...So Send I You …
UCCF World Missions Service
10 Reasons Why I Am Thankful for the God-Breathed Bible …
What's so amazing about the Bible, and why should we be grateful for it?
12 Reasons for Christmas …
Twelve arguments from the New Testament for why God became flesh.
12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child …
Suggestions on how to parent rebellious sons and daughters.
125 Years of Bygone Grace for the Sake of Faith in Future Grace …
By looking to God's faithfulness in the past we can have hope for the future.
2 Birthdays and Biblical Inerrancy …
Two birthdays give reason to be thankful because of what they signify about the truth of God’s word.
25 Years of Desiring God …
Ligonier Ministries 2011 National Conference
Orlando, FL
50 Crucial Questions About Manhood and Womanhood …
An Overview of Central Concerns About Manhood and Womanhood
7 Potential Writing Projects …
John Piper talks about what he might work on during his current writing leave.
Desiring God Read-Along: Week 1 …
Chapters 1 and 2
Bethlehem College and Seminary
Desiring God Read-Along: Week 2 …
Chapters 3 and 4
Bethlehem College and Seminary
Desiring God Read-Along: Week 3 …
Chapters 5 and 6
Bethlehem College and Seminary
Desiring God Read-Along: Week 4 …
Chapters 7 and 8
Bethlehem College and Seminary
Desiring God Read-Along: Week 5 …
Chapters 9 and 10
Bethlehem College and Seminary
Atlas Shrugged Fifty Years Later …
Appreciation and Criticism
John Piper reflects on the insights and errors of Ayn Rand's writings on the 50th anniversary of her best-selling novel.
Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good …
There is such a thing as objective good and evil outside ourselves.
Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Abortion, Father’s Day and Infant Doe …
Five suggestions for what dads can do to prevent more abortions.
Abortion, Race, Gender, and Christ …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Millions of abortions are the outworking of racism and sexism. Let us find another way to freedom and equality than killing the babies.
Abortion, Rescuing, and Your Action …
It is not a crime or sin to trespass in order to save a human life.
Abortion: Shall We Listen to Men or God? …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
We are not called to win; we are called to witness.
Abortion: The Innocent Blood of Our Sons and Daughters …
How is abortion similar to the child-sacrificing in the Old Testament?
Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have, So You Kill …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Fight the social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany and imagine what is really happening behind clinic doors.
About My Other Wife …
Galatians is the preservation of the gospel for Bethlehem Baptist Church. It is for you. Marry it!
Abraham Lincoln's Path to Divine Providence …
The hardships in Lincoln's life drove him toward God, not away from him.
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.
Acclaim for Christ vs. Craving Praise …
How do we reconcile "do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing" with "let your light shine before others"?
The Achievement of the Cross: The Scope: Efficacy or Universality …
1989 Desiring God Conference for Pastors
The Achievement of the Cross: The Biblical Variety of Language …
1989 Desiring God Conference for Pastors
The Achievement of the Cross: The Unifying Key: Substitution …
1989 Desiring God Conference for Pastors
The Achievement of the Cross, Panel Discussion …
1989 Desiring God Conference for Pastors
John Piper, Roger Nicole, Kent Hughes, John DeVries
Action Is Not the Essence …
Action is crucial, but it must come from faith, ride on faith, and aim at faith.
Adam, Where Are You? …
Father's Day
I urge you. Humble yourselves. Grow up. Become a godly man.
Adoption: The Heart of the Gospel …
Eight Similarities Between God’s Adoption of Us and Our Adoption of Children
MICAH Fund Adoption Enrichment Seminar
There are eight glorious similarities between God’s adoption of us and our adoption of children.
Advancing and Sustaining the Covenant Community …
Every Christian has a crucial need for covenant relationships, regardless of how un-American it may be.
Advent Began Early …
You help your church grow when you enjoy the Lord on Sunday.
Advent Series: "For God So Loved the World" …
Meditations on John 3:16
Advice to Pastors: How to Help Your People Be More Satisfied in God …
Thirteen thoughts on how to help bring joy in God to your congregation.
Advice to Pastors: Preach the Word …
Installation Sermon
Scripture turned into glad tidings—that is what happens in expository exultation.
Affirming the Goodness of Manhood and Womanhood in All of Life …
Life is more beautiful and more exciting because we are so different as male and female.
After 102 Years Is It Time for a New Sanctuary? …
A brief history of where Bethlehem has been and a consideration for the future.
After death, is there a final chance to be saved? …
John Piper affirms the necessity of believing in Jesus before you die.
"Again You Shall Take Up Your Tambourines" …
What’s the Whole Counsel of God?
Doctrine is the new (and better) foundation of exuberance when the naiveté of childhood won’t work anymore.
The Age of Ignorance Is Over …
Today is a day of repentance and salvation, of missions and evangelism, and of loving and sending.
The Agonizing Problem of the Assurance of Salvation …
Often the biggest question isn't "What is true," but "Can the truth save me?"
The Aim of Dr Luke …
Sunday Evening Message
It is important to try to persuade people, like Luke in his Gospel, of the truth of Christianity.
The Aims of the Constitutional Revision …
This constitutional revision would replace the Council of Deacons at Bethlehem with a Council of Elders.
All Flesh Will Come and Worship …
Except Those "Outside"
A Meditation on Isaiah 66:22-24
How can eternal punishment fit with the breadth of God's redemption?
All God's Commands Are Possible with God …
Christianity means that deep, fundamental change is possible, no matter your background.
All of Life as Worship …
God is worshiped when we seek to express and increase our satisfaction in all that he is for us in Jesus Christ.
The "All or Nothing" Impediment to Prayer …
Pray for total healing and total salvation. But also pray for smaller steps to be made on the way.
All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God and Profitable …
Thoughts on Bible translations and loving the Word of God.
All the Angels Are Coming with Him …
Have you ever wondered what joy and hope sustained Jesus in his horrific hours of suffering?
All the Good that Is Ours in Christ: Seeing God's Gracious Hand in the Hurts Others Do to Us …
2005 Desiring God National Conference
Suffering & the Sovereignty of God | Saturday General Session
All the Promises of God Are Yes in Christ …
Prayer Week 1990
Don’t let turning points pass with no special devotion to the Lord. Set apart some time for special fasting and prayer.
All the Promises of God Are Yes in Christ …
Are you living in the fullest enjoyment of God's YES to you in Christ Jesus? Have you said yes to all of God's YES to you?
All the Prophets Proclaimed These Days …
Since the first Christmas we have been living in the last days.
All the World Accountable to God …
Declare His Glory Among the Nations Conference
Dallas, Texas
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?
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.
All Things Subject to the Risen Christ …
Easter Sunday
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.
"All Truth Is God's Truth," Admits the Devil …
Meditations on an Academic Slogan
All truth should lead us to love God more.
The All-Providing King Who Would Not Be King …
Look beyond the bread God provides to the Bread of Life.
Allein's Alarm …
Joseph Alleine's life and writing was a true model of Puritan evangelism.
Alluring Joy …
Christianity is a religion of joy. Are people drawn to yours?
Alone in a Big Church …
A Call to Small Togetherness
God designs human support to sustain his children's faith and to lighten the burdens they bear in the service of love.
Alone on Sunday Night …
If your life is not deep in Christ alone, death will be a terrible thing.
Always Pray and Do Not Lose Heart …
Jesus makes it clear that eternal life hangs on whether we are ready when he comes.
Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible …
Why William Tyndale Lived and Died
2006 Desiring God Conference for Pastors
An Amazing (Unused?) Means of Change …
The ability to think is a gift from God and an immensely powerful means of our becoming what we ought to be.
Ambushing Satan with Song …
Singing to God is not a nice little emotional trip to spice up a worship service—it is a matter of life and death.
Amen …
A Word Common to Many Languages
God's beauty is magnified when it is echoed in prayer and preaching with agreements like "Amen!"
The Anatomy of Legalism and the Discipline of Prayer …
Discipline is not necessarily legalism. It may be, or it may be faith moving in the power of the Spirit.
The Anatomy of Backsliding …
Sunday Evening Message
We need to see how the reality of imperfection turns up in the saints of Scripture and how they handled it.