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
The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.
Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.
If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.
Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.
In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.
Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.
Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.
Isn't it ironic that today people say, 'If you know the love of God, you don't have to worry when you go on in sin.' But the apostle John said, 'If you know the love of God, you won't be able to go on in sin.'