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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.

Has God Rejected His People? Part 2

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you…

Has God Rejected His People? Part 1

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you…

An Open Letter to Michael Prowse

God loves us by commanding us to praise him, because we won't be happy until we give it.

Everlasting Truth for the Joy of All Peoples

Missions Week

Jesus Christ is building his church around the world with missionaries.

Funeral Meditation for Owen

When an infant boy dies, what can we say about him in relation to God? Pastor John offers hope for parents in a funeral message for a baby named Owen.

Let Public Thanks Ascend for God's Mercy in Education for Exultation

Phase one of the EDUCATION FOR EXULTATION building is complete and paid for debt free. With you I say, "Thank you Father, for your mercy and power. Thank you for the grace poured out into the lives of hundreds of…

Jonathan Edwards and Our Fall Missions Focus

Two Motives for Missions, or One? As our fall Missions Focus approaches, Jonathan Edwards is still on my mind. One reason is that he helped me unite two motives for world missions that for years seemed at odds. One motive…

Conference Message

A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God

A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 4:1 Therefore, having this…

Panel Discussion

Speaker Interviews, Session 2

Speaker Interviews, Session 2

Preaching that is aimed at true conversion must go for the heart and proclaim both humanity’s terrifying failure to keep the law and God’s abundant grace and goodness in Christ.

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A God-Entranced Vision of All Things: Why We Need Jonathan Edwards 300 Years Later

A God-Entranced Vision of All Things: Why We Need Jonathan Edwards 300 Years Later

In our increasingly God-ignoring world, Edwards' voice calls us to behold the glory of the Alpha and the Omega.

Panel Discussion

Speaker Interviews, Session 1

Speaker Interviews, Session 1

Jonathan Edwards’s works, along with other Puritan books and writings, are an invaluable gift to the church, especially in showing how our joy in God is central to glorifying God.

The Prodigal’s Sister

The Prodigal’s Sister

The Grace of God is so astonishing that we cannot adequately describe it. But Jesus knew how to say it-in a parable. With the drawings of Robert Doares depicting the setting, The Prodigal's Sister poetically and imaginatively retells the parable…

Jonathan Edwards on the Pilgrim Mindset

What characteristics ought to mark the life of a Christian sojourner?

Treasuring Christ Together, Part 4

What is the Philosophy of Worship That Unites Us?

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. 15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his…

What Unites Us in Worship

What are the essentials of worship that go deeper than style and form?

Treasuring Christ Together, Part 3

What is the Philosophy of Worship that Unites Us?

Visible worship is a seamless sacrifice of lips and life carried by Christian Hedonism Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek…

The God-Enthralled Vision of Jonathan Edwards

A Personal Tribute

Jonathan Edwards’s life and work demonstrated that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

Treasuring Christ Together, Part 2

Lessons in Love from 1 John

What should a pastor say when he wants to encourage a Biblical kind of life-together in a large church? That is my goal today. We are a larger church and we are on two campuses. Not only that, but we…

Pierced by the Word

Pierced by the Word

Thirty-One Meditations for Your Soul

Pierced by the Word takes up thirty-one subjects as unique as "How to Be a Refuge for Your Children," "How to Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God," and "Embracing the Pain of Shame." Some are longer, some shorter…

Treasuring Christ Together, Part 1

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation- 3 if indeed you have tasted…

Pastor John's Special Invitation to the Jonathan Edwards Conference

When I conceived the Jonathan Edwards Conference for this fall, I had in mind a great all-church event for Bethlehem that we could share with others from around the country. There is room for over 3,000 I love the thought…

How Shall People Be Saved? Part 2

For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." 14 But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have…

Taking the Swagger Out of Christian Cultural Influence

Taking the Swagger Out of Christian Cultural Influence

Being exiles does not mean being cynical. Christians should be concerned, and humbly engage.

Why We Eat the Lord's Supper, Part 3

Today, Lord willing, we will finish the three part series on the meaning of the Lord's Supper. If you think this is all about a mere religious ritual with little relevance for your larger life-concerns, you are wrong, and I…

When to Be Merciful and When to Demand Justice

Consider three criteria for deciding when to love others with mercy and when to love them with justice.

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