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
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.
Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.
Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.
If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.
When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.
God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.
The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.
The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.
The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.
Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.