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Whom Have I in Heaven but You?
30 april 2024 · 22 min
What does it mean to desire God above all? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores Psalm 73:25, illustrating how our desire for God relates to all other good desires.
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God and His Gospel
29 april 2024 · 23 min
What is God’s great goal in the gospel? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores Scripture’s repeated answer to that often-neglected question.
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God’s Shocking Love
26 april 2024 · 26 min
What about God’s love for us is so shocking? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to the book of Hosea for Scripture’s provocative answer.
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God Purifies Those He Saves
25 april 2024 · 26 min
What is Christ’s work of purification? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Malachi to show how purity is the purpose of Christ’s coming.
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God Keeps His Promises
24 april 2024 · 24 min
What difference should it make to us that God keeps his promises? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Micah for a closer look at the God who keeps his word.
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God’s Unfolding Plan to Save
23 april 2024 · 23 min
How did the writers of Scripture understand the unfolding nature of God’s plan to save? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores the Old Testament book of Zechariah as one example.
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God’s Promise of Glory
22 april 2024 · 26 min
How can God’s promise of glory encourage us in the smallness of our lives? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Haggai for an encouraging word from this prophetic book.
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Divine Compassion and Human Resistance
19 april 2024 · 25 min
How does God’s compassion overcome human resistance? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Jonah 2 to show how mercy conquered the prophet.
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God’s Righteous Rule
18 april 2024 · 26 min
How should God’s sovereignty stabilize our hearts when the world seems out of control? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Obadiah to help us find rest by faith.
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The Heart of the Gospel
17 april 2024 · 21 min
What does it mean that the just shall live by faith? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Habakkuk to unpack the heart of the gospel.
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Preparing to Meet God
16 april 2024 · 24 min
How do we prepare to meet the holy God who judges sin? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens the book of Amos to show how we can be ready to face the final judgment.
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From Judgment to Joy
15 april 2024 · 26 min
How do we move out from under God’s judgment and into God’s eternal joy? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Zephaniah 3:14–17 to encourage us with amazing grace.
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Divine Judgment and Mercy
12 april 2024 · 27 min
What is God’s purpose in executing justice and showing mercy in the world? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens the book of Joel to look at why God does all that he does.
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God’s Delight in Blessing Us
11 april 2024 · 26 min
Does God really delight in doing us good? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Luke 12:32 to explore the pleasure God takes in his children.
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God’s Delight in Civic Righteousness
10 april 2024 · 26 min
Why would God delight in ordinary lives like ours? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Proverbs 11:1 to show why God finds pleasure in righteous living in the nonreligious areas of life.
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God’s Delight in Obedience
9 april 2024 · 25 min
Why is God’s delight in our obedience good news? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 1 Samuel 15:22–23 to show how God takes pleasure in our glad efforts to obey him.
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God’s Delight in Our Prayers
8 april 2024 · 26 min
Why is God delighted when we pray? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Proverbs 15:8 to show how our prayerful dependence magnifies the glory of God’s wealth.
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God’s Delight in Our Hope
5 april 2024 · 25 min
Why does God delight in people who hope in him? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Psalm 147:10–11 to show how our dependence magnifies his infinite worth and power.
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God’s Delight in the Death of His Son
4 april 2024 · 26 min
Why did God delight in bruising his Son? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to Isaiah 53:10 for Scripture’s profound answer to a challenging question.
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God’s Delight in Loving His Own
3 april 2024 · 25 min
Why does God delight in loving you? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Zephaniah 3:17 to reveal why God sings over the redeemed with great joy.
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God’s Delight in Choosing a People
2 april 2024 · 25 min
Why did God choose you? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Deuteronomy 10:14–15 for a look at the foundational reason.
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God’s Delight in His Name
1 april 2024 · 26 min
Why is God’s delight in his own name the foundation for his delight in us? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to 1 Samuel 12:22 to show how God’s commitment to his own glory is our confidence.
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God’s Delight in His Works
29 maart 2024 · 26 min
Why should it matter to us that God delights in his creation? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Psalm 104:31 to show how God’s joy in what he has made overflows into our lives.
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God’s Delight in His Sovereignty
28 maart 2024 · 25 min
What difference does it make that God does whatever he pleases? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Psalm 135:6 to look at God’s delight in all that he does.
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God’s Delight in His Son
27 maart 2024 · 26 min
Why is it important that God eternally delights in his Son? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Matthew 17:5 to show how this joy is the very foundation of our salvation.
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Lewis and the Pursuit of Joy
26 maart 2024 · 26 min
Why is the pursuit of joy such a serious matter? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores the wonder of C.S. Lewis’s conception of eternal joy.
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Unexpected Lessons from Lewis
25 maart 2024 · 25 min
What’s the relationship between objective truth and the experience of joy? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to the life of C.S. Lewis to show where true joy is found.
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Learning from an Unlikely Teacher
22 maart 2024 · 25 min
What can we, as Christians, learn from C.S. Lewis? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores what the storyteller has to teach us.
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The Man from Heaven
21 maart 2024 · 26 min
How does God’s sovereign grace rescue us from the sin we inherited from Adam? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 3:31–36 to show how Jesus changed everything.
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All Are Going to Him
20 maart 2024 · 25 min
Why did people leave John the Baptist for Jesus? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 3:22–30 to show what drew them away.
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The Joy of John the Baptist
19 maart 2024 · 21 min
What is it that filled John the Baptist with such joy towards the end of his short life? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 3:22–30 for a look at the source of John the Baptist’s surprising happiness.
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The Light Has Come
18 maart 2024 · 26 min
In Jesus, the light of God has broken into the darkness and split our world in two. In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to John 3:16–21 to show how God’s light divides humanity.
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What Is the Nature of Unbelief?
15 maart 2024 · 20 min
When someone does not believe the gospel, why is that? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 3:16–21 to examine the reality of unbelief.
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Loved by the Father
14 maart 2024 · 26 min
What is God’s covenant love for you as his child? In this episode of Light + Truth, beginning with John 3:16, John Piper looks at the wonderful love of the Father for those he has adopted in Christ.
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The Seven Peaks of John 3:16
13 maart 2024 · 26 min
How do we come to know Jesus as the great quencher of our soul’s thirst? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper takes us to John 3:16 to glory in God’s provision of our satisfying Savior.
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The Spirit’s Irresistible Call
12 maart 2024 · 26 min
What do we mean when we say that the Spirit’s work in the new birth is irresistible? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks at John 3:1–10 to explore the beauty of this aspect of the Spirit’s sovereign work.
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The Wind Blows
11 maart 2024 · 24 min
How does the wind help us understand how the Spirit of God works? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 3:1–10 for Jesus’s own explanation of the third person of the Trinity.
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Look and Live
8 maart 2024 · 25 min
What does it mean to look at Jesus and live? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 3:1–15 to explore how Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness helps us understand how the death of Jesus changes us.
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The Spiritual Sight of Glory
7 maart 2024 · 26 min
What is the spiritual sight of glory that saves a person? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 2:23–25 for a cross-centered answer to our greatest need.
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Jesus Knows You
6 maart 2024 · 20 min
How can Jesus’s infinite knowledge of us possibly be good news to us? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 2:23–25 to help us admire just how much Christ understands us.
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Our Eternal Meeting Place
5 maart 2024 · 22 min
Why is it good news that Jesus himself has become our new meeting place with God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to John 2:12–22 for an answer to that thought-provoking question.
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Jesus Loves His Bride
4 maart 2024 · 16 min
How has Christ loved the church? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 2:1–11 to see the lengths the Son has gone to have his bride.
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Jesus Reveals His Glory
1 maart 2024 · 23 min
What happens when the glory of Jesus is revealed through the preaching of the gospel? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 2:1–11 to unfold how God works through the good news.
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To Him Be Glory Forever
29 februari 2024 · 25 min
In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 11:36 to put the glory of God on display for our satisfaction.
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Our Infinite Treasure
28 februari 2024 · 20 min
How does God become our treasure when we could never deserve him? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 11:33–36 for a deeper look at the gospel.
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Oh, the Depths of God
27 februari 2024 · 21 min
What should happen in us when we are confronted with the depths of God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper expounds Romans 11:33–36 to explore how unfathomably great our God is.
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The Nourishing Word
26 februari 2024 · 26 min
How much are you currently relying on the nourishing milk of the word? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Hebrews 5:11–14 to help us understand just how much we need the Bible in order to grow to maturity.
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The Eternality of Christ
23 februari 2024 · 21 min
Why is the eternality of Christ’s priesthood so important? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks at Hebrews 5:4–10 to examine the significance of Christ’s never-ending ministry on our behalf.
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Our Source of Eternal Salvation
22 februari 2024 · 24 min
What gives us confidence, in the face of all our sin, that Christ is our source of eternal salvation? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Hebrews 5:4–10 to strengthen our assurance.
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Jesus Is Alive and with God
21 februari 2024 · 22 min
What does it mean for us to have a great high priest in the presence of God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Hebrews 4:14–5:3 to encourage us with the superior ministry of Jesus.