 • 45 minutes, 46 seconds
I Have Other Sheep That Are Not of This Fold
Everyone who believes in Jesus is a member of his flock. If you’re his, he’ll keep you safely to the end.
8/13/2011 • 47 minutes, 59 seconds
My Abandoned Life for Your Abundant Life
John Piper | Abundant life is not about having more stuff, but about having Jesus. Only he can save, satisfy, and give life because he is is the way, the truth, and the life.
8/6/2011 • 41 minutes, 4 seconds
The Infinite Worth of the Word of God
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7/11/2011 • 30 minutes, 55 seconds
Be a Radically God-Centered Pastor
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6/13/2011 • 31 minutes, 50 seconds
Hallowing God's Name in Public Life
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6/12/2011 • 43 minutes, 46 seconds
For Judgment I Came into This World
Sin blinds us all. We can only stumble about in darkness until Jesus takes us by the hand, and leads us into his heavenly light.
6/11/2011 • 39 minutes, 34 seconds
The Works of God and the Worship of Jesus
Jesus does the very works of God so that all might know that he himself is God.
6/4/2011 • 44 minutes, 47 seconds
Why Was This Child Born Blind?
Every sorrow and every time we suffer, there is a divinely designed purpose to display God’s glory and increase our joy.
5/21/2011 • 48 minutes, 39 seconds
You Will Never See Death
One day your strength will fade and your body will fail, but if you are trusting in Jesus you will never see death.
5/14/2011 • 41 minutes, 1 second
No One Will Take Your Joy from You
We are commanded to pursue all-satisfying, never-ending, invincible joy. The place we can find, keep, and share this happiness is only in God.
5/7/2011 • 50 minutes, 13 seconds
Desiring God (Session 2)
John Piper | If God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, the life we must pursue for the sake of God’s glory and the good of others is the life of maximal joy in God.
4/30/2011 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 46 seconds
Desiring God (Session 3)
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4/30/2011 • 55 minutes, 29 seconds
Desiring God (Session 1)
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4/29/2011 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 20 seconds
You Will Know the Truth and the Truth Will Set You Free
Jesus is light and life. Only he can set us free from the chains of sin and death.
4/23/2011 • 45 minutes, 32 seconds
If You Abide in My Word, You Are Truly My Disciples
The mark of the true disciple is lasting, enduring, persevering, and keeping on in the force field of the word.
4/16/2011 • 45 minutes, 23 seconds
Bethlehem’s Antioch Moment
John Piper | When you think you don’t know what to do, you at least know that you can pray. In the middle of transition, you can depend on God.
4/9/2011 • 47 minutes, 17 seconds
Leadership and Scripture Memory
Scripture memorization is important and should be practiced because it is a means to conformity with Christ, comfort for yourself and others, conflict with sin, communication of the gospel, and communion with God.
4/2/2011 • 29 minutes, 47 seconds
The Supremacy of Christ and the Sorrow of Calamity
The suffering of this present world exists by the sovereign plan of God, in order that the horrors of sin and the wonders of God’s grace in Christ might be shown.
3/27/2011 • 30 minutes, 23 seconds
Ministry Reflections with John Piper and R. C. Sproul
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3/26/2011 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 33 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad!
John Piper | God blesses us in order that we might be a blessing for the sake of the nations.
3/25/2011 • 52 minutes, 40 seconds
Twenty-Five Years of Desiring God
Delight in God is not optional. The regenerate heart finds joy in Jesus more than anything else.
3/25/2011 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 52 seconds
Don't Waste Your Life
You only have one life now. Don’t waste it because this life will soon be past, and then the outcome will — for eternity — last.
3/24/2011 • 59 minutes, 56 seconds
The Sum of Your Word Is Truth
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3/20/2011 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 50 seconds
The Truth Will Set You Free
Self-justification won’t work. Only Jesus can free you from Satan’s chains.
3/19/2011 • 46 minutes, 57 seconds
Poetry, Pain, and the Power to See: Why Words Matter at Desiring God
The Bible is a book full of inspired poetry, and God invites us to join him in his creative eloquence.
3/18/2011 • 43 minutes, 47 seconds
I Am the Light of the World
There is no light besides Jesus. It’s Jesus or darkness. It’s life or death. Choose this day whom you shall serve.
3/12/2011 • 40 minutes, 2 seconds
Neither Do I Condemn You
The Bible has unrivaled historical evidence. You can trust this book with your life because God has kept his word pure through the ages.
3/6/2011 • 40 minutes, 51 seconds
No One Ever Spoke Like This Man
Jesus will not allow you to call him merely interesting, intelligent, or instructive. Everyone must reckon with his actual claims.
2/27/2011 • 41 minutes, 9 seconds
I Act the Miracle
John Piper | You can fight the battle hard against your sin because Jesus has already purchased victory over your sin at the cross.
2/24/2011 • 38 minutes, 27 seconds
Out of Your Heart Will Flow Rivers of Living Water
Every river of joy in your soul will flow from Jesus. When you come to him, you get him. And he never leaves.
2/20/2011 • 51 minutes, 26 seconds
Willing God’s Will as a Way of Knowing Christ’s Word
John Piper | You can’t know Jesus until your will is to do God’s will. And God’s will is to make much of himself.
2/14/2011 • 43 minutes, 4 seconds
He Kissed the Rose and Felt the Thorn: Living and Dying in the Morning of Life
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2/1/2011 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 37 seconds
He Kissed the Rose and Felt the Thorn: Living and Dying in the Morning of Life
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2/1/2011 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 37 seconds
The Common Root of Unbelief in the Brothers of Jesus and the Jewish Crowds
Faith, at its core, is despairing of human approval and being glad in the God of grace.
1/30/2011 • 46 minutes, 59 seconds
Abortion and the Narrow Way That Leads to Life
Jesus died for sinners. And that group includes those who have had or committed abortions.
1/23/2011 • 42 minutes, 27 seconds
Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name
The Lord’s Prayer teaches us to go to God for every need, especially our need to hallow him above all things.
1/9/2011 • 45 minutes, 6 seconds
Getting to the Bottom of Your Joy
God won’t ever let you be the ultimate source of your own joy. Only God himself can possibly bear the weight of the happiness he has prepared for you.
1/3/2011 • 58 minutes, 40 seconds
Making Known the Manifold Wisdom of God Through Prison and Prayer
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10/19/2010 • 33 minutes, 2 seconds
Our Passion for Others’ Joy
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10/17/2010 • 1 hour, 29 seconds
God’s Passion for Our Joy
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10/16/2010 • 47 minutes, 25 seconds
Q & A with John Piper and Conrad Mbewe
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10/16/2010 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 15 seconds
God’s Passion for His Glory
Though God does make much of us in the gospel, the root of all his benefits and salvation toward us is his infinite passion for his own glory.
10/15/2010 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 32 seconds
Brothers—Think, Feel, Preach God
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10/14/2010 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 44 seconds
Leaders Q & A with John Piper and Conrad Mbewe
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10/14/2010 • 23 minutes, 14 seconds
The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
John Piper | Thinking is firewood for burning love for God and others. It’s not the end in itself, but it’s a means to the end: to love God.
10/3/2010 • 58 minutes, 32 seconds
Praying in the Power of the Spirit
Sometimes we experience so much pain and so much confusion, we don’t know what to pray for. But fear not: the Holy Spirit intercedes for his people.
6/25/2010 • 48 minutes, 14 seconds
Preaching in the Power of the Spirit
True Christian preaching isn’t a lecture, but an awakening of worship in both the pastor and his people.
6/24/2010 • 51 minutes, 38 seconds
Living in the Power of the Spirit
The same Spirit who awoke faith in your dead soul is the same Spirit who empowers you to live a holy life. Keep in step with the Spirit, not the flesh.
6/23/2010 • 47 minutes, 35 seconds
What Does It Mean to Live by Faith in the Service of the Fatherless?
The cause of orphan care and adoption must be pursued by faith, both in success and suffering.
4/30/2010 • 33 minutes, 14 seconds
Consider Your Calling
John Piper | God’s love for his people is so rich and full that they need the Holy Spirit’s help to really feel it.
4/25/2010 • 41 minutes, 40 seconds
Rejoicing in the Midst of Sorrow
Eight suggestions are given for how to persevere in ministry in the midst of sorrow.
4/23/2010 • 0
How Much Does God Love This Church?
We are precious to God — so precious that he will not have us make that preciousness into our god.
4/18/2010 • 51 minutes, 52 seconds
Did Jesus Preach the Gospel of Evangelicalism?
Christ is our pardon. Christ is our perfection. Paul and Jesus agreed.
4/14/2010 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 56 seconds
The Inner Essence of Worship
God seeks and is pleased with those who worship him in spirit and in truth — those who have the inner experience of being satisfied with him.
4/11/2010 • 55 minutes, 12 seconds
What Jesus Demands from the World, Session 2
John Piper | God-glorifying obedience is fruit of being born again, having a total change in our inner reality, believing in Christ, coming to Christ, loving Christ, and rejoicing in Christ as our all-satisfying treasure.
4/10/2010 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 24 seconds
What Jesus Demands from the World, Session 1
All the demands of the Great Commission flow from the person and work of Christ.
4/9/2010 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 43 seconds
Suffering for the Gospel Q & A
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4/8/2010 • 42 minutes, 46 seconds
The Supremacy of Christ in Suffering
Everything in the universe points to God’s glory. He uses even our greatest sorrows to display his supremacy.
4/8/2010 • 52 minutes, 20 seconds
The Immeasurable Greatness of His Power Toward Us
The resurrection of Jesus shows the greatness of God's power toward us now in this life.
4/4/2010 • 38 minutes, 26 seconds
The Son of Man Must Suffer Many Things
The death of Christ was planned by the Father and approved by the Son to ransom many people from their sins.
3/28/2010 • 36 minutes, 11 seconds
Parenting with Hope in the Worst of Times
In every stage of parenting, knowing God's mercy gives us brokenhearted boldness—and hope.
3/21/2010 • 56 minutes, 43 seconds
Why God Makes Much of Us
The love of God that makes much of us for his glory is a greater love than a love that would only make much of us.
3/1/2010 • 37 minutes, 27 seconds
Q & A with Urban Pastors
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2/28/2010 • 44 minutes, 33 seconds
Why God Makes Much of Us
God’s children are immensely precious to him, and he ensures that their preciousness to him does not become their god, but that he is their God.
2/28/2010 • 45 minutes, 57 seconds
Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul
We might not agree with Lewis on everything, but his romantic rationalism applied to the Christian faith can open our eyes to more of God’s wonders.
2/2/2010 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 57 seconds
Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul
We might not agree with Lewis on everything, but his romantic rationalism applied to the Christian faith can open our eyes to more of God’s wonders.
2/2/2010 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 57 seconds
I Will Build My Church
Multiplying churches with different strengths and weaknesses means coming closer to meeting the needs of the world.
1/31/2010 • 48 minutes, 25 seconds
Born Blind for the Glory of God: Eugenics by Abortion Is an Abomination to God
All children, of every degree of ability, are conceived for the purpose of displaying the glory of God.
1/24/2010 • 50 minutes, 53 seconds
Help the Children Love the Different People
Eight ways to help children love those who don't look like them.
1/17/2010 • 47 minutes, 25 seconds
Holding Fast the Word of Life
There is a spiritual diet without which no Christian can be strong and healthy and fruitful. And that is a diet of the word of God.
1/10/2010 • 47 minutes, 11 seconds
Is Jesus an Egomaniac?
God loves us best when he loves himself most. And in his loving glorification, we find imperishable joy.
1/4/2010 • 48 minutes, 53 seconds
Praying in the Closet and in the Spirit
Both disciplined and spontaneous prayer should flow from our confidence that God is already one hundred percent on our side.
1/3/2010 • 55 minutes, 30 seconds
Holy Ambition: Paul’s and Yours
John Piper | A holy ambition comes from immersing yourself in the word of God. Dive deep in the Bible and let it take hold of your desires.
12/31/2009 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 22 seconds
God’s Passion for His Glory
God’s passion for his own glory is the great ballast not only for global missions, but also for our very own souls.
12/30/2009 • 53 minutes, 5 seconds
Subjected in Hope
Cancer causes us to come to Christ. Earthly groans guarantee a global heritage.
12/27/2009 • 56 minutes, 12 seconds
You Have the Words of Eternal Life
Christmas is for salvation. God sent his Son into the world to save it, not condemn it.
12/20/2009 • 43 minutes, 25 seconds
It Is the Spirit That Gives Life
As once-adoring followers disappear, Jesus’s message becomes clearer and clearer: their resistance itself is in God’s hands.
12/13/2009 • 52 minutes, 46 seconds
They Will All Be Taught of God
We come to God not because we merely made a decision, but because God has called us, drawn us, and taught us who Jesus really is.
12/6/2009 • 43 minutes, 26 seconds
Skeptical Grumbling and Sovereign Grace
When we come to Jesus, we come voluntarily and freely. And behind that change in us is a decisive work of the Father.
11/29/2009 • 49 minutes, 57 seconds
Behold, Believe, Be Raised
We should hunger and thirst for God and all he has done in Jesus more than anything else in this world.
11/22/2009 • 51 minutes, 23 seconds
Questions and Answers
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11/19/2009 • 34 minutes, 44 seconds
Jesus Came Not to Give Bread but to Be Bread
Our greatest need is not physical but spiritual. We crave the bread of life more than bread for our stomachs.
11/19/2009 • 48 minutes, 48 seconds
Do Not Labor for the Food That Perishes
Jesus offers himself to us freely as the food that endures to eternal life. No amount of working for God can make you taste him for the feast he is.
11/15/2009 • 42 minutes, 2 seconds
Twelve Baskets of Bread and the Walk on Water
Jesus’ presence brings the kind of fullness that produces generosity and risk-taking in his church.
11/8/2009 • 46 minutes, 31 seconds
The All-Providing King Who Would Not Be King
Jesus came not mainly to give bread but to be bread. He became the all-satisfying bread of life when he gave himself up for us.
11/1/2009 • 44 minutes, 3 seconds
The Legacy of Antioch: Partnering with the Church of the Global South for the Sake of the Gospel
As Christianity expands in the global South, the Western church must continue to support the developing church by sending and going.
10/25/2009 • 46 minutes, 52 seconds
Q & A (with Russian Interpretation)
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10/13/2009 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 46 seconds
Preach Christ (with Russian Interpretation)
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10/13/2009 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 17 seconds
Feel Christ (with Russian Interpretation)
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10/12/2009 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 45 seconds
Think Christ (with Russian Interpretation)
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10/12/2009 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 8 seconds
What Makes the Good News Good (with German Interpretation)
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10/11/2009 • 54 minutes, 5 seconds
Preach Christ (with German Interpretation)
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10/10/2009 • 1 hour, 11 minutes
Feel Christ (with German Interpretation)
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10/9/2009 • 55 minutes, 16 seconds
Think Christ (with German Interpretation)
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10/9/2009 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 22 seconds
Interview with John Piper (with German Interpretation)
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10/9/2009 • 31 minutes, 8 seconds
If You Believed Moses, You Would Believe Me, for He Wrote of Me
Wherever God is revealed in the Old Testament, Jesus is revealed.
10/4/2009 • 36 minutes, 57 seconds
A Conversation About Collision
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9/25/2009 • 16 minutes, 55 seconds
The Love of Human Praise as the Root of Unbelief
The dry root of unbelief is the desire for self-praise, but true faith seeks satisfaction in Christ, the fount of living waters.
9/20/2009 • 47 minutes, 22 seconds
Beholding Glory and Becoming Whole
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9/16/2009 • 44 minutes, 44 seconds
The Life-Giving Voice of the Son of God
At least six observations about the final judgment can be made from John 5:25-29.
9/13/2009 • 52 minutes, 10 seconds
Why My Role in Preaching Is Not Enough
The regular role of preaching in the pulpit, week in and week out, is not enough to adequately minister to the church.
9/13/2009 • 24 minutes, 1 second
Other Sheep I Have: The Power of God’s Grace Among Native Americans Then and Now
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9/11/2009 • 47 minutes, 24 seconds
Jesus: Equal With God
John 5:1-24 has at least 3 extraordinary things to teach us about Jesus.
9/6/2009 • 41 minutes, 53 seconds
Other Sheep I Have
Missions should be driven by a great vision of God, as demonstrated through the lives of frontier missionaries and described in Jesus’s words in John 10:16.
9/2/2009 • 35 minutes, 20 seconds
Bless the Lord, O My Soul!
All the reasons we have to bless the Lord flow from the cross of Christ.
8/31/2009 • 16 minutes, 2 seconds
Greatness, Humility, Servanthood
Humility is happy to rely on God and quick to give him the credit for all that’s accomplished.
8/30/2009 • 48 minutes, 53 seconds
Healed for the Sake of Holiness
Jesus healed a few but left many more unhealed. Until he comes back, the main issue is not that we have perfect physical health, but that we meet him in our brokenness.
8/23/2009 • 48 minutes, 29 seconds
Go, Your Son Will Live
What do Jesus' miracles say about Jesus?
8/16/2009 • 48 minutes, 3 seconds
The Food of Christ Is to Give Eternal Life
The natural timeframe of sowing and reaping does not pertain to Jesus and his saving power.
8/9/2009 • 46 minutes, 20 seconds
The Heart of Worship
Worship is an end in itself, not a means to some other end. God gets the glory and we get the joy.
8/6/2009 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 14 seconds
The God of Worship
The deepest root of our worship must be God's passion for his own glory. Only his glory satisfies eternally.
8/5/2009 • 57 minutes, 26 seconds
Not in This or That Mount, but in Spirit and Truth
Only those who know Jesus have the Spirit and know the truth that makes real worship possible.
6/28/2009 • 49 minutes, 6 seconds
The Tragic Cost of Her Cavernous Thirst
Our hearts wander to the sewer even though Jesus offers living water. Only he can transform and satisfy our deepest desires.
6/21/2009 • 51 minutes, 21 seconds
The Suicide of Satan
God uses everything for his sovereign purposes. Even the most heinous crimes ever committed were never beyond his control.
6/15/2009 • 0
You Will Never Be Thirsty Again
Jesus reveals our woeful condition that causes our thirst, and then offers his cup of grace so we never have to thirst again.
6/14/2009 • 46 minutes, 16 seconds
Spectacular Sins
God ordains all things, including the fall of Satan and the fall of man, for his glory in Jesus Christ.
6/14/2009 • 0
Sustained By Sovereign Grace: How to Endure to the End
God promises in the new covenant to keep believers steadfast to the end. He works with all of his heart and all of his soul, with infinite joy, to help us endure.
6/7/2009 • 51 minutes, 14 seconds
Remember the Rich Young Man
Health and wealth tempt us to no end, but they can never deliver what we need most. Christ is our only true life and treasure.
6/7/2009 • 38 minutes, 22 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad
The work frontier missions must be carried out with an understanding of the motivation and method of missions.
6/6/2009 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 32 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad
John Piper | The work frontier missions must be carried out with an understanding of the task of missions and the necessity of missions.
6/5/2009 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 58 seconds
Q&A with Piper, Mason, Driscoll, Greear, and Stetzer
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6/5/2009 • 31 minutes, 34 seconds
The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands
The Gospel of John lifts Jesus up as coming from God, being full of God, and speaking and ruling as God.
5/31/2009 • 47 minutes
He Must Increase, I Must Decrease
Only when we decrease and Christ increases will we have full joy.
5/24/2009 • 47 minutes, 12 seconds
This Is the Judgment: Light Has Come into the World
Jesus didn't come to a neutral world. He came to those already dead and guilty to make some alive and free.
5/17/2009 • 48 minutes, 21 seconds
Preaching Regeneration Undiminished
The new birth is the supernatural giving of divine life to a dead soul, and God accomplishes this great work through the means of gospel preaching.
5/12/2009 • 57 minutes, 40 seconds
We Are Workers with You for Your Joy
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5/11/2009 • 44 minutes, 9 seconds
Preaching Justification Undiminished
If we depart from the traditional doctrine of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness we will diminish one of Christ’s great achievements, harm people who need this doctrine, and undermine the fruit of love.
5/11/2009 • 59 minutes, 9 seconds
God So Loved the World
John 3:16 represents a glorious love, but there is more to God’s love than the free offer of the gospel.
5/10/2009 • 47 minutes, 49 seconds
God So Loved the World
We have eternal life because Christ died in our place and because in him is life. He removes God’s wrath, and he supplies the everlasting life we don’t have.
5/3/2009 • 49 minutes, 11 seconds
The God-Centeredness of God
John Piper | Teaching children is not about indoctrination or contextualization, but about category-creation that is rooted in the God-centeredness of God.
4/30/2009 • 0
The Free Will of the Wind
The wind of God’s Spirit gives new birth to whomever he pleases.
4/26/2009 • 52 minutes, 36 seconds
The Pastor as Scholar: A Personal Journey
Pastors should strive to be scholars and scholars should strive to be pastors.
4/23/2009 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 39 seconds
Feed the Flame of God’s Gift
We are called to fan into flame God’s gift. Don’t be ashamed, be courageous in God’s unbeatable power.
4/21/2009 • 58 minutes, 9 seconds
Jesus Christ and the Rescue of Joy, Part 1
When God calls you to praise him, he’s not a megalomaniac. He’s a loving Father who invites you into highest, purest joy.
4/19/2009 • 50 minutes, 50 seconds
Jesus Christ and the Rescue of Joy
If you live to maximize your joy and pleasure in God above all things, you will be the most loving and generous type of person in the world.
4/19/2009 • 54 minutes, 20 seconds
I Have Seen the Lord
Twenty centuries later, we can still see the truth of the Resurrection.
4/12/2009 • 43 minutes, 21 seconds
The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up — Like the Serpent
Jesus saves us by becoming a curse for us. Only in this substitution can we find blessing.
4/5/2009 • 44 minutes, 20 seconds
“I Will Not Be a Velvet-Mouthed Preacher!”
George Whitefield devoted his whole life to pointing people away from himself and to Jesus.
2/3/2009 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 36 seconds
“I Will Not Be a Velvet-Mouthed Preacher!”
George Whitefield devoted his whole life to pointing people away from himself and to Jesus.
2/3/2009 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 36 seconds
What Is the Recession For?
God remains in control and fulfills his good purposes, even during an economic downturn or financial collapse.
2/1/2009 • 44 minutes, 28 seconds
The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy
How the Bible looks at a human being in the womb.
1/25/2009 • 41 minutes, 42 seconds
The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry
John Piper | Joy in God is not an option in the Christian life, therefore we must employ all the means of grace God gives to us us in order to pursue it.
1/24/2009 • 57 minutes, 17 seconds
The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry
John Piper | The grand obligation of our lives is to pursue maximum joy in God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
1/24/2009 • 56 minutes, 16 seconds
The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry
John Piper | The grand obligation of our lives is to pursue maximum joy in God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
1/24/2009 • 46 minutes, 35 seconds
The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry
John Piper | The love of God consists in him doing whatever it takes, at great cost to himself, to enthrall us with the unparalleled worth of his glory forever.
1/23/2009 • 57 minutes
The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry
John Piper | In this seminar, John Piper defines and explains Christian Hedonism.
1/23/2009 • 42 minutes, 50 seconds
He Knew What Was in Man
Jesus knows everything about everyone and is still willing to love those who trust in him.
1/11/2009 • 47 minutes, 15 seconds
If My Words Abide in You
When you let Jesus’s words abide in you, they will grow into a bountiful harvest for God’s glory and your good.
1/4/2009 • 48 minutes, 10 seconds
New Year’s Eve Meditation
We all have regrets, and we all feel the guilt for our sin. But Christians have godly grief that produces repentance to the pardoning God.
12/31/2008 • 26 minutes, 31 seconds
Put in the Fire for the Sake of Prayer
God can put his people through the fires of suffering to awaken our appetite for prayer.
12/28/2008 • 50 minutes, 25 seconds
Christmas Eve Meditation
Good news changes everything. Our circumstances may not change, and we may still feel stuck, but the good news of Christmas will never leave us the same.
12/24/2008 • 10 minutes, 1 second
Destroy This Temple, and in Three Days I Will Raise It Up
Jesus is the new temple. Authentic worship is no longer attached to
any place. It is attached to Jesus.
Jesus’s many titles show his divinity and universal rule, yet his identity is what drove man’s wickedness to reject and kill him.
12/7/2008 • 40 minutes, 28 seconds
We Have Found the Messiah
7 ways John shows us the glory of Jesus.
11/30/2008 • 40 minutes, 7 seconds
This Is He Who Baptizes with the Holy Spirit
“Baptism with the Spirit” in John is not a technical term for one experience of the Christian life, but a general term for all that the Holy Spirit does for us because of Christ.
11/23/2008 • 49 minutes, 52 seconds
Why God Is Not a Megalomaniac in Demanding to Be Worshiped
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11/20/2008 • 46 minutes
Behold the Lamb of God
Those who embrace Jesus as their Lamb and their Lord will be sheltered from God's otherwise inescapable wrath.
11/16/2008 • 43 minutes, 1 second
Q&A on Singleness
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11/14/2008 • 57 minutes, 55 seconds
From His Fullness We Have All Received, Grace Upon Grace
Those who by grace are born of God have seen the glory of God that Moses asked to see but wasn't permitted.
11/9/2008 • 49 minutes, 44 seconds
Suffering for the Sake of the Body
John Piper | Believing in the sovereignty of God in suffering, we must lean in with tenderness, compassion, and rightly-timed truth to care for others in their trials.
11/8/2008 • 44 minutes, 41 seconds
Suffering for the Sake of the Body
John Piper | It is personally stabilizing for our faith to understand the necessity, nature, and purpose of Christian suffering.
11/8/2008 • 56 minutes, 15 seconds
Suffering for the Sake of the Body
John Piper | God is sovereign over all things, therefore the suffering that takes place in our own individual lives and globally has meaning.
11/8/2008 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 36 seconds
Suffering for the Sake of the Body
John Piper | God’s sovereignty over Satan and all the suffering he causes can be seen through his ultimate control of natural disasters, diseases, animals, temptation, spiritual blindness, and spiritual captivity.
11/7/2008 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Suffering for the Sake of the Body
John Piper | God is sovereign over suffering, including all the suffering that Satan is able to inflict upon people.
11/7/2008 • 52 minutes, 49 seconds
The Earth Is the Lord’s: The Supremacy of Christ in Christian Learning
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11/5/2008 • 57 minutes, 44 seconds
We Beheld His Glory, Full of Grace and Truth
By becoming a man, Jesus shows us the glory of God.
11/2/2008 • 45 minutes, 57 seconds
Proclaiming the Excellencies of Christ, Not Prosperity, Among the Nations
All nations will be reached only with the wealth-renouncing witness of cross-cultural missionaries.
10/26/2008 • 41 minutes, 28 seconds
Filling Up What Is Lacking in Christ's Afflictions
To fill up the afflictions of Christ means to present Christ’s completed, atoning work to those whom he died for by means of our own self-sacrificing love.
10/19/2008 • 0
Job: When the Righteous Suffer, Part 2
God’s merciful purpose is shown in the conclusion of the book of Job as he demonstrates his own worth and sovereign goodness, and secures the restoration and reconciliation of Job and his friends.
10/18/2008 • 0
Job: When the Righteous Suffer, Part 1
The book of Job teaches us that God is ultimately sovereign over all things, including Satan and any calamity he brings.
10/17/2008 • 0
John Was Not the Light, but a Witness to the Light
Let's join John the Baptist in saying, “Jesus must increase, but I must decrease.”
10/12/2008 • 43 minutes, 5 seconds
The Ultimate Meaning of True Womanhood
True womanhood is not wimpy. It exists to uniquely display the glory of God.
10/9/2008 • 46 minutes, 13 seconds
In Him Was Life
Not only is Jesus the Life that created all material life, but he is the Life that creates all eternal life.
10/5/2008 • 46 minutes, 26 seconds
Is There Christian Eloquence? Clear Words and the Wonder of the Cross
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9/28/2008 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 44 seconds
In the Beginning Was the Word
Whatever else you may enjoy about Jesus, John’s Gospel wants you to know and treasure Jesus in his infinite majesty.
9/21/2008 • 53 minutes, 49 seconds
The New Commandment of Christ: ‘Love One Another As I Have Loved You’
What's new about Jesus' new commandment?
9/14/2008 • 47 minutes, 32 seconds
The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
John Piper | What unites Christians in the worship of the triune God is not forms, styles, or musical taste, but rather a commitment to God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated gatherings.
9/13/2008 • 39 minutes, 44 seconds
The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
John Piper | Preaching in the gathered community of saints is appropriate, fitting, and normative in light of biblical principles and the affectional nature of worship.
9/13/2008 • 33 minutes, 3 seconds
The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
John Piper | Implications of knowing that the inward essence of worship is being satisfied in God include the pursuit of joy, the understanding of worship as an end in itself, and view that all of life is worship.
9/13/2008 • 35 minutes, 11 seconds
The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
John Piper | If worship is the soul’s satisfaction in all that God is for us in Jesus, then God is most loving to us when he removes every obstacle to our joy and enthralls us with himself.
9/13/2008 • 46 minutes, 53 seconds
The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
John Piper | The New Testament emphasizes worship as an inward, spiritual event, and the key to understanding worship is the truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
9/12/2008 • 49 minutes, 27 seconds
The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
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9/12/2008 • 51 minutes, 57 seconds
The Story of His Glory
John Piper | The call of the Christian life is to join God in his grand plan to magnify his own glory over all.
9/10/2008 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 10 seconds
Ruth: May the Redeemer's Name Be Renowned
The book of Ruth exists to show us that God is always at work, even in our darkest hours, to bring us to worship him and display his glory.
9/4/2008 • 50 minutes, 1 second
As the Father Has Sent Me...
The Father sent the Son to deliver his people, and now he sends his people to deliver the message. As the Son was sent, so now are we.
9/3/2008 • 22 minutes, 50 seconds
Ruth: Strategic Righteousness
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9/3/2008 • 54 minutes, 1 second
Ruth: Under the Wings of God
There is only one place that is safe — it’s not your bank account, your house, or anything made by man. It’s in the refuge of God’s wings.
9/3/2008 • 31 minutes, 3 seconds
...So Send I You
As Lord of all, Jesus Christ will claim people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation no matter what — but he has chosen his body, the church, to send and proclaim the message.
9/3/2008 • 34 minutes, 22 seconds
Ruth: Sweet and Bitter Providence
The book of Ruth demonstrates that God is at work even in the darkest of times, and that he will bring about his ultimate purpose to glorify his grace through Jesus Christ.
9/2/2008 • 53 minutes, 42 seconds
The Mind of Christ: Looking Out for the Interests of Others
Jesus calls his people to the same humble service he so beautifully displayed in his life and death.
8/31/2008 • 43 minutes, 43 seconds
Teaching and Admonishing One Another in All Wisdom
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7/27/2008 • 50 minutes, 44 seconds
What Is Baptism and How Important Is It?
John Piper | Baptism: Immersion or sprinkling? Infants or adults? Does it matter?
7/20/2008 • 47 minutes, 22 seconds
How Important Is Church Membership?
All believers should join a church if possible, because the local church is an expression of the universal church.
7/13/2008 • 43 minutes, 35 seconds
Welcome One Another for the Glory of God
When we accept and welcome one other across barriers and boundaries as Christ did for us, not only is God glorified, but our joy in him expands in the joy of others.
7/1/2008 • 0
Declare His Glory Among the Nations
God summons us to sing, and in doing so to summon the nations to sing a new song with us.
6/29/2008 • 49 minutes, 8 seconds
Pour Out Your Indignation Upon Them
How should we understand the psalms that call down curses on others?
6/22/2008 • 49 minutes, 17 seconds
The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth
Death and decay won’t have the last word. One day soon, God will release all of creation from corruption.
6/16/2008 • 0
The Echo and the Insufficiency of Hell
The threat of hell might scare us toward God, but only a deep love for Jesus can take us all the way home to him.
6/16/2008 • 0
Bless the Lord, O My Soul
Perhaps nothing is more effective in helping children fear God than verbally blessing the Lord in their presence.
6/15/2008 • 48 minutes, 19 seconds
A Broken and Contrite Heart God Will Not Despise
Brokenhearted joy colors the entire Christian life. We might struggle along, but in the end, we have ultimate victory in Jesus.
6/8/2008 • 56 minutes, 54 seconds
Spiritual Depression in the Psalms
When we think and feel with the Psalms, we learn how to fight for hope in the most difficult times.
6/1/2008 • 38 minutes, 19 seconds
Fighting for Faith with God’s Word
John Piper | Christians have tremendous hope in this life, but that doesn’t mean living for Christ is easy. We must take up the sword of the Spirit and fight for faith every day.
5/26/2008 • 1 hour, 6 minutes
William Tyndale: A Life Transformed by God’s Word
John Piper | William Tyndale died to both laziness and self-confidence in his driving passion to see the Scriptures translated into the common language of the people.
5/26/2008 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 37 seconds
Songs That Shape the Heart and Mind
John Piper | The Psalms instruct our minds and our hearts. They combine deep doctrine with full emotion.
5/25/2008 • 44 minutes, 23 seconds
Deal with Death
Jesus faced death, died, and transformed it forever so that we can face death with confidence and hope — not fear.
5/25/2008 • 28 minutes, 24 seconds
Let No One Despise You for Your Youth: A Vision for the Next Generation
Old, young, or in-between, you can change the world for Jesus.
4/20/2008 • 57 minutes, 5 seconds
T4G 2008 Panel Discussion
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4/17/2008 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 22 seconds
How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice
Our life and ministry should reflect Jesus’s own and have a radical, risk-taking, sacrificial flavor.
4/17/2008 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 2 seconds
I'm Sending You to Open Their Eyes
10 practical encouragments to evangelize.
4/13/2008 • 55 minutes, 37 seconds
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer
For those who are in Christ Jesus, there is no divine punishment in suffering, only purification; even death Itself will serve the good of God’s people.
4/9/2008 • 47 minutes, 10 seconds
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer
Our greatest treasure in life is Jesus himself. When we value him above anything else, we can face anything that comes our way.
4/8/2008 • 52 minutes, 40 seconds
You Are God's Midwife for the New Birth of Others
When God gives new birth, he does so through us speaking his word, the gospel.
4/6/2008 • 54 minutes, 26 seconds
Other Sheep That Are Not of This Fold
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3/30/2008 • 0
The Appearance of the Unwasted Life, Part 1
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3/29/2008 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 25 seconds
The Origin of the Unwasted Life
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3/29/2008 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 41 seconds
The Appearance of the Unwasted Life, Part 2
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3/29/2008 • 37 minutes, 1 second
The Essence of the Unwasted Life
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3/28/2008 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 18 seconds
The God of Peace Brought from the Dead the Good Shepherd
Jesus will always be our shepherd and we will always get the incomparable joy of being his sheep.
3/23/2008 • 44 minutes, 45 seconds
The New Birth Produces Love
By nature, those who are born again love others like God who gave his Son for them.
3/16/2008 • 48 minutes, 17 seconds
Ten Effects of Believing the Five Points of Calvinism
John Piper | The doctrines of grace, rightly understood, have several powerful affects on the Christian life.
3/15/2008 • 49 minutes, 38 seconds
Perseverance of the Saints
John Piper | The doctrine of perseverance is not meant to elicit passivity, but rather to impart assurance to us in the fight of faith to the end.
3/15/2008 • 57 minutes, 24 seconds
Limited Atonement
John Piper | The doctrine of limited atonement teaches that God did more in the cross than obtain a bonafide offer of forgiveness for all who believe; namely, he also secured the saving faith of all the elect.
3/15/2008 • 58 minutes, 39 seconds
Unconditional Election
John Piper | Unconditional election is fully in accord with justice because in election God upholds his unswerving allegiance to his glory.
3/14/2008 • 48 minutes, 44 seconds
Unconditional Election
John Piper | Unconditional election is demonstrated throughout Scripture, especially in the Gospel of John.
3/14/2008 • 51 minutes, 9 seconds
No One Born of God Makes a Practice of Sinning
Being born again doesn't mean being sinless. It means coming to Jesus as your advocate.
3/9/2008 • 53 minutes, 42 seconds
Total Depravity - Unconditional Election
John Piper | The doctrine of unconditional election concerns how God chooses people for salvation according to his own sovereign, free, and gracious purposes, apart from any faith or good works in them.
3/8/2008 • 58 minutes, 21 seconds
Irresistible Grace - Total Depravity
John Piper | The doctrine of total depravity concerns how humanity is pervasively sinful due fundamentally to their rebellion against God.
3/8/2008 • 46 minutes, 51 seconds
Assumptions - Irresistible Grace
John Piper | Seven assumptions are given that guide this message series, as well as the biblical foundations for irresistible grace.
3/7/2008 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 13 seconds
TULIP: Introduction
John Piper | The doctrines of grace are not meant to be used for starting arguments, but for worship and survival in an embattled life of faith.
3/7/2008 • 42 minutes, 46 seconds
Regeneration, Faith, Love: In That Order
Faith must come first and be the root of love. Otherwise, love will be destroyed.
3/2/2008 • 48 minutes, 49 seconds
How My Pastoral Ministry Shapes My Pulpit Ministry
What has driven and shaped John Piper’s ministry over the years? Here are sixteen core convictions.
2/26/2008 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 46 seconds
How I Distinguish Between the Gospel and False Gospels
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2/26/2008 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 59 seconds
Why I Trust the Scriptures
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2/25/2008 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 45 seconds
Everyone Who Has Been Born of God Overcomes the World
Newborn believers obey God's commandments, knowing that even when they fail they will never ultimately fall away.
2/24/2008 • 48 minutes, 59 seconds
Faith: Unique and Fruitful Effect of the New Birth
John Piper | The Gospel is news and we are born again by believing that it is true and embracing it.
2/17/2008 • 43 minutes, 46 seconds
Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | The claims of the Bible are most ultimately justified by the witness of the Holy Spirit in the new birth; we should deal fairly with the claims of the Bible on its own terms and rightly handle it.
2/16/2008 • 53 minutes, 49 seconds
Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | The claims of the Bible may be justified through the overall coherence of its canon as well as its scope, which is to give glory to God.
2/16/2008 • 50 minutes, 9 seconds
Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | The Bible claims to be the infallible word of God, and it may be known as such as a person appreheneds its diverse excellencies by the Holy Spirit’s power.
2/16/2008 • 52 minutes, 50 seconds
Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | The word of God is pure, good, and true. And we have it in the form of ink and paper, which has been preserved throughout the ages.
2/15/2008 • 57 minutes, 15 seconds
Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | There are several reasons why it is vital to have confidence in the Bible as God’s infallible word.
2/15/2008 • 44 minutes, 9 seconds
What Man Does in the New Birth
Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.
2/10/2008 • 44 minutes, 12 seconds
Evangelist Bill Piper: Fundamentalist Full of Grace and Joy
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2/5/2008 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 59 seconds
Evangelist Bill Piper: Fundamentalist Full of Grace and Joy
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2/5/2008 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 59 seconds
Through the Washing of Regeneration
New birth is God's kindness,
philanthropy, and mercy to us. It has nothing to do with even our best deeds.
2/3/2008 • 44 minutes, 3 seconds
Abortion: The Innocent Blood of Our Sons and Daughters
John Piper | How is abortion similar to the child-sacrificing in the Old Testament?
1/27/2008 • 48 minutes, 3 seconds
Probability, Prejudice, and Christ
John Piper | What's the difference between necessary judgments of probability and sinful prejudice?
1/20/2008 • 50 minutes, 12 seconds
Born Again Through the Living and Abiding Word
The new birth does not give us a mere temporary resuscitation. It gives indestructible, imperishable life.
1/13/2008 • 49 minutes, 56 seconds
Receive with Meekness the Implanted Word
Our souls need Scripture just like our bodies need oxygen: moment by moment, every day. If we learn to live apart from it, we will surely die.
1/6/2008 • 46 minutes, 50 seconds
Pray Like This: ‘Hallowed Be Your Name’
When we pray, not only does God get more glory, but in his glorification, we get a fuller and lasting joy.
12/30/2007 • 54 minutes, 50 seconds
The Reason the Son of God Appeared Was to Destroy the Works of the Devil
If any human is to be saved from their sin and from the righteous wrath of God, the Son of God had to become human for our regeneration.
12/23/2007 • 45 minutes, 28 seconds
Free at Last: The Miracle of New Birth
Dead men need one thing before anything else can happen: They must be made alive. They must be born again.
12/16/2007 • 32 minutes, 58 seconds
A Pastor and His Poetry
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12/15/2007 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 25 seconds
Why Do We Need to Be Born Again?
If God did not make us alive to his grace and glory, we would remain dead — completely enslaved to our sins.
12/9/2007 • 42 minutes, 16 seconds
What Happens in the New Birth? Part 2
Being born again is not the improvement of your old nature, but the creation of a new one.
12/2/2007 • 38 minutes, 58 seconds
What Happens in the New Birth? Part 1
John Piper | In the new birth, God takes dead souls and resuscitates them to new life in Christ. This is not a work of our own, but the grace of God.
11/25/2007 • 45 minutes, 48 seconds
You Must Be Born Again
The new birth produces new desires and new behaviors. An unchanged life is not a born-again life.
11/18/2007 • 43 minutes, 49 seconds
Justification and the Diminishing Work of Christ
When the glory of Christ is partially obscured and the assurance of the soul is weakened, the costly, sacrificial labor of love is hindered.
11/14/2007 • 58 minutes, 20 seconds
Treasuring Christ in Planting Churches and Loving the Poor
Lessons from the Philippian church on planting churches and giving to the needy.
11/11/2007 • 42 minutes, 10 seconds
Sexual Complementarity
John Piper | The New Testament promotes male leadership in the church, Christian ministry, and the nobility of women.
11/10/2007 • 35 minutes, 23 seconds
Sexual Complementarity
John Piper | What does submission and its relational dynamics look like in the church, the home, and the workplace.
11/10/2007 • 59 minutes, 12 seconds
Sexual Complementarity
John Piper | There are distinctions between men’s and women’s roles in marriage worth exploring.
11/10/2007 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Sexual Complementarity
John Piper | What are the roles of men and women? And nine reasons why masculine leadership is a good thing.
11/9/2007 • 51 minutes, 19 seconds
Sexual Complementarity
John Piper | The significance and relevance of Biblical manhood and womanhood in the culture.
11/9/2007 • 49 minutes, 37 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together as a Church on Multiple Campuses
John Piper | We must strategize for church growth because we have a God who builds his church day by day and thousands at a time.
11/4/2007 • 46 minutes, 56 seconds
How to Love Your People: The Gladness of Your People and the Glory of God
If pastors are going to labor for the joy of their people, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:24, then they must first make it their priority to pursue their own joy in the Lord.
10/30/2007 • 0
Treasuring Christ Together Because He Is More Valuable Than All Else
Nothing is more important as a church grows than that its people help each other rejoice in Jesus.
10/28/2007 • 42 minutes, 39 seconds
‘I Am Sending You Out as Sheep in the Midst of Wolves’: The Cost and Blessing of Being a Christian Missionary
The costs of taking the gospel to the unreached is high, but the Lamb who is worthy to receive the reward of his suffering is infinitely greater.
10/21/2007 • 0
Some Sweet Blessings of Masculine Christianity
The church is blessed by strong, humble, Christ-like male leadership and the corresponding culture it breeds.
10/17/2007 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 40 seconds
The Pleasures of God, Part 1
John Piper | God has eternally enjoyed himself as Trinity and creates us to make his glory go on public display that we may be satisfied in him forever.
10/12/2007 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 32 seconds
Judas Iscariot, the Suicide of Satan, and the Salvation of the World
Every detail of the death of Christ happened according to the plan of God — even his betrayal and agonies.
10/7/2007 • 39 minutes, 43 seconds
Getting Old for the Glory of God
Getting old is about God's glory, not the American Dream
9/30/2007 • 0
The Sinful Origin of the Son of David
Israel’s bad kingship was a grievous sin. But God planned bad kings to pave the road for a spectacular Savior.
9/23/2007 • 45 minutes, 44 seconds
Encouraging Each Other at the End of the Age
God's command to us to meet with and encourage each other is for our happiness.
9/16/2007 • 44 minutes, 36 seconds
The Sale of Joseph and the Son of God
Injustice marks both Joseph’s story and Jesus’s, but even in dire circumstances, God is sovereignly working everything for our good and his glory.
9/9/2007 • 47 minutes, 48 seconds
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer
In the Christian life, joy sustains us in suffering, flavors our suffering, and is the goal of our suffering.
9/7/2007 • 35 minutes, 28 seconds
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, Q & A
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9/6/2007 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 12 seconds
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer
The world exists in its current suffering state because it best prepares the world for God’s plan of redemption, which is centered on displaying the worth of Christ through his death and resurrection.
9/6/2007 • 42 minutes, 57 seconds
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer
All suffering experienced of any kind, all suffering experienced in the path of faithful obedience to God is suffering with Christ and is suffering for Christ.
9/6/2007 • 31 minutes, 24 seconds
Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer
Suffering is an essential part of the Christian life, and through it we have a unique opportunity to show the preciousness of Christ.
9/5/2007 • 33 minutes, 41 seconds
The Pride of Babel and the Praise of Christ
The global glory of the gospel shines all the more beautifully when it filters through the prism of diversity.
9/2/2007 • 38 minutes, 45 seconds
Funeral Message for Luke Kenneth Anderson
The story of Lazarus serves as an anchor to those who have lost loved ones to suicide by showing the preciousness of Christ over life.
8/31/2007 • 21 minutes, 55 seconds
The Fatal Disobedience of Adam and the Triumphant Obedience of Christ
We are sinful by nature because of our father, Adam, but we can claim the righteousness of our Savior, Jesus.
8/26/2007 • 45 minutes
The Fall of Satan and the Victory of Christ
Satan and all his works are evil. But Jesus crushes Satan’s head and disarms him of his deathly power.
8/19/2007 • 44 minutes, 33 seconds
All Things Were Created Through Him and for Him
God will use everything — even the tragedies of our lives — to shine a bright light on the goodness and glory of Jesus Christ.
8/12/2007 • 44 minutes, 11 seconds
The Mercies of God and the Transformed Christian Mind
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7/29/2007 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 40 seconds
The Mercies of God and the Transformed Christian Mind
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7/28/2007 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 40 seconds
The Mercies of God and the Transformed Christian Mind
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7/28/2007 • 1 hour, 40 seconds
The Mercies of God and the Transformed Christian Mind
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7/28/2007 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 30 seconds
The Mercies of God and the Transformed Christian Mind
In order to understand how we display the mercy of God to others, we must first understand how God has displayed his mercy toward us.
7/27/2007 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 10 seconds
"I Will Build My Church"
Christ promises that he will build his church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
7/23/2007 • 14 minutes, 16 seconds
What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate, Part 2
John Piper answers four crucial questions people ask about divorce and remarriage.
7/1/2007 • 48 minutes, 9 seconds
What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate, Part 1
Jesus calls us to keep our marriage covenant in a way that tells the truth about him.
6/24/2007 • 44 minutes, 12 seconds
Why We Should Have Courage to Speak About Christ
Jesus gives us more than one reason why it is worth the risk to share the gospel.
6/18/2007 • 39 minutes, 30 seconds
Marriage Is Meant for Making Children . . . Disciples of Jesus, Part 2
Don’t provoke your children to anger. Show them in your own soul how it can be replaced with tenderhearted joy.
6/17/2007 • 49 minutes, 50 seconds
When Did God Become for Us?
John Piper | The moment that we put our trust in Christ, God began to work all things for our good. And only he can move us to pour out his forgiving love on others.
6/12/2007 • 43 minutes
Marriage Is Meant for Making Children . . . Disciples of Jesus, Part 1
Marriage is not just about filling the earth with warm bodies but filling the earth with worshipers of Jesus.
6/10/2007 • 40 minutes, 29 seconds
Discern What Pleases God
John Piper | The ultimate goal of God in everything he does is the glory and fame of his own name.
5/28/2007 • 49 minutes, 54 seconds
Discern What Pleases God—Personal Obedience
Not all of our obedience pleases God. If we try to earn our justification or even pay God back, we trample on the greatest achievements of the cross.
5/28/2007 • 53 minutes, 24 seconds
Do Not Sell the Gospel
We must not be peddlers of God’s word, motivated by greed and fear; rather, we must preach Jesus as the only soul-satisfying treasure and the only God-satisfying obedience.
5/28/2007 • 22 minutes, 26 seconds
Marriage, Singleness, and the Christian Virtue of Hospitality
John Piper | How can we live in a way that shows that the church is our family?
5/27/2007 • 42 minutes, 24 seconds
The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth
The triumph of the gospel in the new heavens and new earth consists in the hope that comes through God’s promise to raise his children with glorified bodies to inhabit a world fit for their fellowship and everlasting enjoyment of God.
5/24/2007 • 59 minutes, 57 seconds
Four Mistakes I Hope You Don't Make
John Piper | Four mistakes you should avoid making in life are: Bigger is better than smaller, newer is better than older, having is better than being, and visible is better than invisible.
5/13/2007 • 35 minutes, 14 seconds
Single in Christ: A Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
Family relationships are of great value, but the promises and blessings that come from Christ are of infinite value.
4/29/2007 • 37 minutes, 58 seconds
Why God Is Not a Megalomaniac: Encouragement for Pastors
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4/27/2007 • 59 minutes, 51 seconds
The Gospel for 11-Year-Olds Plus
John Piper | How can we explain the gospel to children so that they not only understand all that content, but also come to cherish the God of the gospel with us?
4/26/2007 • 59 minutes, 27 seconds
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 4
John Piper | Psalm 43 demonstrates that joy in God is the ultimate goal of our existence, and it details the steps a person can take when they feel distant from God.
4/22/2007 • 0
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 2
John Piper | The beauty and attraction of Jesus Christ isn’t just that he is meek or just that he is strong, but that he is meek in his strength and strong in his meekness.
4/21/2007 • 0
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 1
John Piper | Delighting in Christ is not simply a blessing that comes in time, but is the essence of saving faith itself. To enjoy Jesus is to know Jesus.
4/21/2007 • 0
The Nature of Saving Faith
John Piper | Salvation comes through faith not only by believing objective facts, but by experiencing Christ as supremely satisfying.
4/20/2007 • 57 minutes, 10 seconds
The Nature of Our Depravity
The essence of sin is preferring anything more than God. Only he is truly worthy, but in our depravity, we shun the life he offers.
4/19/2007 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 58 seconds
The Reason for Our Creation
John Piper | God’s ultimate goal is to uphold and display his glory for the maximum enjoyment of his redeemed church.
4/19/2007 • 56 minutes, 55 seconds
The Beautiful Faith of Fearless Submission
A Christian woman hopes in God, fears nothing, and wears the jewelry of godliness.
4/15/2007 • 47 minutes, 11 seconds
The Peculiar Mark of Majesty, Part 2
John Piper | We will reign with Christ and find our joy not in usurping God's majesty but in saying: “How majestic is your name in all the earth.”
4/8/2007 • 44 minutes, 12 seconds
What Everybody Knows Before the Gospel Comes
There is knowledge that is communicated to all through nature, and then there is knowledge that is only communicated in the gospel: “Everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins.”
4/5/2007 • 16 minutes, 41 seconds
Radical Effects of the Resurrection
Jesus calls his people to risk everything for him. But that temporary risk is nothing compared to all that God is and will be for us.
4/3/2007 • 55 minutes, 56 seconds
The Peculiar Mark of Majesty, Part 1
The glory of God is unique because of the lowly ways he chooses to show it.
4/1/2007 • 40 minutes, 11 seconds
We Work With You for Your Joy
The call of a gospel minister is to follow the apostolic ambition of being a worker for the joy of the church.
3/27/2007 • 0
Lionhearted and Lamblike
John Piper | Husbands should take the primary role in providing for and protecting their families.
3/25/2007 • 45 minutes
Lionhearted and Lamblike: The Christian Husband as Head, Part 1
What is the husband's role as head? What is the foundation of this headship?
3/18/2007 • 43 minutes, 29 seconds
The Challenge of Relativism
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3/16/2007 • 57 minutes, 43 seconds
Faith and Reason
Faith does not oppose reason, nor does reason oppose faith. We think over God-given truth in order to understand.
3/15/2007 • 1 hour, 43 seconds
Funeral Message for William S. H. Piper
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3/9/2007 • 36 minutes, 49 seconds
Marriage: Pursuing Conformity to Christ in the Covenant
Grace is not just forgiving and forbearing but also changing to become more like Jesus. John Piper preaches a sermon about marriage from Ephesians 5.
2/25/2007 • 50 minutes, 46 seconds
A Passion for God’s Supremacy and Compassion for Man’s Soul
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2/19/2007 • 1 hour, 3 minutes
God Is the Gospel
The greatest, most ultimate, decisive good in the gospel is God himself.
2/19/2007 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 21 seconds
Marriage: Forgiving and Forbearing
John Piper | Because we are chosen and holy and loved, we can find the grace to see our spouses the way Jesus does.
2/18/2007 • 54 minutes, 46 seconds
Marriage: God’s Showcase of Covenant-Keeping Grace
Because God has forgiven us in Christ, we ought to treat our spouses with the same grace that God gives us.
2/11/2007 • 49 minutes, 44 seconds
Adoption: The Heart of the Gospel
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2/10/2007 • 55 minutes, 44 seconds
Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Vision
Andrew Fuller shows us that getting Christian experience biblically right and getting the gospel biblically right are essential for the power and perseverance and fruitfulness of world missions.
2/6/2007 • 0
Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Vision
Andrew Fuller shows us that getting Christian experience biblically right and getting the gospel biblically right are essential for the power and perseverance and fruitfulness of world missions.
2/6/2007 • 0
Stripped in Shame, Clothed in Grace
With sin came shame and hostility in marriage. Only God’s Son can give comfort and restore peace in covenant-keeping love.
2/4/2007 • 42 minutes, 31 seconds
Staying Married Is Not About Staying in Love
John Piper | Marriage is about keeping a covenant — just like Jesus does with his bride, the church.
1/28/2007 • 40 minutes, 36 seconds
A Service of Remembrance for the Life of Larry Jens Christensen
The only way that God, the righteous judge, can award us with a crown of righteousness is that Christ took our sin on himself at the cross and gave us his righteousness.
1/22/2007 • 25 minutes, 38 seconds
When Is Abortion Racism?
White abortionists kill more black and Hispanic babies than they do white babies every year. Abortion is a racist institution.
1/21/2007 • 38 minutes, 10 seconds
Jesus Christ and the Fight for Life
There are several reasons why we must be engaged in the fight for life, and the various aspects of Christ’s work in redemption directly relate to the efforts of the pro-life cause.
1/19/2007 • 54 minutes, 52 seconds
The Spring of Persistent Public Love
Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of legal slave trading in Britain.
1/14/2007 • 49 minutes, 27 seconds
The Word of God Abides in You, and You Have Overcome the Evil One
Live in God's word and in prayer, and you will be strengthened to defeat the devil.
1/7/2007 • 50 minutes, 21 seconds
The Power to Risk in the Cause of Christ
God calls us to risk for the cause of Christ. But a risk is never truly a risk when God holds you in his hand.
1/4/2007 • 57 minutes, 22 seconds
How to Deal with the Guilt of Sexual Failure for the Glory of Christ and His Global Cause
Satan will certainly remind you of your sinful failures. But Christ has defeated both the devil and sin to give you a redeemed passion.
1/4/2007 • 46 minutes, 44 seconds
Ask Your Father in Heaven
God’s lavish invitations to ask him for good things, with the promise that he will give them, is unimaginably wonderful.
12/31/2006 • 41 minutes, 38 seconds
Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans
Jesus is worthy of praise because he is the eternal Son of God who became flesh and died our death that we might live. To God be glory through Jesus.
12/24/2006 • 32 minutes, 22 seconds
Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans
Jesus is worthy of praise because he is the eternal Son of God who became flesh and died our death that we might live. To God be glory through Jesus.
12/24/2006 • 32 minutes, 22 seconds
To Him Be Glory Forevermore
God’s glory shines throughout his word and in the world. To ignore it is to tragically miss the most beautiful and joyful reality in the universe.
12/17/2006 • 50 minutes, 6 seconds
The Great Work of the Only Wise God
God is infinitely able to know the best possible outcome of any situation and then achieve it.
12/10/2006 • 42 minutes, 28 seconds
Command of God: The Obedience of Faith
The greatest aim in this world is that Christ would be seen as glorious among all peoples by the means of Christian obedience flowing from faith.
12/3/2006 • 44 minutes, 7 seconds
God Strengthens Us by the Gospel
God uses his gospel to strengthen believers so that they will persevere in faith and draw all attention to his glory.
11/26/2006 • 44 minutes, 57 seconds
Thank God for an Inspired Bible
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11/19/2006 • 40 minutes, 57 seconds
How Does It Work Against Sin?
John Piper | Bitterness and impatience may seem like frightful enemies, but when we lay claim to Scripture’s promises, we can take seeming setbacks in faith that God himself is at work for our good.
11/18/2006 • 25 minutes, 39 seconds
How Does It Work Against Sin?
John Piper | If lust is left unchecked, it will choke the life from your soul. But God has given us great and precious promises that far surpass anything sexual pleasure has to offer.
11/18/2006 • 23 minutes, 57 seconds
How Does It Work Against Sin?
John Piper | Battling covetousness and greed isn’t just a matter of self-denial, but trusting God that he will be for you something infinitely greater than money or stuff.
11/18/2006 • 30 minutes, 53 seconds
How Does It Work Against Sin?
John Piper | When anxieties and struggles with sin inevitably rise up against us, the best strategy for fighting back is trusting believing specific promises of Scripture.
11/18/2006 • 37 minutes, 55 seconds
How Does It Work for Holiness?
John Piper | Looking forward to God’s promises of our future reward empowers us to faithfulness and sacrificial love here and now.
11/18/2006 • 24 minutes, 23 seconds
How Does It Work for Holiness?
John Piper | God’s eternal promises don’t just help us gain eternal perspective, but actually empowers us to walk in Spirit-led obedience today.
11/18/2006 • 26 minutes, 9 seconds
Is It Biblical?
John Piper | Gratitude can only take us so far in the Christian life. To keep pressing on in holiness, we need to hold onto God’s promises, and pursue them in faith.
11/17/2006 • 34 minutes, 56 seconds
Is It Biblical?
John Piper | Grace isn’t only God’s forgiving disposition to save us, but daily power for living, as we hope fully in all that he promises to be for us in Jesus Christ.
11/17/2006 • 23 minutes, 44 seconds
Foundational Passions
John Piper | Holiness isn’t optional in the Christian life. Salvation is ever by grace through faith, but genuine saving faith always works by love.
11/17/2006 • 23 minutes, 40 seconds
Foundational Passions
John Piper | Future grace isn’t a get-holy-quick scheme, but a biblical strategy for battling unbelief and progressing in holiness.
11/17/2006 • 26 minutes, 54 seconds
William Tyndale and the Vernacular Bible
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11/16/2006 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 10 seconds
The God of Peace Will Soon Crush Satan Under Your Feet
Satan gets one mention in the book of Romans just to remind us: he's doomed.
11/12/2006 • 41 minutes, 55 seconds
Watch Out for Those Who Lead You Away from the Truth
Watch out for smooth-talking pastors, no matter how popular, if they do not manifestly prize the whole counsel of God.
11/5/2006 • 40 minutes, 58 seconds
The Aroma of Christ Among the Nations
No one can bear the responsibility and weight of missions, but our sufficiency is from God.
10/29/2006 • 38 minutes, 24 seconds
Brothers — Feel, Think, Preach God (Part 3)
Our churches don’t need better productions and more entertainment. We need pastors and leaders who give themselves completely to exalting the supremacy of God in absolutely everything.
10/24/2006 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 9 seconds
Brothers — Feel, Think, Preach God (Part 2)
Pastoral ministry is a call to an intellectually robust life that thinks and meditates and ponders over God’s word and God’s world for the fame of Jesus’s name.
10/23/2006 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 20 seconds
Brothers — Feel, Think, Preach God (Part 1)
If a pastor doesn’t pursue his own joy in God, he compromises his ministry. To overflow with grace and love, the pastor’s heart must be centered on God himself.
10/22/2006 • 1 hour, 29 seconds
God Is the Gospel, Session 3
John Piper | All the benefits of the gospel come together in the highest good we can imagine: God brings us to joy in himself and keeps us forever safe in him.
10/21/2006 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 15 seconds
God Is the Gospel, Session 2
John Piper | The greatest gift of the gospel isn’t what God gives to us but who he is to us. Only when we receive him as our highest treasure will we truly know the beauty of all Jesus Christ has accomplished.
10/21/2006 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 20 seconds
God Is the Gospel, Session 1
John Piper | The greatest gift God can give us is himself. Without him, we have no cause for joy.
10/20/2006 • 1 hour, 28 seconds
Jesus Died to Bring You to God
John Piper | The best news in all the world is the gospel of Jesus Christ. And the sweetest prize of that gospel is the gift of God himself.
10/18/2006 • 59 minutes, 27 seconds
We Work With You for Your Joy
Pastors are called to be ministers of grace who work with their people for their joy in the faith.
10/14/2006 • 49 minutes, 1 second
Delighting in God as the Fountain of Love
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others; therefore, pursuing joy in God is not optional for the sake of genuine love.
10/13/2006 • 56 minutes, 32 seconds
Marriage Lived to the Glory of God
Love between husband and wife flourishes when you put God first. Only when you love God most will your life sync up with what God intends.
10/12/2006 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 54 seconds
Delighting in God for the Sake of His Supreme Glory
John Piper | God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the greatest act of love, and if we would truly reflect him, we must be satisfied in him above anything else.
10/12/2006 • 48 minutes, 22 seconds
Carry My Love to My Beloved
John Piper | Christians are precious to each other when they feel deeply what they have been saved from.
10/8/2006 • 42 minutes, 59 seconds
Carry My Love to My Beloved
Christians are precious to each other when they feel deeply what they have been saved from.
10/8/2006 • 42 minutes, 59 seconds
The Supremacy of Christ and Joy in a Postmodern World
Some believe doctrine is stuffy at best, divisive at worst. Some prefer an undefinable personal relationship to revealed truths as found in the Bible. But in doing so they are cutting of the main channel to Christ-exalting joy.
10/1/2006 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 20 seconds
Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk-Takers for Christ
What can we learn from how Paul sends his greetings?
9/24/2006 • 47 minutes, 43 seconds
Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk-Takers for Christ
What can we learn from how Paul sends his greetings?
9/24/2006 • 47 minutes, 43 seconds
Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ—Together
Christian fellowship cuts our burdens in half and doubles our joy.
9/17/2006 • 46 minutes, 48 seconds
Joy+Debt = A Two-Thousand-Mile Detour to Jerusalem
Why did Paul make another trip to Jerusalem when he expressly wanted to visit the saints in Rome?
9/10/2006 • 44 minutes, 46 seconds
Where I Am There Will My Servant Be: A Call to Treasure Christ Together
When Jesus died, he didn’t just die before us—as an example to copy—but for us—as a sacrifice to trust in.
9/3/2006 • 41 minutes, 43 seconds
Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
John Piper | God will not lead you down a pointless path, but to a holy ambition that meets great need for the glory of Jesus.
8/27/2006 • 34 minutes, 26 seconds
Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
God will not lead you down a pointless path, but to a holy ambition that meets great need for the glory of Jesus.
8/27/2006 • 34 minutes, 26 seconds
By Signs and Wonders: Where Christ Has Not Been Named
John Piper | In Paul's ministry, signs and wonders functioned to confirm the gospel. Should we be expecting the same miraculous confirmations of our witnessing today?
8/20/2006 • 48 minutes, 8 seconds
By Signs and Wonders: Where Christ Has Not Been Named
In Paul's ministry, signs and wonders functioned to confirm the gospel. Should we be expecting the same miraculous confirmations of our witnessing today?
8/20/2006 • 48 minutes, 8 seconds
Why and How We Celebrate the Lord's Supper
When we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we feast spiritually by faith on all the promises of God bought by the blood of Jesus.
8/13/2006 • 37 minutes, 52 seconds
This Man Went Down to His House Justified
Neither your good works nor the righteousness that Christ works in you will ever justify you before God. Jesus himself is your righteousness.
8/6/2006 • 39 minutes, 56 seconds
A Call for Courage in the Cause of Truth
John Piper | Christ gives us all we need to be courageous in the cause of speaking the truth.
6/14/2006 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 30 seconds
How a Dead Dog Loves a King
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5/28/2006 • 11 minutes, 40 seconds
Why Expositional Preaching Is Particularly Glorifying to God
Preaching is not conversation or discussion. It’s not casual talk about religious things. Preaching is heralding a message permeated by the sense of God’s greatness.
4/27/2006 • 57 minutes, 17 seconds
I Will Go to God, My Exceeding Joy
When you feel divided and distant from God, feed your soul the glorious truth of the gospel.
2/26/2006 • 41 minutes, 47 seconds
Let the One Who Boasts Boast in the Lord: Reflections on a People and Their Preacher
In all that you do, magnify Jesus. He’s the only one worth boasting about.
2/12/2006 • 40 minutes, 59 seconds
Reaching Out with the Gospel of God
Teaching the whole counsel of God is needed in our evangelism so that people will encounter Christ, have the correct categories in their minds, and know and savor the truth.
2/7/2006 • 46 minutes, 27 seconds
Reaching Out with the Gospel of God
Lostness is blindness to the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, and God grants us to share in the ministry of opening people’s eyes to deliver them from the power of Satan.
2/6/2006 • 51 minutes, 14 seconds
Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible: Why William Tyndale Lived and Died
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1/31/2006 • 0
Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible: Why William Tyndale Lived and Died
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1/31/2006 • 0
A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People
What is the pastor's calling? What does this mean for the rest of the church?
1/29/2006 • 39 minutes, 36 seconds
Love Your Unborn Neighbor
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1/22/2006 • 42 minutes, 25 seconds
Racial Diversity, Racial Harmony, and the Gospel Walk
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1/15/2006 • 43 minutes, 15 seconds
How God’s Word Produces Our Work
It is wonderfully energizing to settle in your heart and mind the truth that Christ is real.
1/8/2006 • 50 minutes, 27 seconds
How Our Suffering Glorifies the Greatness of the Grace of God
We can risk our lives for Jesus because he is all we need. We only lose when we embrace comfort over the cross.
1/4/2006 • 0
Prayer and the Victory of God
John Piper | God accomplishes his purposes through our prayers. He’s completely sovereign, but he has determined to use us.
1/1/2006 • 37 minutes, 44 seconds
The Child to Be Born Will Be Called Holy — the Son of God
Though the world in darkness lay, God entered into the universe this Christmas day. For sinners he came to save, and forevermore King Jesus will reign.
12/25/2005 • 43 minutes, 55 seconds
Word of Promise, Spirit of God, Hope of Man
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12/18/2005 • 33 minutes, 29 seconds
Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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12/11/2005 • 45 minutes, 35 seconds
Why Christ Became a Servant of the Jews
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12/4/2005 • 31 minutes
Welcome One Another to the Glory of God
Only God can give us the strength to truly love our neighbors well, and only God can empower us to glorify him as we ought.
11/27/2005 • 40 minutes, 15 seconds
The Kingdom of Heaven Is a Treasure
The kingdom of God is so valuable that losing everything on earth, but getting the kingdom, is a happy trade-off.
11/20/2005 • 39 minutes, 30 seconds
The Kingdom of God is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
The kingdom produces more than Christian liberty. It governs how you use your liberty too.
11/13/2005 • 42 minutes, 45 seconds
Do Not Destroy the Work of God
Faith is what really matters in Christian behavior, not just whether you accomplish certain things or abstain from others.
11/6/2005 • 41 minutes, 1 second
Where Is God?
John Piper | Spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things includes God’s supremacy in suffering and pain.
11/2/2005 • 59 minutes, 43 seconds
We Will All Stand Before the Judgment of God
Love your brother and help him get to heaven, instead of judging him and making it harder.
10/30/2005 • 48 minutes, 35 seconds
Gospel to the Nations, Generosity to the Poor
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10/23/2005 • 35 minutes, 56 seconds
The Suffering of Christ and the Sovereignty of God
Only the life and death of Jesus can explain pain and suffering. His affliction gives purpose to ours.
10/9/2005 • 43 minutes, 9 seconds
Ten Aspects of God’s Sovereignty over Suffering and Satan’s Hand in It
God is unquestionably sovereign over our suffering — even over Satan’s futile ploys to ruin God’s elect.
10/7/2005 • 54 minutes, 52 seconds
Is There a “Lord’s Day”?
Setting apart a day of rest testifies to a self-reliant world that our work does not save or define us, Christ does.
10/2/2005 • 38 minutes, 47 seconds
Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
There are a hundred things we can disagree on in which both convictions can be done to the glory of God.
9/25/2005 • 39 minutes, 28 seconds
Consider How to Stir Up One Another to Love
Don’t be a loner in the Christian life. God did not design it that way.
9/18/2005 • 46 minutes, 27 seconds
Where Is God? The Supremacy of Christ in an Age of Terror
John Piper | God does not answer all our questions, but he doesn’t leave us in the dark either. His deepest and loudest response to our pain is the suffering and death of his Son.
9/11/2005 • 36 minutes, 56 seconds
How to Welcome a Weak Brother
How can a church hold together when some of its members are so different from one another?
9/4/2005 • 41 minutes, 46 seconds
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part 2
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8/28/2005 • 50 minutes, 36 seconds
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 6)
John Piper | The fight of faith is really a fight for joy. Like any real battle, you shouldn’t enter the ring without strategies for victory.
8/20/2005 • 34 minutes, 55 seconds
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 5)
The fight of faith is really a fight for joy. Like any real battle, you shouldn’t enter the ring without strategies for victory.
8/20/2005 • 32 minutes, 28 seconds
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 4)
John Piper | The foundation for your acceptance with God is not you own works or accolades, but simply Jesus Christ’s blood and righteousness.
8/20/2005 • 25 minutes, 24 seconds
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 3)
The fight for faith is a fight for joy. But we can only press on because God enables us with his sufficient grace.
8/20/2005 • 38 minutes, 15 seconds
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 2)
If it’s true that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, then the fight to be happy in God is the most important thing in life.
8/19/2005 • 31 minutes, 2 seconds
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 1)
God does everything for his glory. Therefore, you don’t need health, wealth, or prosperity in order to be happy.
8/19/2005 • 30 minutes, 33 seconds
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part 1
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8/14/2005 • 44 minutes, 40 seconds
Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 3
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8/7/2005 • 47 minutes, 20 seconds
Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 2
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7/31/2005 • 48 minutes, 34 seconds
Love is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 1
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7/24/2005 • 46 minutes, 14 seconds
Open Their Eyes: Doing What Only God Can Do
The calling to open up the eyes of the blind must be carried out through the means of teaching the whole counsel of God.
7/19/2005 • 0
Open Their Eyes: Doing What Only God Can Do
The greatest news of the gospel is that it brings us to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ for our everlasting satisfaction.
7/18/2005 • 0
Submission to Civil Authority
John Piper: “Christians are not first citizens of any human nation but citizens of the kingdom of God.”
7/17/2005 • 50 minutes, 49 seconds
Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 3
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7/10/2005 • 42 minutes, 4 seconds
Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 2
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7/3/2005 • 46 minutes, 3 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together Above All Things
What is Bethlehem's strategy for spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things to all the world?
6/26/2005 • 52 minutes, 49 seconds
Fathers, Bring Them Up in the Discipline & Instruction of the Lord
Eleven precious truths taught and demonstrated to John Piper by his father.
6/19/2005 • 51 minutes, 21 seconds
Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 1
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6/12/2005 • 50 minutes, 38 seconds
Honoring the Biblical Call of Motherhood
Motherhood is the life-on-life transmission of a God-centered, Christ-treasuring worldview.
5/8/2005 • 39 minutes, 46 seconds
What Makes the Good News Good? Seeing the Glory of Christ
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5/1/2005 • 48 minutes, 10 seconds
Reflections on the Life and Thought of John Owen
John Piper | John Owen is worthy to be studied in his works and imitated in his life and faith.
4/21/2005 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 40 seconds
All Things Subject to the Risen Christ
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3/27/2005 • 42 minutes, 6 seconds
Christ Overcame Evil with Good—Do the Same
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3/20/2005 • 38 minutes, 41 seconds
When Is It Right to Repay Evil with Pain?
Does God ever intend for his justice—his right to punish wrong—to be shared with men?
3/13/2005 • 41 minutes, 17 seconds
When Is It Right to Repay Evil with Pain?
Does God ever intend for his justice—his right to punish wrong—to be shared with men?
3/13/2005 • 41 minutes, 17 seconds
The Present Effects of Trembling at the Wrath of God
John Piper | Believing that God is furious against sin produces a good fear that transforms everything in life.
3/6/2005 • 40 minutes, 16 seconds
God’s Wrath: “Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay,” Says the Lord
John Piper | God’s wrath is more horrifying than we can ever imagine, but he will pardon any who take refuge in the shelter Jesus provides.
2/27/2005 • 46 minutes, 36 seconds
Do Not Avenge Yourselves, but Give Place to Wrath
When we lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up and carry it out. No sin will go unpunished from the God who sees all.
2/20/2005 • 42 minutes, 32 seconds
Live Peaceably with All, If Possible
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2/13/2005 • 44 minutes, 42 seconds
Bless Those Who Persecute You
If you see and savor mercy in Christ, you will love being merciful.
2/6/2005 • 45 minutes, 14 seconds
Contending for Our All
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2/1/2005 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 5 seconds
Contending for Our All
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2/1/2005 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 5 seconds
Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ
Christ’s promise to meet all of our needs is what frees us from fear and greed and enables us to joyfully share with others.
1/30/2005 • 45 minutes, 16 seconds
Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ
Christ’s promise to meet all of our needs is what frees us from fear and greed and enables us to joyfully share with others.
1/30/2005 • 45 minutes, 16 seconds
Abortion, Race, Gender, and Christ
John Piper | Millions of abortions are the outworking of racism and sexism. Let us find another way to freedom and equality than killing the babies.
1/23/2005 • 41 minutes, 15 seconds
Racial Harmony and Interracial Marriage
Interracial marriage is not only permitted by God; it is a positive good. It is not just to be tolerated, but celebrated.
1/16/2005 • 43 minutes, 31 seconds
Boiling for Christ
When it comes to serving Christ, half-heartedness, lukewarmness, laziness, sluggishness, and slothfulness are utterly inappropriate.
1/9/2005 • 40 minutes, 47 seconds
Use the Inspired Scriptures to Rejoice in Hope
If we give ourselves daily to the word of God, our hope and joy will be made unshakably strong — even in suffering.
1/2/2005 • 43 minutes, 51 seconds
Be Constant in Prayer for the Joy of Hope
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12/26/2004 • 38 minutes, 52 seconds
Happy in Hope, Patient in Pain, Constant in Prayer
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12/19/2004 • 43 minutes
Love One Another with Brotherly Affection
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12/12/2004 • 43 minutes, 31 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together: The Vision and Its Cost
John Piper | Beware of fearing a high price more than the possibility that God could be displeased that you didn't aim at something greater.
12/5/2004 • 31 minutes, 10 seconds
Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good
There is such a thing as objective good and evil outside ourselves.
11/28/2004 • 40 minutes, 31 seconds
Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good
There is such a thing as objective good and evil outside ourselves.
11/28/2004 • 40 minutes, 31 seconds
Let Love Be Genuine
You can be a liberal hypocrite, and you can be fundamentalist hypocrite. But love is not that way.
11/21/2004 • 42 minutes, 30 seconds
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 3
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11/14/2004 • 42 minutes, 53 seconds
The Whole Glory of the Gospel of God
All the glorious benefits of the gospel, such as forgiveness of sins, eternal life, and triumph over the powers of darkness, are not the highest good of the gospel but a means to enjoying God himself.
11/10/2004 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 49 seconds
The Whole Glory of Christ
The cross must never receive its meaning from the whims of culture, but must be preached in all of its Godwardness, horror, saving power, and effectiveness for those who believe.
11/9/2004 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 33 seconds
The Whole Glory of God
Satisfaction in God is the vital link between biblical doctrine and a life of sacrificial love, and in order to maintain such joy, the doctrine of God’s sovereignty must be upheld in the face of error.
11/9/2004 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 18 seconds
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 2
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11/7/2004 • 38 minutes, 49 seconds
The Unfathomable Riches of Christ for All Peoples, Above All Powers, Through the Church
God uses ordinary brushes to paint the world with the brilliant colors of his saving glory.
10/24/2004 • 38 minutes, 13 seconds
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 1
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10/10/2004 • 45 minutes, 5 seconds
Doing Mercy to the Brothers of Jesus and the Broken Neighbor
If we are true Christians we will want to show mercy to suffering people.
10/3/2004 • 44 minutes, 13 seconds
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 2
Seeing and savoring the supremacy of God in Christ gives us the power to suffer for the sake of love, and the power to strive for the sake of purity.
9/26/2004 • 0
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 1
God designed our sexuality so that we might know him more. He means to guard our sex from being perverted.
9/24/2004 • 48 minutes, 58 seconds
We, Though Many, Are One Body in Christ
Our true individuality is found only in relationship to the body of Christ.
9/19/2004 • 37 minutes, 5 seconds
Faith: the Root and Trait of All Spiritual Gifts
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9/12/2004 • 40 minutes, 58 seconds
Assessing Ourselves with Our God-Assigned Measure of Faith, Part 2
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9/5/2004 • 45 minutes, 2 seconds
Assessing Ourselves With Our God-Assigned Measure of Faith, Part 1
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8/29/2004 • 45 minutes, 24 seconds
What Is the Will of God and How Do We Know It?
God wills all things. But that does not mean he wants all things in the same way.
8/22/2004 • 46 minutes, 10 seconds
The Renewed Mind and How to Have It
John Piper | Any effort to renew our minds must follow the Holy Spirit’s initiatives and enabling. The renewal of our minds is first and decisively his work — not ours.
8/15/2004 • 41 minutes, 35 seconds
The Renewed Mind and How to Have It
Any effort to renew our minds must follow the Holy Spirit’s initiatives and enabling. The renewal of our minds is first and decisively his work — not ours.
8/15/2004 • 41 minutes, 35 seconds
Discerning the Will of God Concerning Homosexuality and Marriage
What is wrong with homosexual marriage? Is it possible to believe this and still love homosexual people?
8/8/2004 • 52 minutes, 47 seconds
God's Word Has Not Fallen
John Piper | We may not always understand how God is at work throughout history, but we can trust that he is producing maximum mercy for his people and global glory for himself in everything he does.
8/1/2004 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 29 seconds
God's Word Has Not Fallen, Q & A
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7/31/2004 • 59 minutes, 30 seconds
God's Word Has Not Fallen
John Piper | The Bible makes clear that God has mercy on whom he will have mercy. He decisively opens hearts — and God he still uses missions and evangelism to spread the good news of Jesus Christ.
7/31/2004 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 3 seconds
God's Word Has Not Fallen
John Piper | God’s unconditional election is a precious doctrine to for all his people. Nothing can override God’s love when he sets his sights on you.
7/31/2004 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 55 seconds
God's Word Has Not Fallen
John Piper | Romans 9–11 confronts us with the all-pervasive sovereignty of God, especially in our own salvation. We all depend utterly and completely on God’s mercy for life.
7/30/2004 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 15 seconds
Do Not Be Conformed to This World: The Indigenous and Pilgrim Principle of Christian Living
Jesus’s people are in the world, but not of the world. We work for the good of our temporary homes while we always long for more.
6/27/2004 • 45 minutes, 13 seconds
Predestined for Adoption to the Praise of His Glory
We must understand and enjoy our own adoption before we can properly grasp what it means to adopt another.
6/20/2004 • 43 minutes, 29 seconds
Present Your Bodies As a Living Sacrifice to God
John Piper | God gave us bodies to make his glory more visible. The aim of showing mercy is showing God.
6/13/2004 • 45 minutes, 20 seconds
Present Your Bodies As a Living Sacrifice to God
God gave us bodies to make his glory more visible. The aim of showing mercy is showing God.
6/13/2004 • 45 minutes, 20 seconds
Build Your Life on the Mercies of God
The mercies of God ground our life in Christ. Because he’s immeasurably gracious, we have endless riches forever in him.
6/6/2004 • 37 minutes, 33 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together: The North Campus Expansion, Part 2
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4/25/2004 • 45 minutes, 38 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together: North Campus Expansion, Part 1
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4/18/2004 • 44 minutes, 45 seconds
When I Am Raised Up, I Will Go Before You To Galilee
He is risen! Trust him today. By his mercy he can forgive your sins. And by his sovereignty he can turn all things for your good.
4/11/2004 • 39 minutes, 33 seconds
Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom, Past and Future
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4/4/2004 • 40 minutes, 41 seconds
From God, to God, Through God
John Piper | Do you love the thought that you exist to make God look good? If not, you may be committing spiritual suicide.
3/28/2004 • 38 minutes, 4 seconds
The Deep Riches and Wisdom and Knowledge of God
Nothing and no one compares to the greatness and grandeur of our God.
3/21/2004 • 39 minutes, 50 seconds
God’s Design for History: The Glory of His Mercy
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3/14/2004 • 44 minutes, 37 seconds
Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East
What does Scripture say about the Promised Land and Israel's rights to it today?
3/7/2004 • 41 minutes, 23 seconds
All Israel Will Be Saved
Let us give ourselves to prayer and to the great work of gathering the fullness of the Gentiles, if by any means we might make Israel jealous of her treasures in Christ so that they believe and be saved.
2/29/2004 • 40 minutes, 43 seconds
Look at the Kindness and the Severity of God
God’s fury at sin reminds us of the great pardon we don’t deserve. Gaze at his goodness with gratitude.
2/22/2004 • 44 minutes, 49 seconds
Use Means, but Trust in God
All our labors flow from the strength God himself supplies. And whatever we do through him channels glory back to him.
2/17/2004 • 0
Defending the Faith in the Public Arena
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2/17/2004 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 25 seconds
Continue in the Kindness of God
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2/15/2004 • 39 minutes, 15 seconds
Stand Fast Through Faith
God saves us not on the basis of our ethnicity or socioeconomic status, but by his grace alone.
2/8/2004 • 41 minutes, 26 seconds
George Mueller's Strategy for Showing God: Simplicity of Faith, Sacred Scripture, and Satisfaction in God
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2/3/2004 • 0
George Mueller's Strategy for Showing God: Simplicity of Faith, Sacred Scripture, and Satisfaction in God
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2/3/2004 • 0
The (Jewish) Root Supports You through Your Faith Alone
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2/1/2004 • 39 minutes, 20 seconds
Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
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1/25/2004 • 46 minutes, 49 seconds
The Peril of Partiality
Showing partiality toward others, either because of their race or their riches, reveals a lack of trust in Jesus.
1/18/2004 • 44 minutes, 32 seconds
All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God and Profitable
John Piper | Thoughts on Bible translations and loving the Word of God.
1/4/2004 • 44 minutes, 4 seconds
Don’t Waste Your Life
If you live to minimize your suffering and maximize your comfort, you’ll miss the point of this life: to magnify the great worth of Jesus.
12/29/2003 • 42 minutes, 44 seconds
Let Your Requests Be Made Known to God
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12/28/2003 • 45 minutes, 45 seconds
From Little Bethlehem Will Come a Ruler in Israel
Our deepest need is peace with God, and our greatest enemy is sin. God answers both in the Christmas miracle of his Incarnate Son.
12/21/2003 • 41 minutes, 33 seconds
If the Root Is Holy, the Branches Are Holy
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12/14/2003 • 44 minutes, 55 seconds
Did Israel Stumble in Order That They Might Fall?
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12/7/2003 • 32 minutes, 42 seconds
Pastoral Thoughts on the Doctrine of Election
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11/30/2003 • 38 minutes, 24 seconds
The Elect Obtained It But the Rest Were Hardened
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11/23/2003 • 44 minutes, 24 seconds
For God's Sake, Let Grace Be Grace!
No one's obstinance can stop them from being saved, because God can remove the hardness.
11/16/2003 • 37 minutes, 42 seconds
Has God Rejected His People? Part 2
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11/9/2003 • 36 minutes, 23 seconds
Has God Rejected His People? Part 1
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11/2/2003 • 0
Everlasting Truth for the Joy of All Peoples
John Piper | Jesus Christ is building his church around the world with missionaries.
10/26/2003 • 43 minutes, 30 seconds
A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God
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10/12/2003 • 52 minutes, 13 seconds
A God-Entranced Vision of All Things: Why We Need Jonathan Edwards 300 Years Later
In our increasingly God-ignoring world, Edwards' voice calls us to behold the glory of the Alpha and the Omega.
10/10/2003 • 57 minutes, 14 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together, Part 4
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10/5/2003 • 42 minutes, 36 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together, Part 3
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9/28/2003 • 44 minutes, 15 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together, Part 2
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9/14/2003 • 44 minutes, 36 seconds
Treasuring Christ Together, Part 1
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9/7/2003 • 52 minutes, 44 seconds
How Shall People Be Saved? Part 2
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8/31/2003 • 43 minutes, 56 seconds
Why We Eat the Lord's Supper, Part 3
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8/24/2003 • 44 minutes, 33 seconds
Why We Eat the Lord's Supper, Part 2
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8/10/2003 • 47 minutes, 45 seconds
Why We Eat the Lord's Supper, Part 1
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8/3/2003 • 43 minutes, 6 seconds
Sweet Sorrow: The Happy Root of Holy Living
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7/2/2003 • 55 minutes, 24 seconds
The Goodness and the Groaning of Growth
John Piper | Churches move forward by grace in the midst of great inadequacy.
6/8/2003 • 52 minutes, 19 seconds
How Shall People Be Saved? Part 1
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6/1/2003 • 42 minutes, 43 seconds
A Generation Passionate for God’s Holiness
When we catch a vision for the incomparable holiness of God, we can’t help but desire to live for and spread his fame.
5/26/2003 • 32 minutes, 51 seconds
The Word of Faith that We Proclaim, Part 2
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5/25/2003 • 45 minutes, 7 seconds
The Word of Faith that We Proclaim, Part 1
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5/18/2003 • 46 minutes, 12 seconds
How to Submit to the Righteousness of God
Are we teaching the Scriptures to make our children wise unto salvation through
faith in Jesus Christ?
5/11/2003 • 42 minutes, 14 seconds
The Gentiles Have Obtained Righteousness by Faith
The law teaches two things about obtaining salvation.
5/4/2003 • 29 minutes, 43 seconds
The Gentiles Are Included
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4/27/2003 • 44 minutes, 21 seconds
The Quest for Joy
You were made for indestructible joy, but you won’t find it in yourself or in anything this world has to offer.
4/20/2003 • 31 minutes, 30 seconds
Palm Sunday Tears of Sovereign Mercy
Consider how Jesus has been merciful to you, and then be like him.
4/13/2003 • 42 minutes, 27 seconds
Don’t Be Anxious, Your Heavenly Father Cares
You don’t have to be anxious. Your heavenly Father will provide for all of your needs.
3/9/2003 • 45 minutes, 40 seconds
Don’t Be Anxious, Lay Up Treasure in Heaven
Our treasures on earth will fade — and fast. Our only permanent treasure lies in heaven.
3/2/2003 • 42 minutes, 23 seconds
God’s Ultimate Purpose: Vessels of Mercy Knowing the Riches of His Glory
Heaven is where old glories ripen in memory and the thrill of new glories breaks upon us every day.
2/23/2003 • 45 minutes, 18 seconds
How God Makes Known the Riches of His Glory to the Vessels of Mercy
God freely and sovereignly acts to display his glory in all things. Who are we to question him?
2/16/2003 • 37 minutes, 26 seconds
The Hardening of Pharaoh and the Hope of the World
No one tells God what to do. He is self-determining and does what he righteously and freely pleases.
2/9/2003 • 42 minutes, 19 seconds
How Few There Are Who Die So Hard!
Judson was America's first foreign missionary and an example of one who considered and executed his own uniquely strategic role in completing the Great Commission.
2/4/2003 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 1 second
The Fame of His Name and the Freedom of Mercy
God chooses who will believe and
undeservingly be saved, and who will rebel and deservingly
perish.
2/2/2003 • 36 minutes, 58 seconds
The Fame of His Name and the Freedom of Mercy
God chooses who will believe and
undeservingly be saved, and who will rebel and deservingly
perish.
2/2/2003 • 36 minutes, 58 seconds
The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth
John Piper | Five suggestions for how to respond as salt and light to the sin of abortion.
1/26/2003 • 45 minutes, 56 seconds
The Reformed Faith and Racial Harmony
Where racial harmony
doesn’t flourish, the cross of Christ is dishonored and the
sovereignty of God is obscured.
1/19/2003 • 45 minutes, 38 seconds
The Freedom and Justice of God in Unconditional Election
The nature of being God means that he has absolute free will. He has mercy on whom he will have mercy according to his sovereign choice.
1/12/2003 • 44 minutes, 57 seconds
How to Receive the Word of Man as the Word of God
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1/5/2003 • 53 minutes, 1 second
Be Devoted to Prayer
The Christian life is one of prayer. Without it, we’ll wither away, but with it, we’ll flourish like a tree beside water.
12/29/2002 • 45 minutes, 1 second
God's Word Stands: Christ Came to Confirm It
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12/22/2002 • 41 minutes, 10 seconds
Unconditional Election and the Invincible Purpose of God
We exist to know and enjoy and praise and display the invincible glory of God’s free and sovereign grace.
12/15/2002 • 35 minutes, 53 seconds
God's Word Stands
God’s election of the
children of promise is what guarantees that his word never fails.
12/8/2002 • 38 minutes, 29 seconds
God’s Word Stands: Not All Israel Is Israel, Part 1
A child of promise is an heir of God’s saving grace, not because of ethnic origin or physical birth, but because of God’s sovereign word.
12/1/2002 • 31 minutes, 32 seconds
Thank God for Famous Faith
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11/24/2002 • 41 minutes, 5 seconds
How Great Is the Honor of Israel?
Recognizing Israel's privileges only underlines the tragedy that so many Jews are accursed and cut off from Christ because of unbelief.
11/17/2002 • 46 minutes, 26 seconds
My Anguish: My Kinsmen Are Accursed
Don’t think that God's sovereignty nullifies the need to pray for a sinner's salvation. Rather, see it as the ground for praying with hope.
11/10/2002 • 40 minutes, 46 seconds
Imparting a Passion: A Challenge to Youth Workers
Only leaders who burn with bright passion for Jesus and his word can ignite the same flame in their people.
11/8/2002 • 44 minutes, 49 seconds
The Absolute Sovereignty of God: What Is Romans Nine About?
God’s unimpeachable sovereignty grounds our salvation. He has mercy on whom he will have mercy.
11/3/2002 • 37 minutes, 52 seconds
The Radical Cost of Following Jesus
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10/27/2002 • 0
This Is the Will of God for You: That You Abstain from Sexual Immorality
Knowing God is the path to sexual purity. If you’re struggling with sexual sin, the immediate and long-term strategy is to know God better.
10/13/2002 • 44 minutes, 39 seconds
Bethlehem, Break Forth Like the Dawn
John Piper | The
people of Christ should not be known primarily for what we
don’t do, but for what we do do.
10/6/2002 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
Breaking Nets, Sinking Boats and Saving Men
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9/29/2002 • 40 minutes, 39 seconds
The Mighty and Merciful Message of Romans 1–8
Only the mighty and merciful power of the gospel can break the forces that bind suffering souls in darkness.
9/22/2002 • 40 minutes, 9 seconds
Inseparable from God While "Going Without Going"
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9/15/2002 • 38 minutes, 40 seconds
Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of Christ
Nothing — not hunger, not debt, not abuse, not death — can separate you from the love of Christ. These ten insights will show you why.
9/8/2002 • 37 minutes, 35 seconds
The All-Conquering Love of Christ
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9/1/2002 • 42 minutes, 13 seconds
The All-Conquering Love of Christ
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9/1/2002 • 42 minutes, 13 seconds
It Is God Who Justifies!
God is the one who justifies, so let us fear the accusation of no one and love the good of all.
8/25/2002 • 41 minutes, 38 seconds
God Did Not Spare His Own Son
If God did the impossible thing — deliver his Son over to death — then he will surely do the easy thing: freely give us all that Christ bought for us.
8/18/2002 • 41 minutes, 48 seconds
Glorification: Conformed to Christ for the Supremacy of Christ
God's work to save and sanctify you is not so that you can enjoy yourself more. It's so that you might be free and fit to
enjoy Christ forever.
8/11/2002 • 42 minutes, 34 seconds
Foreknown, Predestined, Conformed to Christ
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8/4/2002 • 34 minutes, 23 seconds
All Things for Good, Part 3
God takes the initiative to cause a person to love him, and he takes the initiative to keep them to the end.
6/23/2002 • 43 minutes, 49 seconds
All Things for Good, Part 3
God takes the initiative to cause a person to love him, and he takes the initiative to keep them to the end.
6/23/2002 • 43 minutes, 49 seconds
All Things for Good, Part 2
If all things work for my good, then I will never be ultimately defeated in the cause of Christ.
6/16/2002 • 32 minutes, 11 seconds
All Things for Good, Part 2
If all things work for my good, then I will never be ultimately defeated in the cause of Christ.
6/16/2002 • 32 minutes, 11 seconds
All Things for Good, Part 1
Whatever comes our way, we can rest assured that God will only give us good through it.
6/9/2002 • 39 minutes, 55 seconds
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness, Part 2
How does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
6/2/2002 • 29 minutes, 54 seconds
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness, Part 1
What does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
5/26/2002 • 46 minutes, 3 seconds
Education for Exultation
John Piper | Education and knowledge should cause us to rejoice in God. If not, then they aren't fulfilling their purpose.
5/19/2002 • 33 minutes, 17 seconds
Subjected to Futility in Hope, Part 2
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5/5/2002 • 42 minutes, 26 seconds
Subjected to Futility in Hope, Part 1
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4/28/2002 • 38 minutes, 10 seconds
Subjected to Futility in Hope, Part 1
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4/28/2002 • 38 minutes, 10 seconds
Children, Heirs, and Fellow Sufferers
Suffering is a great mercy that keeps us from loving this world more than we should.
4/21/2002 • 41 minutes, 57 seconds
The Spirit-Led Are the Sons of God
The Holy Spirit testifies that we are children of
God by creating affections for him within us.
4/14/2002 • 42 minutes, 54 seconds
Kill Sin with the Word of God
The sword of the Spirit is our weapon of choice in the war against sin.
4/7/2002 • 42 minutes, 28 seconds
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
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4/3/2002 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 30 seconds
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
John Piper | Listen Now
4/2/2002 • 1 hour, 1 minute
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
John Piper | Listen Now
4/2/2002 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 50 seconds
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
John Piper | Listen Now
4/1/2002 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 30 seconds
The Risen Christ: Satisfied with His Suffering
Jesus' delight in dying and rising was to enable others to rise from the dead and enjoy his majesty forever.
3/31/2002 • 34 minutes, 6 seconds
Jesus Declares His Kingship
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3/24/2002 • 34 minutes, 17 seconds
Kill Sin by the Spirit
We will die if we are not killing sin, and we won’t be killing sin if we are not living by the Spirit.
2/17/2002 • 45 minutes, 43 seconds
Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals, and the Political Welfare
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2/5/2002 • 0
Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals, and the Political Welfare
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2/5/2002 • 0
The Sovereignty of God and the Soul Dynamic: Why This Topic?
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2/4/2002 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 12 seconds
How to Kill Sin
Our fight against sin does not earn our way to God, but it evidences that we belong to God’s army.
2/3/2002 • 37 minutes, 32 seconds
"Father, Forgive, For We Know What We Are Doing"
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1/27/2002 • 40 minutes, 8 seconds
Jesus Is the End of Ethnocentrism
With Jesus came a radically new way of defining the people of God: all who have faith in the Messiah.
1/20/2002 • 45 minutes, 34 seconds
Planting a Passion for God: A Dream for Bethlehem in 2002
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1/13/2002 • 46 minutes, 5 seconds
Hold Fast to the Word and Pray for Us
Prayer and meditation are
as inseparable in the Christian life as the Spirit and the Word of God.
12/30/2001 • 45 minutes, 5 seconds
The Word Was Made Flesh
Christians must know Jesus well so that they can discern between the Christ of Scripture and the Christ that other religions claim to honor.
12/23/2001 • 45 minutes, 19 seconds
Christian, Know Whose You Are
What are the essential distinctions between true Christians and non-Christians?
12/16/2001 • 34 minutes, 29 seconds
What Does It Mean to Fulfill the Law in Romans 8:3–4?
Jesus’s perfect righteousness is yours through faith. He obeyed perfectly so that the Father could welcome you wholly.
12/9/2001 • 31 minutes
Why and How We Walk According to the Spirit
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12/2/2001 • 23 minutes, 38 seconds
How to Use the Law Lawfully to Bear Fruit for God
Meditate on the law in order to know the
justice and mercy of God in Christ, your righteousness and your
life.
11/25/2001 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds
Thankful for the Love of God
If you got everything you ever wanted but didn’t have Jesus, would you still be satisfied?
11/18/2001 • 39 minutes, 55 seconds
How the Spirit Does What the Law Could Not Do
The law can't overcome your rebellion and make you a loving
person. But the Spirit can.
11/11/2001 • 45 minutes, 55 seconds
What the Law Could Not Do, God Did Sending Christ, Part 2
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11/4/2001 • 26 minutes, 38 seconds
"I Will Build My Church" -- From All Peoples
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10/28/2001 • 45 minutes
What the Law Could Not Do, God Did Sending Christ, Part 1
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10/14/2001 • 36 minutes, 28 seconds
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 6
We all know that Jesus Christ has great love for his people. But what we sometimes miss is that the highest expression of his love leads us to the glory of God, even when the path runs through suffering.
10/9/2001 • 59 minutes
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 5 (Q & A)
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10/9/2001 • 47 minutes, 40 seconds
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 4
Fruitful ministry doesn’t just produce right knowledge of God, but right feeling for him too. The depth of our theology should be matched by the heights of our affections.
10/9/2001 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 40 seconds
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 3 (Q & A)
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10/9/2001 • 47 minutes, 40 seconds
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 2
We have countless reasons to fear speaking up for Jesus every single day. But our Lord himself gave us even better reasons to take courage and live for him.
10/9/2001 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 40 seconds
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 1
God does everything, including every step of redemptive history, for his own glory. And that’s good news for sinners who find refuge in his Son.
10/8/2001 • 56 minutes, 20 seconds
Set Free by the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus
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10/7/2001 • 31 minutes, 17 seconds
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, Part 2
If you are in Christ, all of God's action toward you is almighty mercy and omnipotent assistance.
9/30/2001 • 41 minutes, 23 seconds
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, One Body in Christ
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9/23/2001 • 42 minutes, 59 seconds
A Service of Sorrow, Self-Humbling, and Steady Hope in Our Savior and King, Jesus Christ
John Piper | The sovereignty of God over all persons and events guarantees that what Jesus Christ bought for us by his own blood will infallibly become our inheritance.
9/16/2001 • 31 minutes, 25 seconds
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus
The essence of Christianity is this: there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
9/9/2001 • 40 minutes, 36 seconds
The Greatest Thing in the World
The greatest thing in the world is to know God apart from his wrath by the grace that Jesus purchased on the cross.
9/2/2001 • 38 minutes, 14 seconds
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 6
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8/26/2001 • 43 minutes, 18 seconds
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 5
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8/19/2001 • 39 minutes, 44 seconds
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 4
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8/12/2001 • 37 minutes, 4 seconds
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 3
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6/24/2001 • 44 minutes, 26 seconds
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 3
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6/24/2001 • 44 minutes, 26 seconds
How Do You Keep On Going?
John Piper | We could never repay the debt we owe God for his grace. But we can honor him by asking for more.
6/17/2001 • 37 minutes, 54 seconds
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 2
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6/3/2001 • 36 minutes, 20 seconds
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 1
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5/27/2001 • 34 minutes, 26 seconds
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
I invite you to join me in this serious quest for well-founded, everlasting, love-producing joy in Jesus Christ.
5/20/2001 • 43 minutes, 2 seconds
To Be a Mother Is a Call to Suffer
Motherhood requires a unique kind of suffering that only a firm hope in God’s sovereignty can sustain.
5/13/2001 • 39 minutes, 22 seconds
The Deadly Team of Sin and Law
Sin fools us in two ways: it makes us hopeless of ever being righteous or it persuades us that we can do it on our own.
5/6/2001 • 28 minutes, 42 seconds
Jesus Christ and the Law of God
The goal of studying the Bible is primarily to see and know Jesus Christ.
4/29/2001 • 40 minutes, 58 seconds
Jesus Christ and the Law of God
The goal of studying the Bible is primarily to see and know Jesus Christ.
4/29/2001 • 40 minutes, 58 seconds
Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
Christ is alive and able to persuade you
that he is true and the greatest treasure in the universe.
4/15/2001 • 34 minutes, 2 seconds
Undoing the Destruction of Pleasure
John Piper | We will not understand the human longing for happiness until we understand the God who can fulfill it.
4/10/2001 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 56 seconds
How We Come to Know Sin
The law teaches us that it is God's desires, not our own, that are the measure of right
and wrong.
4/8/2001 • 40 minutes, 44 seconds
Racial Harmony and the Gospel
John Piper | If you have prejudice and enmity against others, your relationship to God is questionable.
4/4/2001 • 49 minutes, 7 seconds
The Importance of Knowing Our Sin
You don't have to give in to temptation in order to know your sin.
4/1/2001 • 44 minutes, 11 seconds
Live to Die: A Leader Who Suffers Well
God has ordained that we will see many troubles in this life. The saints must suffer to show Jesus as supreme.
3/8/2001 • 49 minutes, 35 seconds
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 4
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2/25/2001 • 46 minutes, 13 seconds
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 4
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2/25/2001 • 46 minutes, 13 seconds
Suffering: The Path and the Price of World Evangelization
The good news of the gospel will indeed make its way to all nations, but it won’t happen without God’s people taking up their crosses and following the Lord Jesus Christ into hard places.
2/22/2001 • 42 minutes, 9 seconds
Preaching: Zeal That Accords with Knowledge
John Piper | We can have zeal and still be condemned. Pursue a passion for God that accepts his righteousness alone for salvation.
2/21/2001 • 55 minutes, 30 seconds
Prayer: Pursuing Peoples When Life Is War and God Is Sovereign
John Piper | One who believes that life is war, that God is sovereign, and that the victory is assured will pray to the Lord day and night.
2/21/2001 • 58 minutes, 49 seconds
Worship: Sharing God's Passion for His Global Glory
What fuels world missions isn’t merely a commitment to the task itself, but a passion for the supremacy of God among all peoples.
2/20/2001 • 48 minutes, 41 seconds
Preaching: With Confidence That It Belongs in Worship
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2/20/2001 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 33 seconds
The Ethics of Interracial Marriage
John Piper | John Piper responds to five prominent arguments that use the Bible to reject interracial marriage.
2/14/2001 • 47 minutes, 26 seconds
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 3
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2/11/2001 • 46 minutes, 26 seconds
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 3
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2/11/2001 • 46 minutes, 26 seconds
The Meaning and Significance of Race
John Piper | Does the biological triviality of the differences between races mean that race is theologically and socially insignificant?
2/7/2001 • 47 minutes, 51 seconds
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 2
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2/4/2001 • 39 minutes, 47 seconds
John Newton: The Tough Roots of His Habitual Tenderness
One of the deepest roots of Newton’s habitual tenderness was that he could not get over the wonder of his own rescue by sheer, triumphant grace.
1/30/2001 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 46 seconds
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 1
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1/28/2001 • 43 minutes, 1 second
God at Work in Every Womb
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1/21/2001 • 43 minutes, 3 seconds
The Meaning and Significance of Race
John Piper | Race is significant because one God created all of humanity through one man and redeems humanity through one man, and race is insignificant in terms of the releatively small differences that separate us.
1/17/2001 • 40 minutes, 6 seconds
God’s Pursuit of Racial Diversity at Infinite Cost
The cost of racial reconciliation and unity came not at the blood of any man, but of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
1/14/2001 • 39 minutes, 48 seconds
Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 2
What does it mean to pray in the Holy Spirit? And how do we pursue God through such prayer?
1/7/2001 • 46 minutes, 20 seconds
Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 1
One essential way to keep yourself in the love of God is by praying to him through the power of the Holy Spirit.
12/31/2000 • 37 minutes, 4 seconds
The Need for Christian Courage
John Piper | The Bible warns us about our truth-ignoring culture. But it also gives us the courage season our speech with Christ day after day.
12/31/2000 • 38 minutes, 57 seconds
College Men’s Rally: Family, Fatherhood, and God
Fatherhood isn’t just a natural responsibility, but a gift that God gives for men to shepherd and train impressionable souls, all to his glory.
12/30/2000 • 57 minutes, 1 second
Others' Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
What does it mean to fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions? Do we, as mere followers, really have anything to add?
12/30/2000 • 46 minutes, 16 seconds
Our Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
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12/30/2000 • 38 minutes, 57 seconds
Our Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
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12/29/2000 • 41 minutes, 36 seconds
The Free Gift of God Is Eternal Life, Part 2
Sanctification is both something we do and something God does. We must work hard to obey, but only God’s grace sustains us in the fight.
12/24/2000 • 39 minutes, 8 seconds
The Free Gift of God Is Eternal Life, Part 2
Sanctification is both something we do and something God does. We must work hard to obey, but only God’s grace sustains us in the fight.
12/24/2000 • 39 minutes, 8 seconds
The Free Gift of God Is Eternal Life, Part 1
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12/17/2000 • 36 minutes, 58 seconds
Implications of Being Made in the Image of God
John Piper | The Bible repeatedly speaks of the inherent dignity of all people. Because God made us in his image, all people have value.
12/13/2000 • 30 minutes, 46 seconds
Slaves to God, Sanctification, Eternal Life
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12/10/2000 • 35 minutes, 7 seconds
Slaves to God, Sanctification, Eternal Life
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12/10/2000 • 35 minutes, 7 seconds
Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 2
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12/3/2000 • 28 minutes, 48 seconds
Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 2
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12/3/2000 • 28 minutes, 48 seconds
Why Deal With Racial Issues?
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11/29/2000 • 46 minutes, 3 seconds
Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 1
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11/26/2000 • 43 minutes, 6 seconds
Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 1
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11/26/2000 • 43 minutes, 6 seconds
Thank God for the Mercies of Christ
We don’t often see God's mercies in our moments of weakness, but we can take hope that he is working all things together for our good.
11/19/2000 • 37 minutes, 54 seconds
Do Not Let Sin Reign in Your Mortal Body, Part 2
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11/12/2000 • 43 minutes, 52 seconds
Preaching and the Suffering of the People
John Piper | Suffering is no accident. Preachers need to show their people that God’s hand is sovereign over every one of our pains.
11/8/2000 • 47 minutes, 35 seconds
Preaching and the Suffering of the Preacher
John Piper | Joy in God in and through suffering makes the worth of God shine more brightly than it would through ease and abundance.
11/7/2000 • 38 minutes, 15 seconds
Preaching and the Problem of Suffering
John Piper | Preaching that highlights God’s hand in our trials will help sustain people in the trials and suffering that will inevitably come in this life.
11/7/2000 • 39 minutes, 13 seconds
Do Not Let Sin Reign in Your Mortal Body, Part 1
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11/5/2000 • 33 minutes, 19 seconds
The Lord Stood By Me . . . That All the Nations Might Hear
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10/29/2000 • 40 minutes, 10 seconds
A Biblical Alternative to Serving God
A life that is lived for God’s glory must not be a life motivated by gratitude, but by faith in future grace.
10/23/2000 • 45 minutes, 14 seconds
The Path and the Price of Pursuing the Glory of God Among the Nations
Filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions means that we embrace suffering for the sake of bringing a personal presentation of the sufferings of Christ to the nations.
10/22/2000 • 39 minutes, 53 seconds
All the World Accountable to God
The need for missions is universal because all humanity has failed to know, love, fear, and glorify God.
10/22/2000 • 32 minutes, 41 seconds
Pursuing the Glory of God in the Gladness of the Nations in God
God’s great purpose for the world is that he would be known, praised, enjoyed, and feared among the nations, and he blesses us to become the means of that purpose.
10/21/2000 • 32 minutes, 32 seconds
Justified to Break the Power of Sin
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10/15/2000 • 46 minutes, 23 seconds
United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 3
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10/8/2000 • 36 minutes, 47 seconds
United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 2
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10/1/2000 • 31 minutes, 19 seconds
A Biblical Alternative to Serving God: Living by Prayer
The Bible calls us to serve God, but we need to remember that God’s own grace and passion for his glory enable and uphold everything we have to offer him.
9/27/2000 • 57 minutes, 7 seconds
Foundations for Prayer Toward the Global Purpose of God
God will sovereignly bring the nations to himself. But he will use our prayers and petitions to fuel a movement of the word that reaches the world.
9/26/2000 • 52 minutes, 10 seconds
United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 1
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9/24/2000 • 42 minutes, 4 seconds
How Justified Sinners Love Each Other
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9/17/2000 • 46 minutes
Are We to Continue in Sin That Grace Might Increase?
Believers are commanded to become in practice what we are in Christ: dead to sin and alive to God.
9/10/2000 • 31 minutes, 9 seconds
The Triumph of Grace through Righteousness
God's
purpose in giving the law was so that, in the end, grace would
reign through Christ's righteousness on our behalf.
9/3/2000 • 36 minutes, 6 seconds
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 5
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8/27/2000 • 45 minutes, 31 seconds
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 4
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8/20/2000 • 43 minutes, 32 seconds
Desiring God
The pursuit of joy in God is not icing on the cake of the Christian life but is essential to glorifying God and loving people.
8/3/2000 • 34 minutes, 30 seconds
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Q&A
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7/16/2000 • 59 minutes, 13 seconds
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job
Like Job’s suffering, our pain is never meaningless. God orchestrates hardship for his eternal purposes.
7/16/2000 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 38 seconds
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job
John Piper | Jesus bore our ultimate curse and punishment on the cross. Any discipline we now receive is not to punish us, but to spur us on in the path toward Christlikeness.
7/15/2000 • 58 minutes, 53 seconds
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job
Good theology matters. But love and grace matter just as much in our application of theology.
7/15/2000 • 59 minutes, 39 seconds
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering
God’s sovereignty is a balm of relief for sufferers. He works through every pain for our good.
7/14/2000 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 11 seconds
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
The goal of the Christian life is to be so satisfied in knowing Jesus that the fleeting pleasures of this world fade away as we give and give and give for God’s glory.
7/13/2000 • 51 minutes, 14 seconds
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
Having great faith doesn’t always equal having great success. Sometimes, our faith enables us to suffer and die well — all for the glory of Christ.
7/12/2000 • 46 minutes, 49 seconds
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
God hasn’t left us to our own devices to battle covetousness and greed. We have the eternal promises of our heavenly Father whose kingdom endures forever and ever.
7/11/2000 • 53 minutes, 33 seconds
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
We will never fully escape temptations toward lust, bitterness, and unforgiveness. But by the power of the Spirit, we can fight their allure with God’s great and precious promises.
7/10/2000 • 47 minutes, 29 seconds
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
We walk by faith not only by looking back to the cross with thankfulness, but by trusting God for a fresh, never-ending supply of grace to empower us for every new day.
7/9/2000 • 58 minutes, 21 seconds
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
Every Christian stands firmly rooted in Christ’s decisive past work. But grounded there, we now look expectantly forward for more and more of God’s grace.
7/9/2000 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 15 seconds
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
God lives for the fame of his name, and so should we. But we’ll never honor and magnify him as we should unless we first learn that our delight in him glorifies him most.
7/8/2000 • 54 minutes, 33 seconds
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 3
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7/2/2000 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 3
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7/2/2000 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 2
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6/25/2000 • 40 minutes, 40 seconds
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 1
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6/18/2000 • 44 minutes, 25 seconds
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 1
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6/18/2000 • 44 minutes, 25 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad
Jesus has sheep that are not of our fold. He has ransomed a people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation.
6/15/2000 • 53 minutes, 32 seconds
Counting It All Joy
John Piper | Jesus Christ is magnified in the life of his people whenever they find their highest joy in him — especially in seasons of suffering and pain.
6/15/2000 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Questions and Answers
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6/15/2000 • 34 minutes, 25 seconds
Twenty Years, Then Romans
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6/11/2000 • 43 minutes, 59 seconds
Boasting Only in the Cross
When you die, only what you do for Christ will last. You have one life. Don’t waste it on insignificant comforts.
5/20/2000 • 38 minutes, 14 seconds
How to Get a Camel through a Needle's Eye
With God all things are possible. That is the basis of our prayer and our giving and our evangelism.
4/30/2000 • 39 minutes, 45 seconds
Jesus Christ: Alive and With Us to the End
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4/23/2000 • 0
The Sons Are Free
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4/16/2000 • 41 minutes, 51 seconds
If the Lord Wills
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4/9/2000 • 35 minutes, 52 seconds
The Isaac Factor
There’s nothing too difficult, too complicated, or too tiresome for God. With him, all things are possible.
4/2/2000 • 33 minutes, 57 seconds
The Gideon Venture
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3/26/2000 • 45 minutes, 57 seconds
One Generation Shall Praise Your Works to Another
It is the Biblical duty of every generation to make sure that the next generation hears about the mighty acts of God.
3/19/2000 • 37 minutes, 7 seconds
Let All the Peoples Praise Him
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3/12/2000 • 44 minutes, 11 seconds
Building Our Lives on the Bible
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3/5/2000 • 37 minutes, 10 seconds
Fulfilling the Law of Love
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2/27/2000 • 40 minutes, 58 seconds
Set Apart Rick, Randy, and the Rest for the Work
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2/20/2000 • 43 minutes, 55 seconds
Christ Crucified, Our Boast: Education for Exultation — In the Cross
John Piper | Every good thing in this life and every bad thing that God turns for good comes to us through Jesus and his cross.
2/13/2000 • 39 minutes
You Will Be Eaten by Cannibals! Lessons from the Life of John G. Paton
Paton’s life was marked by a kind of in-your-face spiritual moxie, and God used his courageous faith to change the world for Christ.
2/8/2000 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 44 seconds
You Will Be Eaten by Cannibals! Lessons from the Life of John G. Paton
Paton’s life was marked by a kind of in-your-face spiritual moxie, and God used his courageous faith to change the world for Christ.
2/8/2000 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 44 seconds
The Word Was God and Became Flesh: Education for Exultation — In Jesus
All true education is built upon God’s truth because Jesus reigns over every square inch of the universe.
2/6/2000 • 35 minutes, 6 seconds
I Am the Lord, and Besides Me There Is No Savior: Education for Exultation — In God
Our calling is to know and believe that God is God — that he is sovereign, that he is Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1/30/2000 • 43 minutes, 41 seconds
Christ, Culture, and Abortion
Social involvement is demanded by
a biblical orientation
toward life.
1/23/2000 • 44 minutes, 20 seconds
Race and Cross
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1/16/2000 • 40 minutes, 35 seconds
Devote Yourselves to Prayer
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1/9/2000 • 38 minutes, 4 seconds
I Will Meditate on All Your Work and Muse on Your Deeds
Moment by moment, our vital union with Christ is sustained, shaped, and carried by the Word of God.
1/2/2000 • 42 minutes, 54 seconds
Jesus Christ is the Same Yesterday and Today and Forever
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12/26/1999 • 43 minutes, 23 seconds
We Exult in God Through Our Lord Jesus Christ
The biblical portrait of Jesus must be the essential content of your joy in God.
12/19/1999 • 35 minutes, 16 seconds
We Exult in God Through Our Lord Jesus Christ
The biblical portrait of Jesus must be the essential content of your joy in God.
12/19/1999 • 35 minutes, 16 seconds
Much More Shall We Be Saved By His Life
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12/12/1999 • 40 minutes, 19 seconds
God Demonstrates His Love Toward Us
God’s love for us is not just a logical inference from the Bible. He pours his love out for us, and we can feel it in our hearts.
12/5/1999 • 29 minutes, 37 seconds
The Love of God Has Been Poured Out Within Our Hearts
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11/28/1999 • 37 minutes, 45 seconds
Thanksgiving Toward the Past, Faith Toward the Future: A Parable of the Anvil
You can stake your life on what will not come from science or psychology, but the very word of our God that endures forever.
11/21/1999 • 42 minutes, 43 seconds
We Exult in Our Tribulations
In this world you will have trouble, but in Christ it will only increase your joy and hope.
11/14/1999 • 37 minutes, 36 seconds
Let Your Passion Be Single
A singular passion for God is not only sensible but safe — it is not only reasonable, it is right.
11/12/1999 • 51 minutes, 36 seconds
Spiritual Warfare and Prayer
God calls upon every one of his soldiers to take up their armor and join in the battle to advance the gospel among the nations.
11/8/1999 • 21 minutes, 45 seconds
The Revelation of God’s Righteousness Where There Is No Church
John Piper | The aim of missions is that the nations would glorify God for his mercy — that all would worship God for his great grace.
11/7/1999 • 43 minutes, 48 seconds
The Surpassing Excellency of God in the Joy of His Suffering People
John Piper | Suffering is the normal means God appoints to spread the gospel through his people. We can only full embrace Jesus when we rejoice in our sufferings.
10/30/1999 • 55 minutes, 22 seconds
God Is Too Excellent to Need Servants
God is too great and glorious to need servants. But he does ask us to work for him and glorify him — all in the strength that he so graciously supplies.
10/29/1999 • 39 minutes, 11 seconds
Preaching God in a Man-Centered Age
John Piper | Faith comes through hearing, and hearing by the word of God, so pastors must preach God’s word to satisfy both the mind and the heart.
10/28/1999 • 48 minutes, 43 seconds
The Call for Courage in the Cause of Truth
John Piper | Our culture today may recoil against absolutes, but our faith rests on Jesus Christ, who is himself Truth.
10/28/1999 • 57 minutes, 39 seconds
Let Us Exult in the Hope of the Glory of God!
Whatever else you do or say or feel, of this you can be certain: God wills that you rejoice in the hope of seeing his glory.
10/24/1999 • 41 minutes, 26 seconds
Let Us Exult in the Hope of the Glory of God!
Whatever else you do or say or feel, of this you can be certain: God wills that you rejoice in the hope of seeing his glory.
10/24/1999 • 41 minutes, 26 seconds
Faith and the Imputation of Righteousness
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10/17/1999 • 46 minutes, 36 seconds
The Purpose and Perseverance of Faith
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10/10/1999 • 46 minutes, 37 seconds
Why Was Jesus Put to Death and Raised Again?
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10/3/1999 • 36 minutes, 25 seconds
Faith: in Hope, Against Hope, for the Glory of God
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9/26/1999 • 46 minutes, 30 seconds
The Faith - Grace - Certainty Connection
Your faith is called into being out of nothing. That is the meaning of grace and the reason why God can guarantee his promises to you.
9/19/1999 • 44 minutes, 10 seconds
The Children of Abraham Are Heirs of the World
What does it mean to be an heir of the world?
9/12/1999 • 46 minutes, 45 seconds
Inheriting the World Depends on Faith, Not Law
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9/5/1999 • 39 minutes, 55 seconds
How Do Circumcision and Baptism Correspond?
The way God constituted his people under the old covenant is different than how he does it today.
8/29/1999 • 46 minutes, 13 seconds
Why Does it Matter Which Came First: Circumcision or Justification?
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8/22/1999 • 45 minutes, 39 seconds
When the Lord Does Not Take Account of Sin
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8/15/1999 • 35 minutes, 58 seconds
When the Lord Does Not Take Account of Sin
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8/15/1999 • 35 minutes, 58 seconds
Does James Contradict Paul?
Even though language can sometimes confuse us--like when the same word carries multiple meanings--the Bible is not contradictory.
8/8/1999 • 46 minutes, 17 seconds
God Credits Faith as Righteousness
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8/1/1999 • 45 minutes, 29 seconds
One God and One Salvation for All the Nations
God is one, and everyone he justifies is justified in the same way. Therefore he is God not only over the Jews but over all peoples.
6/13/1999 • 31 minutes, 34 seconds
One God and One Salvation for All the Nations
God is one, and everyone he justifies is justified in the same way. Therefore he is God not only over the Jews but over all peoples.
6/13/1999 • 31 minutes, 34 seconds
Persevering in Godward Joy
Only God can open our hearts to receive and experience his infinite joy. But that doesn’t mean we can’t fight and persevere in our pursuit of delight.
6/10/1999 • 55 minutes, 9 seconds
Our Pursuit of Others’ Enjoyment of God
Genuine love toward others, especially in pastoral ministry, isn’t motivated by duty, but propelled by the grace of delight in God.
6/9/1999 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 56 seconds
Our Enjoyment of God
Joy in the Christian life isn’t simply a nice byproduct of faith. Delighting in God is essential to believing in God.
6/9/1999 • 50 minutes, 16 seconds
Making Worship Relevant Today
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6/8/1999 • 56 minutes, 35 seconds
God's Enjoyment of God
God is no idolater. He delights in himself more than anything else because he honors and prizes what is of most value in the universe — himself.
6/8/1999 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 40 seconds
Justification by Faith Establishes the Law
The moral law in the Old Testament is not a ladder for climbing, but a track for riding
in the power of the Holy Spirit.
6/6/1999 • 42 minutes, 46 seconds
Justification by Faith Establishes the Law
The moral law in the Old Testament is not a ladder for climbing, but a track for riding
in the power of the Holy Spirit.
6/6/1999 • 42 minutes, 46 seconds
Hallowed Be Thy Name
John Piper | Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. But until the glory of God covers the earth, we must keep going and sending for the fame of Jesus’s name.
6/1/1999 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 40 seconds
The Most Important Paragraph in the Bible
God offers free grace to the worst of sinners. All we have to do is trust him for all he promises to be.
5/31/1999 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 8 seconds
The Inner Essence of Worship
In Jesus Christ, worship is not centered on a place or form, but on his person and work. All true worship is to him and through him.
5/31/1999 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 54 seconds
Justification by Faith Is the End of Boasting
Boasting matters to Paul because it is the outward form of the inward moral corruption that lies behind all the evils and miseries of the world.
5/30/1999 • 47 minutes, 54 seconds
The Just and the Justifier
God could have settled accounts by punishing all sinners with hell. But in his great mercy he makes us his heirs.
5/23/1999 • 45 minutes, 27 seconds
God’s Free Gift of Righteousness
Every single one of us has sinned. We all fall short of God’s glory. But God offers the free gift of righteousness to any who will come to him.
5/16/1999 • 42 minutes, 26 seconds
The Demonstration of God’s Righteousness
God grants us righteousness that not only washes us clean, but makes us bold in the face of any fear.
5/9/1999 • 35 minutes, 44 seconds
Biblical Eldership
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5/2/1999 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 45 seconds
Biblical Eldership
John Piper | Listen Now
5/2/1999 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 26 seconds
Biblical Eldership
John Piper | Listen Now
5/1/1999 • 48 minutes, 16 seconds
Biblical Eldership
John Piper | Listen Now
5/1/1999 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 12 seconds
Up from the Grave He Arose
There is no condemnation for those in Jesus. Clothed in the righteousness of the risen Christ, we can approach the throne with confidence.
4/4/1999 • 38 minutes, 51 seconds
Preaching for Radical Obedience
A preacher’s task isn’t merely to explain passages of the Bible, but to awaken people to the beauty of Jesus Christ, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
3/31/1999 • 51 minutes, 46 seconds
How Not to Blaspheme God in the Pulpit
To preach the Bible faithfully is to herald the incomparable supremacy of God and the riches of his glory over everything else the world has to offer.
3/31/1999 • 41 minutes, 9 seconds
Wonderful Things from Your Word
John Piper | There are wonders in God’s word, but we will not store them up unless he first works in us. Ask and pray that he may open the eyes of your heart.
3/31/1999 • 26 minutes, 54 seconds
Drinking Deep for God's Sake
For pastors to herald the glories of God week in and week out, they need to drink deeply from the wells of God’s salvation day in and day out.
3/31/1999 • 1 hour, 53 seconds
Mouths Closed and All the World Accountable to God
Christianity is not a narrow, provincial, or tribal religion.
It declares things that have to do with the whole world.
3/28/1999 • 44 minutes, 16 seconds
Mouths Closed and All the World Accountable to God
Christianity is not a narrow, provincial, or tribal religion.
It declares things that have to do with the whole world.
3/28/1999 • 44 minutes, 16 seconds
All Jews and Gentiles Are Under Sin
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3/21/1999 • 45 minutes, 13 seconds
Why God Inspired Hard Texts
God reveals himself to us clearly in his word. There are difficult passages, but their benefit is never beyond our reach.
3/14/1999 • 45 minutes, 48 seconds
Let God Be True Though Every Man a Liar
Who are they whose condemnation is just? Those who play games with the Word of God.
3/7/1999 • 36 minutes, 40 seconds
Who Is a True Jew? Part 2
We all need the gift of righteousness that comes only through Christ by the Spirit. All who trust the Son receive this gift as true Jews.
2/28/1999 • 45 minutes, 57 seconds
Who Is a True Jew?
When we keep the requirements of the law, we won’t only realize we can’t obey them perfectly, but we will look to the one who has — Jesus Christ.
2/21/1999 • 40 minutes, 34 seconds
Drinking Deep for God’s Sake
Our aim in all we do is to go deep in our grasp of the greatness of God and to pursue passion in our love for the glory of God.
2/18/1999 • 49 minutes, 14 seconds
Preaching for Radical Obedience
Every time a preacher steps into a pulpit, the canvas is clear for him to paint a fresh portrait of God’s supreme glory with the brushstrokes of Scripture.
2/17/1999 • 46 minutes, 50 seconds
How Not to Blaspheme God in the Pulpit
What our pulpits need most is not self-help and how-to, but a God-entranced vision of the world and everything in it.
2/16/1999 • 46 minutes, 1 second
The Effect of Hypocrisy: Dishonoring God, Part 2
We who know the Bible need not only to teach others its life-saving truth, but we must be taught by the word itself.
2/14/1999 • 46 minutes, 29 seconds
The Effect of Hypocrisy
No one honors and loves God as he or she should. For that, we deserve death. But Christ has come to give life. He is our only hope.
2/7/1999 • 36 minutes, 46 seconds
The Effect of Hypocrisy
No one honors and loves God as he or she should. For that, we deserve death. But Christ has come to give life. He is our only hope.
2/7/1999 • 36 minutes, 46 seconds
To Live Upon God That Is Invisible
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2/2/1999 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 15 seconds
There Is No Partiality With God, Part 2
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1/31/1999 • 46 minutes, 27 seconds
Visiting Orphans in a World of AIDS and Abortion
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1/24/1999 • 43 minutes, 39 seconds
Class, Culture and Ethnic Identity in Christ
John Piper | It is impossible to believe that Christ indwells every believer and then mistreat one of a different race.
1/17/1999 • 43 minutes, 23 seconds
Pray Without Ceasing
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1/10/1999 • 42 minutes, 47 seconds
Meditate on the Word of the Lord Day and Night
Meditation on the Word is not only vital for the Christian life but for prayer as well. So what exactly is meditation?
1/3/1999 • 44 minutes, 4 seconds
There Is No Partiality With God, Part 1
Every person you will ever meet has God’s law written on their hearts. Even if they have never seen a Bible or heard of Jesus, they are still accountable to him.
12/27/1998 • 46 minutes, 39 seconds
The Son of God Appeared to Destroy the Works of the Devil
John Piper | Jesus came to destroy sin, not because it's
fun but because it's fatal.
12/20/1998 • 43 minutes, 14 seconds
The Final Divide: Eternal Life or Eternal Wrath, Part 3
Look to Christ. Only he can save you, only he can satisfy you. There is no other Savior, there is no purer joy.
12/13/1998 • 38 minutes, 48 seconds
The Final Divide: Eternal Life or Eternal Wrath, Part 2
God shows no partiality. Whether Jew or Gentile, all who love and do evil will face wrath, and all who trust Christ and obey God will have glory.
12/6/1998 • 36 minutes, 53 seconds
The Final Divide: Eternal Life or Eternal Wrath, Part 1
When your life is over on this earth, there will be two paths you can take: you will either meet God in eternal wrath or eternal life.
11/29/1998 • 37 minutes, 21 seconds
God‘s Response to Hypocrisy: Kindness and Judgment
God’s justice does not demand that he punish us for our sins immediately. His kindness through Jesus Christ leads him to forbear and be patient with us.
11/22/1998 • 45 minutes, 21 seconds
Training the Next Generation of Evangelical Pastors and Missionaries
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11/20/1998 • 58 minutes, 40 seconds
Doing and Endorsing Evil
The end-point of depravity is not just the suicidal love affair with sin, but the desire to bring others with you to destruction.
11/15/1998 • 37 minutes, 45 seconds
The Perils of Disapproving God
Sin enslaves us not just because we commit evil, but because God himself gives us over to our debased desires. Our only hope is for Jesus to bring renewal.
11/8/1998 • 36 minutes, 31 seconds
The Lofty Claim, the Last Command, the Loving Comfort
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11/1/1998 • 39 minutes, 55 seconds
The Other Dark Exchange: Homosexuality, Part 2
The world’s futility and disorder is not a result of simple mistakes, but a consequence of exchanging God’s glory for other things.
10/18/1998 • 44 minutes
The Other Dark Exchange: Homosexuality, Part 1
God dramatizes the beauty of the gospel in the right ordering of our sexual lives.
10/11/1998 • 45 minutes, 53 seconds
The First Dark Exchange: Idolatry
If you value other things more than God, if your life is really driven by another value, then you exchange the imperishable for the perishable.
10/4/1998 • 40 minutes, 51 seconds
Finishing Well in the Face of Death
Finishing well in the face of death requires fighting the fight of faith, which takes hold of God’s promises for future grace in the midst of all our temptations and afflictions.
10/2/1998 • 0
Finishing with Joy
Faith, which is the root of all true obedience that glorifies God, is a coming to God to be satisfied with all that he is for us in Jesus, which means that the pursuit of joy in the Christian life is not optional, but essential.
10/1/1998 • 0
Finishing What?
Finishing well will not happen without a fight, and God is the decisive finisher who will powerfully work in us so that he alone gets the glory.
10/1/1998 • 0
Displays of God Remove the Excuse for Failed Worship
The greatest tragedy our world faces isn’t hunger, poverty, or crime, but blindness to the grace and beauty of Jesus Christ.
9/27/1998 • 40 minutes, 27 seconds
Measures of Faith, Gifts of Grace, Ministry in Small Groups
God means to get the glory for all things, including the ministry of small groups. We get the gift, the help, and the blessing, but God gets the glory.
9/20/1998 • 41 minutes, 17 seconds
The Wrath of God Against Holding Down the Truth
Our hardened hearts naturally suppress the truth, but Jesus grants us new hearts to embrace his gospel.
9/13/1998 • 44 minutes, 52 seconds
The Wrath of God Against Ungodliness and Unrighteousness
You can escape the wrath of God against sin only when you take refuge in the gospel of his Son.
8/30/1998 • 45 minutes, 48 seconds
How Does the Gospel Save Believers? Part 3
Not only does the gospel grant us the righteousness we need, but it also supplies the power for us to keep fighting sin by faith.
8/23/1998 • 39 minutes, 1 second
How Does the Gospel Save Believers? Part 2
By faith, God gives us the righteousness we don’t deserve. We could never earn it on our own, but Jesus broke sins claim on all who believe.
8/16/1998 • 37 minutes, 31 seconds
How Does the Gospel Save Believers? Part 1
The glorious hope of the gospel is that God himself supplies the righteousness he demands from us.
8/9/1998 • 38 minutes, 43 seconds
To the Jew First, and Also to the Greek
All who believe can taste the hope of the gospel. No matter how rough your background God has grace for you in the good news of Jesus.
7/5/1998 • 35 minutes, 53 seconds
The Gospel Is the Power of God unto Salvation
There’s no other message in the world like the gospel. Other religions may have converts, but there is no true salvation outside the work of Jesus Christ.
6/21/1998 • 40 minutes, 52 seconds
Not Ashamed of the Gospel
The gospel is the greatest news in the world and the most loving truth we can share. We never have to be ashamed of its message.
6/14/1998 • 23 minutes, 20 seconds
Not Ashamed of the Gospel
The gospel is the greatest news in the world and the most loving truth we can share. We never have to be ashamed of its message.
6/14/1998 • 23 minutes, 20 seconds
The Gospel in the Church for the Obedience of Faith Through Spiritual Gifts
Grace pays the debt we owe God for stealing his glory. And now we owe the gospel to any who still need God’s grace.
6/7/1998 • 35 minutes, 57 seconds
The Treasure of Faith in the Life of the Church
The great aim of our ministry should be the same as Paul’s: to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of God’s glory.
5/31/1998 • 39 minutes, 19 seconds
Sustained by Sovereign Grace—Forever
God changes our hearts, sustains in faith, and brings us all the way home, all because of his sovereign, unquenchable commitment to do his covenant people good.
5/26/1998 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 51 seconds
Our Passion for the Supremacy of God
To delight in God is to bring him the glory he deserves. He gets glory; we get satisfaction — all when our joy runs deep in God.
5/25/1998 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 8 seconds
God's Passion for the Supremacy of God
God is no idolater; he lives for the fame of his own name. And the ultimate goal for all God’s people is to glorify him by enjoying him forever.
5/25/1998 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 2 seconds
The Called of Christ and the Loved of God
If you’re a Christian, you have only come to faith because God called you. And if he called you, then you can be sure that he has a very special love for you.
5/24/1998 • 46 minutes, 7 seconds
The Called of Christ and the Loved of God
If you’re a Christian, you have only come to faith because God called you. And if he called you, then you can be sure that he has a very special love for you.
5/24/1998 • 46 minutes, 7 seconds
The Called of Christ and the Loved of God, Part 1
Who we are as Christians is ultimately based not on us, but on the work of another — he who calls us.
5/17/1998 • 46 minutes, 25 seconds
By His Grace, for His Name, Through the Obedience of Faith
Every ounce of grace that enables faith and empowers our obedience comes to us through the finished work of Jesus Christ.
5/10/1998 • 40 minutes, 35 seconds
God’s Good News Concerning His Son
The gospel is not novel or new, but rooted in God’s eternal decree to purchase a people for himself and keep them forever.
5/3/1998 • 45 minutes, 10 seconds
The Author of the Greatest Letter Ever Written
John Piper details the personal impact of the Book of Romans in his life and describes how Paul’s apostlic ministry comes from him being bought by Christ, called by Christ, and set apart for the gospel of God.
4/26/1998 • 44 minutes, 15 seconds
World Christian Discipleship
You should pursue pleasure in God is because God is breathtaking. That’s a tremendous implication for missions.
4/26/1998 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 33 seconds
Future Grace: Its Purifying Power
We advance in holiness and purity not by inundating ourselves with prohibitions, but by directing our hearts toward the great and precious promises of God.
4/22/1998 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 44 seconds
Future Grace: Its Purifying Power
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4/22/1998 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 9 seconds
Future Grace: Its Purifying Power
Gratitude isn’t good enough to motivate the Christian life. Faith doesn’t simply look back in thanks; it embraces the future grace of all that Christ promises to be for his people.
4/22/1998 • 1 hour, 8 seconds
Future Grace: Its Purifying Power
Saving faith in Jesus Christ doesn’t only justify us before God. True faith transforms and purifies a Christian by the power of the Spirit.
4/21/1998 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 11 seconds
Future Grace: Its Purifying Power
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4/21/1998 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 22 seconds
Future Grace: Its Purifying Power
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4/21/1998 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 15 seconds
The Spirit of the Age and the Reality of the Risen Christ
John Piper | Listen Now
4/12/1998 • 41 minutes, 8 seconds
The Sovereign Sacrifice: Foreknown, Foretold, for Faith
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4/5/1998 • 42 minutes, 28 seconds
God, Marriage and Children
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3/1/1998 • 31 minutes, 46 seconds
The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Preaching for Radical Obedience
Pastors much preach the beauty of holiness to awaken contrition over lack of holiness. Preaching beauty begets contrition which begets radical obedience.
2/26/1998 • 0
The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Discussion Luncheon
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2/25/1998 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 28 seconds
The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: How Not to Blaspheme God
Unless preachers herald the majesties of our Maker, we won’t give our people anything more than they can get anywhere else.
2/25/1998 • 51 minutes, 19 seconds
The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Community Worship Service
Preaching on a Sunday morning isn’t simply a lecture that explains a text or topic. Life-changing preaching is exposition that’s driven by and results in exultation in Christ.
2/24/1998 • 0
Take Care How You Listen! Part 2
10 ways to prepare yourself to hear Sunday's sermon.
2/22/1998 • 43 minutes, 31 seconds
Take Care How You Listen! Part 1
There are four ways to hear a sermon, but only one of them leads to life.
2/15/1998 • 41 minutes, 3 seconds
The Final Price of Showing the Glory of Love
The gospel will continue to advance far and wide, but not without God’s people suffering with their Savior along the way.
2/11/1998 • 33 minutes, 53 seconds
You Must All Become Hedonists
If you want your life to count for what matters most, then your highest calling in all of life is to relentlessly pursue your joy in God.
2/11/1998 • 50 minutes, 44 seconds
God Is Glorified When Christ Is Gain
The task of missions is to spread far and wide the most awesome truth the world over: we glorify God truly when he satisfies us fully.
2/10/1998 • 19 minutes, 26 seconds
How Not to Serve God in Going and Sending
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2/10/1998 • 49 minutes, 52 seconds
God's Passion for His Global Glory
God’s goal in all that he does is to uphold the fame and glory of his name. And that’s really good news for people made in his image.
2/9/1998 • 25 minutes, 57 seconds
The Place of Preaching in Worship
Why is the proclamation of the Word so prominent in corporate worship?
2/8/1998 • 38 minutes, 20 seconds
The Swan Is Not Silent
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2/3/1998 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 28 seconds
Amen
God’s beauty is magnified when it is echoed in prayer and preaching with agreements like “Amen!”
2/1/1998 • 36 minutes, 48 seconds
Where Does Child Killing Come From?
Abortion is all about God because unborn children are made in his image, only God can forgive sins, abortion is a failure to love God supremely, and all laws to prohibit abortion are in his hands.
1/25/1998 • 37 minutes, 51 seconds
Every Race to Reign and Worship
By gathering his redeemed from all the races of the earth, God undercuts ethnocentric pride and throws us back on free grace.
1/18/1998 • 36 minutes, 21 seconds
Wonderful Things from Your Word
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1/11/1998 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds
The Living God Is a Missionary God
John Piper | Listen Now
1/11/1998 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 13 seconds
Open My Eyes That I May See
Prayer opens our eyes to behold wonders in God’s word, and to be changed by an extraordinary sight of his glory.
1/4/1998 • 33 minutes, 55 seconds
God Is Glorified in Us When Christ Is Gain to Us
‘Worship’ isn’t just for Sunday morning, but is rather the daily, all-consuming goal of every person made new by the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
1/2/1998 • 45 minutes, 1 second
Christian Hedonism with Questions and Answers
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1/1/1998 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 1 second
Did Christ Die for Us or for God?
God didn't spare his own Son, but freely gave him up for us. Because of Jesus, we are pardoned and God remains just.
1/1/1998 • 0
Singing and Making Melody to the Lord
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12/28/1997 • 39 minutes, 27 seconds
We Have Come to Worship Him
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12/21/1997 • 40 minutes, 23 seconds
Magnifying God with Money
God calls his people to honor him with their bank accounts by simplifying and serving. Money isn’t only for our needs, but for God’s glory.
12/14/1997 • 39 minutes, 51 seconds
The Lord's Supper as Worship
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12/7/1997 • 24 minutes, 6 seconds
All of Life as Worship
We worship God when we seek to express and increase our satisfaction in all that he is for us in Jesus Christ.
11/30/1997 • 36 minutes, 1 second
Why God Cannot Be Served But Loves to Serve
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11/23/1997 • 42 minutes, 48 seconds
The Inner Essence of Worship
The inner essence of worship is experiencing Christ as absolute gain. It’s savoring him, treasuring him, and being ultimately satisfied in him.
11/16/1997 • 42 minutes, 42 seconds
Men at War: Pursuing an Undistracted Passion for God
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11/15/1997 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 13 seconds
Men at War: Pursuing an Undistracted Passion for God
John Piper | The battle for sexual purity isn’t just a fight against lust and porn, but a quest for full satisfaction in the eternal promises of our God.
11/14/1997 • 46 minutes, 26 seconds
Worship God
Worship is not restricted to an event, place, or ritual. Because of Christ, worship is now done in spirit and in truth.
11/9/1997 • 28 minutes, 55 seconds
World Missions and the End of History
John Piper | The price will be high, but God's promise that the gospel will spread to all nations will be fulfilled by his omnipotent hand.
10/26/1997 • 42 minutes, 16 seconds
It's All the Work of God
Christians are secure, not because they are strong, but because God is
sovereign and faithful to his new covenant promises.
10/19/1997 • 36 minutes, 45 seconds
Obey Your Joyful Leaders, Part 2
Elders should see themselves as servants, and the church should have a bent toward trusting them.
10/12/1997 • 41 minutes, 26 seconds
Obey Your Joyful Leaders, Part 1
Spiritual leaders are to keep watch of the word, of Christ, of themselves, and of their people.
10/5/1997 • 32 minutes, 43 seconds
Let Us Go with Jesus Bearing Reproach
Jesus calls his followers to radical obedience — to forgo lives of comfort and move toward need.
9/28/1997 • 42 minutes, 47 seconds
Be Strengthened By Grace
How can I find and keep the strength I need to obey God's commands?
9/21/1997 • 40 minutes, 41 seconds
Small Group Life in the Power of God's Promises
The promises of God are the
key to love and victory over sin. But we need people
in our lives to "encourage us day after day" with those promises.
9/14/1997 • 34 minutes, 45 seconds
You Have Come to Mount Zion
Obedience is not our way of getting God to do something. It is how we act when we trust that God is already working for us.
9/7/1997 • 26 minutes, 53 seconds
Fail Not to Obtain the Grace of God
No suffering or trial falls outside of God’s sovereign control. He works all things together for the good of his children.
8/31/1997 • 39 minutes, 55 seconds
The Painful Discipline of Our Heavenly Father
God is not an ER doctor responding to our hurts; he is the master surgeon who plans our hurts in order that he might do us greater good.
8/24/1997 • 44 minutes, 45 seconds
Running with the Witnesses
Though the fight is difficult and the race is long, the sidelines are filled with saints who cheer you on, encouraging you to finish with faith.
8/17/1997 • 42 minutes, 37 seconds
Faith to Be Strong and Faith to Be Weak
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8/10/1997 • 46 minutes
Liberated for Love by Looking to the Reward
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8/3/1997 • 36 minutes, 51 seconds
The Hope of Exiles on the Earth
God honors faith
and obedience by using all of his wisdom, power and love to turn that kind of life
into one of great joy.
6/29/1997 • 45 minutes, 14 seconds
The Faith of Noah, Abraham, and Sarah
Saving faith isn't merely the one-time act of receiving Jesus. It goes on trusting him.
6/22/1997 • 33 minutes, 23 seconds
Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God
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6/8/1997 • 44 minutes, 35 seconds
What Faith Knows and Hopes For
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6/1/1997 • 42 minutes, 31 seconds
The Supremacy of God in Missions
God will finish the Great Commission, but he won’t do it without his people being sent and sharing Jesus across cultures.
5/30/1997 • 47 minutes, 45 seconds
The Supremacy of God in Prayer
John Piper | We don’t honor God mainly by trying to do things for him, but by receiving strength, grace, and love from his endless fountain.
5/28/1997 • 36 minutes, 52 seconds
The Supremacy of God in Preaching
The supremacy of God is the theme of redemptive history, our preaching, and of God.
5/27/1997 • 46 minutes, 35 seconds
What Baptism Portrays
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5/25/1997 • 43 minutes, 54 seconds
Buried and Raised in Baptism Through Faith
This sermon on Colossians 2:8–15 deals with the differences between circumcision and baptism, and explains all that God has done in bringing us to life through the gospel.
5/11/1997 • 39 minutes, 56 seconds
I Baptize You with Water
What was significant about John's baptism, and how does it relate to the way we baptize today?
5/4/1997 • 39 minutes, 42 seconds
The Present Power of a Future Possession
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4/27/1997 • 45 minutes, 26 seconds
Woe to Those Who Trample the Son of God
Threatening judgment is an effective (and biblical) way to motivate people.
4/13/1997 • 46 minutes, 14 seconds
Consider Each Other How to Stir Up Love
Christians can’t follow Jesus alone. Unless we have brothers and sisters in our lives who point us to Jesus, our faith won’t survive.
4/6/1997 • 44 minutes, 31 seconds
What Jesus Built by Rising from the Dead
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3/30/1997 • 44 minutes, 3 seconds
Let Us Draw Near to God
Drawing near to God is the heart of the gospel, and we are called to embrace it with informed zeal.
3/23/1997 • 43 minutes, 10 seconds
The Pleasure of God in Peacemaking
The power for peacemaking doesn’t come from forgiving and forgetting or just trying harder, but from the superior promises God offers us in Jesus Christ.
3/14/1997 • 41 minutes, 50 seconds
Perfected for All Time by a Single Offering
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2/16/1997 • 31 minutes, 38 seconds
What Christ Will Do at the Second Coming
Christ died once and for all. Not for his own sins, but for ours so that when we die, we don’t have to die again.
2/9/1997 • 46 minutes, 27 seconds
The Divine Majesty of the Word
The key to John Calvin’s life: he recovered and embodied a passion for the absolute reality and majesty of God.
2/4/1997 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 16 seconds
The Divine Majesty of the Word
The key to John Calvin’s life: he recovered and embodied a passion for the absolute reality and majesty of God.
2/4/1997 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 16 seconds
What Christ Did at the End of the Age
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2/2/1997 • 39 minutes, 44 seconds
How the Called Receive an Eternal Inheritance
How is the New Covenant like a last will and testament?
1/26/1997 • 46 minutes, 42 seconds
Be Strong and Fervent in Spirit in the Cause of Truth and Life
Boredom with Christ is blindness. Open your eyes and let him inspire in you
a new passion for the cause of life.
1/19/1997 • 37 minutes, 59 seconds
Purified to Serve the Living God
How can people destroyed by their sin draw near to a perfect God?
1/12/1997 • 36 minutes, 57 seconds
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.
1/5/1997 • 43 minutes, 15 seconds
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?
1/3/1997 • 50 minutes, 35 seconds
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.
1/2/1997 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 37 seconds
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.
1/2/1997 • 37 minutes, 23 seconds
Praying from the Fullness of the Word
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12/29/1996 • 37 minutes, 30 seconds
Jesus: Mediator of a Better Covenant, Part 2
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12/22/1996 • 22 minutes, 3 seconds
Jesus: Mediator of a Better Covenant, Part 1
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12/15/1996 • 32 minutes, 23 seconds
Our High Priest is the Son of God Perfect Forever
Five reasons for why Jesus' priesthood is superior to all others.
12/8/1996 • 29 minutes, 9 seconds
Jesus: From Melchizedek to Eternal Savior
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12/1/1996 • 31 minutes, 45 seconds
From Thy Hand We Have Given Thee
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11/24/1996 • 30 minutes, 22 seconds
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.
11/17/1996 • 39 minutes, 24 seconds
When Does God Swear?
God swears by his own name in order to give his people unwavering confidence in his promises.
11/10/1996 • 39 minutes, 44 seconds
A Passion for the Supremacy of Christ—Where He Is Not Named
What convictions drive world missions at Bethlehem Baptist Church?
11/3/1996 • 36 minutes, 11 seconds
Doing Missions When Dying Is Gain
Doing missions when death is gain is the greatest life in the world.
10/27/1996 • 49 minutes, 10 seconds
The Full Assurance of Hope to the End
Bank your hope on the justice of God to uphold the honor of his name by offering faith to his unworthy people.
10/20/1996 • 46 minutes, 25 seconds
When Is Saving Repentance Impossible?
It’s possible that we who think we’re chosen might slide into a hardening and fall away from Christ. But it isn’t for those justified in Christ.
10/13/1996 • 42 minutes, 23 seconds
Let Us Press On to Maturity
The writer of Hebrews calls you to grow and press on
to maturity. And you will—if God permits.
10/6/1996 • 42 minutes, 38 seconds
By This Time You Ought to Be Teachers
Do you have the disease of "dullness of hearing," and if so, how can you get well?
9/29/1996 • 35 minutes, 47 seconds
He Is the Source of Eternal Salvation for All Who Obey Him
Christ became our salvation because he was perfect in three ways: in his dignity, in his eternity, and in his purity.
9/22/1996 • 45 minutes, 12 seconds
Draw Near to the Throne of Grace with Confidence
Because we have a great High Priest, the throne of God is a throne of grace. We can approach with confidence.
9/15/1996 • 43 minutes, 17 seconds
The Word of God: Living, Active, Sharp
The Word of God is living and active and penetrates to the bottom of our lives and rips the pleasant mask off the ugly face of sin.
9/8/1996 • 42 minutes, 55 seconds
Be Diligent to Enter God’s Rest
Greater than our fear of unbelief should be our faith in God’s promise to safely deliver us into his eternal rest.
9/1/1996 • 34 minutes, 41 seconds
Eternal Security Is a Community Project
If God ultimately saves us and we have assurance of salvation by faith in Christ, why do we need other believers?
8/18/1996 • 37 minutes, 32 seconds
Do Not Harden Your Heart in the Day of Trouble
The surety of believers lies not in the absence of conditions but in the promises of power.
8/11/1996 • 42 minutes, 24 seconds
Jesus: Worthy of More Glory Than Moses
Jesus is both the word from God and the way to God.
8/4/1996 • 33 minutes, 8 seconds
The God Who Strengthens His People
God’s people serve him not by giving him something he lacks, but by trusting his precious promises and depending on him at every step.
6/30/1996 • 54 minutes, 3 seconds
The God Who Strengthens His People
Sin tempts with empty promises, but it’s allure remains all too powerful. Fighting sin’s pleasure with the power of a superior promise is the only way to achieve real victory.
6/29/1996 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 58 seconds
The God Who Strengthens His People
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6/28/1996 • 58 minutes, 50 seconds
The God Who Strengthens His People
When we live by faith, we accomplish good works in love, trusting that God’s promises surpass any pleasure sin can offer.
6/27/1996 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 7 seconds
The God Who Strengthens His People
Successful ministry begins with the earth-shattering reality that God himself is the greatest gift anyone can receive.
6/26/1996 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 29 seconds
Jesus Is Able to Help Those Who Are Tempted
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6/23/1996 • 0
Sustained by Sovereign Grace — Forever
In God’s sovereign, sustaining grace, he promises to hold us and keep us to the very end.
6/16/1996 • 0
Our Captain Made Perfect Through Sufferings
We are saved by Jesus' suffering because that is what will glorify God most.
6/2/1996 • 39 minutes, 32 seconds
For Whom Did Jesus Taste Death?
Christ tasted death for everyone who has faith. Because the faith of everyone who believes was purchased by the death of Christ.
5/26/1996 • 42 minutes, 59 seconds
Who Rules the World to Come?
The second Adam, Jesus Christ,
defeated death and restored the hope of Psalm 8 for all who are in
him.
5/19/1996 • 36 minutes, 19 seconds
Spoken, Confirmed, Witnessed: a Great Salvation
The message of our great salvation has been confirmed by a cluster of reliable witnesses.
5/5/1996 • 39 minutes, 45 seconds
The Danger of Drifting from the Word
Life in this world is like a river, not a lake. We’re all drifting toward something — some of us to eternal life, others eternal destruction.
4/28/1996 • 35 minutes, 58 seconds
Jesus Christ: Infinitely Superior to Angels
Angels were created for Christ's everlasting glory
and for our everlasting joy.
4/14/1996 • 35 minutes, 2 seconds
He Sat Down at the Right Hand of Majesty
We owe our
purification to Jesus and we owe our being to him.
4/7/1996 • 40 minutes, 37 seconds
He Made Purification of Sins
The purification that was made was made once for all.
4/4/1996 • 32 minutes, 45 seconds
In These Last Days, God Has Spoken by a Son
Do you want to hear God speak? God has now spoken not just by prophets, but through his Son.
3/31/1996 • 46 minutes, 4 seconds
When God Says, "Not Now"
What are God's purposes when he says "No" to his praying people?
3/24/1996 • 47 minutes, 34 seconds
Let All Who Seek Thee Rejoice and Be Glad in Thee; Let Those Who Love Thy Salvation Say Continually, "The Lord Be Magnified"
Our joy in God is both our worship and our evangelism.
3/17/1996 • 46 minutes, 23 seconds
Getting Right with God and Each Other
Human reconciliation is much harder than financial
donation.
3/10/1996 • 32 minutes, 11 seconds
I Have Other Sheep
The
sovereignty of God over the wills of men doesn't make evangelism
unnecessary; it makes it hopeful.
3/3/1996 • 27 minutes, 4 seconds
Raising Children Who Are Confident in God
What is our calling as parents and as
a community of Christians toward our children?
2/25/1996 • 45 minutes, 49 seconds
Becoming All Things to All Men to Save Some
Until the wrath of God figures as largely in our worldview as it did for
Paul, we will not have the passion for evangelism that he had.
2/18/1996 • 36 minutes, 45 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | God will have his way in the lives of his people and across the globe. And he will use our prayers to accomplish precisely what he wills.
2/14/1996 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 8 seconds
Walk in Wisdom: Seize the Moment
Wisdom is the use of knowledge to reach worthy goals, such as winning outsiders to Christ.
2/11/1996 • 42 minutes, 59 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | Listen Now
2/7/1996 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 12 seconds
God's Purpose for Jacob and Bethlehem
Everyone we
lead to Christ is a fulfillment of the promise, "I am God
Almighty; be fruitful and multiply."
2/4/1996 • 29 minutes, 4 seconds
Martin Luther: Lessons from His Life and Labor
Five hundred years later, we still feel the effects of Luther’s life and labor. Pastors today can learn from his devotion to the church and his rigorous, heartfelt study.
1/30/1996 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 37 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | In order to understand God’s undisputed providence and sovereignty, we need to see that Scripture presents God as having both a sovereign will and a moral will.
1/24/1996 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 39 seconds
Challenging the Church and Culture with Truth
John Piper | Believing in the supremacy of God leads us to believe in the existence of absolute truth.
1/21/1996 • 46 minutes, 20 seconds
Racial Reconciliation
Let us be the salt and the light of our hostile and fearful
society with courageous acts of inter-racial kindness and
respect.
1/14/1996 • 46 minutes, 20 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | God reigns supremely over the heart of every man and woman. But that doesn’t mean he’s just a puppet master pulling our strings.
1/10/1996 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 11 seconds
Prayer Changes People’s Wills
Don’t neglect the amazing influence you have in the world through prayer.
1/7/1996 • 42 minutes, 4 seconds
Incentives to Strive in Prayer
John Piper | God calls us from time to time, and some of
us as a kind of vocation, to strive—to struggle, and wrestle,
and persist, and prevail in prayer.
12/31/1995 • 41 minutes, 50 seconds
The Son of Man Came to Give His Life a Ransom for Many
Were you ransomed when Christ died? Are you still under the guilt
and power of sin when you might be free?
12/24/1995 • 36 minutes, 3 seconds
The Son of Man Came to Serve
At the end of this season, receive the best present imaginable: Jesus giving himself to die for you and serve you.
12/17/1995 • 35 minutes
Good News to the Poor
John Piper | The fact that Jesus was born to a poor couple in a cow stall tells us something about the way God meant to reach the world.
12/10/1995 • 33 minutes, 33 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | The heart of a king or a president or a ruler is nothing but a stream of water in God’s hands. The Lord turns it wherever he wills.
12/6/1995 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 51 seconds
Diversity in God-Centered Worship
John Piper | The abiding foundation of our corporate worship is
God-centeredness.
12/3/1995 • 36 minutes, 25 seconds
Urban-Suburban Partnership
Our
mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in everything, including choosing where we live.
11/26/1995 • 41 minutes, 41 seconds
The Value of Relationships
All
Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other
stay satisfied in God.
11/19/1995 • 30 minutes, 50 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | God is always doing more than any of us can see, including ruling and reigning over the affairs of every nation and ever people group on the earth.
11/15/1995 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 30 seconds
Vision for the Harvest: 2000 by 2000
John Piper | When we give ourselves to the work of
personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into
our souls.
11/5/1995 • 36 minutes, 9 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | While we may never know certain details about how God works, we can hold full confidence that he reigns supreme, and not even Satan can thwart his plans.
11/1/1995 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 32 seconds
Sustained by All His Grace
All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.
10/29/1995 • 41 minutes, 29 seconds
God’s Sustaining Grace
Every mishap, every setback, and every roadblock in your life is an opportunity for God to lavish you with sustaining grace.
10/27/1995 • 50 minutes, 42 seconds
Love Them Both
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10/27/1995 • 37 minutes, 23 seconds
Praying for All His Purposes, Meditating on All His Word
Believing that the Bible is the Word of God is a gigantic event
in the soul. Therefore God does not leave it merely to man.
10/22/1995 • 47 minutes, 48 seconds
By Treasuring All That God Is, All Whom He Loves
Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the
form of love that people can see.
10/15/1995 • 46 minutes, 59 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | The Bible presents God as one who has all power and control over our world, all the way down to the tiniest molecule and the shortest fraction of a second.
10/11/1995 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 53 seconds
Through Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit
Jesus Christ has
released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing
death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.
10/8/1995 • 42 minutes, 13 seconds
A Passion for the Supremacy of God for the Joy of All Peoples
John Piper | We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of
God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
10/1/1995 • 32 minutes, 47 seconds
Paul's Ambition and Bethlehem's Mission
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9/24/1995 • 47 minutes, 29 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | God’s sovereignty means that he ordains everything that happens — including the fall of mankind.
9/20/1995 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 39 seconds
How Christ Enables the Church to Upbuild Itself in Love
The New Testament gives no hint that worship services and classes are the sum total of
what church was supposed to be.
9/17/1995 • 38 minutes, 51 seconds
Toward the Tithe and Beyond
To give is not to buy. And
that weekly crisis is utterly important to maintain.
9/10/1995 • 42 minutes, 16 seconds
The Providence of God
John Piper | Providence is not just a doctrine for theologians to argue about, but an all-encompassing truth that ignites the joy of God’s people.
9/10/1995 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 9 seconds
The Blinding Effects of Serving God
It dishonors God to treat him as a master in need of slave labor. What
honors God is not slave labor, but childlike faith in his
all-sufficiency.
9/3/1995 • 42 minutes, 32 seconds
Coming to Yourself and Coming to the Father
God eagerly waits for his lost children to come home. When they do, he receives them with open arms and a glad heart.
8/27/1995 • 42 minutes, 1 second
Jonathan Edwards and Revival, Part 2
John Piper | Jonathan Edwards was used powerfully by God in the First Great Awakening both to promote and assess the revival in New England, as well as to leave behind a fruitful legacy of theological works that have greatly impacted the church.
8/20/1995 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 23 seconds
The Happiest Days of Heaven
Jesus eating with and receiving tax collectors and sinners displays God’s heart to seek and save the lost.
8/20/1995 • 39 minutes, 21 seconds
Jonathan Edwards and Revival
The thought of Jonathan Edwards, demonstrated through a handful of notable works, had a profound impact on John Piper’s life and ministry.
8/13/1995 • 59 minutes, 24 seconds
This Man Receives Sinners and Eats with Them
The Son of Man came to
seek and to save that which was lost. He sought them,
he received them, he ate with them, and he saved them.
8/13/1995 • 55 minutes, 40 seconds
A Call to Love — and to Death
We’ll never love like Jesus loved until we die to ourselves. But in that death, we’ll find more life than we even could have hoped.
6/25/1995 • 40 minutes, 56 seconds
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.
6/18/1995 • 40 minutes, 9 seconds
Summer Is for Seeing and Showing Christ
Without seeing Christ, the burden to show him to others becomes slave labor.
6/11/1995 • 33 minutes, 28 seconds
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.
6/4/1995 • 37 minutes, 37 seconds
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.
5/21/1995 • 39 minutes, 9 seconds
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.
5/14/1995 • 36 minutes, 15 seconds
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.
5/7/1995 • 33 minutes, 30 seconds
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.
4/30/1995 • 39 minutes, 7 seconds
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.
4/23/1995 • 12 minutes, 44 seconds
The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Freedom
Of all the great things that Easter means, it also means this: it is a mighty "I meant it!" behind Jesus' death.
4/16/1995 • 45 minutes, 36 seconds
The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Lavish Benefits
God might have rescued us, sacrificed for
us, forgiven us, and not gone any further. But instead he took us into his family.
4/9/1995 • 35 minutes, 13 seconds
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.
4/2/1995 • 38 minutes, 33 seconds
The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Cost
The most worthy
of living, the least worthy of dying. This is the life Jesus gave for
you—that you might live.
3/26/1995 • 35 minutes, 14 seconds
Who Shall Separate Us from the Love of Christ?
If we are to grow in our love to one another, we must first experience Christ’s love as a deep, unshakable love.
3/19/1995 • 35 minutes, 7 seconds
The Greatest of These Is Love: An Introduction to the Series
God is love. The implications of this for the way we live are big.
3/12/1995 • 46 minutes, 40 seconds
God’s Chosen Fast
Pouring ourselves out for others is the path of greatest satisfaction and joy.
2/19/1995 • 37 minutes, 56 seconds
A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail
Religious fervor is no substitute for righteous living. Our words and actions must flow from love for God and neighbor.
2/12/1995 • 36 minutes, 10 seconds
Fasting for the Father's Reward
Jesus is not teaching on whether we should fast or not. He assumes we will and teaches us how to do it and especially
how not to do it.
2/5/1995 • 28 minutes, 33 seconds
Charles Spurgeon: Preaching Through Adversity
He delivered more than 600 sermons before he was 20 years old. He is the most prolific Christian author ever. He did the work of 50 men. And he suffered, yet endured.
1/31/1995 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 36 seconds
Fasting for the King's Coming
Shall we long for the Christ less than Anna longed for him?
1/29/1995 • 31 minutes, 13 seconds
Fasting for the Safety of the Little Ones
Perhaps the Christian
church has not used all the spiritual resources available to us in
the effort to overcome darkness.
1/22/1995 • 34 minutes, 48 seconds
Man Shall Not Live on Bread Alone
Fasting is God's testing ground—and healing ground.
1/15/1995 • 41 minutes, 38 seconds
When the Bridegroom Is Taken Away, They Will Fast—With New Wineskins
We have tasted the wine of Christ's presence by
his Spirit and cannot now be satisfied until the consummation of
joy arrives.
1/8/1995 • 33 minutes, 36 seconds
Prayer, Fasting, and the Course of History
The course of history has been changed again and again through the fasting of
God's people.
1/1/1995 • 34 minutes, 1 second
The Task and Motive of Missions
John Piper | If our efforts to spread the gospel to the least reached will ever succeed, the mercy of God must be our motive and the glory of God must be our goal.
1/1/1995 • 53 minutes, 35 seconds
Parenting for the Glory of God
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12/29/1994 • 54 minutes, 46 seconds
The Destiny: Eternal Life
Why does eternity exist? It exists because it will take that long for us to know the
inexhaustible glories of God.
12/25/1994 • 31 minutes, 49 seconds
The Duty: Faith
John Piper | Believe on Jesus and you shall not perish but have eternal
life.
12/18/1994 • 23 minutes, 36 seconds
The Design Is Love
God loves you so much that he gave his Son for you. If you believe in him, you’ll have eternal life.
12/11/1994 • 26 minutes, 16 seconds
The Danger: Perishing
Perishing means wrath; it means fiery torment; it means
separation from God; and it lasts forever.
12/4/1994 • 25 minutes, 32 seconds
The Dominion Belongs to the God of All Grace
If God called you to his glory, he's going to get you to his glory.
11/27/1994 • 31 minutes, 58 seconds
Are You Humble Enough to Be Care-Free?
Humility is what we need if we hope to find rest in the promises of God.
11/20/1994 • 31 minutes, 40 seconds
How Elder-Shepherds Prepare to Meet the Chief Shepherd
When the
Chief Shepherd comes, he is going to call elders to account and say,
"Did you feed my sheep?"
11/13/1994 • 29 minutes, 22 seconds
Cities of Ruthless Nations Will Revere Thee
Great affliction + deep poverty + abundant joy = great
generosity.
11/6/1994 • 32 minutes, 24 seconds
The Word That Comes Worshiping: Savoring What We Say About God
John Piper | When the preacher’s own heart sings with the glories of God, he can’t help but overflow to his people in the pulpit.
11/3/1994 • 44 minutes, 28 seconds
The Word That Kindles Worship: Showing the Glories of God
John Piper | Preaching not only shows the content and truth of Scripture, but is an act of praise that helps others see and savor God.
11/2/1994 • 42 minutes, 21 seconds
Worship Comes by the Word: Satisfaction in the Greatness of God
John Piper | Preaching shouldn’t aim mainly at meeting felt needs, but at painting, singing, and heralding the glories of God in Scripture.
11/2/1994 • 35 minutes, 9 seconds
Why We Can Rejoice in Suffering
King Jesus stores his greatest joys for us not in the courtyard where the sun always shines, but deep in the cellars of affliction.
10/23/1994 • 36 minutes, 57 seconds
God in Everything at the End of the Age
What did Peter mean when he wrote that the end of all things is at hand?
10/16/1994 • 36 minutes, 51 seconds
Preserving Your Joy in God (with Portuguese Interpretation)
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10/13/1994 • 58 minutes, 37 seconds
Finding Joy Through Loving Others (with Portuguese Interpretation)
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10/13/1994 • 58 minutes, 26 seconds
Fearlessness in Defense of the Truth (with Portuguese Interpretation)
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10/12/1994 • 56 minutes, 38 seconds
Women in Ministry (with Portuguese Interpretation)
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10/12/1994 • 58 minutes, 47 seconds
The Social Panorama of Our Day (with Portuguese Interpretation)
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10/11/1994 • 56 minutes, 21 seconds
Leadership and Submission in the Home (with Portuguese Interpretation)
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10/11/1994 • 56 minutes, 48 seconds
Should We Seek Our Happiness? (with Portuguese Interpretation)
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10/11/1994 • 57 minutes, 55 seconds
God's Passion for His Glory (with Portuguese Interpretation)
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10/10/1994 • 43 minutes, 40 seconds
Arming Yourself with the Purpose to Suffer
The Great Commission will not be completed without suffering.
10/2/1994 • 34 minutes, 17 seconds
Strengthened to Suffer: Christ, Noah, and Baptism
The Son of Man came not to
be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Let's follow him.
9/25/1994 • 43 minutes, 11 seconds
Christ Is Hallowed in Us When We Hope in Him
In this sermon, John Piper shows us that Jesus shines bright when our hope is meek, fearless, well-defended, and zealous for good deeds.
9/18/1994 • 40 minutes, 12 seconds
Your Calling Is to Bless Believers
The primary purpose of small groups is to help each other maintain the full assurance of
faith.
9/11/1994 • 29 minutes, 30 seconds
Women of Valor for Non-Promise Keepers
Those married to unbelieving husbands should be like the holy women of old and hope in God. In fact, we all should.
9/4/1994 • 34 minutes, 44 seconds
“Grace to You” and “Grace with You”
Paul lived by faith in future
grace. And therefore he blessed all his churches over and over
again with future grace.
8/28/1994 • 31 minutes, 9 seconds
Christ Died for Our Sins That We Might Die to Sin
Jesus died for us to make us like him.
6/26/1994 • 37 minutes, 42 seconds
The Counsel of the Lord Stands Forever
A
truth stripped of God is not a whole truth and will not guide the
church well.
6/12/1994 • 31 minutes, 35 seconds
How To Suffer for Doing What Is Right
Radical Christianity, real
Christianity, makes a difference.
6/5/1994 • 33 minutes, 27 seconds
Slaves of God: Free from All to Honor All
The aim of
life—including our social and political life—is to live
to God.
5/29/1994 • 38 minutes, 7 seconds
The War Against the Soul and the Glory of God
The two greatest issues in life
are how the soul of man might not be destroyed and how the glory of
God might not be belittled.
5/22/1994 • 35 minutes, 48 seconds
Do Not Forsake Your Mother's Teaching
All the
commandments are full of promise, but God goes out of his way to emphasize that of honoring mother and father.
5/8/1994 • 31 minutes, 14 seconds
Who Shall Shepherd the Flock?
Elders must lead the church in times of blessing and of refinement.
4/24/1994 • 28 minutes, 4 seconds
Christian Identity and Christian Destiny
God made us who we are to show the world who he is through us.
4/17/1994 • 29 minutes, 25 seconds
But Christ Has Been Raised, You Are Not Still In Your Sins
If we are saved by Christ's death, what does his resurrection add?
4/3/1994 • 33 minutes, 5 seconds
Forgive Just as God in Christ Also Has Forgiven You
How do we get what we need to forgive
those who sin against us?
3/27/1994 • 28 minutes, 31 seconds
The God-Centered Ground of Saving Grace
In every way, God’s saving grace is God-centered. Salvation’s goal is God’s glory and our joy in the praise of his perfection.
3/25/1994 • 32 minutes, 25 seconds
As We Forgive Our Debtors
If we hold fast to an unforgiving spirit, we will not be
forgiven by God.
3/20/1994 • 36 minutes, 18 seconds
Today's Mercies for Today's Troubles
You will not be asked to live tomorrow on today's strength. The mercy
to carry you through
this hour is given in this hour.
3/13/1994 • 36 minutes, 20 seconds
Why God Laid a Stone of Stumbling
No human can thwart
the purposes of God, neither by belief nor unbelief.
2/27/1994 • 32 minutes, 52 seconds
Becoming a Spiritual House and Holy Priesthood
Are the sacrifices we offer spiritual
sacrifices?
2/20/1994 • 35 minutes, 34 seconds
Good and Evil in the Churches of Asia and Bethlehem
Jesus told four churches
that he had something against them, but that not everything they
did was in vain.
2/13/1994 • 19 minutes, 57 seconds
Preparing for the Discipline of a Vocational Minister
John Piper | We lead by example not just when we succeed, but also when we fail.
2/6/1994 • 28 minutes, 9 seconds
World Evangelism Q&A
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2/3/1994 • 55 minutes, 56 seconds
The Pastorate and World Evangelism
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2/3/1994 • 57 minutes, 26 seconds
Prayer as the Instrument of World Evangelism
God accomplishes his purposes in the world through the prayers of his people.
2/3/1994 • 47 minutes, 59 seconds
Still More Sheep
John Piper | God has ransomed people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation. We can go to the nations confident that God will finish his mission.
2/2/1994 • 43 minutes, 59 seconds
The Supremacy of God in World Evangelism
God’s passion for his own glory is the only fuel that will sustain the power we need for missions.
2/1/1994 • 38 minutes, 41 seconds
Long for the Pure Milk of the Word
Long for the pure milk of the Word. Do not settle for spiritual fatalism. It is not God's will for you.
1/30/1994 • 35 minutes, 3 seconds
The Chief Design of My Life: Mortification and Universal Holiness
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1/25/1994 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 3 seconds
The Seed of the Word and the Fruit of Love
The power to
love comes through hoping in God.
1/23/1994 • 34 minutes, 26 seconds
What Is Man?
You cannot worship and glorify the majesty of God while treating his supreme creation with contempt.
1/16/1994 • 30 minutes, 32 seconds
The Prayers of the Saints and the End of the World
No believing prayer is
in vain. Ever.
1/9/1994 • 43 minutes, 27 seconds
That Your Prayers May Not Be Hindered
Praying can help us live rightly, but living rightly can also help us pray better.
1/2/1994 • 30 minutes, 23 seconds
Christ Appeared That We Might Hope in God
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12/19/1993 • 25 minutes, 12 seconds
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.
12/5/1993 • 22 minutes, 3 seconds
Girding the Mind to Guard Your Hope
Avoid what numbs your mind
to God and stay sober for the sake of hope.
11/28/1993 • 22 minutes, 39 seconds
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.
11/21/1993 • 31 minutes, 47 seconds
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.
11/14/1993 • 31 minutes, 55 seconds
Let the Nations Be Glad
God blesses us so that the nations will be blessed.
11/7/1993 • 32 minutes, 50 seconds
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.
10/24/1993 • 27 minutes, 25 seconds
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.
10/17/1993 • 26 minutes, 25 seconds
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.
10/10/1993 • 29 minutes, 5 seconds
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.
9/26/1993 • 29 minutes, 45 seconds
Lovers of Truth in a Politically Correct (Sex-leveling) World
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.
9/22/1993 • 36 minutes, 44 seconds
Christ-Centered Sexuality at Home
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.
9/21/1993 • 43 minutes, 25 seconds
Does God Call Men to Lead like Christ? The Body of Christ, the Business World, and the Battlefield
John Piper | The roles of men and women that shape marriage, business, and the battlefield are not derived from culture or the fall, but the way God created the world.
9/20/1993 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 43 seconds
Is It Good or Bad to Be Sex-blind?
A biblical understanding of manhood and womanhood is undermined in America to the detriment of God’s created order.
9/20/1993 • 35 minutes, 33 seconds
How Aliens Keep the Identity of Their Homeland
Orient your life on the kingdom of God and his values and purposes.
9/19/1993 • 28 minutes, 24 seconds
King of the Nations
When God causes us to be born again to a living hope, we become sojourners in this world. Our true home yet awaits.
9/12/1993 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds
How Satan Saves the Soul
Jesus is Satan's ruler, and he uses him to save
and sanctify his people.
9/5/1993 • 32 minutes, 57 seconds
What Happens When You Die? Glorified and Free on the New Earth
What will things be like after Jesus returns?
8/8/1993 • 32 minutes, 9 seconds
What Happens When You Die? All Appear Before the Judgment Seat of Christ
In the end, God will judge us all. But our pardon in the blood of Jesus is more than sufficient.
8/1/1993 • 34 minutes, 6 seconds
What Happens When You Die? The Dead Will Be Raised Imperishable
God will honor the work of his Son by raising your
body from the dead, and you will use your body to glorify him forever and ever.
7/25/1993 • 32 minutes, 26 seconds
What Happens When You Die? At Home with the Lord
Even though Paul’s outer man is decaying, his inner man is renewed day-by-day through his faith in the unseen weight of glory.
7/18/1993 • 34 minutes, 59 seconds
Fear Not, I Am with You, I Am Your God
God is over you, by you, inside you, around you, underneath you. Trust him and do not fear.
6/20/1993 • 32 minutes, 52 seconds
Anxieties: To Be Cast Not Carried
Humble yourselves under the hand of God by casting your anxiety on him.
6/13/1993 • 30 minutes, 20 seconds
Things Are Worse Than and Better Than They Seem
Christ has the last word. You will receive from him the crown of life. He will not let you be hurt by the second death.
6/6/1993 • 34 minutes, 16 seconds
We Had Boldness in Our God
We need boldness in our God. Without it, our lives will be lived in vain.
5/30/1993 • 28 minutes, 23 seconds
The Noble Army of the Martyrs Praise Thee
John Piper | There is a number of martyrs appointed by God that must be fulfilled before the final consummation.
5/23/1993 • 17 minutes
Loved Flock, Do Not Be Afraid to Give It Away
John Piper | How you handle what you possess demonstrates where your heart truly lies.
5/16/1993 • 32 minutes, 29 seconds
God Is a Very Important Person
God is a very important person and he does not like being taken for granted.
5/11/1993 • 27 minutes, 18 seconds
You Joyfully Accepted the Plundering of Your Property
John Piper | Be free from domesticated,
comfort-seeking, entertainment-addicted Christianity.
5/9/1993 • 32 minutes, 51 seconds
The Righteous Are Bold as a Lion
The wicked flee for fear of the retribution that their wrongs deserve, but the righteous--those cleared of wrongdoing through Christ--stand boldly.
5/2/1993 • 28 minutes, 50 seconds
Fearlessness as a Sign of Destruction and Salvation
Unity in Christ and fearlessness before our
opponents make the worth of the gospel clear.
4/25/1993 • 35 minutes, 44 seconds
I Have Authority to Lay It Down and I Have Authority to Take It Up Again
The story of Easter doesn't end with a mangled shepherd lying dead
among three dead wolves.
4/11/1993 • 26 minutes, 38 seconds
He Shall Be Satisfied with the Fruit of His Travail
It was the
will of the Lord to crush him, NOT because of his own sins, but
because of our sins.
4/4/1993 • 33 minutes, 49 seconds
Like a Lamb That Is Led to Slaughter
We deserved to be slaughtered for
our sin, but Jesus was slaughtered instead.
3/28/1993 • 34 minutes, 5 seconds
Surely He Has Borne Our Griefs
Instead of crushing us for our iniquities, God's Servant is crushed for them as our substitute.
3/14/1993 • 34 minutes, 35 seconds
Renewing the Covenant for the Sake of God's Name
The covenant we make together as a local church is only possible because the God we have is abundatly gracious and steadfast in love.
3/7/1993 • 32 minutes, 5 seconds
Preserving the Covenant Community In Spite of Sickness and Sin
John Piper | How do you preserve the covenant
community in spite of sickness and sin?
2/28/1993 • 38 minutes, 3 seconds
A Model of Covenant Exhortation
John Piper | Don't get into people's lives only when things are falling apart;
get in when things are going well and help each other keep that course.
2/21/1993 • 31 minutes, 31 seconds
Advancing and Sustaining the Covenant Community
John Piper | Every Christian has a crucial need for covenant relationships, regardless of how un-American it may be.
2/14/1993 • 26 minutes, 44 seconds
The New Covenant and the New Covenant People
The covenant that makes us belong to God makes us belong to each other.
2/7/1993 • 36 minutes, 3 seconds
Why a Church Covenant?
We must seek a better understanding of the covenantal meaning of the local church.
1/31/1993 • 36 minutes, 53 seconds
J. Gresham Machen’s Response to Modernism
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1/26/1993 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 15 seconds
Being Pro-Life Christians Under a Pro-Choice President
How shall we obey God's command to honor
the king—or the president, or the governor—when they promote
dishonorable deeds?
1/17/1993 • 35 minutes, 21 seconds
Ask Whatever You Wish
God designed prayer to give his disciples the joy of bearing fruit while God himself gets the glory.
1/10/1993 • 25 minutes, 15 seconds
If My Words Abide In You
The great need of the hour is to know God more deeply and personally and biblically. Only then will we find great delight.
1/3/1993 • 32 minutes, 30 seconds
A Year-End Look at Jesus Christ
We need to be
like lights shining in a dark place. Which means we need to behold
Jesus. We need to gaze at Christ.
12/27/1992 • 34 minutes, 42 seconds
Why the Son of God Came into the World
John Piper | The Bible's picture of our Savior too radical that it should be the mere
creation of sinful men.
12/20/1992 • 36 minutes
Body Pains: Feelings of Self-Sufficiency
John Piper | Even if we don't have the same heart for a particular issue facing us, let us have the same heart for each other.
12/13/1992 • 0
Body Pains: Feelings of Uselessness
If we say we are useless, we not only say no to the idea of the
body, but worse, we say no to God. We don't trust him.
12/6/1992 • 24 minutes, 12 seconds
Living in the Spirit and in the Body for the Common Good
Gifts are for the glory of God and the good of
the church.
11/29/1992 • 27 minutes, 14 seconds
You Were Bought with a Price
Christianity has to do with everything
your body has to do with—food and sex and sleep and talking and playing and working.
11/22/1992 • 28 minutes, 46 seconds
Sound Judgment, One Body, Several Parts
Why doesn't God give everyone the same faith and gifts?
11/15/1992 • 31 minutes, 42 seconds
One Lord, One Spirit, One Body for All Time and All Peoples
The truth that there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, is a
truth for inside the church and outside the church.
11/8/1992 • 34 minutes, 47 seconds
How the Saints Minister to the Body
Love abounding in knowledge and
discernment is what builds Christ's body.
10/25/1992 • 29 minutes, 8 seconds
Why the Saints Minister to the Body
The aim of
your ministry as a Christian is to build up
the body as a whole.
10/18/1992 • 36 minutes, 32 seconds
Beautifying the Body of Christ
John Piper | Christ did not simply die for an unworthy woman or for a reluctant woman, but for a woman who found him repulsive.
10/11/1992 • 32 minutes, 7 seconds
The Nature of Faith as Joy
God’s grace works so powerfully in every believer that none remains unchanged. The grace that accepts us unquestionably also alters us irrevocably.
10/10/1992 • 57 minutes, 53 seconds
The Joy of God in Bruising His Son
John Piper | God was pleased to bruise his Son, not because he delights in violence, but because Jesus lived every second to glorify his Father in heaven.
10/10/1992 • 44 minutes, 7 seconds
The Joy of God in His Fame
When we sin, we hurt ourselves and those around us. But most fundamentally our sin offends an infinitely holy God who will not stand to have injustice go unpunished for long.
10/9/1992 • 42 minutes, 40 seconds
Idolatry, the Lord's Supper, and the Body of Christ
The Lord's Supper exists to deepen and strengthen our participation in the benefits
of the cross and to nourish our fellowship with Christ.
10/4/1992 • 31 minutes, 49 seconds
Israel and Us Reconciled in One Body
Jesus is the point in redemptive history where the true Israel
becomes the church of Christ and the church
emerges as the true Israel.
9/27/1992 • 40 minutes, 19 seconds
His Body: The Fullness of Him Who Fills All in All
God means
to fill the universe with the glory of his Son by putting the
church on display as the embodiment of his Son.
9/20/1992 • 33 minutes, 33 seconds
Living Together When Christ Is All in All
No matter what the issue is, it exists for Christ, or for nothing. Because CHRIST IS ALL.
9/13/1992 • 26 minutes, 3 seconds
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.
9/6/1992 • 29 minutes
To Finish the Aim of Christ’s Afflictions
The world sees the suffering love of Christ for sinners in the suffering love of his people for sinners.
8/30/1992 • 35 minutes, 18 seconds
That We Might Gain Christ: Called to Suffer and Rejoice
We come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.
8/23/1992 • 37 minutes, 21 seconds
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.
8/16/1992 • 32 minutes, 20 seconds
How Then Shall We Run?
Our eternal destiny hinges on the way we run our race. Let us strive to win the eternal prize.
8/9/1992 • 39 minutes, 6 seconds
Olympic Spirituality: Beyond the Gold
As we run our races, eternity hangs in the balance — disqualification and death, or victory and life.
8/2/1992 • 23 minutes, 28 seconds
The Echo and Insufficiency of Hell, Part 2
John Piper | Fear of hell is no proof of love for God.
6/21/1992 • 33 minutes, 30 seconds
The Echo and Insufficiency of Hell, Part 1
The horror of hell is an
echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.
6/14/1992 • 26 minutes, 52 seconds
Should Not I Pity That Great City...Minneapolis?
God has made the cities of this world, and he cares for them. So should we.
6/7/1992 • 33 minutes, 34 seconds
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.
4/26/1992 • 32 minutes, 8 seconds
Christ and Those in Him Will Never Die Again
What if it's true that Christ rose from the dead?
4/19/1992 • 32 minutes, 35 seconds
God Sanctifies His People
Assurance does not come from making holiness optional. It comes
from
knowing God is faithful.
4/12/1992 • 34 minutes, 31 seconds
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.
4/5/1992 • 35 minutes
God Justified the Ungodly
Being justified means being forgiven, being reckoned righteous, being loved by God, and being secured by God forever.
3/22/1992 • 36 minutes, 29 seconds
God Vindicated His Righteousness in the Death of Christ
God put sent Christ to die in
order to demonstrate his righteousness.
3/15/1992 • 36 minutes, 37 seconds
God Predestined Us unto Sonship Through Jesus Christ
The ultimate goal of God in election and predestination is that
God might be praised for his glory.
3/8/1992 • 29 minutes, 26 seconds
God Has Chosen Us in Him Before the Foundation of the Earth
The glorious, unshakable, objective foundation of your being a
Christian is that God chose you to be one.
3/1/1992 • 29 minutes, 46 seconds
Receiving Children in Jesus' Name
Children prove whether
you are truly great or not—whether you live to serve or live to be
praised.
2/23/1992 • 41 minutes, 19 seconds
The Full Assurance of Hope
If second things become first things,
we may have a rigorous religion, but we will not have evangelical,
God-centered, biblical Christianity.
2/9/1992 • 26 minutes, 26 seconds
Savoring God by Serving the Saints
In this message, Pastor John discusses the connection between serving the saints and enjoying God.
2/2/1992 • 25 minutes, 17 seconds
Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of a Saint
William Cowper’s life was wrought with sadness and depression. But he still produced glorious hymns that resound loudly in our churches today.
1/29/1992 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 47 seconds
Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion
How can Christians serve as the conscience of our culture?
1/26/1992 • 35 minutes, 1 second
Enough for Us
John Piper | The Bible teaches that God's aim is not for us to be rich in material goods, but rather for us to be rich in good works.
1/19/1992 • 35 minutes, 25 seconds
Angels and Prayer
Take the supernatural seriously and realize that we are in warfare.
1/12/1992 • 46 minutes, 14 seconds
How to Pray for a Desolate Church
God will accomplish his purpose for the church, even if he choses to use a remnant to do it.
1/5/1992 • 31 minutes, 1 second
Daniel's Defiance of Darius in Prayer
Daniel was immersed in secular life but he still lived by prayer—daring, defiant, disciplined prayer.
12/29/1991 • 37 minutes, 27 seconds
Everyone Who Believes Is Freed
John Piper | Jesus frees us from sin, which is one of seven reasons for why you should trust him.
12/22/1991 • 30 minutes, 35 seconds
History Is God's Story
Everything, without exception, has to do with God,
and gets its main meaning from God.
12/15/1991 • 36 minutes, 16 seconds
The Straight Paths of the Lord
God is not aloof or passive or
indecisive. He is a searching and saving God, a God on a mission.
12/8/1991 • 30 minutes, 17 seconds
Execution, Escape, and Eaten by Worms
If we stay with Jesus, we win, and if we oppose him, we
lose.
12/1/1991 • 29 minutes, 14 seconds
He Saw the Grace of God and Was Glad
The grace of God
does not spare his people suffering in this age, but rather uses
suffering to bring people to himself.
11/24/1991 • 30 minutes, 58 seconds
Exalting Jesus So the Spirit Falls
If you want the Spirit's power in your life, make Jesus the center of your life.
11/17/1991 • 34 minutes, 57 seconds
God: Refuge for His People, Exalted Among the Nations
One of the reasons we invest our lives in some insignificant
ways is that we never become still enough to let the great
realities hit us.
11/10/1991 • 39 minutes, 32 seconds
The Worship of the Christian Leader
Christian worship is duty-bound to drink deeply from God.
11/8/1991 • 57 minutes, 37 seconds
The God of the Christian Leader
When God acts for the fame and praise of his name, he isn’t acting selfishly, but is offering us the best possible gift: full and everlasting joy in himself.
11/8/1991 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 54 seconds
The Labor of the Christian Leader
For a Christian leader to maximize his ministry, he must blaze with a flame of joy in God, and ignite the torches of his people week in and week out.
11/8/1991 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 39 seconds
What Is God Saying in the Snow
Listen Now
11/3/1991 • 27 minutes, 19 seconds
What God Has Cleansed Do Not Call Common
Cornelius would not have been
saved if no one had taken him the gospel. And no one will be saved
today without the gospel.
10/20/1991 • 34 minutes, 47 seconds
Jesus Still Turns Things Around
Jesus does not like pessimistic
views of life or history. He has surprises in store that you have never dreamed.
10/13/1991 • 32 minutes, 2 seconds
Jesus Is the Christ the Son of God
The truth that Jesus is the Son of God needs to be one of the central pillars in our understanding
of reality.
10/6/1991 • 29 minutes, 54 seconds
The Test of Authenticity in a New Sanctuary
The test of the
authenticity our worship on Sunday is whether we are a radically
Christ-like people on Monday.
9/29/1991 • 25 minutes, 26 seconds
Prepare to Meet Your God
When we
come to meet God (whether in corporate worship, or in judgment
at the last day), we should prepare.
9/22/1991 • 31 minutes, 23 seconds
Worship God!
All
God's plans for history from beginning to end have this one
goal—WORSHIP GOD!
9/15/1991 • 32 minutes, 44 seconds
The Fullness of Hope and the Fellowship of Love
The purpose of every small group—whatever else it is—is
to keep the love of its members warm.
9/8/1991 • 34 minutes, 50 seconds
The Mouth of the Righteous Is a Fountain of Life
How does God make your mouth a fountain of life?
9/1/1991 • 29 minutes
He Trusted to Him Who Judges Justly
Our calling, our vocation is to be misunderstood,
criticized, ignored, and hurt for doing what is right, and not to
return hurt for hurt.
8/25/1991 • 38 minutes, 37 seconds
Asa's Folly
The very nature of God is that he is eager to
show his power on behalf of people who trust him.
8/18/1991 • 29 minutes, 47 seconds
Christ’s Power Is Made Perfect in Weakness
Our culture wants power to escape weakness in leisure, but Christianity offers power to endure weakness in love.
7/14/1991 • 33 minutes, 38 seconds
Looking Back to Witnesses, Up to Jesus, and Forward to Joy
The author of Hebrews knows nothing of coasting Christianity.
6/30/1991 • 31 minutes, 9 seconds
I Will Sing Praises to You Among the Nations
John Piper | Something is wrong with a private God. But
if our God is great, we go public with our worship.
6/23/1991 • 31 minutes, 1 second
Forget Not All His Benefits
The steadfast love of the Lord has been the same through all the
changes of the last 120 years.
6/16/1991 • 32 minutes, 44 seconds
Overflowing Grace for All Who Believe
God’s design in converting Paul is to give you hope for yourself and for the people you want to see converted.
6/9/1991 • 34 minutes, 49 seconds
Who Are the Elders?
Congregational authority and strong leadership under that authority
are not incompatible. They are biblical, and they are vital.
6/2/1991 • 28 minutes, 25 seconds
The Leading of the Lord in Personal Evangelism
God
has yet more wonders to show us in the work of evangelism and world
missions than we can imagine.
5/26/1991 • 36 minutes, 27 seconds
What Does It Mean to Receive the Holy Spirit?
Luke expects the
receiving of the Holy Spirit to be a real,
identifiable experience, not just a logical
inference from a human act of will.
5/19/1991 • 32 minutes, 51 seconds
Simon's Perversion of Signs and Wonders
There is a "faith" or a
"believing" that does not save, even though it rises in the
presence of true preaching and true miracles.
5/12/1991 • 32 minutes, 51 seconds
Spreading Power Through Persecution
God makes persecution and suffering serve the unstoppable mission of the
church.
5/5/1991 • 29 minutes, 30 seconds
The Death of a Spirit-Filled Man
Death is not just defeated and kept
from destroying us; it is enslaved and made the servant of God's
people.
4/21/1991 • 26 minutes, 35 seconds
The Story of a Stiff-Necked People
God is not eager to punish; he is eager to forgive. But there is an end to his patience.
4/7/1991 • 27 minutes, 52 seconds
Six Gifts of the Resurrection
The greatest news in all the world is in order to make you happy and glorify Jesus, God raised him from the dead to reign forevermore.
3/31/1991 • 26 minutes, 35 seconds
Stephen's Crime: "Jesus Will Destroy the Temple"
How did Jesus destroy the temple? Why did saying so cost Stephen his life?
3/24/1991 • 35 minutes, 36 seconds
Serving Widows, Preaching the Word, and Winning Priests
A major threat to the Christian movement is
whatever threatens the ministry of the Word.
3/17/1991 • 29 minutes, 32 seconds
You Have Filled Jerusalem with Your Teaching
We are not big. But we are part of something big.
3/3/1991 • 25 minutes, 28 seconds
The Price and the Preciousness of Spiritual Power
The preciousness of
spiritual power is that it is finally in God's control, not ours.
2/24/1991 • 31 minutes, 23 seconds
How Signs and Wonders Helped Add Multitudes to the Lord
God wants us to pray for signs and wonders today.
2/17/1991 • 38 minutes, 32 seconds
Be Like Barnabas Not Like Ananias!
Faking
faith in the presence of God is a fearful thing.
2/10/1991 • 36 minutes, 31 seconds
A Prayer That Brought the Holy Spirit Down
For people
who desire the salvation of sinners, the magnifying of God's
glory, and the vindication of Jesus' name, this is the way to pray.
2/3/1991 • 31 minutes, 19 seconds
A Passion for Christ-Exalting Power
Listen Now
1/30/1991 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 7 seconds
Abortion: Shall We Listen to Men or God?
John Piper | We are
not called to win; we are called to witness.
1/27/1991 • 37 minutes, 51 seconds
There Is Salvation in No One Else
We are
saved only by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus. It's the kind of truth that either
makes converts or makes enemies.
1/20/1991 • 32 minutes, 2 seconds
These You Ought to Have Done Without Neglecting the Others
Don't live for
comforts, live for justice and compassion.
1/13/1991 • 37 minutes, 58 seconds
Sweeter than Honey, Better than Gold
In meditation on the Word of God and
in following it there is great reward—greater than much fine
gold.
1/6/1991 • 31 minutes, 7 seconds
Prevailing Prayer for the Spirit's Power
May the Lord forbid that we would lose heart and fail in the very thing needful: mighty prevailing prayer.
12/30/1990 • 32 minutes, 54 seconds
God Sent His Servant to Bless You
God is moving
toward you today with blessing.
12/23/1990 • 25 minutes, 47 seconds
Times of Refreshing and the Restoration of All Things
We should sing for joy because God fulfills his purposes, forgives sins, and will one day restore all things through Jesus Christ.
12/16/1990 • 13 minutes, 11 seconds
Jesus' Name Made This Man Strong
The Father is the ultimate source
of all healing. Through Jesus the Father does his healing will.
12/9/1990 • 31 minutes, 47 seconds
The Fear of God and Freedom from Goods
A holy, happy fear of God makes our
material possessions insignificant to us, except as means to serve
others.
12/2/1990 • 24 minutes, 45 seconds
Repentance, Forgiveness, and the Gift of the Spirit
Even if you are a murderer
of the Son of God, God himself is ready to forgive you!
And not only to forgive you but to give you his Spirit!
11/25/1990 • 37 minutes, 14 seconds
Thanksgiving in Suffering
John Piper | Jesus, the
Son of God, is alive today, and stands ready to serve you as your
advocate with God the Father.
11/18/1990 • 29 minutes, 36 seconds
Did You Kill the Lord of Glory?
Do you join God in his affirmation of Jesus, or do you stand
against God in the life of Jesus?
11/11/1990 • 29 minutes, 58 seconds
I Will Pour Out My Spirit
We live between the beginning of the kingdom of God and the
consummation of the kingdom. What is that like?
11/4/1990 • 24 minutes, 19 seconds
Disarray or God's Design?
John Piper | May God unite us in one vision of what he is doing
so that we might not only endure but delight in the design of these
days.
10/21/1990 • 36 minutes, 54 seconds
Tongues of Fire and the Fullness of God
When the Spirit comes in power, he
comes suddenly—on his own terms and in his own time—and
he comes for harvesting.
10/14/1990 • 40 minutes, 52 seconds
What Judas's Death Teaches Us About the Spirit
The purpose of the Holy Spirit is invincible and he has
an unwavering zeal for the glory of the God-man, Jesus.
10/7/1990 • 23 minutes, 43 seconds
You Shall Receive Power Till Jesus Comes
The extraordinary experience of being clothed with power is available to us for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
9/30/1990 • 38 minutes, 48 seconds
You Will Be Baptized with the Holy Spirit
In order to be
effective instruments of Jesus' life in the world, you need to be
baptized in the Holy Spirit.
9/23/1990 • 35 minutes, 32 seconds
Public Worship in a Secular World: What, Why and How, Session 2
When churches gather in corporate worship, rock-solid doctrine and intense emotion ought to work side by side. God wants both our minds and our hearts when we worship.
9/19/1990 • 58 minutes, 48 seconds
What Jesus Did After the Beginning
Jesus is alive. He is working, he is teaching, he is doing. And just as he worked through the apostles, he will work through you.
9/16/1990 • 33 minutes, 22 seconds
Public Worship in a Secular World: What, Why and How, Session 1
We worship because of who God is, who we are, how it serves the church, and how it sustains missions.
9/12/1990 • 54 minutes, 6 seconds
Explosive Fellowship
John Piper | This
age is too evil
for us to treat fellowship as a kind of
comfortable togetherness that has no transforming, empowering,
explosive effect.
9/9/1990 • 24 minutes
The Heart You Know and the Heart You Don't
How do you deal with sin in your life if you
love God?
9/2/1990 • 27 minutes, 4 seconds
Do You See the Joy of God in the Sun? Part 2
Listen Now
8/26/1990 • 35 minutes, 28 seconds
Do You See the Joy of God in the Sun?
Through the sky, God ministers humility and hope and healing and happiness.
8/26/1990 • 31 minutes, 26 seconds
Winning Battles Through Prayer
Listen Now
7/19/1990 • 54 minutes, 18 seconds
The Lord Stood by Me
God causes us to persevere in the
fight of faith. Therefore he gets the glory.
4/22/1990 • 31 minutes, 52 seconds
Corporate Prayer in the Life of the Church and in Worship
When the people of God pray together, they look for answers together. We get the help and he gets the collective glory.
4/18/1990 • 45 minutes, 7 seconds
Jesus Is Alive to Serve
Jesus died
to meet your needs. He rose to meet your needs. He reigns to meet
your needs—and make you happy in him forever.
4/15/1990 • 34 minutes, 30 seconds
The Quiet Sign of Calvary Love
John Piper | Signs and wonders are not wrong in themselves, but seeking them could be a camouflage for a wayward heart that refuses to receive the quiet sign of Calvary love.
4/13/1990 • 0
"You Will See the Son of Man Seated at the Right Hand of Power and Coming on the Clouds of Heaven"
Deep down
we know so much truth that we fear and therefore deny.
4/8/1990 • 26 minutes, 53 seconds
Why the Gift of Prophecy Is Not the Usual Way of Knowing God’s Will
The Spirit doesn’t work mainly by revealing hidden messages, but by conforming us to the image of Jesus Christ.
4/1/1990 • 34 minutes, 56 seconds
The Authority and Nature of the Gift of Prophecy
Prophecy is prompted and sustained by the
Spirit and yet does not carry intrinsic, divine authority.
3/25/1990 • 33 minutes, 39 seconds
When Will Prophecy Cease?
The spiritual gift of prophecy has not passed away. God uses it for the good of the church until Jesus comes.
3/18/1990 • 36 minutes, 17 seconds
The Elders, the People, and the Prayer of Faith
James 5 is a rebuke to
pastors that never have the faith to heal and churches that don't
pray in the spirit of Elijah.
3/11/1990 • 38 minutes, 51 seconds
Gifts of Healings and Workings of Miracles
"Gifts of healings" and "workings of miracles"
are for the
church and the mission of Christ in the world today.
3/4/1990 • 28 minutes, 23 seconds
Are Signs and Wonders for Today?
Did the apostles have spiritual gifts that are now obsolete?
2/25/1990 • 38 minutes, 35 seconds
How Is the Kingdom Present?
The kingdom has come and it has overcome the aimlessness and
futility of our lives and given us an awesome reason to live.
2/11/1990 • 34 minutes, 52 seconds
Is the Kingdom Present or Future?
The kingdom of God is
present and future. There has been fulfillment, but there has not
been consummation.
2/4/1990 • 26 minutes, 48 seconds
Oh, That I May Never Loiter on My Heavenly Journey
In spite of the terrible external hardships that Brainerd knew, he pressed on and even flourished under his tribulations that led to the kingdom.
1/31/1990 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 52 seconds
Oh, That I May Never Loiter on My Heavenly Journey
In spite of the terrible external hardships that Brainerd knew, he pressed on and even flourished under his tribulations that led to the kingdom.
1/31/1990 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 52 seconds
The Importance of the Kingdom Today
Since Jesus has come, God exerts his right to rule in new and powerful ways.
1/28/1990 • 36 minutes, 16 seconds
Kingdom Compassion and the Killing of Children
Peaceful, non-violent, ready-to-suffer protest is one way that
the truth and beauty of God's kingdom
shines in this world.
1/21/1990 • 31 minutes, 55 seconds
What Are We Up Against?
Satan is not opposed to
most ordinary things you do, as long as you do them like the rest of the world.
1/14/1990 • 37 minutes, 6 seconds
Compassion, Power, and the Kingdom of God: An Introduction
What is the nature of the kingdom of God? And what is the "power" that the kingdom exerts now in the
church?
1/7/1990 • 33 minutes, 7 seconds
All the Promises of God Are Yes in Christ
Are you living in the fullest enjoyment of God's YES to you in
Christ Jesus? Have you said yes to all of
God's YES to you?
12/31/1989 • 37 minutes, 4 seconds
The Word Became Flesh
God came to live in a tent so we can watch him more closely. God
wants to be seen and known in his Son.
12/24/1989 • 26 minutes, 46 seconds
How to Become a Child of God
Not everyone is a child of God. Are you?
12/17/1989 • 33 minutes, 12 seconds
A Burning Witness to the Light
John the Baptist came so that we might believe in Jesus and have life like we never had it before.
12/10/1989 • 30 minutes, 23 seconds
Triumphant Light
The light shines in the
darkness—Jesus shines, the gospel shines, the church shines—and the darkness will not overcome it.
12/3/1989 • 18 minutes, 52 seconds
Jesus Is the Ruler of Kings on Earth
Jesus Christ is alive and reigning over
all the kings of the earth, and all the events of the world.
11/26/1989 • 34 minutes, 58 seconds
Thanks Be to God for His Inexpressible Gift
John Piper | The answer to the most important questions in life is Jesus Christ,
God's inexpressible gift to you.
11/19/1989 • 38 minutes, 22 seconds
O Lord, Open a Door for the Word!
Pray with
steadfastness, with watchfulness, and with thanksgiving.
11/12/1989 • 25 minutes, 43 seconds
A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken
Listen Now
10/22/1989 • 29 minutes, 23 seconds
Call Upon Me in the Day of Trouble and I Will Deliver You
Be thankful, pay your vows,
call for help. And when God delivers you from the day of
trouble, glorify him with all your heart.
10/15/1989 • 40 minutes, 29 seconds
Out of Zion, the Perfection of Beauty, God Shines Forth
If you trust Christ, you
are already a permanent citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem.
10/8/1989 • 31 minutes, 33 seconds
The Sacrifice of Suffering
Let your light so
shine before lost and needy people outside the
camp, not just in the ease and comfort of your church and your
home.
10/1/1989 • 31 minutes, 54 seconds
The Sacrifice of a Shared Life
God is
pleased with our doing good and our sharing because it demonstrates
the success and power of the sufferings of his Son.
9/24/1989 • 24 minutes, 55 seconds
Old and Young Shall Dream Together
God is calling young and old to dream new dreams of reaching the whole world for Christ.
9/10/1989 • 34 minutes, 43 seconds
Do Not Say, "I Am Only a Youth"
Youth is no excuse for not venturing
something great for God.
9/3/1989 • 34 minutes, 3 seconds
The Prayer of an Old Saint
John Piper | Some Scriptures can only be
fulfilled by recognizing the generation gap and owning up to the
fact that it is good.
8/27/1989 • 39 minutes, 37 seconds
Faithfulness Is Better Than Life
John Piper | Faithfulness is better than anything and everything this life can offer. The reward the Lord will give surpasses any earthly treasure.
8/14/1989 • 50 minutes, 11 seconds
Affirming the Goodness of Manhood and Womanhood in All of Life
God has woven servant leadership and faithful submission into the fabric of manhood and womanhood.
6/25/1989 • 38 minutes, 29 seconds
Manhood, Womanhood, and the Freedom to Minister
Manhood and womanhood are most fulfilled when servant-hearted men lead God’s church in ministry.
6/18/1989 • 32 minutes, 17 seconds
Husbands Who Love Like Christ and the Wives Who Submit to Them
Marriage is a living drama of Christ and his church. When husbands lead, families flourish.
6/11/1989 • 40 minutes, 4 seconds
Jesus, Women, and Men
Jesus calls men and women to look at one another through the lens of his word, not the world.
6/4/1989 • 29 minutes, 15 seconds
Manhood and Womanhood Before Sin
God calls men to lead but not in a way that’s domineering or selfish. Husbands should be the first to stoop low to serve.
5/28/1989 • 36 minutes, 25 seconds
Manhood and Womanhood: Conflict and Confusion After the Fall
Sin distorts God’s good design for men and women. We were made to serve one another selflessly, not sacrifice one another selfishly.
5/21/1989 • 37 minutes, 5 seconds
Male and Female He Created Them in the Image of God
God created man, woman, and the gift of marriage, all to illustrate his love for the church.
5/14/1989 • 36 minutes, 33 seconds
At the Price of God's Own Blood
Can you say say from the
bottom of your heart, "Lord, Jesus, there is nothing I want more in
my life than what you bled to obtain"?
5/7/1989 • 27 minutes, 39 seconds
I Entrust You to God and to the Word of His Grace
If the elders care for the flock, who cares for the elders?
4/30/1989 • 33 minutes, 30 seconds
Watch Out for the Wolves Within
There
is laid upon the elders of the church of Christ a responsibility
unique in all the
world.
4/23/1989 • 40 minutes, 53 seconds
The Guilt of Giving Part of God's Counsel
John Piper | It is
possible for us to be guilty of another person's final
lostness.
4/16/1989 • 41 minutes, 39 seconds
Brothers, We Must Not Mind a Little Suffering
The Christian life grows downward and upward: downward in our pride and upward in our adoration for Jesus.
4/15/1989 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 14 seconds
Faithfulness Is Better Than Life
John Piper | Faithfulness means that you trust God and obey, no matter what impact it has on your safety or
standard of living.
4/9/1989 • 32 minutes, 36 seconds
Serving the Lord with Humility, Tears, and Trials
What
are the marks of a good church elder? What kind of leadership does
the church need?
4/2/1989 • 35 minutes, 36 seconds
Irrevocable Joy
Jesus offers joy that no one can ever snatch and nothing can ever steal. It cannot be destroyed. It cannot be lost. It is forever.
3/26/1989 • 28 minutes, 7 seconds
His Dominion Shall Be from Sea to Sea
Jesus has laid down his life so that he might make you a
genuine offer of reconciliation.
3/19/1989 • 38 minutes, 37 seconds
Joy Recovered
John Piper | How do you become a
Christian? How does the ransom Jesus paid become a ransom for me?
2/12/1989 • 36 minutes, 10 seconds
Joy Purchased
John Piper | The death of Jesus Christ is the only way that any
of us can escape the righteous wrath of God and find peace with God.
2/5/1989 • 32 minutes, 32 seconds
Joy Exchanged and Joy Forfeited
John Piper | We have exchanged
our joy for the dead-end street of judgment.
1/29/1989 • 33 minutes, 16 seconds
The Joyful Duty of Man
In sharing the truth of Christianity, Truth #1 is that God created us for HIS glory. Truth #2 is that this is, therefore, the duty of every man and woman and child—to live for the glory of God. And the wonderful thing is that this duty is not a burden. It is freedom and joy.
1/22/1989 • 35 minutes, 20 seconds
Rescuing Unborn Children: Required and Right
We have no
right to put the unborn in a subhuman class that does not qualify
for our rescue. We ought to rescue as many as we can.
1/15/1989 • 33 minutes, 35 seconds
The Joyful Purpose of God
No matter what part of your Christian commitment you focus on,
the Bible leads you from that focus to the urgency of evangelism.
1/8/1989 • 38 minutes, 22 seconds
Resist the Devil!
War-time prayer is an essential
part of our assault on the strongholds of Satan.
1/1/1989 • 35 minutes, 39 seconds
Jesus Came into the World to Bear Witness to the Truth
Realize how much is at stake in the Jesus' claim to bring the truth. It is a matter of eternal life an death. Your life is on the line.
12/25/1988 • 37 minutes, 40 seconds
Battling the Unbelief of a Haughty Spirit
Pride is the deepest form of unbelief. Nothing offends a sovereign God more than telling him we know best.
12/18/1988 • 30 minutes, 46 seconds
Three Meditations on "The Messiah"
John Piper | The revealing of the Lord’s glory that appeared truly at Christ’s first coming will appear fully at his second coming, and on that day the needy ones who received him as a whole Savior will have unspeakable joy.
12/11/1988 • 19 minutes, 1 second
Battling the Unbelief of Despondency
There’s light at the end of every difficulty you face. You don’t have to give in to despondency.
12/4/1988 • 19 minutes, 59 seconds
Battling the Unbelief of Impatience
God’s timing is never off the mark. He works grace and mercy for those who wait for him.
11/27/1988 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
Battling the Unbelief of Bitterness
If anger takes root in your heart and becomes a grudge or an unforgiving spirit, it can destroy you.
11/20/1988 • 37 minutes, 6 seconds
Battling the Unbelief of Envy
Envy steals your joy when you don’t trust that God is doing what he has promised — working all things together for your good and his glory.
11/14/1988 • 33 minutes, 13 seconds
Battling the Unbelief of Lust
The battle against lust is absolutely necessary for salvation, not just because it’s a battle for purity, but because it’s a battle against unbelief.
11/13/1988 • 32 minutes, 12 seconds
Believing God on Election Day
Even the most significant political battles play out in God’s hands. He removes kings and he sets kings, all in accord with his sovereign plan.
11/6/1988 • 33 minutes
Battling the Unbelief of Covetousness
Covetousness drains our contentment in Christ. We must fight its greedy lies with everything we have.
10/30/1988 • 33 minutes, 29 seconds
Battling the Unbelief of Regret
Worldly regret leads to death, but Godly regret leads to life. God’s forgiveness and sovereignty can turn any failure into good.
10/24/1988 • 37 minutes, 10 seconds
You Shall Receive Power...For Mission
Listen Now
10/16/1988 • 39 minutes, 53 seconds
Battling the Unbelief of Misplaced Shame
The battle against misplaced shame is the battle against unbelief in the trustworthy promises of God.
10/2/1988 • 35 minutes, 46 seconds
Battling the Unbelief of Anxiety
The most basic battle of our life is the fight to believe in the living God, and not to allow our heart to become an evil heart of unbelief.
9/25/1988 • 31 minutes, 17 seconds
Battling Unbelief Together
We must help each other battle unbelief and fight the fight of faith by pointing each other to the trustworthy promises of God.
9/18/1988 • 29 minutes, 28 seconds
Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
Faith that glorifies God produces fruit, looks ahead to the fulfillment of God’s promises, and battles unbelief daily.
9/11/1988 • 34 minutes, 22 seconds
"Tentmakers" in Minneapolis
John Piper | God wants you to see your
job primarily in terms of its strategic effect in making him known.
9/4/1988 • 32 minutes, 45 seconds
The Great Invitation: Break Forth in Song!
Your happiness is God's reputation. Your peace is God's memorial.
And this is an everlasting sign of his love that shall not be cut
off.
8/28/1988 • 27 minutes, 39 seconds
The Great Invitation: God's Triumphant Word
Not one jot or tittle will fall to the ground of
all that God purposes through his omnipotent word.
8/21/1988 • 39 minutes, 6 seconds
The Great Invitation: A High Way for Low Sinners
Everybody needs to call upon the Lord—to seek the Lord right
now while he may be found.
8/14/1988 • 30 minutes, 17 seconds
The Great Invitation: Call Others Too!
Will we be satisfied that God
has made a covenant with us? Or will be
dissatisfied until is spreads to all the nations and peoples of the world?
8/7/1988 • 37 minutes, 30 seconds
The Great Invitation: Come! Drink! Eat! Live!
God is not a topic to be studied. He is a person to be experienced. He is food and life and joy for the soul.
7/31/1988 • 36 minutes, 30 seconds
Prayer: The Work of Missions
Listen Now
7/29/1988 • 0
Unless You Repent You Will All Likewise Perish
The lesson of tragedies is "Get right with God."
6/5/1988 • 29 minutes, 5 seconds
Walk in Wisdom Toward Those Outside
Every
hour of your life brings a situation that can be bought up for
eternity or missed.
5/29/1988 • 39 minutes, 15 seconds
Christ's Purpose in Evangelism
God wants people who welcome his strategic interruptions and surprises.
5/22/1988 • 39 minutes, 50 seconds
Ready to Move with the Gospel of Peace
Giving the gospel away is one of the best ways of experiencing
its power in your own life.
5/15/1988 • 33 minutes, 21 seconds
Raising Children Who Hope in the Triumph of God
Our great challenge is to be the kind of church
and the kind of parents that raise up children who hope in the triumph of God.
5/8/1988 • 29 minutes, 45 seconds
He Must Manage His Household Well
Being responsible parents is a
serious business. Far more serious than most of us think.
5/1/1988 • 32 minutes, 8 seconds
The Doctrine of Perseverance: The Future of a Fruitless Field
One of the ways God causes us to persevere in faith and be saved is
by warning us that we could make shipwreck of our faith and be
lost.
4/24/1988 • 41 minutes, 10 seconds
The Doctrine of Perseverance: The Earnest Pursuit of Assurance
If we want to realize full assurance and hope, we must exercise the organ of faith to empower energized obedience.
4/17/1988 • 38 minutes, 58 seconds
The Pastor as Theologian
Listen Now
4/15/1988 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 46 seconds
The Pastor as Theologian
Listen Now
4/15/1988 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 46 seconds
The Danger of Dull Hearing
Either we press on toward the inheritance or we drift
back toward destruction. There is no third option.
4/10/1988 • 39 minutes, 27 seconds
He Must Reign
The great word of the
resurrection is OPEN! Therefore write in capital letters over
every closed door in your life, OPEN!
4/3/1988 • 38 minutes, 38 seconds
The Gallows and the Gift of Life
An allegory of a man in a prison called “conviction” and how he got out.
3/27/1988 • 26 minutes, 28 seconds
He Who Sows Bountifully Will Reap Bountifully
God is the Giver, not Taker, on
both sides of our giving.
3/20/1988 • 36 minutes, 16 seconds
How Much Do You Own?
We boast in ourselves because we are selfish and don't believe all things are ours in Christ.
3/13/1988 • 30 minutes, 45 seconds
Let Christ Be All in This Building!
Let us be vigilant to keep Christ as the foundation of our
church.
3/6/1988 • 25 minutes, 26 seconds
Let God Be All in This Building!
John Piper | It's the absence of the centrality of the biblical God in all of life that is leading to the collapse of our
civilization.
2/28/1988 • 35 minutes, 36 seconds
The Gift of Preaching: The Power of the Holy Spirit
The Sunday sermon isn’t just another lecture, but a Spirit-empowered, Scripture-saturated heralding of good news to God’s people.
2/26/1988 • 42 minutes, 3 seconds
The Gravity and Gladness of Preaching
Biblically balanced pastoral ministry requires the joyful gravity and brokenhearted gladness, especially in the pulpit.
2/25/1988 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 51 seconds
The Ground of Preaching: The Cross of Christ
God’s passion for his glory and our longing to be satisfied are not in final conflict only because God displayed his righteousness in the cross of Christ.
2/25/1988 • 32 minutes, 17 seconds
The Goal of Preaching: The Glory of God
John Piper | The goal of preaching is to glorify God in glad submission to his authority.
2/24/1988 • 35 minutes, 14 seconds
The Danger of Being Merely Human
There is a group of people whom Paul calls not spiritual
and not natural, but "fleshly," or "babes in Christ."
2/21/1988 • 39 minutes, 22 seconds
Natural People and Spiritual People
Without the Spirit, we
are so rebellious against the Lord that we cannot recognize the truth and beauty of a
crucified Christ.
2/14/1988 • 34 minutes, 29 seconds
The Present Power of Christ Crucified
The
cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life!
2/7/1988 • 36 minutes, 38 seconds
Let Him Who Boasts Boast in the Lord!
God's purpose in creating man and saving
sinners is that we might boast in him.
1/31/1988 • 33 minutes, 21 seconds
Christian Unity and the Cross
The cross undermines the deepest basis of disunity and lays a new foundation for unity.
1/24/1988 • 34 minutes, 15 seconds
Sustained by the Faithfulness of God
The freedom of God in the calling of sinners gives us hope. No one is too bad. No one is too hard. No one is too far gone. God is free.
1/17/1988 • 38 minutes, 27 seconds
The Goodness of God and the Guidance of Sinners
The prerequisite for divine guidance is not a quest for messages,
but a quest for holiness.
1/10/1988 • 40 minutes, 32 seconds
Practical Help for Praying for Help
Prayer is not a mere devotional prelude in the real business of living, it is the
pathway of faith and obedience. There is no other.
1/3/1988 • 32 minutes, 11 seconds
He Will Turn the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children
God
has turned his heart toward you in Jesus Christ. Don't push it
away.
12/27/1987 • 41 minutes, 5 seconds
The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise
When Jesus comes into the world, he comes as a sun.
12/20/1987 • 35 minutes, 47 seconds
I Will Spare Them as a Man Spares His Son
God will spare sinful sons, precisely because he did not
spare his only sinless Son.
12/13/1987 • 33 minutes, 31 seconds
You Will Be a Land of Delight
The New Testament does not set aside the command of tithing to minimize limitation and constraint, but to maximize liberality and willingness.
12/6/1987 • 27 minutes, 44 seconds
He Is Like a Refiner's Fire
If God were only an incinerating fire,
heaven would be empty. And if he were no fire, heaven would be
empty.
11/29/1987 • 34 minutes, 11 seconds
Let None Be Faithless to the Wife of His Youth
Don't back out on your commitments, don't marry an unbeliever, and don't divorce your covenant wife.
11/22/1987 • 38 minutes, 59 seconds
The Glory of Priestly Success
The ministry of the Word can destroy and the ministry of the Word can
save.
11/15/1987 • 31 minutes, 15 seconds
The Curse of Priestly Failure
A great danger to the pastoral ministry is that the voice of God
in Scripture may be drowned out by other voices.
11/8/1987 • 31 minutes, 58 seconds
The Curse of Careless Worship
If you turn your
back on the greatness and majesty of God, you'll fall in love with a
world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.
11/1/1987 • 28 minutes, 54 seconds
Honor Thy Majestic Father
Those who know God as Father should honor their majestic Father.
10/25/1987 • 33 minutes, 39 seconds
Is Anything Too Hard for God?
Listen Now
10/18/1987 • 28 minutes, 3 seconds
The Greatness of God's Electing Love
Have you learned the love of God in a way that makes you
tremble?
10/4/1987 • 33 minutes, 18 seconds
Striving for the Faith of the Gospel
The mark of living worthily of the gospel is a unified, fearless striving for the faith of the gospel.
9/27/1987 • 40 minutes, 56 seconds
Working with You for Your Joy
Listen Now
9/20/1987 • 25 minutes, 38 seconds
Your Love Is Better Than Life
God is worshiped and honored and savored both by fainting
for him and by feasting on him.
9/13/1987 • 36 minutes
God Has Given Us Good Hope Through Grace, Part 1
When circumstances arise that alarm you, the key is to hold fast to the traditions
that were taught by the apostles.
9/6/1987 • 32 minutes, 35 seconds
What Must Happen Before the Day of the Lord?
Before the
day of the Lord comes, the man of lawlessness must come first.
8/30/1987 • 39 minutes, 49 seconds
Suffering and the Second Coming
All affliction is designed to make us worthy of the
kingdom of God.
8/23/1987 • 34 minutes, 57 seconds
Avoiding Sexual Sin, Part 2
Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.
7/27/1987 • 50 minutes, 25 seconds
Barnabas: The Maker of a Great Leader
Don't quench the Spirit of God this
morning. He may be calling you to be a leader-maker.
7/12/1987 • 38 minutes, 35 seconds
Barnabas: The Goodness of Great Faith
Consider the outcome of Barnabas' life and imitate his faith.
7/5/1987 • 37 minutes, 10 seconds
Avoiding Sexual Sin, Part 1
Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.
6/29/1987 • 50 minutes, 45 seconds
Rebuilt Ruins Will Reach the World
We are ruins being rebuilt by the grace of God. And we are here that the rest of men may seek the
Lord.
6/28/1987 • 38 minutes, 54 seconds
The Age of Ignorance Is Over
Today is a day of repentance and
salvation, of missions and evangelism, and of loving
and sending.
6/21/1987 • 39 minutes, 40 seconds
Risk and the Triumph of Love
In Christ's triumph our enemy is not just
defeated, but captured and made to serve our eternal good.
5/10/1987 • 33 minutes, 13 seconds
Risk and the Cause of God: Today
It is the will of the Lord that we take risks for the cause of God.
5/3/1987 • 26 minutes, 59 seconds
Risk and the Cause of God
The Christian life isn’t one of comfort, but sacrificial risk for Jesus and others.
4/26/1987 • 33 minutes, 30 seconds
The Gladness of the Risen God
On Easter Sunday morning Jesus blew the lock off the prison of
death and gloom and returned to the gladness of God.
4/19/1987 • 35 minutes, 54 seconds
It Is Your Father’s Pleasure to Give You the Kingdom
God is pleased to give you the kingdom. He is not stingy nor begrudging, but finds delight lavishing his people.
4/12/1987 • 36 minutes, 59 seconds
The Pleasure of God in Public Justice
John Piper | Having just and honest dealings in the world display our confidence that God always cares and provides for his children.
4/5/1987 • 34 minutes, 14 seconds
The Pleasure of God in Obedience
Obedience to God makes our God-glorifying hope visible and proves that it is real in our lives.
3/29/1987 • 35 minutes, 3 seconds
The Pleasure of God in the Prayers of the Upright
Prayer is that wonderful transaction where the wealth of God’s glory is magnified
and the wants of our soul are satisfied.
3/22/1987 • 40 minutes, 29 seconds
The Pleasure of God in Those Who Hope in His Love
God delights in those who place the full weight of their hope in him.
3/15/1987 • 30 minutes, 20 seconds
The Pleasure of God in Bruising the Son
God's pleasure in his name and his pleasure in doing good to sinners meet and marry in his pleasure in bruising his Son.
3/8/1987 • 31 minutes, 27 seconds
The Pleasure of God in the Good of His People
God does not
do you good out of some constraint or coercion. He is free! And in
his freedom he overflows in joy to do you good.
3/1/1987 • 39 minutes, 28 seconds
The Pleasure of God in Election
God takes pleasure in election because it magnifies his name.
2/22/1987 • 40 minutes, 6 seconds
The Pleasure of God in His Name
God’s first love is his name and not his people. And because it is, there is hope for his sinful people.
2/15/1987 • 31 minutes, 34 seconds
The Pleasure of God in His Creation
God rejoices in what he has made because all of creation points to the grandeur and majesty of his glory.
2/8/1987 • 34 minutes, 37 seconds
The Pleasure of God in All That He Does
God is never constrained to do a thing that he despises. He does whatever he pleases.
2/1/1987 • 29 minutes, 19 seconds
The Pleasure of God in His Son
The first and most fundamental thing we can say about the pleasures of God is that he takes pleasure in his Son.
1/25/1987 • 37 minutes, 57 seconds
Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have, So You Kill
Fight the social stupor that gripped Nazi
Germany and imagine what is really happening behind clinic doors.
1/18/1987 • 43 minutes, 28 seconds
The Life of God in the Soul of Man
God lives in the soul of man by the indwelling of his
Spirit.
1/11/1987 • 37 minutes, 41 seconds
Sweet “Our” of Prayer
John Piper | The Lord's Prayer is an invitation not only to pray but
to pray together with other believers.
1/4/1987 • 33 minutes, 2 seconds
A Cause to Live For
John Piper | We all need a cause to live for that accords with our Creator's purposes.
12/28/1986 • 38 minutes, 58 seconds
Preparing to Receive Christ: Looking for the Consolation of Israel
John Piper | God prepares a person to receive Christ by stirring up a longing for consolation and redemption that can come only from Christ.
12/21/1986 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
Preparing to Receive Christ: Hearing Moses and the Prophets
The use of money can make or break
your eternal destiny.
12/14/1986 • 30 minutes, 49 seconds
Preparing to Receive Christ: Willing to Do the Will of God
The great obstacle to recognizing the truth
of Christ is not deficient resources but deep rebellion against
God.
12/7/1986 • 26 minutes, 40 seconds
Preparing to Receive Christ: Something More Than Flesh and Blood
To recognize and receive Christ for who he
really is, God the Father must reveal it to you.
11/30/1986 • 36 minutes
Urgency and Gratitude
How are we supposed to understand and live out the paradoxes of Scripture?
11/23/1986 • 31 minutes, 2 seconds
Let All the Peoples Praise Thee
God's purpose is to be known
and praised and enjoyed and feared among all the nations of the
earth.
11/9/1986 • 34 minutes, 28 seconds
The Enthronement of Desire
The most potent antidote for sin’s sickness is gratitude to God for the glories of the gospel.
10/26/1986 • 33 minutes, 34 seconds
Be Kind to One Another
Christian kindness is not merely an external change of manners; it is an internal change of heart.
10/19/1986 • 36 minutes, 3 seconds
Make Your Mouth a Means of Grace
Four kinds of rotten language, and a whole new way to think about words.
10/12/1986 • 39 minutes, 29 seconds
Don't Steal, Work and Give!
You can live to HAVE, either legally or illegally. Or you can become a Christian and live to give.
10/5/1986 • 36 minutes, 43 seconds
Speak Truth with Your Neighbor
If we walk with Jesus, we will be straightforward, open, and honest in all our dealings and in every relationship.
9/28/1986 • 38 minutes, 15 seconds
Put on the New Person
When Paul says, put off the old person and put on the new person, he is not talking about an optional elective, but core curriculum in the school of Christ.
9/21/1986 • 37 minutes, 45 seconds
Strengthen Each Other’s Hands in God
God has ordained that we be related to other believers in such a way that we can help each other fight the fight of faith successfully day in and day out until the end.
9/14/1986 • 28 minutes, 50 seconds
Escape from Futility
Escape from futility! Live a different way. Walk a different path.
9/7/1986 • 30 minutes, 13 seconds
The Fruit of Hope: Endurance
Endurance is a gift and endurance is a duty. And these are not in conflict.
7/27/1986 • 39 minutes, 29 seconds
The Fruit of Hope: Boldness
John Piper | A great hope produces great boldness.
7/20/1986 • 41 minutes, 33 seconds
The Fruit of Hope: Love
Heavenly-mindedness is what frees our hands to do the works of love.
7/13/1986 • 41 minutes, 23 seconds
The Fruit of Hope: Joy
Without Christian hope my life and your life cannot yield Christian joy or love or boldness or endurance.
7/6/1986 • 40 minutes, 12 seconds
Our Hope: The Glory of God
If there is any wonder, or awe, or admiration, or fame, or praise, or applause, it belongs to the glory of God.
6/22/1986 • 38 minutes, 10 seconds
Fathers Who Give Hope
Dads, father your children in a way that shows what kind of father God is.
6/15/1986 • 37 minutes, 7 seconds
Educating for Hope
A wise son makes a glad father, says the Lord, and it is the Word of God that makes a son wise.
6/8/1986 • 35 minutes, 34 seconds
Our Hope: Righteousness
The presence of a struggle with sin in this life is not a sign that we are lost. Perfection is not the test of spiritual life in this age.
6/1/1986 • 34 minutes, 49 seconds
Our Hope: The Redemption of Our Bodies
There is coming a day when our bodies are going to be redeemed and there will be no more groaning.
5/25/1986 • 36 minutes, 9 seconds
Our Hope: The Appearing of Jesus Christ
The blessed hope of all who believe is the appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Do you eagerly await the coming of Christ?
5/18/1986 • 37 minutes, 2 seconds
Holy Women Who Hoped in God
The daughters of Sarah fight the anxiety that rises in their hearts. They wage war on fear, and they defeat it with the promises of God.
5/11/1986 • 33 minutes, 14 seconds
How Can I Keep on Hoping? The Scriptures!
The strength to endure comes from the hope before us. And the hope before us comes from the Scriptures.
5/4/1986 • 28 minutes, 2 seconds
How Can I Hope? New Birth!
To get well from the disease of sin, and to have a living hope, you have to undergo surgery.
4/27/1986 • 34 minutes, 50 seconds
The Hope of the Gospel
The gospel is the good news that there is hope for sinners — even the worst of us.
4/20/1986 • 32 minutes, 42 seconds
Why Hope? Grace!
From beginning to end our salvation—our election, our calling, our faith, our sanctification, and our glorification—is a work of divine grace.
4/13/1986 • 31 minutes
What Is Hope?
Our hope in God isn’t just a wish or a dream, but a sure confidence that what God says will happen will happen.
4/6/1986 • 39 minutes, 53 seconds
The Marvelous Rising of a Rejected Stone
Academic stature has never been a guarantee of religious insight.
3/30/1986 • 32 minutes, 52 seconds
Christ: The Lion and the Lamb
You were made to admire Jesus Christ the Lion and the Lamb.
3/23/1986 • 37 minutes, 56 seconds
Blessed Are the Persecuted
As a Christian, your light might offend our dark world, but Jesus promises a reward greater than anything you stand to lose in this life.
3/16/1986 • 36 minutes, 26 seconds
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
God has made peace with his people, and he calls us to push for peace with friends and enemies alike.
3/9/1986 • 34 minutes, 53 seconds
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
It is not enough to clean up our act on the outside. Jesus is concerned about our heart. Because from the heart are all the issues of life.
3/2/1986 • 30 minutes, 19 seconds
Blessed Are the Merciful
God’s mercy floods our lives when we don’t deserve an ounce. And he expects us to overflow with that same grace to others.
2/23/1986 • 35 minutes, 47 seconds
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
The hunger of your life that cannot be satisfied by anything in this world is the constant beckoning of God to remember that you were made for him.
2/16/1986 • 32 minutes, 52 seconds
Blessed Are the Meek
Meekness is not weakness. Meekness begins with God and ends with God.
2/9/1986 • 37 minutes, 32 seconds
Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit Who Mourn
Jesus didn’t come for those who think they have everything together. He came for people who know they are nothing without God.
2/2/1986 • 26 minutes, 49 seconds
The Beatitudes and the Gospel of the Kingdom
The powerful mercy of the kingdom has already come in Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
1/26/1986 • 35 minutes, 28 seconds
I Will Sing of Thy Might and Mercy
John Piper | Authenticity and depth in worship characterize those who suffer with Christ by bearing the burdens of others.
1/19/1986 • 34 minutes, 40 seconds
My Prayer to God Is That They Might Be Saved
Paul does not pray for ineffectual influences, but for effectual influences. And that is how we should pray too.
1/12/1986 • 37 minutes, 52 seconds
My Heart's Desire: That They Might Be Saved
It is fitting for those who believe in the sovereignty of God to feel a deep sorrow and for the lost and a deep longing for their conversion.
1/5/1986 • 35 minutes, 2 seconds
God Glorified in Good Resolves
It is the duty of Christians to seek God's power to fulfill good resolves.
12/29/1985 • 32 minutes, 3 seconds
But God...
We were dead in sin, BUT GOD made us alive with Christ.
12/22/1985 • 31 minutes, 57 seconds
Why We Need a Savior: Captive to an Alien Power, by Nature Children of Wrath
We were dead to God, enslaved to Satan, and were rightfully under the wrath of God. There was only one hope, and it was not in ourselves.
12/15/1985 • 33 minutes, 45 seconds
Why We Need a Savior: Dead in Sins
We need a Savior because we are spiritually dead and helpless without him, no matter how good we look on the outside.
12/8/1985 • 25 minutes, 26 seconds
Guard Yourself With Gratitude
Thankfulness guards our souls because it nurtures humility and kills triviality.
11/24/1985 • 34 minutes, 25 seconds
Christmas Gift to Our Missionaries
The task of world evangelization requires Pauline missionaries devoted to the task of frontier missions.
11/17/1985 • 36 minutes, 16 seconds
I Have Other Sheep That Are Not of This Fold
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to the Son of God and he declares, “I must bring in my other sheep.” He will do it.
11/10/1985 • 34 minutes, 55 seconds
Those Whom He Justified He Also Glorified
God will glorify his children both spiritually and physically. Nothing can sever his unbreakable chain of salvation.
11/3/1985 • 26 minutes, 15 seconds
Those Whom He Called He Also Justified
The basis of our justification is Jesus Christ. He obeyed, even to the point of death, to bring us to God.
10/27/1985 • 28 minutes, 24 seconds
Those Whom He Predestined He Also Called
Our call, our conversion, our regeneration, and our faith are based on God’s eternal election and predestination — not our self-determination.
10/20/1985 • 34 minutes, 24 seconds
Called According to His Purpose
God’s call is the only thing powerful enough to pierce our hard hearts. It is the firm foundation of Romans 8:28.
10/13/1985 • 35 minutes, 25 seconds
Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep It Holy
Humbly accept the fact that your true advancement in life depends far more on God's
labor than yours.
10/6/1985 • 38 minutes, 45 seconds
Far More Than You Think
When the massive weather front of God's love meets the massive weather front of God's power in the heart of a believer, it produces a hurricane of doxology.
9/29/1985 • 28 minutes, 5 seconds
Mission: The Gladness of God
God's invitation to the banquet of his eternal joy is sent through the church indiscriminately to all people.
9/22/1985 • 36 minutes, 44 seconds
On Sharing Your Own Soul
John Piper | Where the gospel flourishes people share their souls—their joys, guilts, fears, and passions.
9/15/1985 • 33 minutes, 54 seconds
You Shall Worship the Lord Your God
Worshiping God is the number one duty of every human being.
9/8/1985 • 33 minutes, 21 seconds
I Will Not Be Enslaved by Anything
Preserve your freedom in Christ! Can you say with Paul, "I will not be enslaved by anything!"?
9/1/1985 • 28 minutes, 49 seconds
Strategic Hospitality
Our homes and apartments should stand constantly ready for strategic hospitality—a readiness to welcome people who don't ordinarily live there.
8/25/1985 • 36 minutes, 56 seconds
Job: Reversal in Suffering
What God is after in all his dealings with his children is a brokenhearted joy that trusts like a little child in God and returns good for evil.
8/4/1985 • 23 minutes, 43 seconds
Job: The Revelation of God in Suffering
It is presumptuous to assume you can counsel God about how to run a more just world.
7/28/1985 • 33 minutes, 53 seconds
Job: Rebuked in Suffering
The suffering of the righteous is not a token of God's enmity but of his love. It is not a punishment of their sins but a refinement of their righteousness.
7/21/1985 • 30 minutes, 16 seconds
Job: Wrestling with Suffering
Why did God prolong Job's suffering? Didn't his initial reaction prove his faith?
7/14/1985 • 35 minutes, 23 seconds
Job: Reverent in Suffering
Satan’s hand caused the suffering of Job. But in all of his calamities, Job still had reason for reverent worship because God was ultimately at work.
7/7/1985 • 37 minutes, 14 seconds
He Who Has the Son Has Life
Nothing is more important than having eternal life.
6/9/1985 • 28 minutes, 42 seconds
His Commandments Are Not Burdensome
Faith says to every temptation of the world: NO, BE GONE! I know where true satisfaction is to be found.
6/2/1985 • 26 minutes, 20 seconds
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
A life poured out in love for others on the basis of joyful confidence before God yields peace of mind and the hope of a glorious destiny.
5/26/1985 • 35 minutes, 41 seconds
God Abides in the One Who Loves and the One Who Confesses
Six questions to see if you have genuine faith in Christ and love for others.
5/19/1985 • 34 minutes, 51 seconds
Love One Another for Love Is of God
The evidence of being indwelt by the Spirit of God is the experience of loving Jesus the way the Father loves him.
5/12/1985 • 34 minutes, 53 seconds
Test the Spirits to See Whether They Are of God
Hearing the gospel with openness and confessing Christ with loyalty is the work and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
5/5/1985 • 22 minutes, 45 seconds
Let What You Heard from the Beginning Abide in You
The Spirit agrees with the apostolic doctrine or it is not the Spirit of God.
3/17/1985 • 31 minutes, 57 seconds
Do Not Love the World
God offers an ever-flowing river of delight to anyone who will drink deeply of his goodness.
3/10/1985 • 34 minutes, 1 second
The Strong Need Strength
Unless there is hope of winning there is no motivation to fight. The apostle John motivates the fight with the confidence of victory.
3/3/1985 • 19 minutes, 4 seconds
The One Who Loves Lives in Light
Hate is the evidence of blindness to the light of God. Love is the evidence that sight has been given to the blind.
2/24/1985 • 31 minutes, 4 seconds
Obedience Confirms Our Standing in God
You can know that you know Christ if you obey his commands.
2/17/1985 • 35 minutes, 28 seconds
Jesus Christ Is an Advocate for Sinners
We must walk in the light if we are to go on experiencing the cleansing of Jesus. And if we sin, we do indeed have an advocate with the Father.
2/10/1985 • 30 minutes, 17 seconds
Let Us Walk in the Light of God
If we are not walking in the light, we have no warrant for believing that our sins are covered.
2/3/1985 • 27 minutes, 38 seconds
Eternal Life Has Appeared in Christ
When God becomes a man, he strips away every pretense of man to be God.
1/27/1985 • 32 minutes, 38 seconds
Ambushing Satan with Song
Singing to God is not a nice little emotional trip to spice up a worship service. It is a matter of life and death.
1/20/1985 • 30 minutes
The Power that Wields the Weapon
John Piper | Listen Now
1/13/1985 • 33 minutes, 17 seconds
The Weapon Serves the Wielding Power
Listen Now
1/6/1985 • 29 minutes, 42 seconds
The Good End of Godly Regret
Regret can be good if it produces repentance and leads to salvation.
12/30/1984 • 30 minutes, 26 seconds
Satan Seeks a Gap Called Grudge
The only way to get victory over anger is to put off the old nature and put on the new.
12/16/1984 • 25 minutes, 46 seconds
Satan Uses Sexual Desire
When you battle with sexual temptation, you battle against Satan.
12/9/1984 • 29 minutes, 56 seconds
Satan Takes the Word Away
Without the Word of God abiding and taking root in our heart we cannot bear fruit, be disciples, or inherit eternal life.
12/2/1984 • 21 minutes, 18 seconds
Contend for the Faith
If the truth is lost, salvation is lost.
11/25/1984 • 27 minutes, 40 seconds
The Ministry of the Word
There is no better way to spend a brief life on this little earth than to spend it in the ministry of the Word.
11/25/1984 • 0
The Relationship Between Diversified Domestic Ministries and Frontier Missions
The ultimate goal of the church is to reflect and display the glory and worth of God. Missions is a means, not an end.
11/18/1984 • 34 minutes, 37 seconds
Until It Is Fulfilled in the Kingdom of God
Jesus the Passover Lamb was slain to ransom people from every tribe and tongue and nation.
11/11/1984 • 14 minutes, 10 seconds
Hallowed Be Thy Name: In All the Earth
In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches that the first priority in praying is to ask that our heavenly Father's name be hallowed.
11/4/1984 • 35 minutes, 6 seconds
The Lord Whose Name Is Jealous
God responds with
terrible wrath against those whose hearts should belong to him but go
after other things.
10/28/1984 • 33 minutes, 56 seconds
Is God for Us or for Himself?
The most loving thing God can do for us is glorify himself, because God himself is the greatest gift he can ever give us.
10/23/1984 • 20 minutes, 29 seconds
The Lofty One Whose Name Is Holy
The lofty One whose name is Holy dwells with crushed and humble saints.
10/21/1984 • 26 minutes, 36 seconds
I Am Alpha and Omega
At the end of every road is God. You will meet him as light and life or as fire and torment.
10/14/1984 • 34 minutes, 1 second
The Lord, a God Merciful and Gracious
God's self-sufficiency and sovereign freedom are the very sources from which his mighty mercy overflows.
10/7/1984 • 26 minutes, 51 seconds
My Name Is God Almighty
The omnipotence of God means reverence, recompense, and refuge, for his covenant people.
9/30/1984 • 26 minutes, 57 seconds
I Will Be Gracious to Whom I Will Be Gracious
God’s choice to show mercy to some and not others originates in the mystery of his own sovereign will, not in the will of his creatures.
9/23/1984 • 31 minutes, 40 seconds
‘I Am Who I Am’
Contained in the name Yahweh is the first and most important truth about God: he exists.
9/16/1984 • 30 minutes, 34 seconds
Camaraderie in the Fight of Faith
John Piper | All Christians must lay hold on eternal life by fighting the good fight of faith.
9/9/1984 • 27 minutes, 37 seconds
Do Not Be Anxious About Your Life
We have no good reason to let anxiety disrupt our hearts. Jesus reigns over all, and he has purchased peace for his people.
9/2/1984 • 25 minutes, 17 seconds
Ruth: the Best Is Yet to Come
The life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. No matter where you are, if you love God, the best is yet to come.
7/22/1984 • 31 minutes, 28 seconds
Ruth: Strategic Righteousness
Hopelessness makes us
think we need to have illicit pleasures to be happy. But hope gives us a thrilling impulse to do good.
7/15/1984 • 31 minutes, 13 seconds
Ruth: Under the Wings of God
God will reward Ruth because she has sought refuge under his wings.
7/8/1984 • 35 minutes, 54 seconds
Ruth: Sweet and Bitter Providence
When it seems that God is farthest from you or has turned against you, he is actually laying foundations for your greater happiness.
7/1/1984 • 32 minutes, 37 seconds
Adam, Where Are You?
God has given husbands the responsibility to lead their families. Men, it’s time we get serious about serving.
6/17/1984 • 36 minutes, 3 seconds
The Holy Spirit Will Help You Die
In their hour of greatest trial God gives his children courage and faith.
6/10/1984 • 34 minutes, 11 seconds
The Spirit Wants the World for Christ
The Spirit wants the world for Christ, but the goal is not yet reached.
6/3/1984 • 23 minutes, 4 seconds
Maintain the Unity of the Spirit
What is the kind of unity that will bring honor and credit to our high calling?
5/27/1984 • 25 minutes, 6 seconds
How the Spirit Helps Us Understand
The first and most fundamental work of God's Spirit in the life of the natural man is to shatter pride.
5/20/1984 • 29 minutes, 52 seconds
How the Spirit Sanctifies
Sanctification is obeying the Commander-in-Chief. Sanctification is a wartime word.
5/13/1984 • 29 minutes, 40 seconds
Sealed by the Spirit to the Day of Redemption
God's great desire for his people is that we feel secure in his love and in his power.
5/6/1984 • 23 minutes, 54 seconds
How to Receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit
Christianity is not merely an array of glorious ideas. It is the life-changing experience of the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ.
4/29/1984 • 36 minutes, 36 seconds
The Spirit Will Give Life to Your Mortal Bodies
If the Spirit of God indwells you, God is going to raise you from the dead at Christ's second coming and give new life to your mortal bodies.
4/22/1984 • 32 minutes, 3 seconds
The Spirit Is Upon Him Gentle for Now
Jesus did not come to snuff out your struggling flicker but to fan it carefully into a torch for his glory.
4/15/1984 • 27 minutes, 57 seconds
God Seeks People to Worship Him in Spirit and Truth
God wants us to worship him in both spirit and truth. He desires our hearts and our heads.
4/8/1984 • 30 minutes, 29 seconds
Beyond Forgiveness: Blasphemy Against the Spirit
None of us knows when our toying with sin will pass over into irrevocable hardness of heart. Very few people feel how serious sin is.
4/1/1984 • 23 minutes, 20 seconds
Christ in Combat: Offense by the Spirit
Everything Jesus said and did was to make us trust him and imitate him. Everything he did is a ground for faith and a call to action.
3/25/1984 • 35 minutes, 16 seconds
Christ in Combat: Defense by the Spirit
Satan might do anything to prevent you from suffering.
3/18/1984 • 33 minutes, 11 seconds
Christ Conceived by the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit may be shy, but he is also omnipotent.
3/11/1984 • 34 minutes, 18 seconds
A Precious Promise: The Outpouring of God’s Spirit
If you long for the touch of God's Spirit on your life, give yourself daily to the reading of his Word.
3/4/1984 • 31 minutes, 24 seconds
The Holy Spirit: Author of Scripture
Bible confirms its divine origin again and again as it makes sense out of our experience in the real world and points the way to harmony.
2/26/1984 • 37 minutes, 14 seconds
How Believers Experienced the Spirit Before Pentecost
We need to know the experiences of Old Testament saints in order to understand the immensity of our privilege in these last days.
2/19/1984 • 35 minutes, 11 seconds
Creation, Fall, Redemption, and the Holy Spirit
If I'm so depraved that I can't do anything good, what do you expect me to do?
2/12/1984 • 35 minutes, 9 seconds
The Holy Spirit: He Is God!
There is only one power that can break the spell of Satan, waken the armies of the Lord, and rout the god of this age—the power of the Holy Spirit.
2/5/1984 • 26 minutes, 3 seconds
Tell How Much the Lord Has Done for You!
Strategies and actions to seek and save the lost must have high priority in the life of our church.
1/22/1984 • 38 minutes, 14 seconds
Helping Each Other Endure to the End
God intends to guard us for salvation through Christian community. We won’t survive without our brothers and sisters in Jesus.
1/15/1984 • 35 minutes, 17 seconds
Going Hard After the Holy God
Why do we have to pursue God, and how should it be done?
1/8/1984 • 35 minutes, 7 seconds
Holy, Holy, Holy Is the Lord of Hosts
If we want revival to happen, we need to see God for who he is. Only when we see God as God and confess him as so, then we can have real delight.
1/1/1984 • 31 minutes, 49 seconds
God's Covenant with David
When God makes a covenant he reveals his own job description and signs it.
12/18/1983 • 31 minutes, 59 seconds
God's Covenant Through Moses
What was freely given under Moses was purchased by Christ.
12/11/1983 • 34 minutes, 8 seconds
God’s Covenant with Abraham
We need a solid insight into the meaning of Christ's coming that will keep us sober in a world intoxicated by the love of things.
12/4/1983 • 23 minutes, 27 seconds
God’s Covenant with Noah
The story of Noah and the flood is incomplete in itself. God still hates sin and no remedy was found. The story cries out for an epilogue.
11/27/1983 • 34 minutes, 53 seconds
Proud People Don’t Say Thanks
The human heart hates the truth that creation teaches because it is too humbling.
11/20/1983 • 31 minutes, 57 seconds
Missions: The Battle Cry of Christian Hedonism
Missions is a summons to pursue joy. Trials will come, but your joy in Jesus will outweigh any sacrifice.
11/13/1983 • 34 minutes, 45 seconds
The Bible: Kindling for Christian Hedonism
The Bible is our God-given kindling for igniting the flames of faith.
10/30/1983 • 26 minutes, 11 seconds
Prayer: the Power of Christian Hedonism
Prayer opens our eyes to our weakness, but also draws us near to the one who is more than strong enough to help.
10/23/1983 • 32 minutes, 30 seconds
Marriage: A Matrix of Christian Hedonism
Marriage is a mystery. It contains and conceals a meaning far greater than what we see on the surface.
10/16/1983 • 34 minutes, 53 seconds
Money: Currency for Christian Hedonism
How you use your money reveals the true desires of your heart.
10/9/1983 • 37 minutes, 56 seconds
Love: The Labor of Christian Hedonism
We will glorify God and love people better when we serve out of joy instead of duty.
10/2/1983 • 37 minutes, 58 seconds
Worship: The Feast of Christian Hedonism
Worship is the melody of your heart as it repents of sin, delights in grace, and thirsts for more and more of Christ.
9/25/1983 • 32 minutes, 15 seconds
Conversion to Christ: The Making of a Christian Hedonist
You are converted to Christ when Jesus becomes for you a treasure chest of holy joy.
9/18/1983 • 38 minutes, 6 seconds
The Happiness of God
God enjoys eternal happiness in himself, and he delights in satisfying his people with the overflow of that abundant joy.
9/11/1983 • 36 minutes, 30 seconds
Why God Wills Work
John Piper | There are at least four reasons for why God has given work to mankind.
9/4/1983 • 28 minutes, 27 seconds
Only a New Creation Counts
The mindset of the new creation does not just agree that Christ died for sinners; it glories in the cross.
8/28/1983 • 36 minutes, 6 seconds
Do Not Grow Weary in Well-Doing
When you get your paycheck, do you look to the Spirit for how to use this money for God's kingdom?
8/21/1983 • 33 minutes, 4 seconds
The Law of Christ
If we really care about a person's ultimate welfare, we will confront them with their sin as well as comfort them in their trouble.
8/14/1983 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds
Walk by the Spirit!
People who bear the fruit of the Spirit know they are worthy only of condemnation. They know that the only pay they can earn is the wrath of God.
8/7/1983 • 33 minutes, 56 seconds
The War Within: Flesh Versus Spirit
A Christian is not a person who experiences zero bad desires. A Christian is a person who is at war with every distorted desire by the power of the Spirit.
6/19/1983 • 39 minutes, 8 seconds
Freed to Love
Freedom flows forth in love just as surely as a bubbling spring flows forth in a mountain stream.
6/12/1983 • 34 minutes, 30 seconds
Saving Faith Produces Love
Being a loving person is absolutely essential to being saved, because the faith which saves by its very essence works through love.
6/5/1983 • 34 minutes, 45 seconds
For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free
Your enjoyment of freedom is much more important to God than many of the day-to-day decisions that fill us with so much concern.
5/29/1983 • 35 minutes, 9 seconds
Hagar and Slavery Vs. Sarah and Freedom
For Paul, the experience of freedom is not icing on the cake of Christianity. Freedom in Christ is Christianity.
5/22/1983 • 40 minutes, 1 second
O, That Christ Would Be Formed in You!
We are freed from the burden of the law when we are given the power to fulfill it from within. And that happens when Christ is formed in us.
5/15/1983 • 20 minutes, 35 seconds
Don't Go Back from Sonship to Slavery
If Satan can't get you to disobey God's commands, then he'll try to make you obey them with the wrong spirit.
5/8/1983 • 28 minutes, 1 second
If You Are Christ's, You Are Heirs of the Promise
When you entrust yourself to Christ you
honor him, and he would be denying himself
to turn you away.
5/1/1983 • 27 minutes, 52 seconds
Why Then the Law?
If we don't understand why the law was given, we can kill ourselves with it.
4/24/1983 • 35 minutes, 57 seconds
The Law Does Not Annul the Promise
It would be terribly wrong to say that the Mosaic law was opposed in its teaching to the Abrahamic covenant.
4/17/1983 • 40 minutes, 49 seconds
Christ Redeemed Us from the Curse of the Law
When Christ experienced the curse of the law on the cross it was not his own but ours.
4/10/1983 • 35 minutes, 42 seconds
Worship the Risen Christ
If your life is flat, empty, without exhilaration, without significance, without a single and fulfilling orientation, it is because you do not see the risen Christ for who he really is.
4/3/1983 • 33 minutes, 18 seconds
The Donkey, the Stallion, and the Strategy of the Hills
Though arrogance and rage assail, conspiracy will not prevail.
3/27/1983 • 26 minutes, 37 seconds
Those Who Have Faith Are the Sons of Abraham
The central concern of your life is to ensure that you are a child of Abraham.
3/20/1983 • 33 minutes, 4 seconds
Can You Begin by the Spirit and Be Completed by the Flesh?
The essential mark of a Christian is not how far you have progressed in sanctification, but on what you are relying to get there.
3/13/1983 • 39 minutes, 47 seconds
I Do Not Nullify the Grace of God
The transgression against God is to presume that you can climb your way up a ladder of morality into his favor.
3/6/1983 • 30 minutes, 45 seconds
In Sync with the Gospel
When you finally hear and believe the drumbeat of the gospel, the rhythm of your step changes. There is a life in step with the gospel, and there is a life out of step with the gospel.
2/27/1983 • 39 minutes, 23 seconds
That the Truth of the Gospel Be Preserved for You
Very few people today stand up and praise the unity and coherence of truth.
2/20/1983 • 36 minutes, 6 seconds
This Is Not Man's Gospel
To try to explain the change from Paul's pre-conversion persecution to his post-conversion passion for the gospel merely by the work of men is to grasp at a straw.
2/13/1983 • 36 minutes, 49 seconds
When Not to Believe an Angel
There is one, and only one, gospel. It is therefore astonishing — and tragic — to turn away from it and lose both God and his grace.
2/6/1983 • 29 minutes, 52 seconds
To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age
The freest people in the world are those who submit most fully to the authority of Christ in Scripture.
1/23/1983 • 38 minutes, 11 seconds
Always Pray and Do Not Lose Heart
Jesus makes it clear that eternal life hangs on whether we are ready when he comes.
1/9/1983 • 33 minutes, 45 seconds
How to Buy Gold When You're Broke
The essence of lukewarmness is the statement, "I need nothing." The lukewarm are spiritually self-satisfied.
1/2/1983 • 38 minutes, 5 seconds
Call Me Husband, Not Baal
The point of Hosea is that God exalts his mercy by not giving up on his promiscuous wife.
12/26/1982 • 34 minutes, 52 seconds
You Shall Go Forth Leaping Like Calves
Christ came at Christmas to build a bridge across the chasm of sin to eternal life, but the name of the bridge is purity. Christmas is for purity.
12/19/1982 • 40 minutes, 18 seconds
From Bethlehem in the Majesty of the Name of the Lord
God uses little towns, youngest sons, and slingshots to magnify his self-sufficient and most magnificent glory.
12/12/1982 • 33 minutes, 7 seconds
There Shall Be a Fountain Opened
The fountain of forgiveness has been opened for you. And if you cleanse yourself through faith in that fountain, all the subsequent promises to God's people are yours.
12/5/1982 • 30 minutes, 37 seconds
Take Courage: You Build More Than You See
Nothing you do is a trifle if you do it in the name of God. He will shake heaven and earth to fill your labor with splendor.
11/28/1982 • 36 minutes, 25 seconds
Cry of Distress and Voice of Thanks
The belly of a fish hardly seems like salvation. But it was.
11/21/1982 • 37 minutes, 41 seconds
Eagle Edom Will Come Down
The violent nation will not boast forever. Very soon the recompense will come, and after that all the nations will render an account to God.
11/7/1982 • 26 minutes, 3 seconds
The Just Shall Live by Faith
Am I ready to take my stand in the divine courtroom and hear the Judge pass an eternal sentence on me? We cannot face this unless we have faith.
10/31/1982 • 37 minutes, 41 seconds
The Poor of the Land and the Pride of Jacob
Conversion isn't just changing your mind but exchanging the love of comfort for the love of goodness and justice.
10/10/1982 • 37 minutes, 9 seconds
The Lord Will Rejoice over You
Every staff on which we try to lean in our pride will snap and pierce us through. One refuge will be secure: God.
9/25/1982 • 36 minutes, 15 seconds
The Locust Horde and the Day of the Lord
God will fight against us and clog the joy of our lives until we return with our whole heart to him. For his purpose is to be God alone in the midst of his people.
9/19/1982 • 30 minutes, 16 seconds
Calling all Clay Pots
Every Christian has received a gift from God which he is responsible to use for the good of the church and for the glory of God.
9/12/1982 • 29 minutes, 49 seconds
God Works for Those Who Wait for Him
God aims to be an utterly unique, wonderful, and exalted God, by condescending to forgive sinners and work for those who wait for him.
9/5/1982 • 26 minutes, 10 seconds
Let the Young Speak
John Piper | There is no necessary connection between age and wisdom, or youth and folly. Wisdom comes from the Lord and is offered to all ages.
8/29/1982 • 34 minutes, 11 seconds
Fear Not, You Worm Jacob!
The good news of the Bible is not that we are not worms, but that God helps worms who trust him.
8/22/1982 • 34 minutes, 9 seconds
He Will Send His Angel Before You
We can know God's will and maintain trust in his help, if we are familiar with the trajectories of his Word.
8/8/1982 • 32 minutes, 30 seconds
Who Made Man’s Mouth?
How different, how wonderful the use of our mouths would be if we lived by faith in the God who made the mouth and not by sight—by looking at our own clumsy tongue.
8/1/1982 • 35 minutes, 16 seconds
Will the Next Generation Know?
Silence about Christ is dogma. Not to teach the infinite value of Christ is to teach that he is negligible.
7/25/1982 • 29 minutes, 11 seconds
Grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of Our Lord
The best fertilizer for our hope and godliness is the knowledge of our future in God's grace.
6/20/1982 • 29 minutes, 46 seconds
What Sort of Persons Ought You To Be?
A life lived for the world will go naked into judgment; a life lived for Christ will be laden with eternal riches.
6/13/1982 • 36 minutes, 46 seconds
Where Is the Promise of His Appearing?
Confident expectation of a new world of righteousness empowers us to live for peace and purity in the present.
6/6/1982 • 27 minutes, 9 seconds
Better Never to Have Known the Way
The more you know of Christ and his way, the more severe your judgment will be for not trusting and obeying him.
5/30/1982 • 38 minutes, 57 seconds
Destruction Is not Sleeping
Even though the rebellious and the licentious today may think they are safe, they should learn that "from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction is not sleeping."
5/23/1982 • 37 minutes, 50 seconds
Men Moved by the Holy Spirit Spoke from God
The meaning of Scripture does not change with every new reader or every new reading. It cannot be twisted to mean whatever we like. It is what it is, unchanging and unending.
5/16/1982 • 35 minutes, 39 seconds
Listen to the Eyewitness of His Majesty
The difference between mythical speculations and Christian faith is history. Our doctrines are not the result of clever head-work. They are the result of historical observation.
5/9/1982 • 35 minutes, 2 seconds
Confirm Your Election
If the knowledge of God's glorious promises does not spur us on to strive against the tide, then we will be barren and fruitless and drift to our destruction.
5/2/1982 • 30 minutes, 6 seconds
Liberating Promises
If you want to enjoy God's peace and be the aroma of his grace in the world, your knowledge of him has to grow.
4/25/1982 • 38 minutes, 10 seconds
A Celebration of Baptism
John Piper describes the development of baptism in the New Testament and its significance as the new covenant sign for the church.
4/18/1982 • 16 minutes, 39 seconds
Believe in Your Heart That God Raised Jesus from the Dead
Faith never says, "The righteousness that leads to life is inaccessible." But faith recognizes its own helplessness and gladly accepts this righteousness as a gift from God.
4/11/1982 • 27 minutes, 15 seconds
He Set His Face to Go to Jerusalem
Jesus was not accidentally entangled in a web of injustice. The saving benefits of his death for sinners were not an afterthought. Jesus saw that the time had come and set his face to fulfill his mission: to die in Jerusalem for our sake.
4/4/1982 • 30 minutes, 36 seconds
Jesus Is Precious Because We Yearn for Beauty
We crave to be moved by some rare glimpse of greatness. We yearn for a vision of glory.
3/28/1982 • 34 minutes, 36 seconds
Jesus Is Precious as the Foundation of the Family
Trusting Christ as Savior, surrendering to him as Lord, and orienting all of your family relations on him, transforms the home into a little heaven on earth.
3/21/1982 • 32 minutes, 13 seconds
Jesus Is Precious Because Through Him We Become Authentic
We don't have a deep sense of peace and fulfillment when we have successfully deluded everybody about who we really are or what we really feel or think. There is a deep (and I believe God-given) longing to be authentic, not to be hypocrites.
3/14/1982 • 30 minutes, 1 second
Jesus Is Precious Because He Gives Eternal Life
There is no true freedom where happiness depends on denying the inevitable; there is only slavery disguised in a thousand forms of fun and busyness.
2/28/1982 • 34 minutes, 53 seconds
Jesus Is Precious Because He Removes Our Guilt
Turn away from all the intellectual, physical, and religious tactics the world uses to evade its guilt, and rest in Jesus.
2/21/1982 • 32 minutes, 54 seconds
Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 2
John Piper | If you ever meet a man who cares nothing for the praise and approval of men (Mark 12:14), but whose one controlling desire is to glorify God whom he loves with all his heart, believe that man. He is true.
2/14/1982 • 34 minutes, 24 seconds
Jesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
If the church has no compelling reasons for believing the biblical portrait of Jesus, then we are acting like well-trained animals who can be turned this way and that by arbitrary incentives.
2/7/1982 • 29 minutes, 13 seconds
I Seek Not What Is Yours but You
The question that Jesus drives us to ask again and again is not, "How much should I give?" but rather, "How much dare I keep?"
1/31/1982 • 36 minutes, 4 seconds
Flesh Tank and Peashooter Regulations
Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn't look like one.
1/17/1982 • 46 minutes, 50 seconds
How Much Is Jesus Worth?
Your power to give a compassionate witness about Jesus is in direct proportion to how precious Jesus is to you.
1/10/1982 • 40 minutes, 7 seconds
Prayer at Harvest Time: Now!
Before God enables his people to bring in a harvest, he pours out a Spirit of prayer upon them. The surest sign that God is about to send power upon us is a great movement of prayer in our midst.
1/3/1982 • 40 minutes, 2 seconds
Remember That You Were Hopeless
You can't cleave to Christ with white-hot
devotion if you don't remember and feel what your plight would be
without him.
12/27/1981 • 30 minutes, 11 seconds
Christmas as the End of History
Christmas marks
the arrival of the end of history, which will soon be consummated by Christ's second appearing.
12/20/1981 • 30 minutes, 53 seconds
I Will Raise Up for David a Righteous Branch
The promise will be fulfilled in spite of all judgment.
12/13/1981 • 31 minutes, 57 seconds
The Evil Origin of a Good King
John Piper | The way we seek to have something may be wrong, when the having, itself, may not be wrong.
12/6/1981 • 29 minutes, 38 seconds
The Conquest of Canaan
If the old Joshua was victorious over the enemies of God, then how much more the new Joshua.
11/29/1981 • 35 minutes, 35 seconds
Can God Spread a Table in the Wilderness?
Do not grumble; it is God's grace that sends you into the wilderness. He is inoculating you against the infections of
wealth.
11/22/1981 • 26 minutes, 8 seconds
Why the Law Was Given
The law is a description of the obedience of faith; it is not a job description for how to earn the wages of God's blessings.
11/15/1981 • 34 minutes, 5 seconds
God Meant It for Good
John Piper | As I was reading about Joseph's unjust imprisonment the other day, I was struck all of a sudden with the similarity and contrast between Joseph and John the Baptist.
11/9/1981 • 0
Exodus for All the Earth
John Piper | God shows great power on behalf of his people so that others might see and fear.
11/8/1981 • 25 minutes, 21 seconds
The Covenant of Abraham
God's 4,000 year old relation to Abraham is of immense importance for your life as a believer today.
10/18/1981 • 33 minutes, 45 seconds
The Emergence of Sin and Misery
The essence of the Fall and of our depraved hearts is the desire not to depend on God.
10/11/1981 • 38 minutes, 30 seconds
He Commanded and They Were Created
Since God created everything, we and all our so-called possessions are his to do with as he pleases.
10/4/1981 • 27 minutes, 1 second
To See You Fills Me With Joy
John Piper | When you value someone because they value God, you are not denying that God is your only good; you are expressing it.
9/27/1981 • 28 minutes, 50 seconds
Alone in a Big Church
John Piper | God designs human support to sustain his children's
faith and to lighten the burdens they bear in the
service of love.
9/20/1981 • 34 minutes, 28 seconds
Worship Is an End in Itself
Only worship is an end in itself. Only worship should not be done as a means to achieving something other than itself.
9/13/1981 • 27 minutes, 41 seconds
Do Not Labor for the Food Which Perishes
Labor to feast on Jesus. Satisfy yourself with his beauty and his hope-filled fellowship.
9/6/1981 • 25 minutes, 39 seconds
Jesus Vs. the Occult
Jesus is God's fullest revelation and the source of all the knowledge and power that is good for us to have.
7/26/1981 • 31 minutes, 39 seconds
Rivers From the Heart
We are afflicted and blessed with a chronic restlessness, an insatiable soul-thirst, for this reason: that we might keep looking until we find Christ.
7/19/1981 • 31 minutes, 56 seconds
Quantitative Hopelessness and the Immeasurable Moment
Never underestimate the power of truth spoken in a single sentence.
7/13/1981 • 0
Even the Hairs of My Head Are All Numbered
Do not fear the work God calls you to. He loves you deeply, knows you fully, and will turn all for your good.
7/12/1981 • 33 minutes, 33 seconds
The Limits of Submission to Man
We must honor God above the state. But if the state does
not require us to disobey Jesus then we should be subject for the Lord's sake.
7/5/1981 • 26 minutes, 13 seconds
Your Job as Ministry
How you do your job is an essential part of Christian discipleship.
6/14/1981 • 32 minutes, 40 seconds
This Is What Was Spoken by the Prophet Joel
When God almighty pours himself into an individual, the inner life is changed; it is filled with God.
6/7/1981 • 23 minutes, 54 seconds
The Ascent of Joy
Why was Jesus' ascension into heaven good news for his disciples?
5/31/1981 • 27 minutes, 35 seconds
Get Wisdom
What is wisdom? And what are some biblical instructions for how I can get it?
5/24/1981 • 29 minutes, 16 seconds
A Woman Who Fears the Lord Is to Be Praised
A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises.
5/10/1981 • 34 minutes, 18 seconds
The Education of a Prophet: Jonah
You can't bless somebody if you desire their harm. If you are a follower of Jesus, you must desire the good of everyone, no matter what their race or nationality.
5/3/1981 • 17 minutes
The Sifting of Simon Peter
Satan wants is to sift out our faith. If he can do it by suffering, he will try that. If he can do it by wealth, he will try that.
4/26/1981 • 30 minutes, 33 seconds
Is There Good Anxiety?
God is able to grieve over humanity’s sin and unbelief, therefore it is possible for us to have an anxious state of heart that is not sinful.
4/21/1981 • 0
The Power of Hope
If we are going to love like Jesus loved, even in times of great stress and worry, then we must be filled with living hope.
4/19/1981 • 28 minutes, 46 seconds
O, That You Knew the Terms of Peace!
Jesus Christ is always eager and willing to make peace with anyone who will accept the terms of peace he offers.
4/12/1981 • 28 minutes, 47 seconds
The Local Church: Minimum Vs. Maximum
There are at least seven qualifications if a group wants to be a church in the NT sense.
3/29/1981 • 30 minutes, 34 seconds
The Cosmic Church
The church is the cosmic showcase of God's mercy, but he gets cosmic reproach when we fail to receive his mercy with joy.
3/22/1981 • 34 minutes, 5 seconds
Spiritual Gifts
God gives us spiritual gifts so that we can help our brothers and sisters fight the good fight of faith.
3/15/1981 • 37 minutes, 14 seconds
Be Filled with the Spirit
The fundamental meaning of being filled with the Spirit is being filled with joy that comes from God and overflows in song.
3/8/1981 • 36 minutes, 18 seconds
Let Us Walk by the Spirit
From the moment you awake, till your head hits the pillow again, the Spirit waits to walk with you.
3/1/1981 • 38 minutes, 18 seconds
That Which Is Born of the Spirit Is Spirit
Something has to happen if we are to be saved from the wrath of God. We must be profoundly changed.
2/22/1981 • 34 minutes, 54 seconds
Sexual Relations in Marriage
Marital sex is a great joy that also proves to be a fearsome weapon against our ancient foe. Learn what it means to keep the marriage bed undefiled.
2/15/1981 • 44 minutes, 57 seconds
Sex and the Single Person
God’s word is every Christian’s infallible guide to maximum sexual fulfillment. The good news for singles is that they are included.
2/8/1981 • 43 minutes, 34 seconds
For Our People and for the Cities of God
There are six things that should characterize every effort at team ministry in the church.
2/1/1981 • 24 minutes, 58 seconds
What Do Answers to Prayer Depend On?, Part 2
Our prayers should always aim not merely at our own satisfaction, but also at the benefit of others.
1/25/1981 • 39 minutes, 4 seconds
Why Did God Create Sexual Desire?
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1/24/1981 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 44 seconds
Sanctified Sex Before Marriage
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1/24/1981 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 57 seconds
Sanctified Sex Before Marriage
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1/24/1981 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 35 seconds
How I Became a Christian Hedonist
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1/23/1981 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 20 seconds
Pray for Kings and All in High Positions
Let your prayers embrace all kinds of people: high and low, white and black, democrats and republicans, Soviet premiers and Iranian Ayatollahs. Enlarge your heart until it embraces the world.
1/18/1981 • 32 minutes, 50 seconds
What Do Answers to Prayer Depend On?, Part 1
If we are unloving and unrepentant then we should not think that God is likely to answer our prayers.
1/11/1981 • 33 minutes, 38 seconds
The Line of Prayer
John Piper | Beware of a church that runs on the momentum of tradition rather than the power of prayer.
1/4/1981 • 34 minutes, 50 seconds
I Have Kept the Faith
For me, the end of a year is like the end of my life. And in these last hours, I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say "Well done, good and faithful servant"?
12/28/1980 • 35 minutes, 35 seconds
Christmas and the Cause of Truth
You can read every fairy tale that was ever written, every mystery thriller, every ghost story, and you will never find anything so shocking, so strange, so weird and spellbinding as the story of the incarnation of the Son of God.
12/21/1980 • 35 minutes, 26 seconds
Jesus Is the Horn of Salvation
There is a deadly disease and an awesome enemy. And every one of us will die from this disease and be devoured by that enemy if there is no horn of salvation for us.
12/14/1980 • 33 minutes, 5 seconds
Christmas Joy Vs. the Kirchensteuer
If God values joyful, loving generosity so much as to give his beloved Son to create it in his people, then we can be absolutely assured that when we are more generous, we will be more happy and more fulfilled because God is bound to work mightily for those whose behavior he values so highly.
12/7/1980 • 35 minutes, 32 seconds
All the Prophets Proclaimed These Days
Since the first Christmas we have been living in the last days.
11/30/1980 • 30 minutes, 12 seconds
I Will Magnify Him with Thanksgiving
What does an all-sufficient God, who owns and controls all things, demand from the creature he has made? That we cease to be great in our own eyes and become small that he might appear great.
11/23/1980 • 25 minutes, 18 seconds
Christ Did Not Send Me to Baptize
Baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Jesus (Matthew 28:19, 20). And for that very reason it should never divert our attention away from Christ onto a man. It should express our desire to rely on Christ alone for salvation and to boast only in him.
11/16/1980 • 10 minutes, 43 seconds
Who Should We Invite to Thanksgiving Dinner?
Who you invite to share in your abundance shows where your treasure is.
11/9/1980 • 24 minutes, 46 seconds
Make a Case for Your Hope
John Piper | The way to get ready to make a case for your hope is to get hopeful. Apply yourself to settling the questions of your own heart.
10/19/1980 • 28 minutes, 52 seconds
The Savior's Supper and the Second Coming
Lord's Supper is a memorial service looking back to Jesus' utterly unique death—a death that so satisfied the righteous demands of God that Jesus was granted to rise from the dead and come again as King of all. The sacrifice of Christ set the charge for the explosion of his second coming.
10/12/1980 • 22 minutes, 37 seconds
The Lips of Knowledge Are a Precious Jewel
God teaches us things for our good, and he intends for us to share them for the good of our neighbor.
10/5/1980 • 35 minutes, 3 seconds
It's My Pleasure!
The humble Christian does not crave the praise of men. He longs for God to be praised and thanked and for truth to be honored.
9/28/1980 • 34 minutes, 45 seconds
What We See When the Spirit Reigns: Love
John Piper | If we are unmerciful, unforgiving people, if we hold grudges or cherish resentments or plan revenge, then what we are saying in effect to God is, "This is the way I prefer life to be."
9/21/1980 • 33 minutes, 39 seconds
The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life
The death of Christ does not turn away the wrath of God from all people. In order to benefit from the work that God has done outside of us, we must now experience the work that he does within us by the Holy Spirit. What is this work and how is it related to the gift of justification?
9/14/1980 • 26 minutes, 52 seconds
The Shepherd, the Host, and the Highway Patrol
God pursues us with goodness and mercy in both joy and trials — all for his name’s sake.
9/8/1980 • 35 minutes, 57 seconds
How Is It Right to Justify the Ungodly?
We unseat judges with indignation who acquit the guilty. Our moral sensibility is outraged when wrong and guilt are given legal sanction. Yet at the heart of our gospel stands the sentence: God justifies the ungodly who trust in him.
9/7/1980 • 23 minutes, 1 second
Restful Words for Labor Day
It seems that with this passage of Scripture, more than any other, to recite it is also to experience its reality. The psalm itself is green pasture, the psalm itself is still water, the psalm itself restores my soul.
9/1/1980 • 33 minutes, 48 seconds
Final Judgment: Eternal Life vs. Wrath and Fury
Every responsible person, on the basis of their actions and attitudes, will meet the final judgment of God.
8/31/1980 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
How to Argue with God
Don't let your sinfulness hinder your prayers. Run into the arms of God and fill his ear with arguments that aim for His honor.
8/25/1980 • 34 minutes, 25 seconds
Whatever Is Not from Faith Is Sin
Anything, absolutely any act or attitude which is owing to a lack of trust in God is sin, no matter how moral it may appear to men. God looks on the heart.
8/24/1980 • 30 minutes, 41 seconds
Christ and Cancer
If God is in control of everything, why do we suffer? Here are six affirmations to hold you through seasons of suffering.
8/17/1980 • 37 minutes, 45 seconds
Is God for Us or for Himself?
When we clamor for praise, we are prideful and petty. But when God commands us to praise him, he is loving us to the uttermost.
8/10/1980 • 27 minutes
How to Do Good So That God Gets the Glory
God gets glory not from our heroic exertion but from our reliance upon his strength—when we serve as one who serves with the strength which God supplies.
8/3/1980 • 22 minutes, 55 seconds
Go to God in Prayer: How Not to Be a Mule
Don’t be stubborn like a mule, but run headlong to God in prayer while he may be found.
8/3/1980 • 32 minutes, 11 seconds
Don’t Eat the Bread of Anxious Toil
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7/28/1980 • 25 minutes, 34 seconds
God Created Us for His Glory
God’s glory and our happiness are never at odds. His pursuit of his own fame is a full commitment to our deepest joy.
7/27/1980 • 29 minutes, 21 seconds
Delighting in the Law of God
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7/21/1980 • 33 minutes, 47 seconds
The Wisdom We Speak
The remedy for the darkness of man's mind is not mindlessness but light.
7/20/1980 • 38 minutes, 39 seconds
The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
In his first sermon as pastor at Bethlehem, John Piper explains the source of his authority and the reason for his fear.
7/13/1980 • 30 minutes, 12 seconds
John Piper’s Candidating Sermon at Bethlehem Baptist
John Piper candidated at Bethlehem Baptist Church in January of 1980. Six months later, he was installed to the pastorate, where he spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for more than three decades.
1/27/1980 • 33 minutes, 47 seconds
John Piper’s Candidating Testimony
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1/27/1980 • 22 minutes, 44 seconds
John Piper’s Senior Sermon at Fuller Seminary
One of the first sermons John Piper ever preached, as a 25-year-old seminary student.
