Sermons & Devotionals by John Piper
John Piper
The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus
February 22, 1981 Luke 3:21-38 21 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, as a dove, and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well plea... Read More
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The Conquest of Canaan
November 29, 1981 THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN After wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, the people of Israel came finally to the plains of Moab on the east side of the Jordan River opposite Jericho. And here one of the saddest scenes in all the Bible is described for us at the end of Deuteronomy. M... Read More
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The Cosmic Church
March 22, 1981 Ephesians 3:10 The church of Jesus Christ is the most important institution in the world. The assembly of the redeemed, the company of the saints, the children of God are more significant in world history than any other group, organization or nation. The United States of America compa... Read More
John Piper
The Covenant of Abraham
October 18, 1981 THE COVENANT OF ABRAHAM In the beginning God the Father, through the agency of his eternal Son, created out of nothing all that is not God by the word of his command; and moment by moment he holds in being all things by that same word of power so that everything which comes into exi... Read More
John Piper
The Education of a Prophet
May 3, 1981 Jonah THE EDUCATION OF A PROPHET: JONAH I can remember one Wednesday night when I was a little boy in Greenville, South Carolina, my mother came home after a church business meeting with anger and grief on her face. Daddy was out of town. And mother had been the only person at the meetin... Read More
John Piper
The Emergence of Sin and Misery
October 11, 1981 THE EMERGENCE OF SIN AND MISERY Biblical history is unintelligible without the doctrine of creation. The record of events from Adam and Eve through the history of Israel, the coming of Christ, the rise of the church and the coming consummation make no sense apart from this truth: Go... Read More
John Piper
The Evil Origin of a Good King
December 6, 1981 THE EVIL ORIGIN OF A GOOD KING When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, wise men came from the east to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is he who is born king of the Jews" (Matt. 2:2). Before his birth the angel had told Mary, "The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and he wi... Read More
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The Holiness of God
April 16, 1981 Everything begins with God. We don't understand the full significance of anything until we understand its relation to God. He was the one and only fact a trillion centuries before the universe or man existed. He is absolutely unique because he alone is infinite, unchanging, eternal. H... Read More
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The Just Shall Live By Faith
October 31, 1982 Habakkuk The situation which Habakkuk faces is the imminent invasion of the southern kingdom of Judah by the Chaldeans (who are the same as the Babylonians). This invasion eventually happened at the end of the sixth century B.C. and Jerusalem fell to Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. The L... Read More
John Piper
The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life
Romans 8:1-2 We have come to the fourth part of a five part series of messages which are dealing with aspects of Biblical truth which I think we need to know if we are to live the Christian life. First we talked about the essence of sin: "Whatever is not from faith is sin" (Romans 14:23). Second, we... Read More
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The Limits of Submission to Man
July 5, 1981 THE LIMITS OF SUBMISSION TO MAN I have a vision of the Church as a people who are sojourners, strangers, exiles, refugees in this world (Heb. 11:13; 1 Peter 2:11; Phil 3:20). A happy, peaceful, loving people who swear allegiance to a foreign King, Jesus Christ and to no other. A people ... Read More
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The Line of Prayer
January 4, 1981 2 Corinthians 1:11 The thing that I want to accomplish this morning by the Spirit and the Word of God is to stir you up to pray earnestly in the weeks ahead for me as your pastor, for Glenn Ogren as he comes, and for the whole ministry of the gospel as we all strive, with the strengt... Read More
John Piper
The Lips of Knowledge Are a Precious Jewel
Proverbs 20:15 I think I inherited from my mother a love for the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament. They were well marked on the india pages of her Bible and she quoted them to me often. I think probably they loomed large in her life because I was her only son and there is no other book in the B... Read More
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The Local Church: Minimum Vs Maximum
March 29, 1981 Acts 2:36-47 Last week we heard from the Bible that one great goal of the church is to demonstrate the wisdom of God to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places (Eph. 3:10). I emphasized that the church is not only the light of the world; it is also the light of the cosmos... Read More
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The Locust Horde and the Day of the Lord
September 19, 1982 Joel The book of Joel falls naturally into two parts. In 1:1-2:27 we read about a terrible locust plague that came over Israel as a judgment from God and how the people repented and God restored their fortunes. Then in 2:28 to the end of the book we read about how God at some futu... Read More
John Piper
The Lord Will Rejoice over You
September 25, 1982 Zephaniah 3:14-17 According to Zeph. 1:1, the prophet Zephaniah delivered the word of the Lord during the reign of Josiah, king of Judah. Josiah reigned from 637 to 608 B.C. So his reign came to an end just twenty years before Jerusalem was sacked by the Babylonians and Israel was... Read More
John Piper
The Poor of the Land and the Pride of Jacob
October 10, 1982 Amos 6:1-8; 8:4-8 Amos was a shepherd from Tekoa before God called him to be a prophet to Israel (1:1;7:14,15). And even though Tekoa is in the southern kingdom of Judah (ten miles south of Jerusalem) Amos delivered his message to the northern kingdom of Israel. His ministry happene... Read More
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The Power of Hope
April 19, 1981 1 Peter 1:3-9 The apostle Peter took up his pen 30 years or so after the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus, and set himself to write something encouraging to the beleaguered Christians of Asia Minor. They were being abused by overbearing bosses (2:18), threatened by unbelieving... Read More
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The Shepherd, the Host and the Highway Patrol
Psalm 23 Last week we drew out some lessons from the form of Psalm 23 - the fact that at verse 4 it shifts from talking about God as "He" to talking to God as "You." Then we looked at the phrase "I shall not want" and thought about what it is that God will not let His people lack: nothing that would... Read More
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The Sifting of Simon Peter
April 26, 1981 Luke 22:31-34 The word of encouragement and consolation and hope that I want to offer you today from God's Word is that, if you love God and are called according to his purpose, if you are despairing of your own resources and looking to Christ for hope, then to you belongs a most wond... Read More
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John Piper (1946 - Present)
is a Calvinistic Baptist Christian preacher and author currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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 Jesus Christ. The evangelical organization Desiring God is named for his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986).In 1980, after what he described as an "irresistible call of the Lord to preach", Piper became Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has been ministering ever since. Piper hit the evangelical scene after the publication of his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986) and has continued to publish dozens of other books further articulating this theological perspective. In 1994, he founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides all of Piper's sermons and articles from the past three decades, and most of his books online free of charge, as well as offering for sale books, CDs, and DVDs and regularly hosting conferences.
John Stephen Piper is a Reformed and Baptist theologian, preacher, and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books.
Piper's motto in ministry, preaching, and teaching is: "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls those who live out this motto Christian Hedonists. Piper places a heavy emphasis on the objective and absolute nature of truth and is confident in the Christian's ability to grasp that truth through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.