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 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.
Predestined for Adoption to the Praise of His Glory …
Reflections on Being Adopted by God and Adopting Children
We must understand and enjoy our own adoption before we can properly grasp what it means to adopt another.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 1 …
The Gift of Prophecy
Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ …
Christ’s promise to meet all of our needs is what frees us from fear and greed and enables us to joyfully share with others.
How Not to Be a Mule …
Summer Psalms
Sunday Evening Message
Don't be like the mule but run headlong to God in prayer while he may be found. For the contrite heart which prays will be forgiven and protected and taught the way to God and will be glad in the Lord forever.
Jesus Is the Horn of Salvation …
There is a deadly disease and an awesome enemy. And every one of us will die from this disease and be devoured by that enemy if there is no horn of salvation for us.
What Is the Fruit That Befits Repentance? …
Sunday Evening Message
You can tell where a man's heart is resting by the way he handles his money and by the attitude he has toward his possessions.
Get Wisdom …
What is wisdom? And what are some biblical instructions for how I can get it?
The Emergence of Sin and Misery …
The essence of the Fall and of our depraved hearts is the desire not to depend on God.
Flesh Tank and Peashooter Regulations …
Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn't look like one.
Listen to the Eyewitness of His Majesty …
The difference between mythical speculations and Christian faith is history. Our doctrines are not the result of clever head-work. They are the result of historical observation.
The Locust Horde and the Day of the Lord …
God will fight against us and clog the joy of our lives until we return with our whole heart to him. For his purpose is to be God alone in the midst of his people.
When Not to Believe an Angel …
There is one, and only one, gospel. It is therefore astonishing--and tragic--to turn away from it and lose both God and his grace.
Don't Go Back from Sonship to Slavery …
If Satan can't get you to disobey God's commands, then he'll try to make you obey them with the wrong spirit.
God Seeks People to Worship Him in Spirit and Truth …
Worship must have heart and worship must have head.
Ruth: Strategic Righteousness …
Hopelessness makes us think we need to have illicit pleasures to be happy. But hope gives us a thrilling impulse to do good.
Contend for the Faith …
If the truth is lost, salvation is lost.
The Strong Need Strength …
Unless there is hope of winning there is no motivation to fight. The apostle John motivates the fight with the confidence of victory.
He Who Has the Son Has Life …
Nothing is more important than having eternal life.
A Well-Timed Help …
Sunday Evening Message
God's help is always well-timed.
Guard Yourself With Gratitude …
Thankfulness guards our souls because it nurtures humility and kills triviality.
The Marvelous Rising of a Rejected Stone …
Easter Sunday
Academic stature has never been a guarantee of religious insight.
The Fruit of Hope: Joy …
Without Christian hope my life and your life cannot yield Christian joy or love or boldness or endurance.
Speak Truth with Your Neighbor …
If we walk with Jesus, we will be straightforward, open, and honest in all our dealings and in every relationship.
Risk and the Cause of God …
Risk only exists because of ignorance.
Your Love Is Better Than Life …
Savoring the Vision
God is worshiped and honored and savored both by fainting for him and by feasting on him.
Raising Children Who Hope in the Triumph of God …
Our great challenge is to be the kind of church and the kind of parents that raise up children who hope in the triumph of God.
Battling the Unbelief of Misplaced Shame …
The battle against misplaced shame is the battle against unbelief in the promises of God.
Jesus, Women, and Men …
Jesus has done more than anyone to bring purity and harmony between men and women.
Thanks Be to God for His Inexpressible Gift …
Celebration of Thanksgiving
The answer to the most important questions in life is Jesus Christ, God's inexpressible gift to you.
The Elders, the People, and the Prayer of Faith …
James 5 is a rebuke to pastors that never have the faith to heal and churches that don't pray in the spirit of Elijah.
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.
How Signs and Wonders Helped Add Multitudes to the Lord …
God wants us to pray for signs and wonders today.
Jesus Still Turns Things Around …
Jesus does not like pessimistic views of life or history. He has surprises in store that you have never dreamed.
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.
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.
If My Words Abide In You . . . …
The great need of the hour is to know God more deeply and personally and more biblically.
Loved Flock, Do Not Be Afraid to Give It Away …
How you handle your possessions shows where your heart is.
Let the Nations Be Glad …
Missions Week
God blesses us so that the nations will be blessed.
Forgive Just as God in Christ Also Has Forgiven You …
Palm Sunday
How do we get what we need to forgive those who sin against us?
Christ Is Hallowed in Us When We Hope in Him …
Jesus shines bright when our hope is meek, fearless, well-defended, and zealous for good deeds.
Man Shall Not Live on Bread Alone …
What to Eat While Fasting
Fasting is God's testing ground—and healing ground.
But I Say to You, Love Your Enemies, Part 2 …
Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.
Sustained by All His Grace …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.
I Have Other Sheep …
The sovereignty of God over the wills of men doesn't make evangelism unnecessary; it makes it hopeful.
Who Rules the World to Come? …
The second Adam, Jesus Christ, defeated death and restored the hope of Psalm 8 for all who are in him.
By This Time You Ought to Be Teachers …
Do you have the disease of "dullness of hearing," and if so, how can you get well?
I Baptize You with Water …
The Baptism of John
What was significant about John's baptism, and how does it relate to the way we baptize today?
Be Strengthened By Grace …
How can I find and keep the strength I need to obey God's commands?
Let Us Go with Jesus Bearing Reproach …
Christians have a hope that frees them to move toward need, not comfort.
The Other Dark Exchange: Homosexuality, Part 1 …
God means for the beauty of worship to be dramatized in the right ordering of our sexual lives.
The Other Dark Exchange: Homosexuality, Part 2 …
John Piper offers seven points of counsel to those with homosexual desires, and five to their parents.
The Effect of Hypocrisy, Part 1 …
Dishonoring God
Does James Contradict Paul? …
Even though language can sometimes confuse us--like when the same word carries multiple meanings--the Bible is not contradictory.
We Exult in Our Tribulations …
In this world you will have trouble, but in Christ it will only increase your joy and hope.
How to Pray for the Soul—Yours or Another's …
How you pray is based on what you believe God can do.
Here are 7 things to ask God to do for your soul and others'.
Being Loved and Being Hated …
What I Pray for in Missions Week
If your driving motive in life is to be liked and loved you will find it almost impossible to be a Christian.
Christian Courage …
Are you willing to say and do the right thing regardless of the earthly cost?
Get Ready, O Please, Get Ready …
John Piper thanks God for the lives of two saints and asks how it is that their deaths are "precious in the sight of the Lord."
Endings Are for Gratitude, Beginnings Are for Faith …
Every moment is an opportunity for gratitude toward the past and faith toward the future.
Courage to Follow, Courage to Lead …
Why 800 Pastors Are Coming to Bethlehem in February
It Is Sown in Dishonor, It Is Raised in Glory …
Let us learn how to help each other die. It will not be easy, but, by grace, we will help each other say in our final pain, "To die is gain."
Going Deep with God by Having Him Carry Our Loads …
One of the reasons we don't know God deeply is that we don't venture much on his pledge to carry things for us.
How Strange and Wonderful Is the Love of Christ! …
Let's not doubt Jesus' love—let's watch and learn what love really is.
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.
Love Her More and Love Her Less …
The greatest gift you give your wife is loving God above her life.
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.
Suffering, Mercy, and Heavenly Regret …
Will regret ruin our joy in heaven, or will it add to it?
Should Only Unanimous Decisions Guide the Church? …
There will always be a range of maturity and wisdom in the church, but that shouldn't paralyze it from moving forward.
The Treasure That Turns Treasures to Garbage …
The Text I Didn't Preach On
What is superior to moral and religious achievements is knowing, gaining, and being found in Christ.
Ten Reasons to Listen to Questions Before You Answer …
Meditation on Proverbs 18:13
Why is it a bad idea to give an answer too soon?
