We must understand and enjoy our own adoption before we can properly grasp what it means to adopt another.

The ultimate goal of God in election and predestination is that God might be praised for his glory.

The glorious, unshakable, objective foundation of your being a Christian is that God chose you to be one.

God's great desire for his people is that we feel secure in his love and in his power.

God means to fill the universe with the glory of his Son by putting the church on display as the embodiment of his Son.

The resurrection of Jesus shows the greatness of God's power toward us now in this life.

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

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.

7 reasons why new birth is essential to our salvation.

You can't cleave to Christ with white-hot devotion if you don't remember and feel what your plight would be without him.

Jesus is the point in redemptive history where the true Israel becomes the church of Christ and the church emerges as the true Israel.

The church is the cosmic showcase of God's mercy, but he gets cosmic reproach when we fail to receive his mercy with joy.

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 gives special power, extraordinary power, for the extraordinary challenges of an expanding witness to Christ. How do we seek it?

What is the kind of unity that will bring honor and credit to our high calling?

The truth that there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, is a truth for inside the church and outside the church.

The New Testament gives no hint that worship services and classes are the sum total of what church was supposed to be.

The aim of your ministry as a Christian is to build up the body as a whole.

Love abounding in knowledge and discernment is what builds Christ's body.

God designs human support to sustain his children's faith and to lighten the burdens they bear in the service of love.

Escape from futility! Live a different way. Walk a different path.

The only way to get victory over anger is to put off the old nature and put on the new.

When Paul says, put off the old person and put on the new person, he is not talking about an optional elective. This is the core curriculum in the school of Christ.

If we walk with Jesus, we will be straightforward, open, and honest in all our dealings and in every relationship.

You can live to HAVE, either legally or illegally. Or you can become a Christian and live to give.

Four kinds of rotten language, and a whole new way to think about words.

Christian kindness is not merely an external change of manners; it is an internal change of heart.

How do we get what we need to forgive those who sin against us?

The most worthy of living, the least worthy of dying. This is the life Jesus gave for you—that you might live.

Five suggestions for how to respond as salt and light to the sin of abortion.

Success in morality without the gospel is suicide.

How can Christians serve as the conscience of our culture?

How are we supposed to understand and live out the paradoxes of Scripture?

What does it mean that minority abortions are double those of whites?

The fundamental meaning of being filled with the Spirit is being filled with joy that comes from God and overflows in song.

Trusting Christ as Savior, surrendering to him as Lord, and orienting all of your family relations on him, transforms the home into a little heaven on earth.

Marriage is a mystery—it contains and conceals a meaning far greater than what we see on the outside.

I urge you. Humble yourselves. Grow up. Become a godly man.

Sin didn't create headship and submission; it ruined them, distorted them, and made them ugly and destructive.

Grace is not just forgiving and forbearing but also changing to become more like Jesus.

What is the husband's role as head? What is the foundation of this headship?

Husbands should take the primary role in providing for and protecting their families.

Christ did not simply die for an unworthy woman or for a reluctant woman, but for a woman who found him repulsive.

Eleven precious truths taught and demonstrated to John Piper by his father.

Marriage is not just about filling the earth with warm bodies but filling the earth with worshipers of Jesus.

Don’t provoke your children to anger. Show them in your own soul how it can be replaced with tenderhearted joy.

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.

Giving the gospel away is one of the best ways of experiencing its power in your own life.