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God’s Grace Is Mind-Blowing
We know the Scriptures proclaim that God is gracious, but many struggle to believe it. Others wonder what grace actually looks like. If we take seriously the righteousness of God and the heinousness of...
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Spiritual Growth Is Not Optional
God is not done with his work when we first believe and are saved. He intends day by day to make us into what we already are in Christ. Spiritual growth is not optional or marginal in the Christian...
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Dispelling Our Fear of Submission
Before I was married, I thought fulfilling biblical roles in marriage would look like a paint-by-number picture. My husband and I would both know exactly what to do, and our marriage would take off in...
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You Are Meant to Move Mountains
On the mountain, Jesus revealed his divine glory to Peter, James, and John. The four had just rejoined the rest of the disciples and the ever-present, clamoring, curious, constantly needy crowd when a...
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A Faith More Precious Than Gold
Your faith is the most valuable thing you will ever have or experience in this life. In twenty minutes, John Piper explains just how valuable your faith is, and why it means so much to God. He also...
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Six Questions to Ask When Studying the Bible in a Group
The word of God is a small group’s primary source of spiritual power, encouragement, and wisdom.All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for...
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France: A Fabric Torn
In France the fabric of family and nation is torn, and ten thousand human fibers are frayed with anger, and wet with grief. Millions more are woven in among the stricken strands, and taste the bitter...
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Five Ways to Encourage Your Pastor (Without Exalting Him)
Plenty have lamented the problem of “celebrity culture” in the church, and usually that phrase brings into our minds famous pastors and leaders in the church today. But “celebrity culture” can be an...
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Thirteen Practical Steps to Kill Sin
It is both relief and heartache to know that all true believers have sin remaining in them in this life. The great apostle said, “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I...
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We Cannot Look the Other Way
You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.–William WilberforceAbortion makes us uncomfortable. It’s not something we like to talk about. When we think...
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The Lasting Pain of Quick Fixes
My wife and I recently attended a two-day seminar on chronic pain at the Mayo Clinic. We were trying to learn more about how to deal with my wife’s often intense, and very consistent pain. We were...
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A Remedy for Envy
The new birth produces love in every true believer in Jesus Christ, and it also weans us off our old sinful desires, like envy. But we have to be able to spot them. In this lab, John Piper zeros in on...
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A New Kind of Champion
Editor’s note: Christians disagree about whether men and women should engage in sports whose aim is to wound or hurt the other person. This is true for both men’s and women’s sports. When women are...
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Don’t Follow Your Heart (New Book)
“Follow your heart” is a creed embraced by billions of people. It’s a statement of faith in one of the great pop-cultural myths of the Western world — a gospel proclaimed in many of our stories,...
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The Good Unwanted Gift of Singleness
I wanted an MRS degree. Instead, I got a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.I was never the girl who dreamed about getting married. I entered college single, and ready to take on the world. I had...
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Building His Church in a Refugee Crisis
As she was browsing the children’s section of our local library last week, my wife, Stephanie, met a woman from North Africa named Fatimah. Fatimah has a gregarious personality, so they quickly struck...
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Come to the Man Rejected by Men
Those who follow Jesus should expect to be rejected by the world. But their rejection will not be the last word. In this lab, John Piper traces a new word picture and several Old Testament quotations...
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A Song for the Weak and Broken
In his preface to the Olney Hymns, John Newton wrote that the collection was “intended as a monument, to perpetuate the remembrance of an intimate and endeared friendship.” Who was the friend? William...
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Eight Words from Jesus in a World with Refugees
I lived in Syria. I grieve over the destruction and death that occurs there every day. Since 2012, I’ve been living in a neighboring country, seeking to bring hope to Syrian refugees. We help them with...
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Awaiting the Fullness of Joy in Service
My phone rang on Monday morning. “I wanted to call to tell you this in person,” my co-worker opened. “And it is not good.”Not what I wanted to hear.We have been working for about three months to get...
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