50 Crucial Questions About Manhood and Womanhood …
An Overview of Central Concerns About Manhood and Womanhood
“The issue we face in this booklet is how men and women should relate to each other according to the Bible” (p. 11).
January
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.
Angels and Prayer …
Daniel's Experience and Ours
Take the supernatural seriously and realize that we are in warfare.
Enough for Us …
Abundance for Every Good Work
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.
Interview With John Piper on The Supremacy of God in Preaching …
Preaching Today Radio Broadcast
John Piper answers questions on issues raised in his book on preaching.
The Imperfections of Good People …
How do we not resist imperfections when the Bible says, “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect”?
Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
How can Christians serve as the conscience of our culture?
God, Congregation, and Codependency: To Whom Are We Preaching …
Desiring God 1992 Conference for Pastors
God, Congregation, and Codependency
A Prayer Jesus Would Not Answer …
If the answer to our prayer doesn't come as we want, let us not assume that the Lord has no affection for us nor any tugs to do what we want.
God, Congregation, and Codependency: How Then Shall We Preach …
Desiring God 1992 Conference for Pastors
God, Congregation, and Codependency
God, Congregation, and Codependency: What Is the Codependency Movement …
Desiring God 1992 Conference for Pastors
God, Congregation, and Codependency
A Passion For Preaching …
Desiring God 1992 Conference for Pastors
God, Congregation, and Codependency
Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of a Saint …
Reflections on the Life of William Cowper
1992 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors
Finishing the Great Commission with Unfinished People …
Desiring God 1992 Conference for Pastors
God, Congregation, and Codependency
God, Congregation, and Codependency, Panel Discussion …
Desiring God 1992 Conference for Pastors
God, Congregation, and Codependency
February
Savoring God by Serving the Saints …
Serving and loving and helping and encouraging and supporting the saints is the way we show our love for the name of God.
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.
Receiving Children in Jesus' Name …
Children prove whether you are truly great or not—whether you live to serve or live to be praised.
God’s Invincible Purpose: Foundations for Full Assurance …
Lenten Sermon Series
March
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.
Open Letter to the Star Tribune …
John Piper challenges the inconsistent reasoning of a pro-choice editorial.
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.
Magnificent Manumission …
The whole concept of slavery as we know it is blown out of the water when God becomes the “Slavemaster.”
God Vindicated His Righteousness in the Death of Christ …
God put sent Christ to die in order to demonstrate his righteousness.
God Justified the Ungodly …
Being justified means being forgiven, being reckoned righteous, being loved by God, and being secured by God forever.
Why God Is Not an Abomination to Himself …
Meditation on Proverbs 17:15
How does the gospel avoid contradicting God's righteous standards?
April
God Called Us into Life and Hope …
The call of God is effective; it creates what it commands.
God Sanctifies His People …
Palm Sunday
Assurance does not come from making holiness optional. It comes from knowing God is faithful.
The Fruitful Tree …
In Memory of Dr. George Henry (Noël's Father)
Reflections on Psalm 1 and Joshua 24:15
No tree was ever meant to be / A never-ending shade for me / Or you. Save one: where Jesus died / With bleeding branches spread as wide / And far as faith for sinful men.
Christ and Those in Him Will Never Die Again …
Easter Sunday
What if it's true that Christ rose from the dead?
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.
May
Does God Have Civil Rights? …
Los Angeles, the 14th Amendment and God
Until God is given his rights, no human rights will have significance beyond convenience.
June
Should Not I Pity That Great City...Minneapolis? …
The Day of Praise Procession
God has made the cities of this world, and he cares for them. So should we.
The Echo and Insufficiency of Hell, Part 1 …
Behold the Kindness and Severity of God
The horror of hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.
When a Friend Takes a Wrong Turn …
The Bible teaches that hell is everlasting torment, not the loss of existence.
The Echo and Insufficiency of Hell, Part 2 …
Behold the Kindness and Severity of God
Fear of hell is no proof of love for God.
A Million-Dollar Love Affair …
One test of our love is the way we support the ministry financially during the summer.
Beliefs about Homosexual Behavior and Ministering to Homosexual Persons …
Resolution Passed by the Baptist General Conference in Annual Meeting Estes Park, Colorado
July
August
Olympic Spirituality, Part 1 …
Beyond the Gold
The way you run your race and fight your fight will make the difference between sharing in the promises of the gospel or being disqualified.
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.
Olympic Spirituality, Part 2 …
How Then Shall We Run?
Eternal life hangs on the way we run and the way we fight.
How Can Elsie Run? …
It is possible for the sick and aged to win the fight of faith because it is a fight against lost hope, not against lost health.
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: For Holiness and Hope …
God has a purpose for every obstacle and every frustration and every pain and every affliction that comes into our lives.
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: That We Might Gain Christ …
We come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: To Finish the Aim of Christ's Afflictions …
The suffering love of Christ for sinners is seen in the suffering love of his people for sinners.
September
Changes Are in the Wind …
A New Fall Focus on Being the Church
What does it mean to be the “church of God”?
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: For an Eternal Weight of Glory …
Afflictions do not merely precede glory; they help produce the glory.
Back to School: A Biblical Perspective …
The business of education is God’s business. To ignore him in it is to be profoundly uneducated.
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.
A Preaching Plan for the Fall …
On Being the Body of Christ
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.
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.
Living Supernaturally As the Church of Christ …
We must seek to experience supernatural power daily in order to be the church.
October
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.
Should Colleges Indoctrinate? …
Indoctrination is not the only alternative to faith-weakening education.
Beautifying the Body of Christ …
Christ did not simply die for an unworthy woman or for a reluctant woman, but for a woman who found him repulsive.
Why the Saints Minister to the Body …
The aim of your ministry as a Christian is to build up the body as a whole.
How the Saints Minister to the Body …
Love abounding in knowledge and discernment is what builds Christ's body.
One Issue Politics, One Issue Marriage and the Humane Society …
Being a “one issue voter” does not mean that only one issue matters. It means that some issues matter enough to disqualify a person from public office.
November
"Render to Caesar the Things That Are Caesar’s" …
Beware of rendering too much to Caesar the way Pilate did (John 19:12). And when you render to Caesar do it only “for the Lord’s sake.”
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.
Life Changing Things I've Learned about Missions …
First Baptist Church, Rochester, Minnesota
Nine lessons that have changed John Piper's understanding and approach to missions.
Some Wonderful Words of Fear …
17 verses about fearing the Lord.
Sound Judgment, One Body, Several Parts …
Why doesn't God give everyone the same faith and gifts?
You Were Bought with a Price …
Glorify God with Your Bodies
Christianity has to do with everything your body has to do with—food and sex and sleep and talking and playing and working.
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.
December
A Guide for Gift Buying (and Happiness) at Christmas …
Three guidelines for considering the relationship between wealth and happiness.
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.
Has the Church Been Disarmed by the World? …
Has the church come to depend on the world for too much of our education, leisure, entertainment and interpretation of current events?
Body Pains: Feelings of Self-Sufficiency …
Even if we don't have the same heart for a particular issue facing us, let us have the same heart for each other.
Why the Son of God Came into the World …
A Christmas Message
The Bible's picture of our Savior too radical that it should be the mere creation of sinful men.
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.
"If Anyone Hears My Voice and Opens the Door I Will Come in to Him and Eat with Him" …
Prayer Week ‘93
5 ways for focus on God during prayer week.
