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John Piper

John Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946) is a Reformed Baptist theologian and retired pastor. Specializing in New Testament studies, he is chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[5] Piper taught biblical studies at Bethel University for six years (1974–1980), before serving as pastor for preaching and vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church (Converge) in Minneapolis for 33 years (1980–2013).

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Walk in Wisdom: Seize the Moment
Feb 11, 1996 • 43 min
Wisdom is the use of knowledge to reach worthy goals, such as winning outsiders to Christ.
Martin Luther: Lessons from His Life and Labor
Jan 30, 1996 • 1h 20m
Five hundred years later, we still feel the effects of Luther’s life and labor. Pastors today can learn from his devotion to the church and his rigorous, heartfelt study.
Challenging the Church and Culture with Truth
Jan 21, 1996 • 46 min
Believing in the supremacy of God leads us to believe in the existence of absolute truth.
Racial Reconciliation
Jan 14, 1996 • 46 min
Let us be the salt and the light of our hostile and fearful society with courageous acts of inter-racial kindness and respect.
Prayer Changes People’s Wills
Jan 7, 1996 • 42 min
Don’t neglect the amazing influence you have in the world through prayer.
Incentives to Strive in Prayer
Dec 31, 1995 • 42 min
God calls us from time to time, and some of us as a kind of vocation, to strive—to struggle, and wrestle, and persist, and prevail in prayer.
The Son of Man Came to Give His Life a Ransom for Many
Dec 24, 1995 • 36 min
Were you ransomed when Christ died? Are you still under the guilt and power of sin when you might be free?
The Son of Man Came to Serve
Dec 17, 1995 • 35 min
At the end of this season, receive the best present imaginable: Jesus giving himself to die for you and serve you.
Good News to the Poor
Dec 10, 1995 • 34 min
The fact that Jesus was born to a poor couple in a cow stall tells us something about the way God meant to reach the world.
Diversity in God-Centered Worship
Dec 3, 1995 • 35 min
While we are diverse in what helps us connect with God, the abiding foundation of our corporate worship is always centered on God through the Word.
Urban-Suburban Partnership
Nov 26, 1995 • 42 min
Our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in everything , including choosing where we live.
The Value of Relationships
Nov 19, 1995 • 31 min
All Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other stay satisfied in God.
Vision for the Harvest: 2000 by 2000
Nov 5, 1995 • 36 min
When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.
Sustained by All His Grace
Oct 29, 1995 • 41 min
All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.
Love Them Both
Oct 27, 1995 • 37 min
The fight for life requires overcoming all kinds of obstacles to love, and that will only happen when we live by faith in future grace.
God’s Sustaining Grace
Oct 27, 1995 • 51 min
Every mishap, every setback, and every roadblock in your life is an opportunity for God to lavish you with sustaining grace.
Praying for All His Purposes, Meditating on All His Word
Oct 22, 1995 • 48 min
Believing that the Bible is the Word of God is a gigantic event in the soul. Therefore God does not leave it merely to man.
By Treasuring All That God Is, All Whom He Loves
Oct 15, 1995 • 47 min
Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the form of love that people can see.
Through Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit
Oct 8, 1995 • 42 min
Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.
A Passion for the Supremacy of God for the Joy of All Peoples
Oct 1, 1995 • 33 min
We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.