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Category: Piper
Persuading, Pleading, and Predestination
The following video is from Dr. John Piper’s address at Together for the Gospel 2014:
Persuading, Pleading, and Predestination: Human Means in the Miracle of Conversion
Look at the Book – Romans 8
Look at the Book – 2 Peter 1:3-4
Look at the Book
This September, John Piper will be launching an initiative inspired by the legacy he wants to leave. Look at the Book is a new online method of teaching the Bible. It’s an ongoing series of 5–10 minute videos in which the camera is on the text, not the teacher. You will hear Dr. Piper’s voice and watch his pen underline, circle, make connections, and scribble notes — all to help you learn to read God’s word for yourself. His goal is to help you not only see what he sees, but where he sees it and how he found it.
Here is a video introduction of the Look at the Book series.
Softly and Tenderly
The following is a seven-minute excerpt from John Piper’s message at Together for the Gospel 2014.
Listen, watch, or read Dr. Piper’s full message, “Persuading, Pleading, and Predestination: Human Means in the Miracle of Conversion.”
Update: The original highlight video is no longer available so the entire message video has been linked.
A Prayer for the New Calvinism
This video clip is only three minutes of an hour-long lecture that John Piper gave on the New Calvinism, entitled “The New Calvinism and the New Community: The Doctrines of Grace and the Meaning of Race.”
The Calvinist
The Calvinist is a beautiful poem about God’s sovereignty written by Dr. John Piper. The creative team at Desiring God took the poem and produced a dramatic video presentation featuring the voices of John Piper, D.A. Carson, R.C. Sproul, Alistair Begg, Thabiti Anyabwile, Matt Chandler, and Sinclair Ferguson. Do yourself a favor and take some time to watch this wonderful video.
The Day Luther Died
Desiring God is offering a free copy of John Piper’s biographical message on Martin Luther in commemoration of the anniversary of Luther’s death.
In Germany 467 years ago, in a small, backwater town called Eisleben, the shaking hand of a dying man scribbled this simple line: We are beggars. This is true.
Martin Luther died on February 18, 1546. These last words of weakness echoed the life-changing truth he’d unearthed in the Scriptures: we don’t bring anything to the table of our justification. Jesus truly died for the ungodly.
Luther came to understand that if we are to be accepted by God, we need a perfect righteousness we can’t produce — we need an alien righteousness given to us by Another.
But this discovery didn’t just happen. It came after hours of the painstaking study of Scripture. Luther gave himself to the Book, which he later explained as the primary actor in the Protestant Reformation. And a great movement of God in our day won’t happen apart from that same ingredient. Pastors and Christian leaders must be devoted to God’s word.
So we have much to learn from Luther, says John Piper.
Luther was the subject of Piper’s biographical message at the 1995 Conference for Pastors. We’ve since reformatted that message into a five-chapter ebook, which presents a sketch of Luther’s life and distills relevant lessons for not only pastors and leaders, but all Christians.
—Jonathan Parnell
Get a free download of Martin Luther: Lessons from His Life and Labor (available in PDF, MOBI, or EPUB) from Desiring God.
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