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John Piper serves as founder and lead teacher at Desiring God and is chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, Piper served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church. He has authored more than 50 books, and more than 30 years of his preaching and writing are available free of charge at desiringGod.org. Piper resides in the Minneapolis area with his wife of 51 years, and has five children and 14 grandchildren.
Soldiers take bullets for one another. Parents sacrifice daily for their kids...
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God wrote the Christmas story, and yet we don’t often stop to ask why he wrot...
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God is more precious than possessions, family, health, and life. In this lab,...
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God has assigned forgetting and remembering strategic roles in our salvation....
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Someone who is blessed of God and someone whom we think is blessed of God are...
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In this lab, John Piper explains that a quick way to become an enemy of God i...
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When this life comes to an end, when our frail bodies sputter for the last ti...
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In this lab, John Piper explains that the kind of people God always destroys ...
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In this lab, John Piper explains that the cross either turns a rebel into God...
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No one starts as a mature Christian. In this lab, John Piper calls us to keep...
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Speak the truth in love, sometimes with tears. In this lab, John Piper shows ...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that God has not kept silent about the con...
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Why do I need to press on to make the resurrection my own, if Christ has alre...
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All of us can reach maturity in the Christian life. In this lab, John Piper f...
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Before we act, before we speak, before we do, we think. And God cares about o...
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Genuine believers will think differently than us. We should be very slow to p...
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One great goal of missions is obedience — the obedience of faith in Christ Je...
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God’s sure promise that you will make it to the end is bought by Christ. In t...
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Christians don’t coast to the finish line, they don’t become caviler about as...
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In this lab, John Piper explains that if you are Christ’s, you don’t belong h...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that those who say they want to be happy w...
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In this lab, John Piper explains that we live in a broken world, with broken ...
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Heaven is for those who never stopped running the race on earth, looking to C...
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In this lab, John Piper explains that God does not treat lightly those who se...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/will-i-be-t...
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Imitating fellow believers is a forgotten part of the Christian faith. In thi...
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Prayer is vital for the fight to be more like Jesus. In this lab, John Piper ...
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We learn to pray by reading the prayers in the Bible. This short series will ...
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When we ask God to incline our hearts, can he do it? In this third lab, John ...
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God’s grace rescued one of the worst sinners in history, a man who by his own...
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For many, the message of grace means the end of all effort. But the Bible wil...
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If grace empowers us to live like Christ, how do we access that grace day aft...
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In this lab, Pastor John shows us that the wisdom of Proverbs is only availab...
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In this lab, John Piper clarifies that Job did not suffer because of disobedi...
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Who caused Job’s suffering? Sin, Satan, or our sovereign God? In this lab, Jo...
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From most people’s point of view, Job had every reason to curse God, not wors...
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Our God is a God of all comfort. In this lab, John Piper calls us to not only...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that God doesn’t help us in our times of ...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that our grumbling is not insignificant to...
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God has recreated us for holiness and promised to help us in the pursuit. In ...
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In this lab, John Piper gives the key to shining as a lights in the world—exc...
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God doesn’t want his secret to contentment to be a secret. He wrote it plainl...
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How do we not labor in vain? In this lab, Pastor John tells us how Paul ran a...
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Believers throughout history would rather lose their life than lose their rel...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that when we see horrendous crimes committ...
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In this lab, John Piper shows us that the righteous are not perfect. But they...
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In this lab, Pastor John studies the first song in Jesus’s hymnbook to show u...
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In this lab, Pastor John shows us that one of the problems with the prosperit...
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In this lab, John Piper shows us that many do not blossom with the beauty of ...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us how sweet the word of God is and how bless...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that when we memorize God’s word, we put h...
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In this lab, John Piper shows us that Christ's blood is the great adhesive th...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that unity among believers is not just a g...
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The Church is crowned with love, clothed in Christ's righteousness, and perfu...
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Jesus is not a fanatic CEO that needs you to render to him anxious toil. In t...
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Rest in parenting will not come through getting our children to nap during th...
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Some shame we should feel. Some shame we should never feel. In this lab, John...
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Our greatest problem is not cancer, poverty, or death. It is a holy God. In t...
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Believing is about more than facts. In this lab, John Piper explains that if ...
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No child of God will be bored in eternity. In this lab, John Piper stirs our ...
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Sustained joy in God does not come because we went to God’s word yesterday, b...
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We may feel that not being alive when Jesus walked the earth would be a disad...
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For many, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but for the wrong...
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How do I make decisions not addressed in the Bible? In this lab, John Piper t...
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Many of us desire to genuinely love others, but are we willing to pay the pri...
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Loving others will be costly, uncomfortable, and counter-cultural. In this la...
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We may say we are Christians, but without evidence of our new identity, we ha...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that if Christ is not our treasure, we ca...
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Why did Jesus die? In this lab, John Piper acknowledges that man demanded Jes...
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The grace of God became flesh, but where was it before then? In this lab, Joh...
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Our hope does not rest on ourselves, our neighbors, our politicians, or our k...
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The fullness of happily ever after is coming for God’s people — but not yet. ...
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God wants children who are confident — not confident in the flesh, but in Chr...
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Why did Paul feel obligated to say he had reason for confidence in the flesh ...
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In this lab, John Piper explains that Christ will cost you everything. But th...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds that when we gain Christ, we get a right stan...
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Faith is the experience of Christ as our surpassing worth and all else as rub...
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Your pastor must do the impossible every Sunday. In this lab, John Piper not ...
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God loves sermons that proclaim hard truths from his word — even if the other...
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In this lab, John Piper warns of the dangers that follow when preaching wanes...
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Luke 5:1–11 is not a story about how to get rich, but how to get free from ri...
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Death does not get the final word for believers. In this lab, John Piper expl...
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“With a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of...
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God will spare his children from the final judgement—eternal suffering. But a...
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In this lab, John Piper clarifies that the mark of a true Christian is that h...
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Suffering comes with its unanswerable question. But in this lab, John Piper r...
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No one prays for suffering, but suffering can be an answer to prayer. In this...
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In this lab, John Piper points us to the truth that the steadfastness of your...
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Every trial that comes your way is God-approved and tailor-made for your grow...
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Watch John Piper preach about God's global heart from 2 Corinthians 5 at The ...
The Gospel Coalition
We can say our pain is unwelcome, uncomfortable, and unenjoyable. But we cann...
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In this lab, John Piper shows us that it is not for lack of compassion that m...
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Revelation is not new knowledge that no one knew before. In this lab, John Pi...
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Does Jesus, in the Beatitudes, promise to bless all the weep and curse all th...
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What is the pride of life? In this lab, John Piper suggests it’s saying, “Thi...
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God’s will always comes to pass, but what he commands may not. John Piper exp...
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In Christ, your greatest tragedy is behind you, and your most glorious life i...
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The Bible is beautifully coherent. Join John Piper as he studies the great pr...
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From galaxies to molecules, God rules over all. His power encompasses everyth...
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A sovereign God reigns over suffering, therefore we have a place to go for he...
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Some people search for advanced steps for Bible reading while neglecting a ba...
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How do you know if your life is worthy of the gospel? In this lab, John Piper...
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While the world gropes in the dark for significance, our God has told us how ...
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We hear the word “gospel” used all the time. But what does it actually mean? ...
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In this lab, John Piper unpacks Paul’s amazing summary statement of the Chris...
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In this lab, John Piper shows us that the night wasn’t silent because people ...
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In this lab, Pastor John untangles the perplexing questions of how Jesus lear...
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Many of us read that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God an...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that those who make an impact in this wor...
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In this lab, Pastor John’s prayer for us is that God would grant us a willing...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that life will only be lived to the fulle...
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Christian hedonism is a core message of John Piper’s ministry. In this lab, h...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that, unto us — a people of darkness who h...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that the birth of Jesus is not a Greek myt...
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In this lab, Pastor John shows us that God is able to make all grace — not so...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that we do not trust God with our lives li...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that God does not want pocket change from ...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that not only are the people of God the d...
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Only fools reason that God only cares about our theology and not how we live ...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that we must flee from sexual immorality ...
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Walking in the light is a matter of life and death for the Christian. In this...
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In this lab, Pastor John wrestles with a difficult passage in Philippians to ...
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Pain comes, suffering invades, and tears fall. But int his lab, Pastor John r...
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Peter charges us to be ready in season and out of season to give a defense of...
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We cannot fight sin with our hands tied in condemnation. In this lab, Pastor ...
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Bombs explode. Wars rage. Adultery devastates. With so much rampant wickednes...
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Digging for treasure is harder than raking leaves. But in this lab, Pastor Jo...
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The New Testament motivates us toward spiritual growth in a number of ways. I...
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If no one in your life knows you are a Christian, you probably aren’t one. In...
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Revelation can be difficult to interpret. In this lab, Pastor John illustrate...
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When we suffer, we often cast ourselves as the victims. In this lab, Pastor J...
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In this lab, Pastor John wrestles with the question of whether a Christian’s ...
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Women are saved by faith in Christ. In this lab Pastor John answers in what s...
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The question with anxiety is not whether it will come, but rather, how can we...
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Loving money over God is soul-suicide. Those who love money over God will be ...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that God cares, saves, and protects his p...
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In this Lab, Pastor John reminds us how vital it is to remain spiritually awa...
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When Jesus comes, he brings deliverance, freedom, grace, and power. But some ...
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The call to Christian obedience is a call to be who you are. In this lab, Joh...
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In this lab, John Piper reminds us that we have a refuge in times of trouble,...
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The coming of Jesus was called, “news of great joy.” In this lab, John Piper ...
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If you want the praise of others, you will get it. If you want riches, you wi...
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In this lab, John Piper explains that God does no one wrong in taking what he...
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Ninety percent of our daily decisions have no guiding list. But a mind renewe...
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The word that describes us before Christ: Dead. The word that describes us af...
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The power God exerts toward us who believe is greater than any force imaginab...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/is-spiritua...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/christ-rede...
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The grand climax of God’s plan in history, indeed the very point of all creat...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/god-saves-u...
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“To the praise of the glory of his grace” summarizes the purpose of Ephesians...
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Have you begun to take the Bible for granted? Even knowing God’s will is an i...
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Nothing can be clearer about the nature of grace than to realize our life in ...
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God has a joyful plan and has worked it out in history, and the climax of tha...
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The glory of adoption is that we now receive an inheritance from God, and the...
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John Piper and Tim Keller sat down to discuss the biblical vision of sanctifi...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/studying-th...
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Watch John Piper preach from Luke 1-2 at The Gospel Coalition's 2013 National...
The Gospel Coalition
God chose his people in his Son, before the foundation of the world, to put a...
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We all must decide how we are going to fill the hours of our week. But how do...
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Run, jog, walk — do you vary your speed of Bible reading when you sit down to...
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In this lab, John Piper asks if the Bible contradicts itself when it says ete...
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We have no promise that our sorrows will go away. But we have the promise tha...
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There is a comfort that heals and a comfort that kills. In this lab, John Pip...
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We are often puzzled by Proverbs, wondering not only how to understand them, ...
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If you struggle to care for those around you, know that God has not left you ...
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In this lab, Pastor John wrestles with the place of self-denial in the Christ...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that other people’s interests should be o...
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Are you anxious over many things and constantly repenting of your worry? In t...
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Some insist that when we receive joy from serving, we can’t call it true serv...
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Satan is a fierce predator. He has devoured souls of men and women, children ...
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As Christians, we have often been trained to fight pride, lust, anxiety, lazi...
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Our suffering can be so severe that all we can say is, “How long, oh Lord?” I...
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God’s grace falls upon the lives of his children like rain upon parched lands...
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Heartache, brokenness, and death may mark our biological families, but they c...
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Every Christian has tastes and sees that God is good. In this lab, Pastor Joh...
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God’s tenderness and compassion avalanche upon us from the peaks of his stead...
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The grace of God meets us more faithfully than the morning and strengthens us...
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Satan loves to remind us of all that we are missing out on if we follow Chris...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us of the great irony of life: those who lov...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that following Jesus isn’t about a Sunday...
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In this lab, Pastor John reminds us that wisdom is not something for the acad...
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What did it mean for God to “love” Jacob and “hate” Esau, even before they we...
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God’s electing love is one of the most challenging realities in the Bible. In...
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God’s unconditional election causes many to say that he must be unrighteous. ...
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God wants to comfort and stabilize the anxious with truth. What truths calm o...
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When you think about the future, what makes you most anxious? Jesus gives us ...
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This three-part series of labs takes on anxiety by studying Matthew 6:24–27. ...
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What happened when you were saved? While Satan did everything he could to bli...
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It is very important to study the tenses of verbs, especially in this case wh...
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In five short verses in Matthew, Jesus taught us to pray. There are prayer-li...
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Jesus’s prayer for you is clear: Today, you need God to provide for you, forg...
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We should be constantly comparing lists of characteristics about God to deter...
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There are often riches and depths of meaning in the simplest verses. Luke 12:...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/destined-fo...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/what-god-di...
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Hebrews tells us that, by showing hospitality to strangers, “some have entert...
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Don’t let sin reign in your body. In this lab, John Piper reminds us that in ...
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All of the New Testament commandments are a call to become in experience what...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/miracles-ar...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/was-electio...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/were-we-cho...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/holy-in-lov...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/god-is-prep...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/the-origin-...
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Watch this video at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/does-the-lo...
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The surest way to harbor anxiety is not to respond to your unbelief. In this ...
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God does not simply suggest that we love our enemies. He demands it. In this ...
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What do you do when you don’t desire God? In this lab, John Piper explains wh...
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Those who trust in riches now will have their reward now, and those who trust...
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Sin defaces the image of God, but it doesn’t destroy it. Pastor John explains...
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In this life, we will have trouble. But every trial paves the way to an inher...
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In this video clip from his message at TGC’s 2019 National Conference, John P...
The Gospel Coalition
Job is a profound book on human suffering, worthy of a lifetime of study. But...
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"You Have the Words of Eternal Life" John 6:60-71 December 20, 2009 Full...
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Why would God take one of his children home as a means of discipline when he ...
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At any moment, in any way, for whatever reason, God can put a complete stop t...
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John Piper, founder and teacher of DesiringGod.org and Council member of The ...
The Gospel Coalition
Suffering and injustice burden every sphere in our world. But Jesus grants hi...
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All Satan’s power is by permission. He has no authority to do anything God do...
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When crisis hits, Jesus Christ remains on his throne. He reigns supreme, and ...
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Why does the Bible stress the power of Jesus’s name? The question comes from...
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Did the biblical writers expect Jesus to return at any moment, or were they w...
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Desiring God and Bethlehem College & Seminary hosted “An Evening on Eschatolo...
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"Consider Your Calling" 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 April 25, 2010 Full video ...
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"How Much Does God Love This Church?" Psalm 79 April 18, 2010 Full vide...
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"The Immeasurable Greatness Of His Power Toward Us" Ephesians 1:15-23 April...
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"Invincible Purpose: I Will Build My Church" Matthew 16:13-18 January 31, 201...
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"Born Blind For The Glory Of God" John 9:1-7 January 24, 2010 Full video...
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"Holding Fast the Word of Life in 2010" Philippians 2:14-16 January 10, 201...
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Behold, Believe, Be Raised John 6: 27-40 November 22, 2009 Full video @ ...
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Do Not Labor for the Food That Perishes John 6:22-29 November 15, 20090 ...
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"Twelve Baskets Of Bread And The Walk On Water" John 6:19-29 November 8, 20...
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"The All-Providing King Who Would Not Be King" John 6:1-15 November 1, 2009...
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Do not underestimate the power of preaching to your soul and singing to God w...
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We are going to look at Romans 12:1–2 and talk about the will of God, what it...
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Psalm 16 gives us some of the clearest, most powerful words about our greates...
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American evangelical author John Piper continues his discussion of Ephesians ...
Lausanne Movement
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John Piper preaches on Mark 8:31–38 and conveys a compelling but humbling vie...
The Gospel Coalition
Watch John Piper speak on Isaiah 11; 65:17–25 at our 2015 National Conference...
The Gospel Coalition
Watch John Piper speak on Nehemiah 9–10 at our 2014 National Women's Conferen...
The Gospel Coalition
God could have chosen all to inherit eternal life, but he didn’t. So why woul...
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