Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election

Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election

Why Did God Choose You?

The Goal and Ground of His Election

Why did God set his saving love on his people before the foundation of the world? So that we might praise the glory of his sovereign grace.

The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus

The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus

The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus

Did Jesus endure the cross for his joy or despite it? The answer takes us to the heart of Jesus’s unusually human joy, and ours.

Popular Collections: Classic Messages; Conference Messages; Bethlehem Sermons; Biographies; Seminars

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

Popular Topics: Christian Hedonism; World Missions; Pastoral Ministry; Suffering; The Gospel

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

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Providence: The Purposeful Sovereignty of God

Providence: The Purposeful Sovereignty of God

It’s one thing to know God is sovereign; it’s another to know just how far his sovereignty extends and the purposes for which he wields it.

Do You Love Jesus? A Grand Finale of His Greatness

Do You Love Jesus?

A Grand Finale of His Greatness

At the end of his Gospel, John gives us a grand finale of the mercy, wisdom, greatness, and never-ending glory of Jesus Christ.

How Doubting Thomas Finds Faith

How Doubting Thomas Finds Faith

The story of Jesus and Thomas assures us that Jesus really rose bodily, that his patience surpasses our indwelling sin, and that we need not see to believe.

Be Still and Know: A Crisis-Ready Vision of God

Be Still and Know

A Crisis-Ready Vision of God

Where do we turn when the ground beneath our feet seems to buckle and shift? Psalm 46 offers a vision of God to keep us through any crisis.

Your Thorn for His Glory: How Christ’s Power Is Perfected in Weakness

Your Thorn for His Glory

How Christ’s Power Is Perfected in Weakness

When the thorn remains after much earnest prayer, God intends to give something better than relief: gladness in Christ’s all-sufficient, all-sustaining grace.

Where Does Radical Love Come From?

Where Does Radical Love Come From?

How can we be set free from selfishness so that, at any earthly cost to ourselves, we will love other people in a way that makes Christ look great?

Authentic Preaching in the Age of AI

Authentic Preaching in the Age of AI

In the age of artificial intelligence, do we still need preachers? Answering that question well takes us to the heart of God-glorifying preaching.

Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus

Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus

A camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, nor can we turn our own hearts from loving money to loving Jesus. But what is impossible with man is possible with God.

Take Care How You Hear a Sermon

Take Care How You Hear a Sermon

There is a way to see truth without seeing it — to hear without hearing. For all who listen to sermons, the words of Jesus stand: Take care how you hear.

The Privilege of Preaching

The Privilege of Preaching

Though fraught with challenges and temptations to lose heart, preaching the word of God is a glorious privilege. John Piper gives ten reasons why.

He Believed and Confessed: Funeral Meditation for Carl Schmuland

He Believed and Confessed

Funeral Meditation for Carl Schmuland

No matter how great our sins have been, if we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised him from the dead, we will be saved.

The Power of Preaching

The Power of Preaching

God has chosen to bind the fullness of his supernatural effectiveness to the human ministry of the word. So, how might we preach in ways that release his power?

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