Exalting Jesus so the Spirit Falls …
If you want the Spirit's power in your life, make Jesus the center of your life.
Execution, Escape, and Eaten by Worms …
How the Word of God Grew
If we stay with Jesus, we win, and if we oppose him, we lose.
Exodus for All the Earth …
God shows great power on behalf of his people so that others might see and fear.
Explosive Fellowship …
This age is too evil for us to treat fellowship as a kind of comfortable togetherness that has no transforming, empowering, explosive effect.
Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
How can Christians serve as the conscience of our culture?
Fail Not to Obtain the Grace of God …
Knowing that God's discipline is for our good helps us press on in faith.
The Faith - Grace - Certainty Connection …
Your faith is called into being out of nothing. That is the meaning of grace and the reason why God can guarantee his promises to you.
The Faith of Noah, Abraham, and Sarah …
Installation of Chuck Steddom As Minister of Worship and Music
Saving faith isn't merely the one-time act of receiving Jesus. It goes on trusting him.
Faith: The Link Between God's Love for Us and Ours for Others …
How does Christ's love for us turn into our love for others?
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.
Faithfulness Is Better Than Life …
Faithfulness means that you trust God and obey, no matter what impact it has on your safety or standard of living.
Faithfulness Is Better Than Life …
Guest sermon preached while on vacation in Georgia
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.
Far More Than You Think …
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.
A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail, Part 1 …
Be ware of substituting religious fervor for righteous living.
A Fast for Waters That Do Not Fail, Part 2 …
Let's trust the Great Physician—the Lord, our healer. Let's accept the fast that he has prescribed for us.
Fasting for the Father's Reward …
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.
Fasting for the King's Coming …
Shall we long for the Christ less than Anna longed for him?
Fasting for the Safety of the Little Ones …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Perhaps the Christian church has not used all the spiritual resources available to us in the effort to overcome darkness.
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.
The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands …
The Gospel of John lifts Jesus up as coming from God, being full of God, and speaking and ruling as God.
"Father, Forgive, For We Know What We Are Doing" …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Fathers Who Give Hope …
Father's Day
Dads, father your children in a way that shows what kind of father God is.
Fathers, Bring Them Up in the Discipline & Instruction of the Lord …
A Tribute to My Father, William Solomon Hottle Piper
Eleven precious truths taught and demonstrated to John Piper by his father.
Fear Not, I Am with You, I Am Your God …
God is over you, by you, inside you, around you, underneath you. Therefore do not fear.
Fear Not, You Worm Jacob! …
The good news of the Bible is not that we are not worms, but that God helps worms who trust him.
The Fear of God and Freedom from Goods …
A holy, happy fear of God makes our material possessions insignificant to us, except as means to serve others.
Fearlessness as a Sign of Destruction and Salvation …
Unity in Christ and fearlessness before our opponents make the worth of the gospel clear.
Final Judgment: Eternal Life vs. Wrath and Fury …
Every responsible person, on the basis of their actions and attitudes, will meet the final judgment of God.
Flesh Tank and Peashooter Regulations …
Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn't look like one.
The Food of Christ Is to Give Eternal Life …
The natural timeframe of sowing and reaping does not pertain to Jesus and his saving power.
For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free …
Your enjoyment of freedom is much more important to God than many of the day-to-day decisions that fill us with so much concern.
For God's Sake, Let Grace Be Grace! …
No one's obstinance can stop them from being saved, because God can remove the hardness.
For Our People and for the Cities of God …
Installation Service for Glenn Ogren
There are six things that should characterize every effort at team ministry in the church.
For Whom Did Jesus Taste Death? …
Christ tasted death for everyone who has faith. Because the faith of everyone who believes was purchased by the death of Christ.
Forget Not All His Benefits …
The steadfast love of the Lord has been the same through all the changes of the last 120 years.
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?
Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 1 …
What is the Meaning of "Under Law" and "Under Grace"?
The Free Gift of God is Eternal Life, Part 2 …
Christmas Eve Day
The Free Will of the Wind …
The Wind of God's Spirit gives new birth to whoever he pleases.
Freed to Love …
Freedom flows forth in love just as surely as a bubbling spring flows forth in a mountain stream.
From Bethlehem in the Majesty of the Name of the Lord …
God uses little towns and youngest sons and slingshots to magnify his glory by contrast, to show that he is not the least dependent on human glory or greatness or achievement.
From His Fullness We Have All Received, Grace Upon Grace …
Those who by grace are born of God have seen the glory of God that Moses asked to see but wasn't permitted.
From Thy Hand We Have Given Thee …
Celebration of Freeing the Future: Being Debt Free as a Church
From Wonder to Witness …
The flame of worship is a witness to God's exuberance for God.
The Fruit of Hope: Boldness …
A great hope produces great boldness.
The Fruit of Hope: Endurance …
Endurance is a gift and endurance is a duty. And these are not in conflict.
The Fruit of Hope: Joy …
Without Christian hope my life and your life cannot yield Christian joy or love or boldness or endurance.
The Fruit of Hope: Love …
Heavenly-mindedness is what frees our hands to do the works of love.
Fulfilling the Law of Love …
Education for Exultation: Through the Spirit by Faith
The Full Assurance of Hope …
If second things become first things, we may have a rigorous religion, but we will not have evangelical, God-centered, biblical Christianity.
The Full Assurance of Hope to the End …
Bank your hope on the justice of God to uphold the honor of his name by offering faith to his unworthy people.
The Fullness of Hope and the Fellowship of Love …
The purpose of every small group—whatever else it is—is to keep the love of its members warm.
Funeral Meditation for a Christian Who Committed Suicide (1981) …
No single sin, not even suicide, evicts a person from heaven into hell.
Funeral Meditation for a Christian Who Committed Suicide (1988) …
Saving faith can be so weak at times that the heart gives way to grievous sin.
Funeral Meditation for Patty May Larson …
Therefore We Do Not Lose Hope
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 Gallows and the Gift of Life …
Palm Sunday
An allegory of a man in a prison called "conviction" and how he got out.
The Gentiles Have Obtained Righteousness by Faith …
The law teaches two things about obtaining salvation.
Get Wisdom …
What is wisdom? And what are some biblical instructions for how I can get it?
Getting Right with God and Each Other …
Human reconciliation is much harder than financial donation.
The Gideon Venture …
Education for Exultation: Debt-Free
Gifts of Healings and Workings of Miracles …
"Gifts of healings" and "workings of miracles" are for the church and the mission of Christ in the world today.
Girding the Mind to Guard Your Hope …
Avoid what numbs your mind to God and stay sober for the sake of hope.
The Gladness of the Risen God …
Easter Sunday
On Easter Sunday morning Jesus blew the lock off the prison of death and gloom and returned to the gladness of God.
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.
The Glory of Priestly Success …
The ministry of the Word can destroy and the ministry of the Word can save.
Go and Make Disciples, Baptizing Them... …
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.
Go, Your Son Will Live …
What do Jesus' miracles say about Jesus?
God Abides in the One Who Loves and the One Who Confesses …
Six questions to see if you have genuine faith in Christ and love for others.
God at Work in Every Womb …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
God Called Us into Life and Hope …
The call of God is effective; it creates what it commands.
God Created Us for His Glory …
What is God's goal in creating and governing the world? How can I bring my life into alignment with that goal?
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.
God Glorified in Good Resolves …
It is the duty of Christians to seek God's power to fulfill good resolves.
