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
Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.
If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.
Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.
Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.
Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.
May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.