John Piper
John Piper
John Stephen Piperis founder and teacher of desiringgod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a Calvinist Baptist preacher and author who served as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 33 years. His books include ECPA Christian Book Award winners Spectacular Sins, What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth11 January 1946
CountryUnited States of America
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news
The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.
You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.
Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.
Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.
It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.
We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.
If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.
The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.
Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.