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
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.
The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God
To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.
One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.
My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.