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
Only the # gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.
Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours
The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.
The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.
Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.
The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.
The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.
Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.
Giving is a way of having what you need.
God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.
To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church