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Do I Delight in God or in Others Being Impressed by My Discovery About God?
Pastor John offers practical advice on how to tell if your motives for sharing spiritual insights are pure.Listen Now
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The Prize Is Worth the Price
If you were an athlete who aspired to win a medal in the Olympic Games, there’s only one thing you would need besides an extraordinary athletic gifting: a ruthless, life-consuming focus on getting the...
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New Passions Are the Path to Holiness
The vast majority of what you do flows from what you value. In less than twenty minutes, John Piper grounds and inspires our hope in Jesus, and then calls us to follow God’s path to new desires and...
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Thanksgiving Starts on Sunday
When we gather together to worship, something wonderful is happening in us. While opening the Scriptures, singing, praying, and giving our offerings, a formation is underway: God is performing the slow...
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Loving Jesus More Than Life
Do you truly love Jesus? If you did, how would you know? The Bible helps us navigate and even command our own emotions. In twelve minutes, John Piper asks four questions about what it means to love...
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Jesus Will Provide the Wine
Why did the wine run out at the Cana wedding (John 2:1–12)? Did the hosts plan unwisely? Did uninvited guests turn up and exceed their capacity? Did they run short of funds to provide enough wine?The...
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The Greatest Thing You Could Do Today
Imagine walking up a mountain alone. But it’s no ordinary mountain. The ground beneath you is shaking, and the entire mountain is covered in smoke. At its peak is a thick cloud with lightning and...
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They Were Destined to Disobey God
God predestined some, in his infinite mercy, to hear the gospel and believe. And he predestined others to disobey and reject the good news. In this lab, John Piper leads us carefully word by word into...
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Thanksgiving Is a Taste of Home
I grew up in East Texas, where the chicken is fried, the pine trees grow tall, and the accents drip thick with “honeys” and “bless-your-hearts.” And on Thanksgiving, it was my family’s tradition to...
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What Comes After Thanksgiving?
Thursday brings another Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving begins the end of another year. The United States will collectively pause over turkey and stuffing to ponder the good things in life, and many of...
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Justice Without Facts Is No Justice at All
Ten days ago, a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed a black man, Jamar Clark, suspected of assault. The incident has prompted ongoing protests led by the NAACP and the Black Lives Matter...
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Eat with Those Who Weep
Thanksgiving. A day of turkey, touchdowns, and tryptophan, when pumpkins and parades take center stage, and I am left wondering why Aunt Millie even bothered to bring those yams. It is a time to step...
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A Joyful Cog in His Giant Plan
We are our own paparazzi. We’re constantly snapping pictures — posting what we made for lunch and chronicling our lives one selfie at a time.In a world where everyone else’s life is “the best ever!” it...
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Bringing Back a Wandering Believer
Some of the most heartbreaking moments in a Christian’s life are watching other believers wander away from the truth. In this lab, John Piper tackles a couple verses that help us understand a...
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Seven Sentimental Lies You Might Believe
The Princess Bride (1987) spans the spectrum of film-lovers’ delights. It boasts one of the cleverest movie scripts of all time, and includes a great deal of refreshing honesty about life. In...
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Spread the Word for Christmas
The Christmas season is ripe for “reviving your concern” (Philippians 4:10) for the spiritual wellbeing of friends and family members. We may lament the expectations of gift-giving and the excesses of...
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Missions Is Worth the Mess
In 2009, my wife and I looked around and saw nothing but lost people, millions of them. We were in Mosul, Iraq, and the reality of the gospel was pressing in on our hearts like never before. We didn’t...
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Prepare Him Room
The season of Advent is beginning again. Advent — a season, so full of tradition, so full of memory, so full of legend. And a season so full, often over-full, bustling and bursting with the exhausting...
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Top 15 Books of 2015
2015 marks my tenth year choosing the best books of the year, and it was the most difficult of them all. Non-fiction Christian book publishing churned out a daunting amount of very good new titles,...
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Seven Reasons to Celebrate Advent
I grew up in one of the branches of the church that did not celebrate Advent. Before the leftover turkey disappeared from the refrigerator, we were in full-blown Christmastide through December 25.I was...
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