Jesus Christ: Alive and With Us to the End …
Easter Sunday
The Greatest Thing in the World: An Overview of Romans 1-7 …
Because of Christ there is no condemnation, only deep transformation.
The Word Was Made Flesh …
Christians must know Jesus well so that they can discern between the Christ of Scripture and the Christ that other religions claim to honor.
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?
Breaking Nets, Sinking Boats and Saving Men …
Missions Week
The Reformed Faith and Racial Harmony …
Racial Harmony Sunday
Where racial harmony doesn’t flourish, the cross of Christ is dishonored and the sovereignty of God is obscured.
The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Five suggestions for how to respond as salt and light to the sin of abortion.
How to Submit to the Righteousness of God …
Mother's Day
Are we teaching the Scriptures to make our children wise unto salvation through faith in Jesus Christ?
Look at the Kindness and the Severity of God …
God's kindness is what we fly to, and his severity is what we flee from.
Present Your Bodies As a Living Sacrifice to God …
We were given bodies to make the glory of God more visible, especially through merciful behavior.
Racial Harmony and Interracial Marriage …
Racial Harmony Sunday
Interracial marriage is not only permitted by God, it is a positive good.
It is not just to be tolerated, but celebrated.
Fathers, Bring Them Up in the Discipline & Instruction of the Lord …
A Tribute to My Father, William Solomon Hottle Piper
Eleven precious truths taught and demonstrated to John Piper by his father.
Don't Eat the Bread of Anxious Toil …
Summer Psalms
Sunday Evening Message
It's My Pleasure! …
Humility & Christian Hedonism
The humble Christian does not crave the praise of men. He longs for God to be praised and thanked and for truth to be honored.
Christmas Joy Vs. the Kirchensteuer …
If God values joyful, loving generosity so much as to give his beloved Son to create it in his people, then we can be absolutely assured that when we are more generous, we will be more happy and more fulfilled because God is bound to work mightily for those whose behavior he values so highly.
Sexual Relations in Marriage …
Marital sex is a great joy that also proves to be a fearsome weapon against our ancient foe.
The Education of a Prophet: Jonah …
You can't bless somebody if you desire their harm. If you are a follower of Jesus, you must desire the good of everyone, no matter what their race or nationality.
He Commanded and They Were Created …
Since God created everything, we and all our so-called possessions are his to do with as he pleases.
Prayer at Harvest Time: Now! …
Before God enables his people to bring in a harvest, he pours out a Spirit of prayer upon them. The surest sign that God is about to send power upon us is a great movement of prayer in our midst.
Liberating Promises …
If you want to enjoy God's peace and be the aroma of his grace in the world, your knowledge of him has to grow.
Calling all Clay Pots …
A Celebration of Ministry
Every Christian has received a gift from God which he is responsible to use for the good of the church and for the glory of God.
Always Pray and Do Not Lose Heart …
Jesus makes it clear that eternal life hangs on whether we are ready when he comes.
World Peace …
Radio Broadcast
Hostility is the result of frustrated desire. But when God becomes our soul's satisfaction we turn from war-waging to peacemaking.
Christ in Combat: Offense by the Spirit …
Everything Jesus said and did was to make us trust him and imitate him. Everything he did is a ground for faith and a call to action.
Ruth: Sweet and Bitter Providence …
When it seems that God is farthest from you or has turned against you, he is actually laying foundations for your greater happiness.
Until It Is Fulfilled in the Kingdom of God …
Jesus the Passover Lamb was slain to ransom people from every tribe and tongue and nation.
Obedience Confirms Our Standing in God …
You can know that you know Christ if you obey his commands.
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear …
A life poured out in love for others yields peace of mind and the hope of a glorious destiny.
Those Whom He Justified He Also Glorified …
Glorification is the work of God by which he makes his children both spiritually and physically glorious.
Blessed Are the Peacemakers …
God is a peace-loving God, and a peacemaking God. God's children have the character of their Father.
Our Hope: The Glory of God! …
If there is any wonder or awe or admiration or fame or praise or applause, it belongs to the glory of God. For all other glory is like grass compared to God's.
Escape from Futility …
Escape from futility! Live a different way. Walk a different path.
The Life of God in the Soul of Man …
God lives in the soul of man by the indwelling of his Spirit.
The Pleasure of God in Public Justice …
Having just and honest dealings in the world displays our confidence that God always cares and provides for his children.
What Must Happen Before the Day of the Lord? …
Before the day of the Lord comes, the man of lawlessness must come first.
Practical Help for Praying for Help …
Prayer is not a mere devotional interlude in the real business of living; it is the pathway of faith and obedience. There is no other.
The Doctrine of Perseverance: The Earnest Pursuit of Assurance …
The coach of Scripture and the floor of Christ conspire to keep the saints from breaking our necks again and again.
Battling Unbelief Together …
We must help each other battle unbelief. We must help each other fight the fight of faith.
Joy Exchanged and Joy Forfeited …
We have exchanged our joy for the dead-end street of judgment.
Manhood and Womanhood: Conflict and Confusion After the Fall …
The solution to bad harmonizing isn't to make everybody sing the same note.
Are Signs and Wonders for Today? …
Did the apostles have spiritual gifts that are now obsolete?
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.
Abortion: Shall We Listen to Men or God? …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
We are not called to win; we are called to witness.
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.
Prepare to Meet Your God …
When we come to meet God (whether in corporate worship, or in judgment at the last day), we should prepare.
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.
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: That We Might Gain Christ …
We come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.
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.
Fearlessness as a Sign of Destruction and Salvation …
Unity in Christ and fearlessness before our opponents make the worth of the gospel clear.
God's Great Mercy and Our New Birth …
Our response to being born again and being given a living hope and an imperishable inheritance in heaven should be to bless God.
Why God Laid a Stone of Stumbling …
No human can thwart the purposes of God, neither by belief nor unbelief.
The Destiny: Eternal Life …
Why does eternity exist? It exists because it will take that long for us to know the inexhaustible glories of God.
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, Part 1 …
All of Scripture hangs on two great purposes: that God be loved with all our heart, and that we love each other as we love ourselves.
Through Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.
Walk in Wisdom: Seize the Moment …
Wisdom is the use of knowledge to reach worthy goals, such as winning outsiders to Christ.
The Word of God: Living, Active, Sharp …
The Word of God is living and active and penetrates to the bottom of our lives and rips the pleasant mask off the ugly face of sin.
Woe to Those Who Trample the Son of God …
Threatening judgment is an effective (and biblical) way to motivate people.
You Have Come to Mount Zion …
Obedience is not our way of getting God to do something. It is how we act when we trust that God is already working for us.
The Author of the Greatest Letter Ever Written …
First in a Series of Messages on Romans
Class, Culture and Ethnic Identity in Christ …
Racial Harmony Sunday
It is impossible to believe that Christ indwells every believer and then mistreat one of a different race.
Justification by Faith Establishes the Law …
The moral law in the Old Testament is not a ladder for climbing, but a track for riding in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Sluggard Says, There Is a Lion Outside! I Shall Be Slain …
A Meditation
Laziness makes us resistant against any truth that exposes our laziness.
The Greatest Thing in the World Is to Be Saved …
The reason being saved is the greatest experience in the world is because God is the greatest Person in the world.
Nine Ways to Know That the Gospel of Christ Is True …
The claims of the New Testament have more support than you might think.
Is "Growing Without Growing" Working? …
Farewell to Sovereign Joy Fellowship
If You Want to Love, You Must Die to the Law …
The law is not our primary means for bearing fruit. It serves mostly to teach us that we don't bear fruit apart from the gospel.
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.
The Sweet Commands of God …
If God is sovereign, we are secure no matter how perilous it is to obey him.
The Passion of Jesus Christ and the Passion of Auschwitz …
Is there a way that Jewish suffering may find, not its cause, but its final meaning in the suffering of Jesus Christ?
What Pipers Do On Vacation …
How Can a Husband and Wife Fellowship with Jesus?
Tsunami, Sovereignty, and Mercy …
Natural disasters bring both judgment and mercy, punishment and purification.
Minimizing the Bible? …
Seeker-Driven Pastors and Radical Contextualization in Missions
If the Lord’s Day Is Sunday, Why Do We Have a Saturday Evening Service? …
It is acceptable to conduct your worship service on a day other than the Lord's Day?
For Noel on Our 20th Wedding Anniversary …
A poem from 18 years ago celebrating God's goodness in marriage.
The Loaves and Fishes …
A boy that's got to steal a cake has never seen what God can make.
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?
