John Piper Sermons

The essential mark of a Christian is not how far you have progressed in sanctification, but on what you are relying to get there.

The transgression against God is to presume that you can climb your way up a ladder of morality into his favor.

When you finally hear and believe the drumbeat of the gospel, the rhythm of your step changes. There is a life in step with the gospel, and there is a life out of step with the gospel.

Very few people today stand up and praise the unity and coherence of truth.

To try to explain the change from Paul's pre-conversion persecution to his post-conversion passion for the gospel merely by the work of men is to grasp at a straw.

There is one, and only one, gospel. It is therefore astonishing — and tragic — to turn away from it and lose both God and his grace.

The freest people in the world are those who submit most fully to the authority of Christ in Scripture.

Jesus makes it clear that eternal life hangs on whether we are ready when he comes.

The essence of lukewarmness is the statement, "I need nothing." The lukewarm are spiritually self-satisfied.

The point of Hosea is that God exalts his mercy by not giving up on his promiscuous wife.

Christ came at Christmas to build a bridge across the chasm of sin to eternal life, but the name of the bridge is purity. Christmas is for purity.

God uses little towns, youngest sons, and slingshots to magnify his self-sufficient and most magnificent glory.

The fountain of forgiveness has been opened for you. And if you cleanse yourself through faith in that fountain, all the subsequent promises to God's people are yours.

Nothing you do is a trifle if you do it in the name of God. He will shake heaven and earth to fill your labor with splendor.

The belly of a fish hardly seems like salvation. But it was.

The violent nation will not boast forever. Very soon the recompense will come, and after that all the nations will render an account to God.

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.

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

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

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.