Sermons & Devotionals by John Piper
John Piper
Let the Young Speak
August 29, 1982 Job 32:7-11 The book of Job begins in chapter one with a description of how good and prosperous and religious Job was. Job 1:1, "Job was blameless and upright and feared God and turned away from evil." He had seven sons, three daughters, 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 5... Read More
John Piper
Let Us Walk By the Spirit
March 1, 1981 Galatians 5:25 LET US WALK BY THE SPIRIT This is the second in a series of messages on the Holy Spirit. Last week we dealt with the cause of the new birth. I argued from John 3:5-8 that human nature, with which all of us are born, will not enter into the kingdom of God unless it is cha... Read More
John Piper
Liberating Promises
April 25, 1982 2 Peter 1:1-4 This morning we begin a series of expository messages on the second epistle of Peter. My aim will be to move through this book verse by verse, explaining its meaning and applying it to our lives today. My first conviction behind this series is that, if life is short and ... Read More
John Piper
Life Is Not Trivial
Isn't it the extremely high and the extremely low occasions of life that trigger in us a hunger that life not be so trivial most of the time? Every human being now and then feels a longing that life not dribble away like a leaky faucet. You've all tasted the desire that day-to-day life be more than ... Read More
John Piper
Listen to the Eyewitness of His Majesty
May 9, 1982 2 Peter 1:12-19 In what we have seen so far in 2 Peter (up through 1:11) the main point has been to urge Christians to make sure that they are truly saved. Verse 10 says, "Therefore, brethren, be more zealous to confirm your call and election." Peter is aware of people who have made a ki... Read More
John Piper
Men Moved By the Holy Spirit Spoke From God
May 16, 1982 2 Peter 1:20-21 We can sum up what we have seen so far in 2 Peter 1 with three pictures: the hot fudge sundae, a man swimming against an ocean current and a lamp shining in the night. In 1:1-4 the main point was that God has given believers divine power to lead lives devoted to brotherl... Read More
John Piper
O, That You Knew the Terms of Peace!
April 12, 1981 Luke 19:41-44 O, That You Knew The Terms of Peace! I want you to imagine a scene with me. There is a young doctor who has a wife and three small children. He volunteers to take a dangerous six-month mission assignment to a place where there is an epidemic of a rare disease and a good ... Read More
John Piper
Pray for Kings and All in High Positions
January 18, 1981 1 Timothy 2:2 The apostle Paul has a word from God which we need to hear all the time but especially the Sunday before a presidential inauguration. The word is found in his first letter to Timothy, chapter 2, verses 1-4: First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, interc... Read More
John Piper
Prayer At Harvest Time: Now
January 3, 1982 Matthew 9:35-38 The question that returned to me in prayer again and again as 1981 passed away was: Might 1982 be the beginning of harvest time at Bethlehem Baptist Church? Might this year be the God-appointed time for a movement of the Spirit which would cause a great earnestness to... Read More
John Piper
Quantitative Hopelessness and the Immeasurable Moment
For the Encouragement of Sunday School Teachers July 12, 1981 I have often heard the contrast made between spending one hour a week in Sunday School and twenty or more hours, a week watching T.V. The point is usually that we can scarcely counteract the secularist influence of twenty hours of T.V. wi... Read More
John Piper
Remember That You Were Hopeless
December 27, 1981 Ephesians 2:11-12 REMEMBER THAT YOU WERE HOPELESS This is the word of God to us this morning. Let us obey it together and not resist its discomfort. This is the word of God: "Remember that at one time you Gentiles … were without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, st... Read More
John Piper
Restful Words for Labor Day
Psalm 23 Here is a version of Psalm 23 you have probably never heard before. (Recite the Psalm in German.) The reason I know the psalm in German is that I recited it to myself hundreds of times riding on my three-speed bicycle between our flat at Preysingstrasse 22 and the Ludwig-Maximillians Univer... Read More
John Piper
Rivers From the Heart
July 19, 1981 John 7:37-38 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, 'If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, "Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water."' Some images are attractive, some are repuls... Read More
John Piper
Sex and the Single Person
February 8, 1981 If the Bible addresses an issue with unrelenting frequency and urgency, and if that issue is one of the strongest natural forces in the world today, then ministers of the Word of God are obligated sooner or later to declare God's will on that issue. The sexual life of the unmarried ... Read More
John Piper
Sexual Relations in Marriage
February 15, 1981 Hebrews 13:4-5 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterous. Keep your life free from love of money and be content with what you have; for he has said, 'I will never fail you nor forsake, you!' It is i... Read More
John Piper
Simeon's Farewell to the World
Luke 2:21-40 If we count our Christmas eve meditations as an exposition of Luke 2:1-20, then we have arrived in our evening Luke series at chapter 2 verse 21. The unit I want to look at tonight therefore is 2:21-40. I have called the message "Simeon's Farewell to the World" because his speech seems ... Read More
John Piper
Sky Talk
Psalm 19 The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their... Read More
John Piper
Spiritual Gifts
March 15, 1981 1 Corinthians 12:1 The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed" (1 Corinthians 12:1). I assume that applies to us also: we ought not to be uninformed about the nature and purpose of spiritual gifts. So this f... Read More
John Piper
That Which Is Born of the Spirit Is Spirit
February 22, 1981 The Role of the Holy Spirit in Conversion Unless God gives me a clear indication to go another way I will be preaching during these last four Sundays of winter on the ministry of the Holy Spirit. I feel a great yearning in my own heart to know more of the Spirit's power for holines... Read More
John Piper
The Ascent of Joy
May 31, 1981 Luke 24:44-53 And Jesus said to them, 'These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.' Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures and said to them, '... Read More
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John Piper (1946 - Present)
is a Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and author currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His books include ECPA Christian Book Award winners Spectacular Sins, What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of Jesus Christ. The evangelical organization Desiring God is named for his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986).In 1980, after what he described as an "irresistible call of the Lord to preach", Piper became Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has been ministering ever since. Piper hit the evangelical scene after the publication of his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986) and has continued to publish dozens of other books further articulating this theological perspective. In 1994, he founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides all of Piper's sermons and articles from the past three decades, and most of his books online free of charge, as well as offering for sale books, CDs, and DVDs and regularly hosting conferences.
John Stephen Piper is a Reformed and Baptist theologian, preacher, and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books.
Piper's motto in ministry, preaching, and teaching is: "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls those who live out this motto Christian Hedonists. Piper places a heavy emphasis on the objective and absolute nature of truth and is confident in the Christian's ability to grasp that truth through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.