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How God Purifies Our Souls from Sin

How does the faith in Jesus by which we were saved relate to the new life in Jesus for which we were saved? How do we pursue purity by grace, and not just our own resolve or discipline? In this lab,...

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Three Ways to Love Your Imperfect Husband

Sometimes it seems we could fulfill our biblical role as wives a lot easier if our husbands would simply do what they are called to do. If they would cultivate a stronger prayer life, we would feel...

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Satan Hunts Among the Hurting

Mountain lions detect vulnerabilities in their prey and attack the weakest — the young, the sick, the injured. Studies have confirmed this instinctive cruelty. It’s how the mountain lion lives,...

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Hope in Eternal Purity, Aim at Daily Purity

If the passion of your life is to be purified from all sin in the presence of Christ in the future, you are only kidding yourself — if you don’t want purity to happen in your life right now. “He is...

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The Blind Eyes of Abortion

The human eyeball is an amazing creation. More than 120 million photoreceptor cells help us see. Some of those photoreceptor cells even help us sleep. An evolutionary scientist, writing in the journal...

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What Getting Dumped Says About You

Breakups are bad enough. Getting broken up with— that’s another monster entirely. Getting dumped comes in many forms — outright rejection, being left, being cheated on, being broken up with....

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We Cannot Love Without Hope

Where do we find the strength we need to truly love the people in our lives? In this lab, John Piper looks at two verses in 1 Peter that describe our new birth, and the affects it has on our earthly...

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Imagine Your Way to Joy

John Milton captured it well. The author of Paradise Lost, in describing Satan’s first interaction with humanity in the garden of Eden, pictures Satan squatting like a toad, “close at the ear of Eve;...

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Your Bible Is a Gold Mine

The word of Christ dwells richly in the one who dwells in it long enough to discover its riches (Colossians 3:16). The Bible is the divine mine that contains the theological mother load. Any theology...

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Simultaneous Joy and Sorrow

How can someone have unshakeable joy in Jesus and deal with the painful realities of life? In fifteen minutes, John Piper embraces and explains the necessary tension between joy and sorrow in the...

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Unsocial Media

Smartphones and social media will cure the epidemic of widespread loneliness. Or so we thought. We would all be connected, all together, all the time, and none of us would ever feel alone. But the...

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The Glory of God as the Ground of the Mind’s Certainty and the Goal of the...

In the Bible, the glory of God reveals itself to be inescapably real to the mind, and incomparably rewarding to the heart. Nothing could be more true, and nothing could be more precious.Watch Now

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The Help of God in Every Step

Dark shadows fall over the closing pages of John’s Gospel. For our Lord himself, there is the shadow of the cross; for the disciples, the shadow of his imminent departure.He is leaving them to return...

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You Are a Saint, Sinner, and Sufferer

“I cannot imagine anyone being in more pain in their life than me,” he told me through angry tears. Coming from most, this could seem dramatic. But coming from him, it was almost believable....

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God Says “No” for Your Joy

The only time God gives us restrictions or prohibitions is for our joy. He never says “no” to us unless “no” will make us ultimately happier.Back in Eden, before the horrible fall, the only prohibition...

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Winsome Weirdos

According to the apostle Peter’s first letter, labeling Christians as “winsome weirdos” is not only linguistically alliterative; it is also exegetically accurate. The implications for our cultural...

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God Will Never Forsake You

The love of money — a craving for money as the source of our security — is an epidemic in our world, and maybe especially in our nation. So how do we kill the craving within us? In this lab, John Piper...

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God Is Glorified in Our Weakness

In three minutes, Trip Lee explains how he’s seen God’s strength glorified in his weakness. He encourages believers to embrace their weakness and rest in God’s strength.God Will Use Even You...

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What Stops Our Fighting?

What causes fights and quarrels in our lives? You might promptly turn in your Bible to the opening lines of James 4 for the answer:What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this,...

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You Cannot Obey God Without God

Knowing how weak and sinful we are, how do we set about obeying the hundreds of commands in the Bible? We know we cannot obey in our strength, and yet the Bible expects us to obey. In ten minutes, John...

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