If You Sit On Your Horse It’s Under You …
If you want Christ to be with you, you must depend on him.
If you want Christ to be with you, you must depend on him.
The means by which God intends to guard us for salvation is Christian community.
Moral and spiritual vigilance is God's appointed way to glory. Self satisfied presumption will fall.
You can know that you know Christ if you obey his commands.
We need to see how the reality of imperfection turns up in the saints of Scripture and how they handled it.
The coach of Scripture and the floor of Christ conspire to keep the saints from breaking our necks again and again.
One of the ways God causes us to persevere in faith and be saved is by warning us that we could make shipwreck of our faith and be lost.
Sixteen sayings of Scripture that should empower you to persevere.
If we stay with Jesus, we win, and if we oppose him, we lose.
The way you run your race and fight your fight will make the difference between sharing in the promises of the gospel or being disqualified.
Eternal life hangs on the way we run and the way we fight.
It is possible for the sick and aged to win the fight of faith because it is a fight against lost hope, not against lost health.
Eight resolutions for an aging saint.
Our security is not in making heaven unconditional. Our security is in God's infallible commitment to fulfill the conditions of heaven.
There is a design in your distresses as a Christian. God wills them, and he does so for your good.
Trusting Christ today includes trusting him to give you tomorrow’s trust when tomorrow comes.
Radical Christianity, real Christianity, makes a difference.
The surety of believers lies not in the absence of conditions but in the promises of power.
It's the cavalier Christians who need to be worried about their standing.
There is a rest open to you today. The door is not shut. The time is not past.
It is possible that we who believe we are chosen might slide into a slow process of hardening and fall away from Christ.
Sometimes Christians have no favor in society. Even so, God can, and often does, pour out his power for effective witness.
God's kindness is what we fly to, and his severity is what we flee from.
Faith is what really matters in Christian behavior, not just whether you accomplish certain things or abstain from others.
Perseverance isn't ours without a struggle, but we struggle as victors.
Further reflections from the sermon John Piper preached at his father's funeral.
John Piper invites you to our national conference this September.
John Piper shows how Scripture can both command and promise endurance.
John Piper talks about why we constantly need grace to persevere.
God ordains our darkness and keeps us through it.
“So growing old to the glory of God means using whatever strength and eyesight and hearing and mobility and resources we have left to treasure Christ and in that joy to serve people—that is, to seek to bring them with us into the everlasting enjoyment of Christ” (p. 39).
“But when God gives the radical change of new birth and repentance, Jesus himself becomes our supreme treasure” (p. 9).