John Piper

Oct 31, 1982 • 38 min

Am I ready to take my stand in the divine courtroom and hear the Judge pass an eternal sentence on me? We cannot face this unless we have faith.

Oct 10, 1982 • 37 min

Conversion isn't just changing your mind but exchanging the love of comfort for the love of goodness and justice.

Sep 25, 1982 • 36 min

Every staff on which we try to lean in our pride will snap and pierce us through. One refuge will be secure: God.

Sep 19, 1982 • 30 min

God will fight against us and clog the joy of our lives until we return with our whole heart to him. For his purpose is to be God alone in the midst of his people.

Aug 29, 1982 • 34 min

There is no necessary connection between age and wisdom, or youth and folly. Wisdom comes from the Lord and is offered to all ages.

Aug 22, 1982 • 34 min

The good news of the Bible is not that we are not worms, but that God helps worms who trust him.

Aug 8, 1982 • 33 min

We can know God's will and maintain trust in his help, if we are familiar with the trajectories of his Word.

Aug 1, 1982 • 35 min

How different, how wonderful the use of our mouths would be if we lived by faith in the God who made the mouth and not by sight—by looking at our own clumsy tongue.

Jun 13, 1982 • 37 min

A life lived for the world will go naked into judgment; a life lived for Christ will be laden with eternal riches.

May 30, 1982 • 39 min

The more you know of Christ and his way, the more severe your judgment will be for not trusting and obeying him.

May 23, 1982 • 38 min

Even though the rebellious and the licentious today may think they are safe, they should learn that "from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction is not sleeping."

May 16, 1982 • 36 min

The meaning of Scripture does not change with every new reader or every new reading. It cannot be twisted to mean whatever we like. It is what it is, unchanging and unending.

May 9, 1982 • 35 min

The difference between mythical speculations and Christian faith is history. Our doctrines are not the result of clever head-work. They are the result of historical observation.

May 2, 1982 • 30 min

If the knowledge of God's glorious promises does not spur us on to strive against the tide, then we will be barren and fruitless and drift to our destruction.

Apr 25, 1982 • 38 min

If you want to enjoy God's peace and be the aroma of his grace in the world, your knowledge of him has to grow.

Apr 4, 1982 • 31 min

Jesus was not accidentally entangled in a web of injustice. The saving benefits of his death for sinners were not an afterthought. Jesus saw that the time had come and set his face to fulfill his mission: to die in Jerusalem for our sake.

Mar 28, 1982 • 35 min

We crave to be moved by some rare glimpse of greatness. We yearn for a vision of glory.

Mar 21, 1982 • 32 min

Trusting Christ as Savior, surrendering to him as Lord, and orienting all of your family relations on him, transforms the home into a little heaven on earth.

Mar 14, 1982 • 30 min

We don't have a deep sense of peace and fulfillment when we have successfully deluded everybody about who we really are or what we really feel or think. There is a deep (and I believe God-given) longing to be authentic, not to be hypocrites.

Feb 28, 1982 • 35 min

There is no true freedom where happiness depends on denying the inevitable; there is only slavery disguised in a thousand forms of fun and busyness.