The Plundering of Your Property and the Power of Hope
“But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with...
View ArticleWhat Is Sin? The Essence and Root of All Sinning
This message is from the Desiring God 2015 Conference for Pastors, in partnership with Bethlehem College & Seminary. Eleven other sessions are also available.Why are we spending an entire pastors’...
View ArticleMake War: The Pastor and His People in the Battle Against Sin
Over the years, it has become plain to me that not everyone likes the idea that life is war. I remember a colleague almost forty years ago complaining that the warfare image of the Christian life was...
View ArticleSpeaker Panel
This panel is from the Desiring God 2015 Conference for Pastors, in partnership with Bethlehem College & Seminary. Eleven other sessions are also available.
View ArticleWhy Do Christians Preach and Sing?
I wonder if you have paused to ponder how simple and strange these Passion events are. Year after year—almost now decade after decade—what do they boil down to? It seems to me that they boil down to...
View ArticleMy Heart’s Prayer to God for You
Other Sessions from Look at the Book: Romans 9Session 1: Has the Word of God Failed? (Romans 9:1–5)Session 2: God’s Good Purpose in Election (Romans 9:6–13)Session 3: God Has Mercy on Whomever He Wills...
View ArticleHas the Word of God Failed?
Other Sessions from Look at the Book: Romans 9Session 2: God’s Good Purpose in Election (Romans 9:6–13)Session 3: God Has Mercy on Whomever He Wills (Romans 9:14–18)Session 4: My Heart’s Prayer to God...
View ArticleGod Has Mercy on Whomever He Wills
Other Sessions from Look at the Book: Romans 9Session 1: Has the Word of God Failed? (Romans 9:1–5)Session 2: God’s Good Purpose in Election (Romans 9:6–13)Session 4: My Heart’s Prayer to God for You...
View ArticleGod’s Good Purpose in Election
Other Sessions from Look at the Book: Romans 9Session 1: Has the Word of God Failed? (Romans 9:1–5)Session 3: God Has Mercy on Whomever He Wills (Romans 9:14–18)Session 4: My Heart’s Prayer to God for...
View ArticleWhy PhDs in Theology Commit Adultery
How many Christians do you see bent with all their powers to know God more and more — more truly, more clearly, more sweetly? Or, rather, do you see thousands fighting graduate school sins with a...
View ArticleSuffering, Faith, and the Sign of Fearlessness
God graciously gives his people suffering and faith so that they might enjoy magnifying Christ to their adversaries through fearlessness of faith and humble love.
View ArticleThe Shoot from Jesse, the Nations, and Israel
Listen also to John Piper’s seminar at The Gospel Coalition 2015, “What Jesus Demands from the World.”The book of Isaiah begins, “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and...
View ArticleEducation in Serious Joy
The following are John Piper’s notes for the message.I love our motto: Education in serious joy. More and more.So I want you to love it. So I’d like to talk about it for a few minutes:Education Joy.…
View ArticleFriendship with Jesus and the Aim of Education in Serious Joy
John Piper’s commencement message on the relationship between friendship with Jesus and the aims of higher education — specifically the educational aims of Bethlehem College & Seminary.
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