Sermons & Devotionals by John Piper
John Piper
Eagle Edom Will Come Down
November 7, 1982 Obadiah Obadiah is the shortest Old Testament book (21 verses). We don't know anything about the author's background. There are eleven other people with this name in the Old Testament but there is no evidence for connecting this prophet with any of them. The prophecy was delivered a... Read More
John Piper
Even the Hairs of My Head Are All Numbered
Reflections on My First Year in the Pastorate July 12, 1981 Matthew 10:24-33 On this Sunday one year ago I preached my first sermon as pastor of Bethlehem. And now looking back on one year in the pastorate I feel two main emotions: 1) a sense of weakness and inadequacy to fulfill this very high and ... Read More
John Piper
Exodus for All the Earth
November 8, 1981 "God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. And God blessed them and God said to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it" (Gen. 1:27,28). The reason God made us in his own image and told us to fill... Read More
John Piper
Fear Not, You Worm Jacob!
August 22, 1982 Isaiah 41:14 "Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel." The main point of this text is that the people of God should not be a fearful people. We should not be a people who are anxious or troubled or worried ... Read More
John Piper
Final Judgment
Romans 1:28-2:11 The Biblical truth that I want us to understand, believe and live by today is this: a time is coming when every responsible person, on the basis of his or her actions and attitudes, will meet the final judgment of God either as eternal life or as wrath and fury. With that sentence I... Read More
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Flesh Tank and Peashooter Regulations
January 17, 1982 Colossians 2:16-23 This coming Thursday evening, at the second half of our annual business meeting, we will be voting on the proposed amendment to the Church Covenant. I want to try to clarify this morning what is at stake in this decision and to apply the Word of God to our present... Read More
John Piper
For Our People and for the Cities of Our God
February 1, 1981 2 Samuel 10:11-12 I want to paint a word picture this morning of a relationship in ministry for John Piper and Glenn Ogren as they try to give pastoral leadership to the people of God who are Bethlehem Baptist Church. It is a picture that should shape his goals and my goals and your... Read More
John Piper
Get Wisdom
May 24, 1981 Proverbs 4:1-13 I believe all men have this in common: that they want to be happy. They do not all agree on what brings the greatest happiness, but they do all long to have it. And this longing is not bad. It is good. Evil consists in trying to find happiness in ways that displease and ... Read More
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God Meant It for Good
The Lives of Joseph and John the Baptist November 8, 1981 The Lives of Joseph and John the Baptist Except for Saturdays our family sits down for breakfast at about 7:15 a.m. After our cereal and juice we open the Bible and I read the morning Scripture. Then we pray and the boys head off to school. W... Read More
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God Works for Those Who Wait for Him
September 5, 1982 Isaiah 64:1-4 One of the rare delights of this summer was that my 2½ year old Abraham became a preacher. One morning I came up from downstairs and awakened the family with Psalm 20:7, "Some boast of chariots and some of horses; but we boast of the name of the Lord our God." I annou... Read More
John Piper
Grace, Gratitude, and the Glory of God
Thanksgiving Day November 26, 1981 2 Corinthians 4:15 It is all for your sake so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving to the glory of God. The subject that the apostle Paul is dealing with in this chapter is his own ministry and what it is like. He begins the ch... Read More
John Piper
Grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of Our Lord
June 20, 1982 2 Peter 3:15-18 The final section of 2 Peter to look at is 3:15-18. Let me sum up the main points that I see and then look at them one at a time. First from verse 15, we should regard the time in which we live as a time of salvation. Second, from verses 15 and 16, this is also what Pau... Read More
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He Commanded and They Were Created
October 4, 1981 Psalm 148:5 HE COMMANDED AND THEY WERE CREATED We begin today a series of ten messages which, God willing, will carry us from the creation of the world through the history of God's dealings with Israel to the incarnation of God' s Son. Today we look at God the Creator, next Sunday th... Read More
John Piper
He Set His Face to Go to Jerusalem
April 4, 1982 Luke 9:51-56 Luke describes the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem at the beginning of that last week of his earthly life: As he was drawing near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty... Read More
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He Will Send His Angel Before You
August 8, 1982 Genesis 24:1-9 Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Therefore, everyone who confesses Jesus as Lord aims daily to know and do the will of God. If we do not make it our aim to do the will of God heartily and consistently as the angels do it in heaven... Read More
John Piper
How Much Is Jesus Worth?
January 10, 1982 1 Peter 2:7 There are two truths I want to unfold and undergird from Scripture and from experience. The first is this: "To you who believe Jesus Christ is precious" (1 Peter 2:7). The second is this: Your power to give a compassionate witness about Jesus to unbelievers will grow in ... Read More
John Piper
How Not to Be a Mule
Psalm 32 The Psalm we want to ponder tonight is Psalm 32, and what we want to find out from it is "How not to be a mule." How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered! How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit!... Read More
John Piper
How Not to Talk to an Angel
Luke 1:5-25 Last time we studied Luke 1:1-4, the preface to Luke's two volume work: the Gospel and Acts. The main point of the preface (we saw in verse 4) was to state Luke's aim in writing, namely to persuade Theophilus that the Christian teachings he has heard are true. He does not want Theophilus... Read More
John Piper
How to Argue with God
Psalm 143 Back in the spring I read a sermon that Charles Spurgeon preached in London about a century ago. The text he used in that sermon was Job 23:3,4 where Job says of God, "O that I knew where I might find Him! That I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before Him and fill my mo... Read More
John Piper
How to Do Good So God Gets the Glory
In the year AD 42 Herod, king in Judea, killed the apostle James with a sword. When he saw it pleased the Jews, he threw Peter, another apostle, in prison. The night before Herod was about to dispose of him an angel of the Lord woke Peter and led him out of the prison unharmed. After going to the ho... 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.