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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: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Foundations for Lifelong Learning: Education in Serious Joy. Read more about John.

Letter to an Incomplete, Insecure Teenager

Letter to an Incomplete, Insecure Teenager

A teen wrote to John Piper for advice about life in general, and identity in particular. Here is his response, including memories from his teenage years.

Indulge My Effusive Overflow for a Dead Friend

I read Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “Christ’s Agony.” Stunning. I could not stop till I was done. So penetrating. So full of wine from the crushing and wringing of these grape-texts. So many questions posed. Such answers! It is…

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The Infinite Worth of the Word of God

Crossway Banquet

Evangelicals believe — indeed most Christians through history have believed — that since the original writings of the Bible in Greek and Hebrew have been faithfully preserved, and the translation faithfully rendered, we hold in our hands the very word…

Editora Fiel Interview With John Piper

1. After the latest earthquake in Japan, you stated that every calamity is a call from God for the living to repent. This statement contrasts with Open Theism, which posits God’s incapacity to interfere in these situations. What is your…

11 Ways God Works for Us

Only a few things have gripped me with greater joy than the truth that God loves to show his God-ness by working for me, and that his working for me is always before and under and in any working I…

Four Waves of Change in Missions

If God would be pleased to breathe on the ripples from the pebbles these speakers drop at our conference this year, they might become waves that break over thousands of lives and churches. The waves I am praying for are:…

The Authority of Preaching for Readers and Non-Readers

The authority of preaching is rooted finally in the absolute authority of God. That root passes through the infallible Word of God, the Bible. This book is the only access we have today to an infallible message from God. Therefore…

Be Encouraged to Pray This Summer

Where to pray is not the issue. But whether. Let J. C. Ryle stir you up as he has me. I dare not lay down too strict rules on such points as these. I leave them to your own conscience…

Finding Care in the Calamity of Gay Pride

For those caught in the calamity of the normalization, celebration, and institutionalization of homosexual behavior, there are resources for help. Today let me just mention one cluster. Probably the most authoritative scholarly work on homosexuality and the Bible is Robert…

“My Eyes Shed Streams of Tears”—<br />Thoughts on the New Calamity

Jesus died so that heterosexual and homosexual sinners might be saved. Jesus created sexuality, and has a clear will for how it is to be experienced in holiness and joy. His will is that a man might leave his father…

John Piper Interviews Louie Giglio (Part 1)

John Piper interviews Louie Giglio about the history of the Passion Movement and its global cause.

John Piper Interviews Louie Giglio (Part 2)

John Piper interviews Louie Giglio about the history of the Passion Movement and its global cause.

Eternal and Temporal Goals of the Gospel

J. C. Ryle quoted Whitefield about the social effects of the gospel: The gospel keeps many a person from going to jail and from being hanged, if it does not keep him from hell (Thoughts For Young Men…

It’s Now or Never: Love Your Enemies

I have heard preachers say, the only thing we do on this earth that we won’t do in the age to come, is witness to unbelievers. So be about it. This is your only chance. It’s now or never. Well…

Why Read About the Beheading of Christians?

WORLD Magazine received a two-minute video of Islamic militants beheading a man for becoming a Christian. The article is called “Brutal Beheading.” I hope many of you read it. Why? Because we can’t get into the reality of…

Thank you, Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematical genius who was born June 19, 1623. After running from God until he was 31 years old, on November 23, 1654 at 10:30 pm, Pascal met God and was profoundly and unshakably converted to…

Fathers, Display to Your Children All of God

I am thanking God today that my father displayed a robust biblical God to me. I see God as fearful and I see him as the happiest and kindest being in the universe — "Behold then the kindness and the…

Happy Birthday, John Wesley. Two Silver Spoons. <br>And Thousands of Souls.

Thank you, John Wesley, for your practicing what you preached about money. John Wesley was born on this day 1703 (same year as Jonathan Edwards). He was one of the great evangelists of the 18th century. Today I want to…

The Price of Freedom in Egypt

Ramez Atallah is the General Director of the Bible Society of Egypt. This update from Cairo is a reminder that there are not unambiguous events in this fallen world. Things cut both ways. Reading this careful assessment from the inside…

Conference Message

Be a Radically God-Centered Pastor

Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference

My main message to you is very simple: Be a radically God-centered pastor. My text is the first petition of the Lord's prayer: "Hallowed by your name." I simply want to spend the few minutes we have together pressing the…

Hallowing God's Name in Public Life

Hallowing God’s name is a heart action that transforms and shapes every other thing we do, from instituting laws to building cultural institutions.

For Judgment I Came into This World

For Judgment I Came into This World

Sin blinds us all. We can only stumble about in darkness until Jesus takes us by the hand, and leads us into his heavenly light.

Should I Want to Be "Such a Worm?"

I tweeted this morning that I would like to be "such a worm". I said: "William Carey died today 1834. Epitaph: 'A wretched poor and helpless worm, on thy kind arms I fall.' O to be such a worm!" Not…

John Piper Interviews John Knight (Part 3)

Disability and the Sovereignty of God

In this interview, John Piper and John Knight discuss disabilities and God’s sovereignty and goodness in light of John 9, and offer wisdom for pastors seeking to engage with the disabled community.

The Works of God and the Worship of Jesus

The Works of God and the Worship of Jesus

Jesus does the very works of God so that all might know that he himself is God.

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