What Can I Say -Ay -Ay? …
Pastor John expresses gratitude for his fortieth birthday suprise party.
What Can Keep a Missionary Going? …
Here are some of the stupendous promises to sustain us in a work that may be long and may be hard, but will triumph in the end.
What Did Christ Purchase for Your Children With His Blood? …
Christ purchased privileges for the children of believers. But he did not guarantee their salvation.
What Does It Mean to Bless God? …
Blessing God is an "exclamation of gratitude and admiration."
What Does It Mean to Seek the Lord? …
Meditation on Psalm 105:4
A meditation on Psalm 105:4
What Does Jesus Want for Christmas? …
What Jesus wants most is that his elect get what they want most: eyes to see and savor the Son of God.
What does Piper mean when he says he's a seven-point Calvinist? …
Historically, there are only five points of Calvinism, so what are the extra two?
What Does the Slaughter of the Amorites Mean? …
God’s dealing with Israel was unique in redemptive history. The church cannot presume to imitate everything they did.
What God Did in and Through You …
Grateful Reflections on the Easter Celebrations
John Piper expresses thanks to all who helped make the Easter service a success.
What God Requires, Christ Provides …
What God expects regarding human law-keeping, Christ accomplishes by becoming our substitute.
What Happens at a Bed and Breakfast …
More than You Think--A New Year’s Exhortation
How do John and Noel make Jesus a part of their marriage?
What happens at death? …
Death ushers us directly into either heaven or hell, so let us look to Christ for salvation.
What happens to infants who die? …
Why we believe that God saves them all.
What I Said at My Granddaughter’s Funeral …
A Granddaddy’s Thoughts
John Piper shares seven ways that he has felt the loss of his granddaughter, Felicity Margaret Piper.
What I Said to the Pastoral Staff About Unity Amid Differences …
Six biblical guidelines for loving each other.
What If Our Dying Is Discipline? …
Meditation on 1 Corinthians 11:29-32
Sometimes God takes a sinning saint because he loves him too much to let him go on in sin.
What Is a Christian? …
Christianity is not merely believing a set of ideas about Christ’s love. It is an experience of being constrained by that love.
What is a “Root of Bitterness”? …
A "root of bitterness" is a person who has a wrong view of eternal security.
What Is Bethlehem? …
Bethlehem is most essentially a vision of God.
What Is Good and Acceptable and Perfect …
Thoughts on Romans 12:2
No one can receive mercy at the cross and still be casual about the will of God.
What Is Humility? …
Is it arrogant to believe that treasuring Jesus is the only way to be saved?
What is plagiarism? …
The definition of plagiarism, why it's a problem, and how to avoid it.
What Is Success on Commitment Sunday? …
We should give as radical as we can in pursuit of our best biblical judgment.
What Is That to You? You Follow Me! …
Freed from Comparing by Blunt Words
We're wired to compare ourselves to others, so it's freeing to hear Jesus say, "Mind your own business and the work I have for you."
What Is the "Bad Eye" in Matthew 6:23? …
If your emotions are drawn more by material things than by Christ then you probably aren't seeing the beauty of grace.
What Is the Christian Gospel? …
There is nothing in itself that makes "forgiveness of sins" or justification good news. The gospel is more than that.
What is the doctrine of the Trinity? …
What does the Bible teach about the Trinity? How is it not a contradiction for God to be both three and one?
What Is the Philosophy of Worship that Unites Us? …
Nine values about corporate worship that we hold in common at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
What Keeps Me Going …
John Piper's life as a pastor hangs on his people's firm and growing stand in the Lord.
What Love Does and Does Not Do …
Anniversary Thoughts on 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Paul isn't abstractly defining love 1 Corinthians 13. He is showing how it applies to the church.
What Pipers Do On Vacation …
How Can a Husband and Wife Fellowship with Jesus?
What the Pastor Did on Vacation …
John Piper recounts the activities and effects of vacation with his family.
What to Do When You Have Made an Expensive Mistake …
On Swearing to Your Own Hurt
Where do we get the strength to follow through on commitments that cost us?
What to Pray For …
Paying attention to what the early church prayed for can help keep your prayer life from falling in a rut.
What to Say to the Depressed, Doubting, Skeptical, Confused, Angry …
How to interact with those who are struggling in their faith.
What Unites Us in Worship at Bethlehem? …
What are the essentials of worship that go deeper than style and form?
What We Believe About the Five Points of Calvinism …
Revised March, 1998
To know God in his sovereignty is to become like an oak tree in the wind of adversity and confusion.
What We Owe the Resurrection of Jesus …
An Aid to Easter Worship
What Will It Be Like at the Judgment? …
Supplement to August 1 Sermon
What about the New Covenant promise that God will not remember the sins of his people? Will they be remembered at the judgment day?
What Will the Final Judgment Mean for You? …
If we could see the final judgment, we would be the happiest and bravest people in 2008.
What Wonderful and Wild Thing Might God Be Up To? …
How do you lead your church through financial and logistical surprises?
What Would Power Look Like? …
What might it look like if God clothed us with the fullness of power that many of his servants have known?
What Your Love Means to Me …
John Piper thanks the church for the honor shown him on his 10th anniversary at Bethlehem.
What? Me Hostile to God? …
Meditation on Colossians 1:21-22
Most people imagine God to be the way they want him to be, which seldom includes the possibility that they might be his enemy.
When a Friend Takes a Wrong Turn …
The Bible teaches that hell is everlasting torment, not the loss of existence.
When Does God Answer Prayer? …
Prayer is not designed to compound hoarded pleasures. If we do not aim to love, we pray in vain.
When Does God Become 100% For Us? …
Answering a Good Question
John Piper explains how God’s disposition towards us changes at the moment of our justification.
When Everyone Deserts You …
Meditation on Paul's Last Imprisonment
When God's Will Isn't Clear …
The Difficulty is Part of God's Design
When God’s Will Is That His Will Not Be Done …
Meditations on 1 Samuel 2:22-25
Sometimes God ordains that sin continue for holy and just reasons, which is not sin on his part.
When Gratitude Gets Complicated …
Thoughts on Saying Thank You at Bethlehem and Desiring God
When you are in a position of receiving blessing from many people, knowing how to express gratitude can be challenging.
When Prosperity is a Bane and Adversity a Blessing …
Lessons from the Young Man in Mark 10
When Satan Hurts Christ’s People …
Reflections on Why Christians Suffer Losses
Reflections on why Christians suffer losses.
When the Adulteress Went Home …
Living Guilt-free with the Consequences of Past Sin
When the Bible Blows Your Mind …
What should we do when it seems like one Biblical truth cancels out another?
When the Potter Is for Us: Boom! …
Mixing God’s absolute power with his rights as Creator causes combustion in the heart.
When the "Want To" and the "Ought To" Don't Match …
What can you do if what you feel like doing isn't what you should do.
When There's Crisis at Christmas …
Noel Piper encourages a friend to hold onto Jesus at Christmas time even if nothing about the holiday season feels joyful.
When to Be Merciful and When to Demand Justice …
Consider three criteria for deciding when to love others with mercy and when to love them with justice.
When Unclothed Is Unfitting …
Thoughts on Selling with Sex
There are at least nine reasons--even from a secular perspective--for why sexually-explicit advertising is socially irresponsible.
When Words Are Wind …
In grief and pain and despair people often say things they otherwise would not say, and we should not reprove them.
When You Aren't Sure What to Do Next …
Following the Reliable, Unpredictable Jesus
Whence and Why the Earthquake in Turkey? …
When love has wept and worked, it must have some answers. Not all the answers, but some.
Where Are We in Long Range Planning? …
John Piper unfolds a motion regarding the long range plans of Bethlehem Baptist.
Where Can You Find Something That Is… …
Eleven virtues of the Word of God, and seven ways to respond to it.
Where Does Christian Living Come From? …
It is remarkable that again and again the apostle Paul confronts failure to do what’s right with failure to know what’s right.
Where Does Joy Come From? …
Seven sources of the kind of joy that Paul had.
Where the Great King Keeps His Wine …
It's the seasons of affliction that yield the most spiritual fruit.
Where Will the Money Come From? …
The Meaning of $1,069
Who Am I Talking About? …
Is there a necessary relationship between salvation and good works?
