January
Planting a Passion for the Supremacy of God in All Things …
A Call to Focused Prayer, Soul Searching, and a Church-Wide Dream
Are there enough churches in America? The answer is no.
Planting a Passion for God: A Dream for Bethlehem in 2002 …
A Call to Focused Prayer, Soul-Searching, and a Church-Wide Dream
Jesus Is the End of Ethnocentrism …
Racial Harmony Sunday
With Jesus came a radically new way of defining the people of God: all who have faith in the Messiah.
"Father, Forgive, For We Know What We Are Doing" …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
February
The Sovereignty of God and the Soul Dynamic: Why This Topic? …
Desiring God 2002 Conference for Pastors
The Sovereignty of God and the 'Soul Dynamic'
Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals, and the Political Welfare …
Reflections on the Life and Labor of William Wilberforce
2002 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors
The Sovereignty of God and the Soul Dynamic, Part 1 …
Desiring God 2002 Conference for Pastors
The Sovereignty of God and the 'Soul Dynamic'
The Sovereignty of God and the Soul Dynamic, Part 2 …
Desiring God 2002 Conference for Pastors
The Sovereignty of God and the 'Soul Dynamic'
The Chosen Race Which Declares His Excellencies …
Desiring God 2002 Conference for Pastors
The Sovereignty of God and the 'Soul Dynamic'
Q & A with Conference Speakers …
Desiring God 2002 Conference for Pastors
The Sovereignty of God and the 'Soul Dynamic'
Is It Conceit or Compassion? …
Christ is the Messiah. So is it arrogant or loving to proclaim him to Jews?
The Ripple Effect of the Word …
More Thoughts on Reading and Writing
Fresh statements of old truth are always needed, because without them people will read error.
March
Teaching Doctrine to a Six-Year-Old …
How and why to teach kids the complex and essential doctrines of the Bible.
Jesus Declares His Kingship …
Palm Sunday
The Risen Christ: Satisfied with His Suffering …
Easter Sunday
Jesus' delight in dying and rising was to enable others to rise from the dead and enjoy his majesty forever.
April
Home Grown World Christians …
Part of fulfilling the Great Commission is preparing the next generation to reach the nations. Noel Piper offers suggestions for how to raise your kids to love the world for Christ.
Biblical Exegesis …
Discovering the Meaning of Scriptural Texts
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting, Part 1 …
The Pursuit of Communion with God
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting, Part 2a …
The Pursuit of Communion with God
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting, Part 2b …
The Pursuit of Communion with God
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting, Part 3 …
The Pursuit of Communion with God
How Open Theism Helps Us Conceal Our Hidden Idolatries …
If we deny God's power over evil and suffering, do we deny his wisdom?
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.
Do Jews Have a Divine Right in the Promised Land? …
Those who break covenant with God forfeit any claim on his promises.
Ten Effects of Believing in the Five Points of Calvinism …
How do the doctrines of grace affect us personally and publicly?
Children, Heirs, and Fellow Sufferers …
Suffering is a great mercy that keeps us from loving this world more than we should.
May
What Wonderful and Wild Thing Might God Be Up To? …
How do you lead your church through financial and logistical surprises?
Jesus Christ: The End and Ground of Tolerance …
Wheaton College Commencement
Wheaton, IL
A Prayer for Bethlehem One Hundred Years From Now …
To Be Put in the Time Capsule in the New Building
Because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever, we are bold to pray for you who will live and minister decades from now.
Education for Exultation …
A Psalm for Thanksgiving
Education and knowledge should cause us to rejoice in God. If not, then they aren't fulfilling their purpose.
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness, Part 1 …
What does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
A Call for Christian Risk …
After removing eternal risk, Christ calls his people to temporal risk.
June
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness, Part 2 …
How does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
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.
All Things for Good, Part 1 …
Three things that love for God is not.
Piper's Mealtime Prayers …
Some memorable and meaningful ways to talk to God at the kitchen table.
All Things for Good, Part 2 …
A call to follow Jesus in the risks of love no matter what it costs.
The Sweet Commands of God …
If God is sovereign, we are secure no matter how perilous it is to obey him.
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.
A Summary Theology of Prayer …
Knowing God's purpose for prayer deepens our commitment to pray and helps us glorify God for why he does what he does.
August
The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God …
“The very thing the tilting ship needs in the storm is the ballast of God’s good sovereignty, not the unburdening of deep and precious truth. What makes the crush of calamity sufferable is not that God shares our shock, but that his bitter providences are laden with the bounty of love” (p. 9).
The Roots of Endurance …
Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce
“Perseverance is a gift. That I will wake up and be a believer tomorrow morning is not finally and decisively owing to my will, but to God. I have known too many mornings on the precipice to think otherwise. That I have been snatched back every time is sheer mercy” (p. 22).
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.
Justification by Faith …
The Remedy for Paralyzed Sinners, Fallen Saints, and Provincial Christians
The doctrine of justification is immeasurably precious to every area of life.
God Did Not Spare His Own Son …
God always does what is good for us. If you believe that he gave his own Son for you, this is what you believe.
The Greatest Event in History …
Two Paradoxes in the Death of Christ
Christ's death on the cross was emotionally and theologically complex, to the greater glory of God.
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.
"Fact! Faith! Feeling!" …
Testing a Common Slogan
Tolerance, Truth-Telling, Violence, and Law …
Principles for How Christians Should Relate to Those of Other Faiths
How can we commend Christ to others so that they might believe?
September
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals …
A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
“We pastors are being killed by the professionalizing of the pastoral ministry . . . The more professional we long to be, the more spiritual death we will leave in our wake" (p. 1).
That Great Steel Cross …
More Reflections on the Calamity of September 11
It was a gift to the world that God ordained a rugged cross to stand in the ruins of the World Trade Center towers.
Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of Christ …
How does the promise of Christ's unbreakable love sustain his people when life is hard?
Lessons from Lisa …
A 9/11 Widow Trusts in the Sovereign Goodness of God
September 11, 2001 has served to prove at least these ten truths about the sovereign love of God.
Breaking Nets, Sinking Boats and Saving Men …
Missions Week
October
If Christ Predicted War, May Christians Pray for Peace? …
God ordains that some wars happen. Ours is to pray that justice, peace, and the proclamation of the gospel prevail.
Bethlehem, Break Forth Like the Dawn …
The people of Christ should not be known primarily for what we don’t do, but for what we do do.
A Letter to the Sniper …
Christ Jesus is a great hope, even for the worst of sinners.
November
The Absolute Sovereignty of God: What Is Romans Nine About? …
John Piper tells how Romans 9 changed his life and then discusses its overarching theological purpose.
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.
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.
The Transforming Power of Feeling Mercy …
Let the horror you've been rescued from and the mercy you live in make you humble, thankful, patient, kind, and forgiving.
December
God's Word Stands: Not All Israel Is Israel, Part 1 …
Every person who trusts in Christ becomes part of the true Israel of God.
Guilt, Grace, and the Global AIDS Crisis …
The fact that any sinner is healthy is Christ’s mercy. Therefore, the fact that some are sick should bring out Christian mercy.
God's Word Stands: Not All Israel Is Israel, Part 2 …
God’s election of the children of promise is what guarantees that his word never fails.
When the Bible Blows Your Mind …
What should we do when it seems like one Biblical truth cancels out another?
God's Purpose Stands …
All the elect in Christ prevail: God's purpose stands and cannot fail.
