John Piper Sermons

God’s word is every Christian’s infallible guide to maximum sexual fulfillment. The good news for singles is that they are included.

There are six things that should characterize every effort at team ministry in the church.

Our prayers should always aim not merely at our own satisfaction, but also at the benefit of others.

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Christian Hedonism teaches that morality is not destroyed, but rather upheld, by pursuing our fullest and longest lasting joy.

Let your prayers embrace all kinds of people: high and low, white and black, democrats and republicans, Soviet premiers and Iranian Ayatollahs. Enlarge your heart until it embraces the world.

If we are unloving and unrepentant then we should not think that God is likely to answer our prayers.

Beware of a church that runs on the momentum of tradition rather than the power of prayer.

For me, the end of a year is like the end of my life. And in these last hours, I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say "Well done, good and faithful servant"?

You can read every fairy tale that was ever written, every mystery thriller, every ghost story, and you will never find anything so shocking, so strange, so weird and spellbinding as the story of the incarnation of the Son of God.

There is a deadly disease and an awesome enemy. And every one of us will die from this disease and be devoured by that enemy if there is no horn of salvation for us.

If God values joyful, loving generosity so much as to give his beloved Son to create it in his people, then we can be absolutely assured that when we are more generous, we will be more happy and more fulfilled because God is bound to work mightily for those whose behavior he values so highly.

Since the first Christmas we have been living in the last days.

What does an all-sufficient God, who owns and controls all things, demand from the creature he has made? That we cease to be great in our own eyes and become small that he might appear great.

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 rely on Christ alone for salvation and to boast only in him.

Who you invite to share in your abundance shows where your treasure is.

The way to get ready to make a case for your hope is to get hopeful. Apply yourself to settling the questions of your own heart.

Lord's Supper is a memorial service looking back to Jesus' utterly unique death—a death that so satisfied the righteous demands of God that Jesus was granted to rise from the dead and come again as King of all. The sacrifice of Christ set the charge for the explosion of his second coming.