Singing to God is not a nice little emotional trip to spice up a worship service—it is a matter of life and death.

Five reasons for choosing to preach through 1 John.

When God becomes a man, he strips away every pretense of man to be God.

Four reasons for attending the early service on Sunday morning.

If we are not walking in the light, we have no warrant for believing that our sins are covered.

Every army needs a small, swift squadron full of surprises for the enemy.

We must walk in the light if we are to go on experiencing the cleansing of Jesus. And if we sin, we do indeed have an advocate with the Father.

John Piper invites church members to consider with him how Bethlehem ought to handle future growth.

You can know that you know Christ if you obey his commands.

Is there a necessary relationship between salvation and good works?

Hate is the evidence of blindness to the light of God. Love is the evidence that sight has been given to the blind.

What would happen if Bethlehem could uphold a 24 hour prayer chain without interruption until 1990?

To know God in his sovereignty is to become like an oak tree in the wind of adversity and confusion.

Unless there is hope of winning there is no motivation to fight. The apostle John motivates the fight with the confidence of victory.

No ministry is too small. Someone needs your encouragement that their life can count.

Anything that is not God can draw your heart away from God.

Ministering to the hungry and homeless is a team effort.

The Spirit agrees with the apostolic doctrine or it is not the Spirit of God.

Is there any point to exercising self-denial for the sake of distant soldiers?

Hearing the gospel with openness and confessing Christ with loyalty is the work and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Is the allocation of our missionaries and mission funds in accord with the biblical priorities?

The evidence of being indwelt by the Spirit of God is the experience of loving Jesus the way the Father loves him.

Six possible responses after reading The Church Unleashed.

Six questions to see if you have genuine faith in Christ and love for others.

If we believe and love then we can have assurance that God abides in us.

A life poured out in love for others yields peace of mind and the hope of a glorious destiny.

God is stirring all over the world in governments and churches to do a new thing in our generation.

Faith says to every temptation of the world: NO, BE GONE! I know where true satisfaction is to be found.

Arm yourself with the thought that when Jesus died to free you from sin, you died to sin.

Nothing is more important than having eternal life.

Job's worship was remarkable because it came in the midst of great suffering.

Why did God prolong Job's suffering? Didn't his initial reaction prove his faith?

A survey can inform you about your congregation and illumine more of God's will for how to grow.

The suffering of the righteous is not a token of God's enmity but of his love. It is not a punishment of their sins but a refinement of their righteousness.

How should we pray for and witness to the lost if salvation is the sovereign work of God?

It is presumptuous to assume you can counsel God about how to run a more just world.

Many of our church's shut-ins are brimming with stories of the goodness of God.

What God is after in all his dealings with his children is a brokenhearted joy that trusts like a little child in God and returns good for evil.

Two goals behind starting a Saturday evening worship service.

Why does John Piper pray by name for every church staff member every day?

Our homes and apartments should stand constantly ready for strategic hospitality—a readiness to welcome people who don't ordinarily live there.

God's help is always well-timed.

Six quotes that speak to the value of labor.

John Piper explains how Daniel Fuller's teaching method—and the theological fruit that it bears—serves the cause of missions.

Preserve your freedom in Christ! Can you say with Paul, "I will not be enslaved by anything!"?

The life of a growing church calls for prayer, planning, and praise.

Worshiping God is the number one duty of every human being.

Knowledge doesn't guarantee godliness. But ignorance seems to guarantees ungodliness.

Where the gospel flourishes people share their souls—their joys, guilts, fears, and passions.

God's invitation to the banquet of his eternal joy is sent through the church indiscriminately to all people.

The Lord grows his church by prayer, not by advertising alone.

When the massive weather front of God's love meets the massive weather front of God's power in the heart of a believer, it produces a hurricane of doxology.

God is wholly committed to saving and enriching his marriage. Are you?

Humbly accept the fact that your true advancement in life depends far more on God's labor than yours.

John Piper unfolds a motion regarding the long range plans of Bethlehem Baptist.

No promise in all the world surpasses the height and breadth and weight of Romans 8:28.

The glory of the preeminence Christ is the ultimate goal of predestination.

John Piper quotes Spurgeon on how he came to believe in God's sovereign grace.

Our call, our conversion, our regeneration, and the gift of our faith are based on God's eternal election and predestination not on our self-determination.

The doctrines of sovereign grace are not overthrown by problems in Scripture. They stand firm and are the precious foundation of our deepest hopes.

Scripture has the power to put your fretting soul to rest.

God flattened the mountain of his wrath that blocked the railroad between my predestination and my glorification. He justified us by the death of his Son.

It is faith alone which justifies, but that the faith which justifies never stays alone. It is living and active and bears fruit in obedience.

John Piper shares the surprising source of Spurgeon's first lessons in theology.

Glorification is the work of God by which he makes his children both spiritually and physically glorious.

Introducing the China Awareness Seminar and its speaker, David Adeney.

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to the Son of God and he declares, "I must bring in my other sheep." He will do it.

How can Christians use the incredible power of literature to spread the gospel?

A test to see how mindful you are to others in your church attendance.

Thankfulness guards our souls because it nurtures humility and kills triviality.

Five ways to get spiritually prepared for Christmas.

A poetic reflection on the glories of God in the doctrine of predestination.

The generosity of God's people does not go unnoticed.

We need a Savior because we are spiritually dead and helpless without him, no matter how good we look on the outside.

A poem to remind us that, "None of us would live at all but by the Lord's triumphant call."

John Piper expresses his gratitude for three fellow staffers at Bethlehem.

We were dead to God, enslaved to Satan, and were rightfully under the wrath of God. There was only one hope, and it was not in ourselves.

We were dead in sin, BUT GOD made us alive with Christ.

Joseph Alleine's life and writing was a true model of Puritan evangelism.

It is the duty of Christians to seek God's power to fulfill good resolves.

Are you satisfied with the fervor of your desire for the conversion of sinners and the holiness of saints?

There is no loophole in Scripture for divorce and remarriage when one of the partners commits adultery.

It is fitting for those who believe in the sovereignty of God to feel a deep sorrow and for the lost and a deep longing for their conversion.

The Lord gets himself glory by providing just enough for his people, and just in time.

Paul does not pray for ineffectual influences, but for effectual influences. And that is how we should pray too.

Pastor John expresses gratitude for his fortieth birthday suprise party.

Authenticity and depth in worship characterize those who suffer with Christ by bearing the burdens of others.

How should a church handle current growth and prepare for the future?

The powerful mercy of the kingdom has already come in Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

What might a church's ministry become if its members served for years on end?

Blessed are those who feel keenly their helplessness and their unworthiness and their emptiness and are driven by them to the grace of God.

Meekness begins with God and ends with God.

The hunger of your life that cannot be satisfied by anything in this world is the constant beckoning of God to remember that you were made for him.