How to Welcome a Weak Brother …
How can a church hold together when some of its members are so different from one another?
Where Is God? …
The Supremacy of Christ in an Age of Terror
What does it mean that Christ is supreme over a world filled with tragedy?
Consider How to Stir Up One Another to Love …
Don’t be a loner in the Christian life. God did not design it that way.
Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind …
There are a hundred things we can disagree on in which both convictions can be done to the glory of God.
Is There a “Lord’s Day”? …
Setting apart a day of rest testifies to a self-reliant world that our work does not save or define us, Christ does.
Gospel to the Nations, Generosity to the Poor …
Missions Week
We Will All Stand Before the Judgment of God …
Love your brother and help him get to heaven, instead of judging him and making it harder.
Do Not Destroy the Work of God …
Faith is what really matters in Christian behavior, not just whether you accomplish certain things or abstain from others.
The Kingdom of God is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit …
The kingdom produces more than Christian liberty. It governs how you use your liberty too.
The Kingdom of Heaven Is a Treasure …
The kingdom of God is so valuable that losing everything on earth, but getting the kingdom, is a happy trade-off.
How God's Word Produces Our Work …
The Mighty "Therefore" of the Ultimate Victory God Gives Us in Christ
It is wonderfully energizing to settle in your heart and mind the truth that Christ is real.
A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People …
What is the pastor's calling? What does this mean for the rest of the church?
Let the One Who Boasts Boast in the Lord …
Reflections on a People and Their Preacher
I Will Go to God, My Exceeding Joy …
Practical steps you can take when you feel distant from God.
This Man Went Down to His House Justified …
This man was morally upright. He believed God had made him so. That is what he looked to and trusted in for his righteousness before God—for his justification. And he was dead wrong.
Why and How We Celebrate the Lord's Supper …
When we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we feast spiritually by faith on all the promises of God bought by the blood of Jesus.
By Signs and Wonders: Where Christ Has Not Been Named …
In Paul's ministry, signs and wonders functioned to confirm the gospel. Should we be expecting the same miraculous confirmations of our witnessing today?
Holy Ambition: to Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named …
What is your life's ambition? How can you know if it is holy?
Where I Am There Will My Servant Be: A Call to Treasure Christ Together …
When Jesus died, he didn’t just die before us—as an example to copy—but for us—as a sacrifice to trust in.
Joy+Debt = A Two-Thousand-Mile Detour to Jerusalem …
Why did Paul make another trip to Jerusalem when he expressly wanted to visit the saints in Rome?
Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ—Together …
Christian fellowship cuts our burdens in half and doubles our joy.
Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk-Takers for Christ …
What can we learn from how Paul sends his greetings?
Carry My Love to My Beloved …
Christians are precious to each other when they feel deeply what they have been saved from.
The Aroma of Christ Among the Nations …
Who can bear the weight of the responsibility of missions work?
Paul gives us five tests to help us know.
Watch Out for Those Who Lead You Away from the Truth …
Watch out for smooth-talking pastors, no matter how popular, if they do not manifestly prize the whole counsel of God.
The God of Peace Will Soon Crush Satan Under Your Feet …
Satan gets one mention in the book of Romans just to remind us: he's doomed.
God Strengthens Us by the Gospel …
God uses his gospel to strengthen believers so that they will persevere in faith and draw all attention to his glory.
Command of God: the Obedience of Faith …
How does justifying faith manifest itself in the life of a believer?
The Great Work of the Only Wise God …
God is infinitely able to know the best possible outcome of any situation and then achieve it.
To Him Be Glory Forevermore …
What is God's glory, and what is its role throughout the book of Romans?
Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans …
A Final Prayer
John Piper preaches a prayer as his final sermon in the book of Romans.
Ask Your Father in Heaven …
God's lavish invitations to ask him for good things, with the promise that he will give them, is unimaginably wonderful.
The Word of God Abides in You, and You Have Overcome the Evil One …
Live in God's word and in prayer, and you will be strengthened to defeat the devil.
The Spring of Persistent Public Love …
Marking the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Abolition of Legal Slave Trading in Britain
A Sermon on Martin Luther King Weekend
Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of legal slave trading in Britain.
When Is Abortion Racism? …
What does it mean that minority abortions are double those of whites?
Staying Married Is Not About Staying in Love, Part 1 …
Marriage is about keeping a covenant, as Jesus does with his bride, the church.
Staying Married Is Not About Staying in Love, Part 2 …
Why were Adam and Eve unashamedly naked? And why did they become ashamed when they sinned?
Marriage: God’s Showcase of Covenant-Keeping Grace …
We ought to treat our spouses with the same grace that God treats us.
Marriage: Forgiving and Forbearing …
Where can you find the grace to see your spouse the way Jesus does?
Marriage: Pursuing Conformity to Christ in the Covenant …
Grace is not just forgiving and forbearing but also changing to become more like Jesus.
Lionhearted and Lamblike: The Christian Husband as Head, Part 1 …
What is the husband's role as head? What is the foundation of this headship?
Lionhearted and Lamblike: The Christian Husband as Head, Part 2 …
What Does It Mean to Lead
Husbands should take the primary role in providing for and protecting their families.
The Peculiar Mark of Majesty, Part 1 …
Palm Sunday
The glory of God is unique because of the lowly ways he chooses to show it.
What Everybody Knows Before the Gospel Comes …
Maundy Thursday Communion Meditation
There is knowledge that is common to all regardless of being familiar with the gospel.
The Peculiar Mark of Majesty, Part 2 …
Easter Sunday
We will reign with Christ and find our joy not in usurping God's majesty but in saying: “How majestic is your name in all the earth.”
The Beautiful Faith of Fearless Submission …
True womanhood is defined by hope in God, fearlessness, and inward adornment.
Single in Christ: A Name Better Than Sons and Daughters …
A survey of the scriptures to develop a biblical theology of singleness.
Marriage, Singleness, and the Christian Virtue of Hospitality …
How can we live in a way that shows that the church is our family?
Do Not Sell the Gospel …
TBI Graduation
What are the signs that someone is selling the Gospel and how can we avoid doing it ourselves?
Marriage Is Meant for Making Children . . . Disciples of Jesus, Part 1 …
Marriage is not just about filling the earth with warm bodies but filling the earth with worshipers of Jesus.
Marriage Is Meant for Making Children . . . Disciples of Jesus, Part 2 …
A Father’s Conquest of Anger in Himself and in His Children
Don’t provoke your children to anger. Show them in your own soul how it can be replaced with tenderhearted joy.
What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate, Part 1 …
Jesus calls us to keep our marriage covenant in a way that tells the truth about him.
What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate, Part 2 …
John Piper answers four crucial questions people ask about divorce and remarriage.
All Things Were Created Through Him and for Him …
In the end, even sin serves to glorify Christ and increase the gladness of his people in him.
The Fatal Disobedience of Adam and the Triumphant Obedience of Christ …
We are sinful by nature because of our father, Adam, but we can claim the righteousness of our Savior, Jesus.
Funeral Message for Luke Kenneth Anderson …
A Meditation on John 11:1-44
What does the story of Lazarus mean for those who have lost a loved one to suicide?
The Pride of Babel and the Praise of Christ …
God planned the sin at the tower of Babel for the praise of Jesus.
The Sale of Joseph and the Son of God …
The sins committed against Joseph made Christ's coming possible.
Encouraging Each Other at the End of the Age …
God's command to us to meet with and encourage each other is for our happiness.
The Sinful Origin of the Son of David …
God exalted Christ's kingship by having him retake what men could not handle--the throne of Israel.
Judas Iscariot, the Suicide of Satan, and the Salvation of the World …
Every detail of the death of Christ happened according to the plan of God, even his betrayal and excessive agonies.
"I Am Sending You Out as Sheep in the Midst of Wolves" …
The Cost and Blessing of Being a Christian Missionary
The costs and blessings of being a Christian missionary.
Treasuring Christ Together Because He Is More Valuable Than All Else …
Nothing is more important as a church grows than that its people help each other rejoice in Jesus.
Treasuring Christ Together as a Church on Multiple Campuses …
We must strategize for church growth because we have a God who builds his church day by day and thousands at a time.
Treasuring Christ in Planting Churches and Loving the Poor …
Lessons from the Philippian church on planting churches and giving to the needy.
You Must Be Born Again: Why This Series and Where Are We Going? …
Being "born again" means something very different than how many understand that phrase today.
What Happens in the New Birth? Part 1 …
What is it about being born again that saves us?
What Happens in the New Birth? Part 2 …
Being born again is not the improvement of your old nature but the creation of a new one.
Why Do We Need to Be Born Again? Part 1 …
7 reasons why new birth is essential to our salvation.
Why Do We Need to Be Born Again? Part 2 …
What do we need that new birth gives us?
The Reason the Son of God Appeared Was to Destroy the Works of the Devil …
Why Do We Need to Be Born Again? Part 3
For human beings to be saved, Jesus had to become a human being.
Pray Like This: Hallowed Be Your Name …
The most significant reason to pray is to ask God to glorify himself.
Receive With Meekness the Implanted Word …
Our souls need Scripture just like our bodies need oxygen: moment by moment, every day.
Born Again Through the Living and Abiding Word …
The new birth does not give us a mere temporary resuscitation. It gives indestructible, imperishable life.
Probability, Prejudice, and Christ …
What's the difference between necessary judgments of probability and sinful prejudice?
Abortion: The Innocent Blood of Our Sons and Daughters …
How is abortion similar to the child-sacrificing in the Old Testament?
Through the Washing of Regeneration …
New birth is God's kindness, philanthropy, and mercy to us. It has nothing to do with even our best deeds.
What Man Does in the New Birth …
Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.
Faith: Unique and Fruitful Effect of the New Birth …
The Gospel is news and we are born again by believing that it is true and embracing it.
Everyone Who Has Been Born of God Overcomes the World …
A Wide-Angle View of John’s First Letter
Newborn believers obey God's commandments, knowing that even when they fail they will never ultimately fall away.
Regeneration, Faith, Love: In That Order …
Faith must come first and be the root of love. Otherwise, love will be destroyed.
No One Born of God Makes a Practice of Sinning …
Being born again doesn't mean being sinless. It means coming to Jesus as your advocate.
The New Birth Produces Love …
By nature, those who are born again love others like God who gave his Son for them.
The God of Peace Brought from the Dead the Good Shepherd …
Easter Sunday
Jesus will always be our shepherd and we will always get the incomparable joy of being his sheep.
You Are God's Midwife for the New Birth of Others …
When God gives new birth, he does so through us speaking his word, the gospel.
I'm Sending You to Open Their Eyes …
10 practical encouragments to evangelize.
Let No One Despise You for Your Youth …
A Vision for the Next Generation
How should the gospel affect our vision for the next generation?
