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John Piper

John Piper is founder and teacher of Desiring God and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God and The Pleasures of God. Read more about John.

A Spectacular and Scary Promise: Assurance, Suffering, and Our Great Inheritance

A Spectacular and Scary Promise

Assurance, Suffering, and Our Great Inheritance

God promises unimaginable blessings to every one of his children – if we have the courage to walk with Jesus through suffering.

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Civil Rights 50 Years Later

Civil Rights 50 Years Later

We live in racial realities that 50 years ago would have been inconceivable. But our church and country continue to chart new multiethnic territories.

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Tony Evans, Race, and the Bible

Tony Evans, Race, and the Bible

Jesus crossed painful racial lines at the well two thousand years ago. Pastor John recounts Tony Evans’s powerful message from John 4 at Kainos 2014.

The Legacy I Want to Leave

The Legacy I Want to Leave

I have a new and focused passion to help people really see the riches of God’s word for themselves, and that has new and exciting implications for me and for the ministry of Desiring God.

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Is Fornication Worse Than Porn?

Is Fornication Worse Than Porn?

Both premarital sex and pornography addiction harm men and women alike, but in different ways. So which sin is worse?

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Breaking My Addiction to Entertainment

Breaking My Addiction to Entertainment

Pastor John shares six ways that Christians can begin to sever the cords of their addiction to entertainment.

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Should We Read the Holy Books of Other Religions?

Should We Read the Holy Books of Other Religions?

Pastor John gives his take on whether or not Christians should feel obligated to read the holy books of other religions.

The Glory of God and Gladness of Man

The Glory of God and Gladness of Man

God’s glory and our gladness do not have to be at odds, but are in fact one and the same pursuit. John Piper demonstrates how with the help of Jonathan Edwards.

What Is the Joy of All Your Joys?

What Is the Joy of All Your Joys?

God promises innumerable benefits to all who trust in him. But those gifts aren’t an end in themselves. Our greatest joy is God himself.

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Cautions for New Calvinists

Cautions for New Calvinists

What kind of pitfalls exist in the “New Calvinism” movement? What do New Calvinists need to beware of?

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What Must I Believe to Be Saved?

What Must I Believe to Be Saved?

Our sin, God’s holiness, and Jesus’s cross are the core truths around which saving faith is formed.

An Excellent New Book on Justification

An Excellent New Book on Justification

If a thoughtful layman asked me what he should read to understand the doctrine of justification in relationship to the New Perspective on Paul, I would send him to Stephen Westerholm’s new book, Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme (Eerdmans…

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Certain and Conditional: More on Eternal Security

Certain and Conditional: More on Eternal Security

God elects unconditionally. But he glorifies us on the condition of our faithful obedience. Does that mean our glorification is not guaranteed?

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Eternal Security: Vaccination or Therapy?

Eternal Security: Vaccination or Therapy?

The promises of God mark us as his children. They also keep us in the family when we walk through trials and persecution.

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Sin and the Speed Limit

Sin and the Speed Limit

Going the speed limit is an act of faith in the God who controls your day and can maximize your minutes for his glory.

The Greatest Prayer in the World: Maundy Thursday

The Greatest Prayer in the World

Maundy Thursday

By the time Jesus finished praying in Gethsemane, the Father had made it clear that the cross was the only way, but also that this way would surely succeed.

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A Bite-Sized Theology of Food

A Bite-Sized Theology of Food

Pastor John shares five specific principles from the Bible relating to food. God created food good, but there is a right and wrong way to enjoy it.

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Six Keys to Detecting the Prosperity Gospel

Six Keys to Detecting the Prosperity Gospel

How can Christians detect the beginnings of prosperity preaching? Pastor John shares six signs.

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What’s New About ‘New Calvinism’?

What’s New About ‘New Calvinism’?

The five solas unite Reformed Christians past and present, but Pastor John notes how seven factors may be creating a new mold under the same banner.

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Should Christians Be Cops and Soldiers?

Should Christians Be Cops and Soldiers?

If Jesus calls his followers to turn the other cheek, then can a Christian serve society as a cop or a soldier?

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More on Guns and Self-Defense

More on Guns and Self-Defense

Self-sacrifice and just punishment under ruling authorities image God’s love and justice. Pastor John shares more thoughts on Christians’ use of force.

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Persuading, Pleading, and Predestination: Human Means in the Miracle of Conversion

Persuading, Pleading, and Predestination

Human Means in the Miracle of Conversion

In his 2014 plenary message at T4G, John Piper preaches about the seeming tension between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility in all our efforts to convert the lost.

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Social Evils and Reformed Theology

Social Evils and Reformed Theology

Reformed theology, as a biblical expression of the gospel, is relevant for every problem in every ethnicity of every stress and stripe.

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Churches Pursuing Ethnic Diversity

Churches Pursuing Ethnic Diversity

Pastor John describes the growing need for a theology of race in reformed circles and for pastors’ to purposely pursue ethnic diversity in their churches.

Ten Lessons from a Hospital Bed

Ten Lessons from a Hospital Bed

Our hospital stays, no matter how long, are no accidents. God means to use even our hours on a hospital bed to strengthen our faith and witness to Christ.

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