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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.

They Poured Out Innocent Blood

They Poured Out Innocent Blood

Sanctity of Life Sunday

Psalm 106:36–39 They served their idols, which became a snare to them. 37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; 38 they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to…

We Will Rule All Things

We Will Rule All Things

When Jesus says, “I will grant him to sit with me on my throne,” he promises us a share in the rule of all things.

J. C. Ryle, Temperance, and Abortion

J. C. Ryle’s strategy to reverse the destructive effects of drunkenness point to possibilities in our battle against abortion. Ryle was the first Bishop of Liverpool, England, starting in 1880 and ending with his death in 1900. He found that…

The Anchor of Joy

The Anchor of Joy

Jesus anchored the happiness of suffering saints in the reward of heaven. And he anchored the happiness of successful saints in the same.

Psalm 135 and the Pleasure of God in All He Does

Psalm 135:1–6 — Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord, give praise, O servants of the Lord, 2 who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God! 3 Praise the…

The Battle to Remind

The Battle to Remind

If we don’t call to mind what God has said about himself and about us, we will languish. Never forget that our God is the God of the impossible.

How to Serve a Bad Boss

How to Serve a Bad Boss

Every little thing you do that is good is seen and valued and rewarded by the Lord. And he will pay you back for it.

The Remedy for Pride

The Remedy for Pride

Yield to the sovereignty of God in all the details of life, and rest in his infallible promises to show himself mighty on your behalf.

Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come

Authentic Faith Is Eager for Christ to Come

Receive Christ, welcome Christ, embrace Christ — not just as your fire insurance policy, but as your eagerly awaited Treasure and Friend and Lord.

Words for the Wind

Words for the Wind

Be patient and loving as despairing people wake up from their dark night and regret their hasty words.

The Freeness of Grace

The Freeness of Grace

What act could be more one-sidedly free and non-negotiated than one person raising another from the dead? This is the meaning of grace.

From Bloodlines to Bloodline

From Bloodlines to Bloodline

God takes people from every racial and ethnic bloodline and leads by the gospel us to the one bloodline of Jesus Christ.

The Window of the Heart

The Window of the Heart

Our emotions are governed in large measure by what we consider — what we dwell on with our minds.

The Command That Creates

The Command That Creates

When the command of God comes with the creating, converting power of the Holy Spirit, it gives life. And we believe and rejoice and obey.

Specifically, Who Were the Puritans? What Were Their Names?

Specifically, Who Were the Puritans? What Were Their Names?

You may have heard people vilify or extol the Puritans. J. I. Packer is among those who extol. Indeed, he thinks that this century of pastors was the greatest the church has ever known. Some of us have found our…

The Experiential Key

The Experiential Key

Freedom from greed comes from the deeply satisfying faith in God’s future grace.

Passionate for God and Truth

Passionate for God and Truth

If God exists, then he is the measure of all things, and what he thinks about all things is the measure of what we should think.

Inspired to Pray in 2012

If you want to be inspired to pray in 2012 and don’t have time for a long book, Here is a short one. Probably no book has had a greater effect on my prayer life in proportion to its size…

How Believers Will Be Judged

How Believers Will Be Judged

When God judges believers in the end, he will forgive us all our sins and grant us life everlasting.

Know a Christian Who Seems to Love Movies More Than Jesus?

Know a Christian Who Seems to Love Movies More Than Jesus?

When a professing Christian seems more excited about movies than Jesus, humbly model to them expressive joy in Jesus.

Only a Little While

Only a Little While

God is not the God of some grace. He is the God of all grace — including the infinite, inexhaustible stores of future grace that we need to endure to the end.

Gain What You Cannot Lose

Gain What You Cannot Lose

Christ promises to work for us, and to be for us so much that, when our missionary life is over, we will not be able to say we’ve sacrificed anything.

The Word of God Is at Work in You

The Word of God Is at Work in You

Walking by the Spirit is a continual depending, praying, trusting, acting, and thanking God all out of faith.

What Is Freedom? — Filling Out the Passion 2012 Message

Part of my message to Passion 2012 defined true Christian freedom. Here is a fuller statement of what that is taken from a sermon on John 8:32, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” There…

Grace Denied and Supplied

Grace Denied and Supplied

God gives both the sustaining grace we need in times of trouble, and the suffering which makes us depend on his grace.

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