It was a busy weekend in Boston—the anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride of April 18, 1775; home games for 3 professional sports teams (Celtics, Red Sox, and Bruins); over 20,000 runners in town for today’s Boston Marathon; and John Piper preached 4 times in 1 day.


This year is the bicentennial celebration for Boston’s Park Street Church (founded in 1809). To mark the anniversary, the church is hosting a guest preacher (to deliver evangelistic messages) each month throughout 2009. This month was John Piper.


He preached 2 messages, giving each message twice, for a total of 4. We have the audio from these two messages, titled “Jesus Christ and the Rescue of Joy—Part 1 and Part 2.”

Topic: Joy  

David Mathis (@davidcmathis) is an elder at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Twin Cities, and works as executive pastoral assistant to John Piper. He and his wife Megan have twin sons (Carson and Coleman) and live in Minneapolis. David is co-editor (with John Piper) of Thinking, Loving, Doing, most recently, and Finish the Mission, forthcoming. Yep, he plays rec softball and went yard in his last game.