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
God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.
Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.
We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.
We are far too easily pleased.
Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.
I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.
Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.
God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.
We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.
Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.