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“You were made to display the all-satisfying beauty and greatness of God by savoring him as the supreme treasure of your life.”

—John Piper, from The Ultimate Essence of Evil

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Get a Holy Ambition — and Skip Adultolescence

Topic: The Unwasted Life

Popular Collections: Conference Messages; Bethlehem Sermons; Biographies; Seminars; Small Talks

Popular References: Romans 8; Hebrews 10; Philippians 1; John 3; Isaiah 55

Popular Topics: Christian Hedonism; World Missions; Pastoral Ministry; The Gospel; Sanctification & Growth

Popular Series: Romans: The Greatest Letter Ever Written; The Gospel of John; Hebrews; Acts: What Jesus Did After the Beginning; 1 Peter: Grow in the Grace & Knowledge of Christ

Sermon of the Day

Sermon of the Day

Get a Holy Ambition — and Skip Adultolescence

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Our Afflictions Are So Many: A Strange Promise for the Strangest of Years

Our Afflictions Are So Many: A Strange Promise for the Strangest of Years

Our Afflictions Are So Many

A Strange Promise for the Strangest of Years

Scripture: Psalm 34

Topic: Suffering, Joy

Joy Comes Through the Mourning: Why Sorrow Must Give Way to Gladness

Joy Comes Through the Mourning: Why Sorrow Must Give Way to Gladness

Joy Comes Through the Mourning

Why Sorrow Must Give Way to Gladness

Scripture: Psalm 30

Topic: Suffering, Joy

Classics

Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name

Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name

Scripture: Matthew 6:5–15

Conference Message

Don’t Waste Your Life

Don’t Waste Your Life

Scripture: Matthew 16:24–26

Topic: The Unwasted Life

Conference Message

How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice

How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice

Scripture: Hebrews 11:6

Topic: Suffering

How to Kill Sin

How to Kill Sin

Scripture: Romans 8:10–17

Topic: Killing Sin

Conference Messages

Conference Message

None Can Stay His Hand: The Certain Triumph of the Gospel

None Can Stay His Hand

The Certain Triumph of the Gospel

Scripture: Daniel 4:34–35

Topic: The Sovereignty of God

Conference Message

The Second Coming: Not Before the ‘Man of Lawlessness’

The Second Coming: Not Before the ‘Man of Lawlessness’

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1–3:15

Topic: End Times

Conference Message

Does God Intend Evil for Our Good? Providential Peril for Joseph, Jesus, and You

Does God Intend Evil for Our Good?

Providential Peril for Joseph, Jesus, and You

Scripture: Genesis 37:1–50:26

Topic: The Sovereignty of God

Conference Message

Glory-Finding in the Gospel of John: The War in Our Social Media Feeds (Part 2)

Glory-Finding in the Gospel of John

The War in Our Social Media Feeds (Part 2)

Scripture: John 17

Topic: Technology

Sermon Series

Quest for Joy

Jan 8 – Mar 26, 1989

What is God like? What’s the meaning and consequence of sin? What did Christ achieve when he died? And what is faith? How you answer those questions makes a tremendous difference in how you share your faith — and how deep and endurable is your joy.

Spectacular Sins and Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ

Spectacular Sins and Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ

Aug 12 – Oct 7, 2007

God does not just rule the wind; he rules wickedness, your sin, and the sin of those who have hurt you. The question is, How can this be good news — for you and for the world? We must answer with unswerving allegiance to God’s word. And it is good news.

A Hunger for God

A Hunger for God

Jan 1 – Feb 19, 1995

Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is the path of pleasing pain called fasting. When God is the supreme hunger or your heart, he will be supreme in everything. And when you are most satisfied in him, he will be most glorified in you.

Thirty-Year Theological Trademarks

Thirty-Year Theological Trademarks

Sep 8 – Dec 29, 2012

After a generation of investment in one church, here is John Piper’s summary of his most important emphases in one final sermon series.

Biographies

Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible

Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible

Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible

Why William Tyndale Lived and Died

Seminars

The Purifying Power of the Promises of God

The Purifying Power of the Promises of God

Mar 16 – Mar 17, 2012

As believers, we do not simply look back to God’s work in the past, but forward to the grace that God promises us today, tomorrow, and forever.

Small Talks

Shepherds, Listen Well

Shepherds, Listen Well

Desiring God 2014 Conference for Pastors

Topic: Pastoral Ministry