Related: This audio excerpt is from a sermon John Piper delivered on November 26, 2006 entitled “God Strengthens Us by the Gospel.” You can read or download the message at Desiring God.
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One of the reasons missions is at the heart of Christianity is that Jesus teaches us to see the world utterly differently that we ordinarily see it. If you simply view the world the way it is seen in television and secular media and public education and theater, missions will make no sense and be [...]
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is [...]
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying [...]
This is the second sermon in the series on regeneration by John Piper. Related: You can read or download the message at Desring God.
There has been quite a bit of discussion in the Christian blogosphere lately about “God’s essential moral character.” Dr. Ben Witherington, professor of New Testament Theology at Asbury Theological Seminary, is apparently dismayed that biblical scholars like Dr. Tom Schreiner and Dr. John Piper support and advance what he considers a narcissistic theory that God [...]
Following up on yesterday’s post about heros, this is a message on the life of John Owen delivered by John Piper at the 1994 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors. So many men that I admire (John Piper, Sinclair Ferguson, R.C. Sproul, J.I. Packer, Jerry Bridges etc.) have listed John Owen as an influence on their lives [...]
This is the first message in John Piper’s new series on regeneration. Related: You can read or download the message at Desiring God.
I am truly blessed. My home is full of family and loved ones and I’m in a reflective mood this Thanksgiving weekend. One of the things I’m most thankful for is Desiring God, the ministry of John Piper. His books and sermons have been instrumental in shaping my doctrinal mindset and for that I am [...]
