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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: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Foundations for Lifelong Learning: Education in Serious Joy.
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Love to the Uttermost

Love to the Uttermost

Devotional Readings for Holy Week

Mar 15, 2013
Love to the Uttermost: Devotional Readings for Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday, ends on Easter Sunday, and aims to focus our attention on Jesus as he displays his love to the uttermost (John 13:1). These meditations on the self-giving…
John Piper
Mar 15, 2013
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Brothers, We Are Not Professionals

Brothers, We Are Not Professionals

A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry

Feb 1, 2013
John Piper pleads with fellow pastors to abandon the secularization of the ministry and pursue the prophetic call of Scripture.
John Piper
Feb 1, 2013
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Risk Is Right

Risk Is Right

Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It

Jan 31, 2013
A choice lies before you: Either waste your life or live with risk. Either sit on the sidelines or get in the game. After all, life was no cakewalk for Jesus, and he didn’t promise it would be any easier…
John Piper
Jan 31, 2013
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Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion

Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion

Three Sermons from John Piper

Jan 22, 2013
We are children of the light. Abortion is a work of darkness. The apostle Paul said, “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them” (Ephesians 5:11). God is calling passive, inactive Christians today to engage…
John Piper
Jan 22, 2013
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Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God

Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God

Nov 1, 2012
Disabilities break into life in various forms: as the product of genetic misalignments in the womb, as the result of tragic and regrettable accidents, as the byproducts of infectious disease, and from the degenerative effects of old age. They affect…
John Piper + 1
Nov 1, 2012
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Martin Luther

Martin Luther

Lessons from His Life and Labor

Oct 31, 2012
Martin Luther died in the early morning hours of February 18, 1546. His final words echo the seminal discoveries he made, and fought for: We are beggars. This is true. Beggars, indeed — because God demands a righteousness we cannot…
John Piper
Oct 31, 2012
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Esther

Esther

Sep 30, 2012
Having proven himself as a poet, John Piper has written another masterpiece, retelling the story of Esther. This two-part poem begins with Mordecai talking with his teenage cousin Hadassah (Esther), whom he is raising. He explains how her grandfather had…
John Piper
Sep 30, 2012
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Finish the Mission

Finish the Mission

Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged

Sep 30, 2012
John Piper and other pastor-theologians aim to breathe fresh missionary fire into a new generation, as together we seek to finish the Great Commission.
John Piper + 6
Sep 30, 2012
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This Momentary Marriage

This Momentary Marriage

A Parable of Permanence

Sep 30, 2012
Reflecting on over forty years of matrimony, John Piper exalts the biblical meaning of marriage. This covenant portrays Christ’s love for the church.
John Piper
Sep 30, 2012
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Future Grace

Future Grace

The Purifying Power of the Promises of God

Sep 18, 2012
John Piper shows how the promises of future grace provide the power to fight sin and stay faithful to Christ.
John Piper
Sep 18, 2012
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Sanctification in the Everyday

Sanctification in the Everyday

Three Sermons by John Piper

Aug 1, 2012
Whether fighting a specific sin or walking by faith in normal life, this book will add to your arsenal for the everyday work of sanctification.
John Piper
Aug 1, 2012
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Take Care How You Listen

Take Care How You Listen

Sermons by John Piper on Receiving the Word

Jul 1, 2012
Skillful listening is a non-negotiable skill for everyone who enters a church building on Sunday or plays a sermon through headphones during the week. Scripture calls us not only to consider carefully what sermons we listen to, but also how…
John Piper
Jul 1, 2012
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Love Your Enemies

Love Your Enemies

Jesus’ Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis

Jun 30, 2012
Pastor Piper presents evidence that the early church earnestly advocated for non-retaliatory love, extending it to those who practiced evil in the world. Such love was key to the church’s own ethical tradition or paraenesis.
John Piper
Jun 30, 2012
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Adoniram Judson

Adoniram Judson

How Few There Are Who Die So Hard!

Feb 1, 2012
Judson was America's first foreign missionary and an example of one who considered, and executed on, his own uniquely strategic role in the completing of the Commission.
John Piper
Feb 1, 2012
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David Brainerd

David Brainerd

May I Never Loiter On My Heavenly Journey!

Feb 1, 2012
God rescues the broken and uses them for his glory, weaving together a testimony of valor in lives of struggling saints.
John Piper
Feb 1, 2012
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John G. Paton

John G. Paton

You Will Be Eaten By Cannibals!

Feb 1, 2012
To live and die serving the Lord means only gain. Therefore, with confidence in the Lord, faithful men can live for the singular purpose of God’s global glory.
John Piper
Feb 1, 2012
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The Innkeeper

The Innkeeper

Sep 14, 2011
Through this imaginative poem, John Piper shares a story of what might have been — an innkeeper whose life was forever altered by the arrival of the Son of God.
John Piper
Sep 14, 2011
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Bloodlines

Bloodlines

Race, Cross, and the Christian

Sep 8, 2011
Learn to pursue ethnic harmony from a biblical perspective as you take part in the bloodline of Jesus — a bloodline that includes every race.
John Piper
Sep 8, 2011
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Thinking. Loving. Doing.

Thinking. Loving. Doing.

A Call to Glorify God with Heart and Mind

Sep 8, 2011
Holistic Christianity is comprised of mind, heart, and hands. The Christian life is multidimensional: thinking, loving, and doing.
John Piper + 5
Sep 8, 2011
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The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor

The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor

Reflections on Life and Ministry

Mar 31, 2011
God intends deep thinking to fuel praise. And he desires praise to ignite deep thinking. Head and heart work together so that ministry does not separate from scholarship.
John Piper + 1
Mar 31, 2011
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Think

Think

The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

Mar 31, 2011
Thinking isn’t an enemy of feeling or an obstacle to love. God gave us minds not to stifle affection, but to cultivate deep, mature, godly affections.
John Piper
Mar 31, 2011
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God Is the Gospel

God Is the Gospel

Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself

Mar 8, 2011
This book is a plea that God himself, as revealed in Jesus’s death and resurrection, be seen and enjoyed as the final and greatest gift of the gospel.
John Piper
Mar 8, 2011
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Don’t Waste Your Cancer

Don’t Waste Your Cancer

Jan 27, 2011
On the eve of his own cancer surgery, John Piper affirms that we will not waste our cancer if we see it as God’s good plan for our joy in Christ.
John Piper
Jan 27, 2011
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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Desiring God

Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Jan 18, 2011
The world sells cheap joy at your expense. God dispenses fullness of joy at the expense of his own Son, that you may be eternally happy in him.
John Piper
Jan 18, 2011
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With Calvin in the Theater of God

With Calvin in the Theater of God

The Glory of Christ and Everyday Life

Sep 1, 2010
Reflecting on over 500 years of Calvin’s legacy, John Piper and this book’s other contributors invite us to join Calvin in the theater of God.
John Piper + 6
Sep 1, 2010

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