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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.

The Mystery of Marriage

The Mystery of Marriage

Husbands and wives should seek to live after the distinctive model of God’s pure and glad design for Christ and the church.

Prayer’s First Priority

Prayer’s First Priority

The first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.

Ablaze for His Beauty: How Your Heart Treasures God

Ablaze for His Beauty

How Your Heart Treasures God

The gospel not only shapes the mind to know God, but it also shapes the heart to love God with white-hot affection.

Love’s Greatest Happiness

Love’s Greatest Happiness

The union between Christ and his bride is so close that any good done to her is a good done to himself.

Fuel for the Furnace: How Your Mind Serves Your Heart

Fuel for the Furnace

How Your Mind Serves Your Heart

Our minds were meant to know God. We can only value him like we should when we know him rightly in his word.

Jesus’s Joy in Marriage

Jesus’s Joy in Marriage

Jesus did not want a dirty and unholy wife. Therefore, he was willing to die to cleanse her so that he could present her to himself.

Don’t Waste Your Life

The unwasted life is a life of pursuing joy in God at all costs, including the sacrificial love that brings people into that joy.

I Am Going to Vote

Having read several articles by people who don’t plan to vote in the presidential election, my conclusion is: I’m going to vote. It seems to me that the good that can be done, presumably by the protest of not voting…

The Purpose of Prosperity

The Purpose of Prosperity

You can steal to get; or you can work to get; or you can work to get in order to give.

Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy

Fear and Hope in God’s Jealousy

It is a horrifying thing to use your God-given life to commit adultery against the Almighty.

Plan for Prayer

Plan for Prayer

One of the main reasons we so often fail to have consistent habits of happy, fruitful prayer is simply that we don’t plan to.

God Heals by Humbling

God Heals by Humbling

God takes out our old proud hearts and gives new soft ones, which are easily humbled and crushed by the sin that remains.

Writing Like Cicero for the Sake of the Soul

Marilynne Robinson, whose novels Gilead and Home have moved many of us deeply, has just published a new collection of Essays titled When I Was a Child I Read Books. Here’s a caution. Her fiction is more easily understood…

God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him

God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him

God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.

The Master Servant

The Master Servant

The very heart of God’s glory is the fullness of grace that overflows in kindness to needy people.

New Publications Relating to C. S. Lewis

Joel Heck, Professor of Theology at Concordia University, Texas, has served us again by publishing rare materials relating to C. S. Lewis. In 2008 he published The Personal Heresy: A Controversy. And now he has published the Socratic Digest…

Beware of Serving God

Beware of Serving God

God aims to be our servant, because he aims to get the glory as the Giver.

We Can Do Nothing

We Can Do Nothing

God is glorified when we turn away from ourselves to him in the confidence that he will provide the help we need.

Best Passage Ever

Best Passage Ever

The greatest news is that the cross upholds the worth of God’s glory, the honor of his Son, and the eternal salvation of his elect.

God’s Wise Mercy

God’s Wise Mercy

The good news is that God himself has decreed a way to satisfy the demands of his justice without condemning the whole human race.

Our Good Is God’s Delight

Our Good Is God’s Delight

All the omnipotent energy that drives the heart of God to pursue his own glory also drives him to satisfy the hearts of those who seek their joy in him.

We Wait, He Works

We Wait, He Works

Be freed from the burden of bearing your own load. Let God do that work. God loves to show his God-ness by working for us.

The Happy God

When we share in the happiness of God, we share in the very pleasure that the Father has in the Son.

Justice Will Be Done

Justice Will Be Done

When you lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up.

God's Plan for Poetry

God's Plan for Poetry

Poetry is an effort to awaken or intensify a moving experience by using language that is chosen and structured differently from ordinary prose.

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