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The Ultimate Goal of Reading the Bible
23 september 2016 · 59 min
The Bible is indispensable to the Christian life. Without the written word, we simply could not know the Incarnate Word.
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Jesus Is the Test of True Faith
28 augustus 2016 · 49 min
Christians embrace both the New Testament and the Old because every single page of the Scriptures points to Jesus who fulfills them.
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Jesus Christ Egomaniac? What Piper Said at Google
29 juli 2016 · 56 min
God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is not the act of a needy ego, but an act of infinite giving.
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The Inexplicable Life: Humility, Hope, and Love in Suffering
18 juni 2016 · 1 uur 5 min
Christians can show the world the hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and serve, rather than return evil for evil.
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Life-Risking Courage in the Cause of Love
4 juni 2016 · 1 uur 3 min
God supplies the sustaining grace we need to love others well as we seriously pursue our joy in him.
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Why God Created the World
2 juni 2016 · 47 min
God created the world, and sustains it every second, to show the worth of his Son’s redeeming work.
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Prayer: How to Do the Humanly Impossible
25 mei 2016 · 50 min
God is glorified when Christians humble themselves openly as people who are not ashamed to beg for help.
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The Heart of the Gospel: The Righteousness from God that Depends on Faith
24 mei 2016 · 50 min
Christ’s righteousness imputed to sinners through faith undergirds the whole of the Christian faith.
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The Roots of Fearless Unity in the Gospel
23 mei 2016 · 50 min
Humble unity in the gospel beautifully displays to a watching world that Jesus is more satisfying than getting your own way.
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The Glory of Christ: Ultimate Goal, Alienating Problem, All-Transforming Answer
22 mei 2016 · 47 min
God’s pursuit of his own glory opens the door to a feast of beauty and truth that satisfies the human soul forever.
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How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
1 mei 2016 · 38 min
God doesn’t merely give us arguments for his love, but he gives us a real, authentic experience of his love!
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God’s Peculiar Glory: How We Know the Bible Is True
28 april 2016 · 48 min
You don’t need complicated arguments to know the Bible is true. You can see the Glory for yourself.
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Living and Loving by Faith in Future Grace
22 april 2016 · 57 min
Where will we find the emotional power to keep us from returning evil for evil? Not in vague notions of grace, but by trusting God’s specific promises.
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How Our Children Can Know the Bible Is True
15 april 2016 · 59 min
I want to help parents (and leaders of children’s ministries) see how the Bible shows itself to be true — and how to communicate this vital truth to our children.
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The Bondage of the Will, the Sovereignty of Grace, and the Glory of God
13 april 2016 · 1 uur 1 min
For Martin Luther, the issue of man’s bondage to sin, and moral inability to believe or obey, was the root issue of the Reformation — and the lynchpin of Protestantism.
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Love Her More, Love Her Less: Living for God’s Glory in Marriage
11 april 2016 · 23 min
You love your spouse more when you love them less than God. If God is not central, your marriage will not glorify God as he intended.
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Seven Resolutions for Finishing Well
11 maart 2016 · 23 min
There won’t be any phoniness in heaven. There will only be complete authenticity. So let’s resolve to start now because the facades will fade.
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Three Sightings of the Glory of Jesus
29 januari 2016 · 15 min
There isn’t anything greater than to see the Son of God in all his divine beauty and radiance and greatness, and be supremely and increasingly happy in him forever.
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Preaching to a Persecuted People: The Pastor as Leader, Comforter, and Guide
26 januari 2016 · 1 uur 14 min
In the new America, a stage is being set as never before for the display of the glory of God through the joy of his grieving people.
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Precision with God’s Words, Love for God’s Glory
26 januari 2016 · 18 min
John Piper | We are raising up a generation of Christian leaders who love the glory of God and handle the word of God carefully.
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Think It Not Strange: Fiery Trials and the Testimony of Christ
25 januari 2016 · 1 uur 1 min
We should not be surprised or ashamed when we suffer in the name of Jesus. God refines us and displays the worth of Christ in and through our suffering.
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The Beast, the Book, and the Beauty of the Lamb
3 januari 2016 · 52 min
“The Book of the Life of the Lamb who was Slain” is an eternal book, pledging God's redemptive act in history, and securing God's eternal praise from his redeemed.
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One Design
29 december 2015 · 48 min
Manhood and womanhood are not traits to be ignored, but God-given gifts we can cherish together as both genders reflect God’s good design.
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One Mission
29 december 2015 · 48 min
The mission given to every Christian is to declare and demonstrate that the glory of Christ is more precious than life.
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One Passion
29 december 2015 · 47 min
There is an all-permeating passion that belongs in the saved human soul, and that will not be crushed by the moral chaos of these days, or by the suffering that Christians must endure.
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One Gospel
28 december 2015 · 46 min
The more horrible, foreign, startling, fearful, uncertain, and stomach-turning the days become, the more relevant the gospel of Jesus Christ is.
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You Cannot Obey God Without God
11 november 2015 · 11 min
John Piper | How do we set about obeying the hundreds of commands in the Bible? John Piper explores what it means to be born again and how it happens.
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The Glory of God as the Ground of the Mind’s Certainty and the Goal of the Soul’s Satisfaction
9 oktober 2015 · 1 uur 7 min
In the Bible, the glory of God reveals itself to be inescapably real to the mind, and incomparably rewarding to the heart. Nothing could be more true, and nothing could be more precious.
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All Authority in Heaven and Earth
8 oktober 2015 · 50 min
The audacity to make disciples for Jesus from followers of other lords and other religions is based on the rock solid foundation of the words — and the reality — “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”
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How to Know the Will of God: Finding Direction with the Renewed Mind
27 september 2015 · 53 min
God wants to make you new more than he wants to reveal his secret plans for tomorrow. That’s his good purpose for you in all things.
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You Are Not Appointed for Wrath
13 september 2015 · 47 min
The word of God is meant to be our unshakable rock and comfort in times of trouble, and we should encourage each other with its precious truths.
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Don’t Be a Sucker
21 augustus 2015 · 30 min
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The Path to Full and Lasting Pleasure
11 augustus 2015 · 55 min
Psalm 16 gives us some of the clearest, most powerful words about our greatest happiness.
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Money, Sex, and Power: The Potential
28 juni 2015 · 55 min
Money, Sex, and Power. Three precious gifts of God. Three dangers ready to destroy our souls. Three beautiful possibilities for worship and love.
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Money, Sex, and Power: The Dangers
27 juni 2015 · 56 min
The glory of God is the brightest beauty, and the greatest treasure, the sweetest pleasure in all of reality, and is, therefore, never to be exchanged for what sex, money, or power can bring.
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Money, Sex, and Power: Definitions and Foundations
27 juni 2015 · 40 min
Money, sex, and power are three good gifts of God. We know the basic definition of each — but is there more underneath the surface?
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How You Can Know You’re a Child of God
31 mei 2015 · 49 min
Everyone struggles with doubts at some point, but God doesn’t want us to wallow in uncertainty. He gives us his Spirit to testify to our new life.
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Called to Be Lights in the World
24 mei 2015 · 26 min
John Piper | Christians, as chosen lights, proclaim God’s excellencies through transformed living, silencing ignorance, shaming the revilers with good behavior, and bringing glory to their heavenly Father.
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Destined to Obey, or Disobey
24 mei 2015 · 19 min
John Piper | Is stumbling because of disobedience any different from being born again by the mercy of God? If we are not born again, we will disobey, destined by our nature.
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Born Again by the Book
24 mei 2015 · 13 min
John Piper | According to 1 Peter, what does it mean to have your soul purified by “obedience to the truth”?
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The Infinite Price of Your Freedom
24 mei 2015 · 16 min
John Piper | Christians are called to both “fear not” and fear — fear to squander the precious ransom of Christ’s blood.
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New Passions Are the Path to Holiness
24 mei 2015 · 19 min
John Piper | New passions give rise to new conduct. And if you try to turn it around, you don’t have Christianity anymore.
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A Faith More Precious Than Gold
24 mei 2015 · 22 min
John Piper | Your faith is so valuable that God is willing to put it through fire to burn out all the dross. Don’t begrudge the school of suffering because God deems it necessary.
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Simultaneous Joy and Sorrow
24 mei 2015 · 16 min
John Piper | The Christian life is characterized by the simultaneous experience of both joy and sorrow. Trials are allowed by God’s necessity to test and strengthen one’s faith, all while God provides the necessary grace for each day’s challenges.
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Why Your Faith Will Not Fail
24 mei 2015 · 15 min
John Piper | God sustains faith, trials refine faith, and faith glorifies Christ.
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Born Again to a Living Hope
24 mei 2015 · 25 min
John Piper | Every Christian has been born again, and everyone who has been born again has a living hope.
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The Word Awakens Joy and Worship
24 mei 2015 · 21 min
John Piper | According to the apostle Peter, knowing the cause, means, and goal of our election as exiles awakens joy and worship.
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Set Apart by the Spirit
24 mei 2015 · 11 min
John Piper | Our exile status is connected to our election — a connection carefully woven together by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If we attempt to be exiles apart from the work of the triune God, we end up with Phariseeism.
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Exiles on the Earth
24 mei 2015 · 28 min
John Piper | As Christians, our earthly identity is that of aliens, strangers, sojourners, and exiles, with our true citizenship found in heaven.
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Basics for Reading the Bible
24 mei 2015 · 36 min
John Piper | If you find the Bible boring, mythological, or distracting, then 2 Corinthians 4:6 hasn’t happened to you yet. You will not understand the Bible without the Holy Spirit.