In a day where U2 is considered a Christian band with profound theological lyrics in their songs, we need a book like Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World. (C. J. Mahaney, ed., with a foreword by John Piper. Wheaton: Crossway, 2008. 191 pp.)
You may not change your view on U2 after reading this [...]

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In a recent posting by John Piper on how he decides which books to read, he ends by saying this…
I don’t think we ought to be reading new books all the time. I think we should read old books. And then the question is whether time and history has proven them. There are some books [...]

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On April 24, 2008, Dr. Doug Sweeney and Collin Hansen discussed Hansen’s Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008).
An MP3 of this discussion, sponsored by the Henry Center, is now available from the Henry Center’s media archive (MP3 | video).
Publisher’s Description: From places like John Piper’s den, Al Mohler’s [...]

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John Piper speaks at the 2008 New Word Alive Conference in Pwellheli, Wales on the topic “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer”.
Part 1.
Part 2.
Helpful resource:
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God: Read this book online (927KB PDF).

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Here, John Piper provides a more precise view on the question:
But how should we regard these errors [Wesleyanism and Arminianism] in relationship to the teaching office of the church and other institutions?
Read the complete post here.
John Piper’s, God is the Gospel is a great read. Audio CD also available.

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With over 1 Million copies sold, John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart is no doubt a force in the phyci of many men today. First released in 2003, Wild at Heart has regrettably made a considerable impact on the Men’s Ministry of many churches. This is yet another indication of how anemic many of our [...]

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America has become the most permissive of all democratic societies in the modern world when it comes to abortion!
John Piper, in his book, Hunger for God, has a chapter entitled, Fasting for the Little Ones, that’s so timely given the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
An excerpt:
But I wonder if many of the young [...]

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Our friends at 1031 Sermon Jams offer us a new cut — John Piper on America’s export of the ‘prosperity gospel’:

download mp3 (6.3 MB)
Related: The quotes were taken from this sermon.
(HT: TSS)

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The audio and manuscript (and now video) are posted of John Piper’s lecture last night at the Evangelical Theological Society in San Diego.
Opening the session, John Piper says:
. . . the truth of justification has become increasingly embattled, so that the truth as I see in the New Testament is increasingly confused [...]

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We would like to echo, from the introduction to John Piper’s book, The Future of Justification these words:
The Final Judgment feels too close for me to care much about scoring points in debate. Into my seventh decade, the clouds of time are clearing, and the prospect of wasting my remaining life on gamesmanship or one-upmanship [...]

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Adrian Warnock on John Piper’s new book, The Future of Justification.
Today I will take you further into Piper’s argument where he explains the long-held position, which Wright denies, that God cannot simply ‘forgive’ the guilty, but instead an exchange between guilt and righteousness must take place:
An omniscient and just judge never “finds in favor” [...]

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What’s the Gospel?
I’ll put it in a sentence.
The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.
That’s the gospel.
Read the complete post: The Gospel in 6 [...]

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From John Piper, in Let the Nations Be Glad!, 2nd ed: The Supremacy of God in Missions
Charles Wesley gives us an example of how one might obey Hebrews 13:13 and go “outside the camp” and bear the abuse he endured. On July 18, 1738, two months after his conversion, Charles Wesley did an [...]

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John Piper posts about his granddaughter, who was due to be born this week–and was delivered stillborn on Saturday night at 11:54 PM.
Our prayers through tears tonight are with Abraham and Molly, John and Noel, and their entire family.
Revelation 22:20-21.
(HT:Between Two Worlds)

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John Piper, at Desiring God, has authored a small book called When the Darkness Will Not Lift.
In light of what we have been reading about Mother Teresa’s battle with ‘darkness’, Piper may have some insight we can draw from on this issue.
Here is a quote from John Piper:
Even the most faithful, focused Christians can [...]

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How to Mark and Honor This Day
This September 11 is the sixth anniversary of 9/11. Let us mark this day with thoughts about the 9/11 we know about, the one we never knew, and the one that will certainly happen to us.

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Helping People Have the Assurance of Salvation — April 5, 1999 — John Piper (Online Source)

FULL ASSURANCE IS GOD’S WILL FOR US. “And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end.” Hebrews 6:11
ASSURANCE IS PARTIALLY SUSTAINED BY OBJECTIVE EVIDENCES FOR [...]

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If you are a Christian, it is not a question of whether, but when.
John Piper is at Wheaton College this week doing a series of messages on “Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer.” He began this morning, exhorting the students that “if you are making it your life ambition to avoid suffering, you will [...]

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Read John Piper’s article celebrating the 200th anniversary of Protestant missions in China.
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(HT: desiringGod)

Let the Nations Be Glad! 2d ed.: The Supremacy of God in Missions
By John Piper / Baker
Why do we do missions? We are told, by Jesus, to preach the gospel and make disciples of all nations. [...]

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Don’t Contextualize the Gospel
August 28, 2007  |  By: Abraham
Category: Recommended, Media Excerpts
Watch John Piper talk about how the basics of the Gospel are understandable across cultures without contextualization (4 min).

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In an age where ministries look and act more like Amazon.com than a ministry, Desiring God is a breath of fresh air with regards to how the message of Christ should go out.
This link will take you to Desiring God where John Piper talks about
why we never want money to be the reason that [...]

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(HT: Symphony of Scripture)

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Michael Stohlmeyer knows what it is to suffer. Living more than thirty years with a debilitating, chronic illness has given him a deep longing for the comfort that is found in the Bible.
Watch Mike’s interview with John Piper’s Desiring God ministry

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Wow–all of John Piper’s audio seminars (including course notes) are now online for free:

Biblical Eldership
Desiring God
Future Grace
Gravity and Gladness on Sunday Morning: The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
Sexual Complementarity: The Pursuit of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Suffering for the Sake of the Body: The Pursuit of People Through Pain
TULIP
Why We Believe the [...]

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In 2003, Desiring God held their first National Conference. Here are the audio files from that conference.
Audio File 01: A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God
Audio File 02: A God-Entranced Vision of All Things: Why We Need Jonathan Edwards 300 Years Later
Audio File 03: Sarah Edwards: Jonathan’s [...]

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