John Piper Sermons

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.

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.

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.

Turn away from all the intellectual, physical, and religious tactics the world uses to evade its guilt, and rest in Jesus.

If you ever meet a man who cares nothing for the praise and approval of men (Mark 12:14), but whose one controlling desire is to glorify God whom he loves with all his heart, believe that man. He is true.

If the church has no compelling reasons for believing the biblical portrait of Jesus, then we are acting like well-trained animals who can be turned this way and that by arbitrary incentives.

The question that Jesus drives us to ask again and again is not, "How much should I give?" but rather, "How much dare I keep?"

Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn't look like one.

Your power to give a compassionate witness about Jesus is in direct proportion to how precious Jesus is to you.

Before God enables his people to bring in a harvest, he pours out a Spirit of prayer upon them. The surest sign that God is about to send power upon us is a great movement of prayer in our midst.

You can't cleave to Christ with white-hot devotion if you don't remember and feel what your plight would be without him.

Christmas marks the arrival of the end of history, which will soon be consummated by Christ's second appearing.

The promise will be fulfilled in spite of all judgment.

The way we seek to have something may be wrong, when the having, itself, may not be wrong.

If the old Joshua was victorious over the enemies of God, then how much more the new Joshua.

Do not grumble; it is God's grace that sends you into the wilderness. He is inoculating you against the infections of wealth.

The law is a description of the obedience of faith; it is not a job description for how to earn the wages of God's blessings.

As I was reading about Joseph's unjust imprisonment the other day, I was struck all of a sudden with the similarity and contrast between Joseph and John the Baptist.

God shows great power on behalf of his people so that others might see and fear.

God's 4,000 year old relation to Abraham is of immense importance for your life as a believer today.