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Is God Just to Choose Some?
God’s unconditional election causes many to say that he must be unrighteous. He can’t choose some and not others, and be good and just. In this lab, John Piper begins to address this objection by...
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What If God Wants Me to Marry Someone Ugly?
My six-year-old daughter and I were doing a Bible study together that introduced the topic of purity. We had some pretty entertaining discussions, and I realized that it’s much harder to explain ideas...
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You Can't Serve God and Entertainment
You love entertainment. On-demand streaming, live television, video-sharing websites, and social media are all at your fingertips. Your ability to access entertainment swiftly and effortlessly has...
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Our Odyssey Against Sexual Temptation
In high school, and even into college, I weighed 260 pounds and was not even six feet tall. I was addicted to pornography — had been since I was nine. The appetites of the human heart are often...
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Binge-Eating, But Starving
Much of the world is dying of starvation, and they have all the food they could ever dream of eating. Full, but empty. Clothed, but naked. Rich, but unbelievably poor.One of the worst ways God can...
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God Acts for the Sake of His Glory
Many in Paul’s day were accusing God of being unrighteous in electing some and not others. In this lab, John Piper explains what the righteousness of God is, showing his definition from several texts....
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Do the Next Thing
This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him....
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Where Real Courage Comes From
Where does courage come from? And how do you get it when you need it, when some fear towers over you and threatens you, and you feel like cowering and fleeing into some cave of protection?For an...
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When Your Soul’s Affections Are Dead
Are your affections for Jesus dull? You’re not alone. Many Christians struggle to read the Bible and pray because, honestly, we’re not excited about the one who wrote the Bible or the one we’re praying...
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Why Are So Many Christians Unhappy?
Joy is the emotion of salvation. We rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory (1 Peter 1:8). If you’re a Christian, the Spirit gives you soaring delight in Christ. His beauty and...
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Why Would God Choose Me?
If someone asked me to explain election, I would start by asking this person to describe to me how he got saved. Tell me how you were converted. To make my question more clear, instead of using the...
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Stronger
Have you ever stopped to consider the sheer strength and power of God?It is good for us to reckon with how his strength surpasses everything else that can seem so strong compared to us. Whether it’s...
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God’s Surprising Plans for Your Good
Why does God allow trouble to plague his people? How can it be considered loving for him to permit trials to run wild in our lives?I gained fresh insight into these questions while watching a...
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Inside Out, Right-Side Up
Inside Out, the latest creation from Pixar, enters the mind of eleven-year-old Riley, and personifies her five dominant emotions: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. The five characters in Riley’s...
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May Grace and Peace Be Multiplied to You
The apostle Paul starts all of his letters with the prayer that “grace and peace” will come to the reader. But he never uses a verb. He never says, “Grace and peace be to you,” or, “Grace and peace...
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Saved Not by Human Will or Effort
If God is as big and sovereign as we have seen so far in Romans 9, that must have implications for us. In this lab, John Piper explores the question of human free will by examining the absolute...
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How to Complain Without Grumbling
When we complain, it is frequently evil. But complaining is not necessarily evil. There’s a faithful (believing) way to complain and a faithless (unbelieving) way to complain.The Bible often refers to...
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When Leaders Fall, All Are Punished
The stories are as sad as any, and tragically too common. An effective, fruitful leader in the faith falls into some moral failure, disqualifying himself from leadership and devastating those who had...
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A Last Name Says a Lot
After eight months of marriage, my maiden name is still my legal surname.To make a long story short, our paperwork was lost in the mail, then we moved to a new state and encountered an unforeseen...
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Workers for Your Joy
We live in a society that has become painfully skeptical about leadership — some of it for good reason.Stories of use and abuse abound, and the letdowns make for big headlines. We all have felt the...
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