A Call for Courage in the Cause of Truth …
Bethel College Chapel
Twin Cities, MN
Jesus Is Alive to Serve …
Easter Sunday
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.
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.
Corporate Prayer in the Life of the Church and in Worship …
Bethel Seminary Workshop
The Lord Stood by Me …
God causes us to persevere in the fight of faith. Therefore he gets the glory.
Picture Jesus Playing the Lottery …
Three reasons why you should resist playing the lottery.
Winning Battles Through Prayer …
Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment (ACMC)
Wheaton, IL
What Your Love Means to Me …
John Piper thanks the church for the honor shown him on his 10th anniversary at Bethlehem.
Do You See the Joy of God in the Sun? …
Through the sky God ministers humility and hope and healing and happiness.
Clyde Kilby’s Resolutions for Mental Health and for Staying Alive to God in Nature …
Ten resolutions by Pastor John's beloved English Literature professor.
The Heart You Know and the Heart You Don't …
How do you deal with sin in your life if you love God?
Explosive Fellowship …
This age is too evil for us to treat fellowship as a kind of comfortable togetherness that has no transforming, empowering, explosive effect.
The Aims of the Constitutional Revision …
This constitutional revision would replace the Council of Deacons at Bethlehem with a Council of Elders.
Public Worship in a Secular World: What, Why and How, Session 1 …
Wednesday Night Connection
Bethlehem Baptist Church
What Jesus Did After the Beginning …
The book of Acts is not just the acts of the apostles; it is the acts of the risen, living, enthroned Jesus.
O, Spare Us This Rebuke at Bethlehem! …
To grow up into the fullness of the stature of Christ includes emotional transformation.
Public Worship in a Secular World: What, Why and How, Session 2 …
Wednesday Night Connection
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.
Thoughts on Worship and Culture …
Ten observations on musical style in the church.
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.
There is No Greater Satisfaction …
God-Centered Motivation for World Missions
Another Desiring God …
Bethlehem on the Radio
Bethlehem pursues new ways of filling Minneapolis with their teaching.
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.
Answers to Prayer in the Midst of Non-Answers …
Why doesn't God, instead of saving us out of trouble, just keep it away entirely?
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.
Prayer ‘90 …
Concerted, united prayer has been God's pattern in the past for initiating spiritual awakening and world evangelization.
Disarray or God's Design? …
2000 by 2000: What in the World Is God Doing at Bethlehem?
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.
The Moves of Manhood …
Resisting Lust, Serving as Leaders, Showing Love
A men's retreat is an opportunity to learn from each other and step closer toward the maturity and wholeness that God is calling us to.
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?
If You’re Hungry, Here’s a Next Step …
How can you experience more of the fullness of God? Consider taking a personal prayer retreat.
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?
Does God Really Want You to Be Encouraged? …
God goes the second (and third and fourth) mile for us to feel encouraged.
Thanksgiving in Suffering …
Celebration of Thanksgiving at Maranatha Hall
Jesus, the Son of God, is alive today, and stands ready to serve you as your advocate with God the Father.
Where the Great King Keeps His Wine …
It's the seasons of affliction that yield the most spiritual fruit.
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!
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.
For Tom Steller on His 10th Anniversary at Bethlehem Baptist …
John Piper poetically commemorates a partner in ministry.
Jesus' Name Made This Man Strong …
The Father is the ultimate source of all healing. Through Jesus the Father does his healing will.
Times of Refreshing and the Restoration of All Things …
God will one day establish the kingdom of Christ on the earth.
How Do You Stay Inspired to Pray? …
Where people do not pray, churches either die or become human management “successes”. Three suggestions for staying inspired.
God Sent His Servant to Bless You …
God is moving toward you today with blessing.
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.
Unreached Peoples …
The Unique and Primary Goal of Missions
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.
These You Ought to Have Done Without Neglecting the Others …
Don't live for comforts, live for justice and compassion.
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.
Very Calmly Say, "Your Outrageous Opinions Are Not Based on Truth" …
You never know when the open statement of your conviction will strike a deep chord of rightness in some secular group.
Abortion: Shall We Listen to Men or God? …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
We are not called to win; we are called to witness.
A Passion for Christ-Exalting Power …
Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Need for Revival and Baptism with the Holy Spirit
1991 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors
Signs and Wonders: Then and Now …
The Bible teaches that spiritual gifts, including prophecy and tongues, will continue until Jesus comes. To neglect them is to risk disobedience.
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.
Be Like Barnabas Not Like Ananias! …
Faking faith in the presence of God is a fearful thing.
B.I.T.C. Plenary Session …
Wednesdays, February 20 - March 20
How Signs and Wonders Helped Add Multitudes to the Lord …
God wants us to pray for signs and wonders today.
Signs and Wonders and Suffering …
A life of suffering and a ministry of signs and wonders are not inconsistent with one another.
The Price and the Preciousness of Spiritual Power …
The preciousness of spiritual power is that it is finally in God's control, not ours.
How Our New Worship Building Will Become Wonderfully Obsolete …
The Real Aim of SPAN III
You Have Filled Jerusalem with Your Teaching …
We are not big. But we are part of something big.
If It Is of God, It Will Not Be Overthrown …
Commitment Sunday Service At Maranatha Hall
What does building a new worship building have to do with real worship?
Serving Widows, Preaching the Word, and Winning Priests …
A major threat to the Christian movement is whatever threatens the ministry of the Word.
Stephen's Crime: "Jesus Will Destroy the Temple" …
Palm Sunday
How did Jesus destroy the temple? Why did saying so cost Stephen his life?
They Gave It Their Best Shot—In Vain …
When it looks like he is buried for good, Jesus is doing something awesome in the dark.
Six Gifts of the Resurrection …
Easter Sunday
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.
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood …
A Response to Evangelical Feminism
“We want to help Christians recover a noble vision of manhood and womanhood as God created them to be” (p. 10).
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.
Would You Accept Execution for Being a Christian? …
Can you honestly say with the psalmist, “the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life”?
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.
Do You Ever Fast for More of God’s Power? …
The absence of fasting probably means the absence of deep longings for God’s power. And the absence of deep longing is one reason he waits to bless us.
The Lord Is Great and Does Wondrous Things …
Immanuel Baptist
God is more powerful than all the gods and he is more powerful than all the nations. On God's side you cannot lose.
Dream with Us About Taking Our City for God …
What unique things would your city contribute to the cause of Christ if his Lordship were established more fully there?
Spreading Power Through Persecution …
God makes persecution and suffering serve the unstoppable mission of the church.
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.
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.
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.
Summer Faithfulness Is Better Than December Desperation …
How to Have a Clear Conscience on Vacation
Unsparing Pain, Unsparing Pleasure …
Bethel Seminary Graduation Communion
Twin Cities, MN
Who Are the Elders? …
Then and Now
Congregational authority and strong leadership under that authority are not incompatible. They are biblical, and they are vital.
Happiness In Being Loved, and Loving In Being Happy …
The church gets its greatest spiritual advantage when its elders are leading with joy.
Overflowing Grace for All Who Believe …
The Conversion of the Chief of Sinners
God's design in converting Paul is to give you hope for yourself and for the people you want to see converted.
Forget Not All His Benefits …
The steadfast love of the Lord has been the same through all the changes of the last 120 years.
I Will Sing Praises to You Among the Nations …
Something is wrong with a private God. But if our God is great, we go public with our worship.
Looking Back to Witnesses, Up to Jesus, and Forward to Joy …
The author of Hebrews knows nothing of coasting Christianity.
An Open Letter to a Friend in Heaven …
John Piper commemorates the life of an elder at Bethlehem who went to be with Jesus.
Be Wise, Buy the Summer Moment, Season with Salt …
What does it mean to let our words be "seasoned with salt"?
