John Piper Sermons

What God is after in all his dealings with his children is a brokenhearted joy that trusts like a little child in God and returns good for evil.

It is presumptuous to assume you can counsel God about how to run a more just world.

The suffering of the righteous is not a token of God's enmity but of his love. It is not a punishment of their sins but a refinement of their righteousness.

Why did God prolong Job's suffering? Didn't his initial reaction prove his faith?

Satan’s hand caused the suffering of Job. But in all of his calamities, Job still had reason for reverent worship because God was ultimately at work.

Nothing is more important than having eternal life.

Faith says to every temptation of the world: NO, BE GONE! I know where true satisfaction is to be found.

A life poured out in love for others on the basis of joyful confidence before God yields peace of mind and the hope of a glorious destiny.

Six questions to see if you have genuine faith in Christ and love for others.

The evidence of being indwelt by the Spirit of God is the experience of loving Jesus the way the Father loves him.

Hearing the gospel with openness and confessing Christ with loyalty is the work and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit agrees with the apostolic doctrine or it is not the Spirit of God.

God offers an ever-flowing river of delight to anyone who will drink deeply of his goodness.

Unless there is hope of winning there is no motivation to fight. The apostle John motivates the fight with the confidence of victory.

Hate is the evidence of blindness to the light of God. Love is the evidence that sight has been given to the blind.

You can know that you know Christ if you obey his commands.

We must walk in the light if we are to go on experiencing the cleansing of Jesus. And if we sin, we do indeed have an advocate with the Father.

If we are not walking in the light, we have no warrant for believing that our sins are covered.

When God becomes a man, he strips away every pretense of man to be God.

Singing to God is not a nice little emotional trip to spice up a worship service. It is a matter of life and death.