What was significant about John's baptism, and how does it relate to the way we baptize today?

Fasting is God's testing ground—and healing ground.

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

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

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.

Mercy comes from mercy. Our mercy to each other comes from God's mercy to us.

It is not enough to clean up our act on the outside. Jesus is concerned about our heart.

God is a peace-loving God, and a peacemaking God. God's children have the character of their Father.

To the degree that you believe what Jesus sees in heaven, to that degree you will be able to rejoice and be glad in suffering.

Human reconciliation is much harder than financial donation.

Becoming a child of God and being transformed on the inside precedes and enables love, not vice versa.

Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.

Both disciplined and spontaneous prayer should flow from our confidence that God is already 100% on our side.

In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches that the first priority in praying is to ask that our heavenly Father's name be hallowed.

The Lord's Prayer is an invitation not only to pray but to pray together with other believers.

The most significant reason to pray is to ask God to glorify himself.

The Lord's Prayer teaches us to go to God for every need, especially our need to hallow him above all things.

If we hold fast to an unforgiving spirit, we will not be forgiven by God.

Jesus is not teaching on whether we should fast or not. He assumes we will and teaches us how to do it and especially how not to do it.

Jesus gives us eight reasons in Matthew 6 for why we shouldn't be anxious.

In your warfare against anxiety, take up the book of God, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and battle on.

You will not be asked to live tomorrow on today's strength. The mercy to carry you through this hour is given in this hour.

God's lavish invitations to ask him for good things, with the promise that he will give them, is unimaginably wonderful.

Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of legal slave trading in Britain.

We have tasted the wine of Christ's presence by his Spirit and cannot now be satisfied until the consummation of joy arrives.

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.

The costs and blessings of being a Christian missionary.

Do not fear the work God calls you to. He loves you deeply, knows you fully, and will turn all for your good.

Jesus had love to suffer for us that we might have faith to suffer with him.

Jesus did not come to snuff out your struggling flicker but to fan it carefully into a torch for his glory.

The kingdom of God is so valuable that losing everything on earth, but getting the kingdom, is a happy trade-off.

We live in a superficially Christianized society where thousands of lost people think they do believe in Jesus.

Only worship is an end in itself. Only worship should not be done as a means to achieving something other than itself.

To recognize and receive Christ for who he really is, God the Father must reveal it to you.

Multiplying churches with different strengths and weaknesses means coming closer to meeting the needs of the world.

The first and most fundamental thing we can say about the pleasures of God is that he takes pleasure in his Son.

John Piper answers four crucial questions people ask about divorce and remarriage.

With God all things are possible. That is the basis of our prayer and our giving and our evangelism.

Academic stature has never been a guarantee of religious insight.

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.

Loving God sustains us through all the joy and pain and perplexity and uncertainty of what loving our neighbor should be.

To give is not to buy. And that weekly crisis is utterly important to maintain.

Since Jesus has come, God exerts his right to rule in new and powerful ways.

The price will be high, but God's promise that the gospel will spread to all nations will be fulfilled by his omnipotent hand.

If we are true Christians we will want to show mercy to suffering people.

He is risen! Trust him today. By his mercy he can forgive your sins. And by his sovereignty he can turn all things for your good.

Deep down we know so much truth that we fear and therefore deny.

It is a supreme irony that the people at the cross should look on the dying Savior and mock him with their own misunderstanding of this saying.

If your life is flat, empty, without exhilaration, without significance, without a single and fulfilling orientation, it is because you do not see the risen Christ for who he really is.

When we make disciples, we bid people to come and die to their old, destructive ways and to live for Jesus, who loved them and gave himself for them.