How the Spirit Does What the Law Could Not Do …
The law can't overcome your rebellion and make you a loving person. But the Spirit can.
What Does It Mean to Fulfill the Law in Romans 8:3-4 …
Twelve Theses
Christian, Know Whose You Are …
You Have the Spirit of Christ
What are the essential distinctions between true Christians and non-Christians?
The Spirit-Led Are the Sons of God …
The Holy Spirit testifies that we are children of God by creating affections for him within us.
Children, Heirs, and Fellow Sufferers …
Suffering is a great mercy that keeps us from loving this world more than we should.
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness, Part 1 …
What does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness, Part 2 …
How does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
All Things for Good, Part 1 …
Three things that love for God is not.
All Things for Good, Part 2 …
A call to follow Jesus in the risks of love no matter what it costs.
All Things for Good, Part 3 …
God takes the initiative to cause a person to love him, and he takes the initiative to keep them to the end.
Glorification: Conformed to Christ for the Supremacy of Christ …
God's work to save and sanctify you is not so that you can enjoy yourself more. It's so that you might be free and fit to enjoy Christ forever.
God Did Not Spare His Own Son …
God always does what is good for us. If you believe that he gave his own Son for you, this is what you believe.
It Is God Who Justifies! …
God is the one who justifies, so let us fear the accusation of no one and love the good of all.
Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of Christ …
How does the promise of Christ's unbreakable love sustain his people when life is hard?
The Absolute Sovereignty of God: What Is Romans Nine About? …
John Piper tells how Romans 9 changed his life and then discusses its overarching theological purpose.
My Anguish: My Kinsmen Are Accursed …
Don’t think that God's sovereignty nullifies the need to pray for a sinner's salvation. Rather, see it as the ground for praying with hope.
How Great Is the Honor of Israel? …
Recognizing Israel's privileges only underlines the tragedy that so many Jews are accursed and cut off from Christ because of unbelief.
God's Word Stands: Not All Israel Is Israel, Part 1 …
Every person who trusts in Christ becomes part of the true Israel of God.
God's Word Stands: Not All Israel Is Israel, Part 2 …
God’s election of the children of promise is what guarantees that his word never fails.
The Fame of His Name and the Freedom of Mercy …
God chooses who will believe and undeservingly be saved, and who will rebel and deservingly perish.
God's Ultimate Purpose: Vessels of Mercy Knowing the Riches of His Glory …
Heaven is where old glories only ripen in memory, and the thrill of new glories breaks upon us every day.
The Gentiles Have Obtained Righteousness by Faith …
The law teaches two things about obtaining salvation.
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?
For God's Sake, Let Grace Be Grace! …
No one's obstinance can stop them from being saved, because God can remove the hardness.
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.
Israel, Palestine and the Middle East …
What does Scripture say about the Promised Land and Israel's rights to it today?
All Things Are from God, Through God, and to God. The Glory Is All His …
Do you love the thought that you exist to make God look good?
Build Your Life on the Mercies of God …
Of all the things Paul could have chosen as the foundation of your life in Christ, he picks the mercies of God. Why?
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.
Do Not Be Conformed to This World …
The Indigenous and Pilgrim Principle of Christian Living
What is the balance between being in the world and yet not of the world?
Discerning the Will of God Concerning Homosexuality and Marriage …
What is wrong with homosexual marriage? Is it possible to believe this and still love homosexual people?
The Renewed Mind and How to Have It …
Any effort to renew our minds must follow the Holy Spirit's initiatives and enablings.
What Is the Will of God and How Do We Know It? …
Paul doesn't want us to try ferreting out the secret will of God that he plans to do, but discern the revealed will of God that we ought to do.
We, Though Many, Are One Body in Christ …
Our true individuality is found only in relationship to the body of Christ.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 1 …
The Gift of Prophecy
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 2 …
Helping People with All Your Heart by Grace through Faith
Let Love Be Genuine …
You can be a liberal hypocrite, and you can be fundamentalist hypocrite. But love is not that way.
Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good …
There is such a thing as objective good and evil outside ourselves.
Treasuring Christ Together: The Vision and Its Cost …
Beware of fearing a high price more than the possibility that God could be displeased that you didn't aim at something greater.
Use the Inspired Scriptures to Rejoice in Hope …
If we give ourselves daily to the word of God, our hope and joy will be made unshakably strong—even in suffering.
Boiling for Christ …
When it comes to serving Christ, half-heartedness, lukewarmness, laziness, sluggishness, and slothfulness are utterly inappropriate.
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.
Bless Those Who Persecute You …
If you see and savor mercy in Christ, you will love being merciful.
God's Wrath: "Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay," Says the Lord …
We can say at least four things about the wrath of God that will fall on human beings at the final judgment.
The Present Effects of Trembling at the Wrath of God …
Believing that God is furious against sin produces a good fear that transforms everything in life.
When Is It Right to Repay Evil with Pain? …
Does God ever intend for his justice—his right to punish wrong—to be shared with men?
