Consider Your Calling
God’s love for his people is so rich and full that they need the Holy Spirit's help to really feel it.
View ArticleSexual Intimacy and the Rights Over a Spouse's Body in Marriage
How can married couples break the sexual stalemate that Paul puts them in?
View ArticleLet Christians Vote As Though They Were Not Voting
How should our thoughts on voting be affected by the age to come?
View ArticleHow Important Is Church Membership?
All believers should join a church if possible, because the local church is an expression of the universal church.
View ArticleWhat Love Does and Does Not Do
Paul isn't abstractly defining love 1 Corinthians 13. He is showing how it applies to the church.
View ArticleWhy and How We Celebrate the Lord's Supper
When we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we feast spiritually by faith on all the promises of God bought by the blood of Jesus.
View ArticleHow God's Word Produces Our Work
It is wonderfully energizing to settle in your heart and mind the truth that Christ is real.
View ArticleWhat If Our Dying Is Discipline?
Sometimes God takes a sinning saint because he loves him too much to let him go on in sin.
View ArticleHow Satan Saves the Soul
Jesus is Satan's ruler, and he uses him to save and sanctify his people.
View ArticleYou Were Bought with a Price
Christianity has to do with everything your body has to do with—food and sex and sleep and talking and playing and working.
View ArticleIdolatry, the Lord's Supper, and the Body of Christ
The Lord's Supper exists to deepen and strengthen our participation in the benefits of the cross and to nourish our fellowship with Christ.
View ArticleOlympic Spirituality, Part 2
Eternal life hangs on the way we run and the way we fight.
View ArticleOlympic Spirituality, Part 1
The way you run your race and fight your fight will make the difference between sharing in the promises of the gospel or being disqualified.
View ArticleGod Called Us into Life and Hope
The call of God is effective; it creates what it commands.
View ArticleSix Gifts of the Resurrection
The greatest news in all the world is in order to make you happy and glorify Jesus, God raised him from the dead to reign forevermore.
View ArticleWhen Will Prophecy Cease?
The spiritual gift of prophecy has not passed away, but is meant for the good of the church until Jesus comes.
View ArticleGifts of Healings and Workings of Miracles
"Gifts of healings" and "workings of miracles" are for the church and the mission of Christ in the world today.
View ArticleCompassion, Power, and the Kingdom of God: An Introduction
What is the nature of the kingdom of God? And what is the "power" that the kingdom exerts now in the church?
View ArticleJoy Exchanged and Joy Forfeited
We have exchanged our joy for the dead-end street of judgment.
View ArticleThe Joyful Duty of Man
In sharing the truth of Christianity, Truth #1 is that God created us for HIS glory. Truth #2 is that this is, therefore, the duty of every man and woman and child—to live for the glory of God. And the...
View ArticleBattling the Unbelief of a Haughty Spirit
The battle against pride is the battle against unbelief. The fight for humility is the fight of faith.
View ArticleHe Must Reign
The great word of the resurrection is OPEN! Therefore write in capital letters over every closed door in your life, OPEN!
View ArticleHow Much Do You Own?
For those who live to spread my praise to all nations, says the Lord, nothing shall be lacking.
View ArticleLet Christ Be All in This Building!
Let us be vigilant to keep Christ as the foundation of our church.
View ArticleLet God Be All in This Building!
It's the absence of the centrality of the biblical God in all of life that is leading to the collapse of our civilization.
View ArticleThe Danger of Being Merely Human
There is a group of people whom Paul calls not spiritual and not natural, but "fleshly," or "babes in Christ."
View ArticleNatural People and Spiritual People
Without the Spirit, we are so rebellious against the Lord that we cannot recognize the truth and beauty of a crucified Christ.
View ArticleThe Present Power of Christ Crucified
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life!
View ArticleLet Him Who Boasts Boast in the Lord!
God's purpose in creating man and saving sinners is that we might boast in him.
View ArticleChristian Unity and the Cross
The cross undermines the deepest basis of disunity and lays a new foundation for unity.
View ArticleThe Nature of the Unity We Seek
We should aim at full doctrinal unity and full heart unity.
View ArticleSustained by the Faithfulness of God
The freedom of God in the calling of sinners gives us hope. No one is too bad. No one is too hard. No one is too far gone. God is free.
View ArticleI Will Not Be Enslaved by Anything
Preserve your freedom in Christ! Can you say with Paul, "I will not be enslaved by anything!"?
View ArticleSatan Uses Sexual Desire
When you battle with sexual temptation, you battle against Satan.
View ArticleHow the Spirit Helps Us Understand
The first and most fundamental work of God's Spirit in the life of the natural man is to shatter pride.
View ArticleJesus Is Precious Because His Biblical Portrait Is True, Part 1
If the church has no compelling reasons for believing the biblical portrait of Jesus, then we are acting like well-trained animals who can be turned this way and that by arbitrary incentives.
View ArticleTwo Audiences 'Til April
We ought to seek to win people to Christ by giving valid reasons for the Bible’s claims about him.
View ArticleYour Job As Ministry
How you do your job is an essential part of Christian discipleship.
View ArticleSpiritual Gifts
God gives us spiritual gifts so that we can help others keep the faith in the midst of life's storms.
View ArticleChrist Did Not Send Me to Baptize
Baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Jesus (Matthew 28:19, 20). And for that very reason it should never divert our attention away from Christ onto a man. It should express our desire to...
View ArticleThe Wisdom We Speak
The remedy for the darkness of man's mind is not mindlessness but light.
View ArticleThe Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
In his first sermon as pastor at Bethlehem, John Piper explains the source of his authority and the reason for his fear.
View ArticleThe Nature of the Christian Life
John Piper uncovers the argument behind Paul's appeal to walk in newness of life.
View ArticleThe Hope of the Resurrection
John Piper uncovers the argument behind Paul's teaching about the future resurrection of believers.
View ArticleThe Claims of the New Life in Christ
John Piper uncovers the argument behind Paul's appeal to glorify God in your body.
View ArticleThe Sovereignty of God and the Sin of the Believer
When we give in to temptation is that ultimately self-determination or God's sovereign will?
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