Will We Still Thank God? Gratitude in a Year of Grumbling
Thanksgiving comes the same Thursday year after year after year, and yet, for many, this Thanksgiving may feel strangely mistimed, ...
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One Body, Many Causes: The Vital Diversity of the Church’s Priorities
Your living body is marvelous and magnificent. You may be so familiar with your body’s defects, disproportions, disorders, and diseases ...
How to Harm a Heavy Heart: Loving Sufferers Begins with Listening
I still struggle with what to say to my friends who are suffering. I wish I had the perfect words, ...
Critical Race Theory, Part 2: The Root Problem (Special Episode)
How should Christians respond to critical race theory? In a special episode, Pastor John explains the theory’s goals, assumptions, and ...
The Head of the Church Is the Head over All: Ephesians 1:19–23, Part 4
Jesus is superior to every kind of rule, authority, and dominion that you will find in any culture, any nation, ...
Why Would God Allow My Disappointment?
Can you remember the last time you felt the near-paralyzing darkness of disappointment descend — the kind that drains the ...
Critical Race Theory, Part 1: The Relationships (Special Episode)
Critical race theory is a divisive topic among many Christians today. In a special episode, Pastor John explains why we ...
A Vast and Vibrant Loveliness: Why God Will Never Be Boring
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable ...
Whenever We Speak, God Hears: Ephesians 1:19–23, Part 3
When we pray, when we talk to our children, when we speak to our neighbors or argue with our spouse ...
God Is More Than ‘God’: Why He Loves to Be Called Father
Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” (Galatians 4:6) ...
Ten Effects of Seeing and Savoring the Providence of God
When we see and savor the all-embracing, all-pervasive providence of God, we cannot help but show the worth of his ...
The Doctrines of Race: A Call to Make Christ Central
God does not talk about race like we do. Not that he ignores the subject. Far from it. The Christian ...
The Problem with Ending Racism
Even the casual sports fan can no longer avoid Black Lives Matter. The letters lined NBA baselines and smothered the ...
Our Welcome to Heaven: Meeting the Great High Priest in Hebrews
ABSTRACT: The book of Hebrews presents Christ’s offering and intercession as two central features of his priestly work. Although some ...
Have You Seen the Providence of God?
Immersing ourselves in the ocean of God’s providence helps us to know him, fear him, trust him, and love him ...
Christ Is Always Stronger Than All: Ephesians 1:19–23, Part 2
Although real evils exist in this world, our King is seated far above them all.Watch Now
But Have You Prayed?
What hasn’t yet changed in your life because you haven’t started praying for it? Prayerlessness, of course, comes in varieties. ...
God’s Providence in 2020
In January 2021, John Piper releases his newest book: a 750-page study of the all-embracing, all-pervasive providence of God.Listen Now
One Race United in Christ: How Justification Destroys Ethnic Division
On the night of his betrayal and arrest, the eve of his crucifixion, Jesus uttered a sublime faith-filled prayer to ...
Giving Is the Greatest Wealth
If you want to become wealthy, there are certain things you must understand and certain things you must do. First, ...
Who Will Have Your Attention? Clinging to Christ in the Digital Age
In an era of endless screens and scrolling, everything competes for our attention. Unless Christ has captured our hearts, we’ll ...
No Holiness, No Heaven: How to Know If Faith Is Real or Dead
No one will be in heaven who did not walk in good works on earth. In other words, and in ...
Every Woman Needs Another: A Call to Spiritual Motherhood
Growing up, I had many guides in Christ, but not many mothers (1 Corinthians 4:15). I sat under the teaching ...
How Much Did It Take to Make You Believe? Ephesians 1:19–23, Part 1
The power God exerts toward us who believe is greater than any force imaginable. The fiercest tornadoes are but gentle ...
