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Interactive Bible study with John Piper

Solid Joys

Daily devotional with John Piper

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Classic sermons from John Piper

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Manhood & Womanhood
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  • 50 Crucial Questions About Manhood and Womanhood An Overview of Central Concerns About Manhood and Womanhood
  • Designed for Joy How the Gospel Impacts Men and Women, Identity and Practice
  • What’s the Difference?
  • Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood A Response to Evangelical Feminism

Dating & Singleness
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  • Not Yet Married The Pursuit of Joy in Singleness and Dating

Women
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  • Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God

Marriage
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  • Happily Ever After Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage
  • Preparing for Marriage Help for Christian Couples
  • This Momentary Marriage A Parable of Permanence
  • Velvet Steel The Joy of Being Married to You

Wives & Mothers
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  • Mom Enough The Fearless Mother’s Heart and Hope

Husbands & Fathers
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  • A Tribute to My Father With Other Writings

Ethics
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  • Bloodlines Race, Cross, and the Christian
  • Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion Three Sermons from John Piper

Arts & Literature
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  • The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God
  • The Prodigal’s Sister
  • The Innkeeper

Worldview
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  • 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
  • The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World
  • Coronavirus and Christ
  • Competing Spectacles Treasuring Christ in the Media Age
  • Treasuring God in Our Traditions

Apologetics
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  • Why I Love the Apostle Paul 30 Reasons

Outreach
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  • Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions
  • A Holy Ambition To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
  • John G. Paton You Will Be Eaten By Cannibals!
  • David Brainerd May I Never Loiter On My Heavenly Journey!
  • Finish the Mission Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged
  • Adoniram Judson How Few There Are Who Die So Hard!
  • Cross Unrivaled Christ, Unstoppable Gospel, Unreached Peoples, Unending Joy

Church Leadership
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  • The Marks of a Spiritual Leader
  • The Supremacy of God in Preaching
  • Still Not Professionals Ten Pleas for Today’s Pastors
  • How to Stay Christian in Seminary
  • The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor Reflections on Life and Ministry
  • Expository Exultation Christian Preaching as Worship
  • Brothers, We Are Not Professionals A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry

Spiritual Growth
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  • The Dangerous Duty of Delight Daring to Make God Your Greatest Desire
  • The Satisfied Soul Showing the Supremacy of God in All of Life
  • Desiring God Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
  • Alive to Wonder Celebrating the Influence of C.S. Lewis
  • Sanctification in the Everyday Three Sermons by John Piper
  • Life as a Vapor Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith
  • Battling Unbelief Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure
  • A Godward Life Seeing the Supremacy of God in All of Life
  • Reading the Bible Supernaturally Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God in Scripture
  • Pierced by the Word Thirty-One Meditations for Your Soul
  • Don’t Follow Your Heart God’s Ways Are Not Your Ways
  • Taste and See Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life
  • Acting the Miracle God’s Work and Ours in the Mystery of Sanctification
  • Killjoys The Seven Deadly Sins
  • Don’t Waste Your Life
  • When I Don’t Desire God How to Fight for Joy
  • Take Care How You Listen Sermons by John Piper on Receiving the Word
  • A Hunger for God Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer
  • Future Grace The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
  • Shaped by God Thinking and Feeling in Tune with the Psalms
  • Risk Is Right Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It
  • Habits of Grace (Study Guide) Enjoying Jesus Through the Spiritual Disciplines
  • A Peculiar Glory How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness

Life Issues
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  • The Joy Project An Introduction to Calvinism
  • Rethinking Retirement Finishing Life for the Glory of Christ
  • Lessons from a Hospital Bed
  • Don’t Waste Your Cancer
  • Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
  • Love Your Enemies Jesus’ Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis
  • Think It Not Strange Navigating Trials in the New America
  • The Power of Words and the Wonder of God
  • The Scars That Have Shaped Me How God Meets Us in Suffering
  • Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
  • The Hidden Smile of God The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd
  • Coronavirus and Christ
  • When the Darkness Will Not Lift Doing What We Can While We Wait for God — and Joy

Christian Thought
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  • Think The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
  • Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books
  • Thinking. Loving. Doing. A Call to Glorify God with Heart and Mind

Church History
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  • Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce
  • Filling up the Afflictions of Christ The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton
  • The Legacy of Sovereign Joy God’s Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin
  • John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God
  • A God-Entranced Vision of All Things The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
  • Charles Spurgeon Preaching Through Adversity
  • Andrew Fuller Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Mission
  • A Camaraderie of Confidence The Fruit of Unfailing Faith in the Lives of Charles Spurgeon, George Müller, and Hudson Taylor
  • With Calvin in the Theater of God The Glory of Christ and Everyday Life
  • Portrait of Calvin Foreword by John Piper
  • Martin Luther Lessons from His Life and Labor
  • Contending for Our All Defending Truth and Treasuring Christ in the Lives of Athanasius, John Owen, and J. Gresham Machen
  • The Roots of Endurance Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce
  • Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis
  • The Hidden Smile of God The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd
  • The Romantic Rationalist God, Life, and Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis
  • Newton on the Christian Life To Live Is Christ
  • 27 Servants of Sovereign Joy Faithful, Flawed, and Fruitful

Biblical Studies
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  • Spectacular Sins And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ
  • Why I Love the Apostle Paul 30 Reasons
  • Ruth: Under the Wings of God

Jesus Christ
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  • Good News of Great Joy 25 Devotional Readings for Advent
  • The Dawning of Indestructible Joy Daily Readings for Advent
  • Love to the Uttermost Devotional Readings for Holy Week
  • Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
  • Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
  • Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy Morning & Evening Meditations for Holy Week

God
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  • Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
  • Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God
  • Habits of Grace Enjoying Jesus Through the Spiritual Disciplines
  • Esther
  • God’s Passion for His Glory Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards
  • For the Fame of God’s Name Essays in Honor of John Piper
  • The Pleasures of God Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God
  • Captive to Glory Celebrating the Vision and Influence of Jonathan Edwards
  • Beyond the Bounds Open Theism and the Undermining of Biblical Christianity
  • Reading the Bible Supernaturally Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God in Scripture

Salvation
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  • Does God Desire All to Be Saved?
  • Things Not Seen A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Trusting God’s Promises
  • Counted Righteous in Christ Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness?
  • Not by Sight A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Walking by Faith
  • For Your Joy
  • Jesus: The Only Way to God Must You Hear the Gospel to Be Saved?
  • The Joy Project An Introduction to Calvinism
  • God Is the Gospel Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself
  • Stand A Call for the Endurance of the Saints
  • The Justification of God An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 9:1-23
  • Finally Alive What Happens When We Are Born Again
  • The Future of Justification A Response to N.T. Wright
  • In Our Joy
  • Five Points Towards a Deeper Experience of God’s Grace

General Theology
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  • Astonished by God Ten Truths to Turn the World Upside Down
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