John Piper
John Piper
John Stephen Piperis founder and teacher of desiringgod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a Calvinist Baptist preacher and author who served as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 33 years. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth11 January 1946
CountryUnited States of America
The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.
People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?
Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.
We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.
Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.
When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
Don't coast through life without a passion.
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.