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Plead for the Insight You Need: Word + Spirit in Pastoral Study

2

Navigate the Impossible: Word + Spirit in Pastoral Wisdom

3

True Faith Tastes Future Joy

4

Lead with Your Life: How to Influence in Your Twenties

5

The Power of Hoping in God’s Meticulous Providence

6

This Body Must Be Raised: Four Reasons for Your Resurrection

7

Why You Do Not Believe

8

The Supremacy of Christ Our Hope

9

Is God Dishonored When We Grieve?

10

Sing in the Fullness of the Spirit: A Live Lab on Ephesians 5:15–20

11

Word, Prayer, and People: Three Habits for Enjoying Jesus

12

What King Would Come Like This? The Surprising Advent of Jesus

13

Is Joy in Jesus a Christian Obligation?

14

Saving Faith as the Awakening of Joy in Jesus

15

What to Do When Your Spirits Sink

16

Our All-Nations Charge: What It Means to Be a World Christian

17

Our Pursuit: Joy Overflowing in Love

18

Jesus’s Pursuit: His Father’s Glory (and His) Through Joy

19

God’s Pursuit: His Glory in Our Joy

20

The Greatness of God in the Doctrines of Grace: TULIP Session 1

21

The People of His Majesty: Five Marks of a Marveling Church

22

How to Pray When Trouble Comes

23

The Only Life Worth Living: A Live Lab on Christian Hedonism

24

Lay Your Buckets Down: Finding Life with the Woman at the Well

25

Creation Sings Through Human Lips

26

God’s Mission Triumphs Through Prayerful Suffering

27

Will Christ Be Humiliated on the Last Day? To the Class of 2025

28

Habits of Love: The Graces of Sharing Our Joy

29

FEAST: Five Prayers for Daily Bible Reading

30

Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election

31

The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus

32

Providence: The Purposeful Sovereignty of God

33

Do You Love Jesus? A Grand Finale of His Greatness

34

How Doubting Thomas Finds Faith

35

Be Still and Know: A Crisis-Ready Vision of God

36

Where Does Radical Love Come From?

37

Authentic Preaching in the Age of AI

38

Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus

39

Take Care How You Hear a Sermon

40

The Privilege of Preaching

41

The Power of Preaching

42

Big-God Preaching for God-Hungry People

43

The Glory of Big-God Preaching

44

Foundations for the Future of Your Church

45

We Will Go Out with Joy: Christian Fellowship as a Means of Grace

46

What the World Needs from Your Church

47

The Mighty Ministry of Song: How Praise Shapes the Saints

48

Supernatural Pastors: How to Minister in God’s Strength

49

Slavery and Christ’s Supreme Lordship: How to Live Under Human Authority

50

Countless Dangers, Continual Joy: How Is That Possible?

51

Restore Our Joy in You: A Prayer for God-Centered Revival

52

Doctrine Fails Without Delight: The Mind as Servant of the Heart

53

Do You Look to the Reward?

54

Do You Delight in God?

55

God-Centered Children: Teaching Our Kids the Biggest Vision

56

The Beauty of Reformed Theology

57

Serious Joy: The Root of Sacrificial Love

58

Jars of Clay: Pastoral Grit for the Glory of Christ

59

No Neutrality: The Illusion of Indifference to Jesus

60

Truth Triumphs Through Providence

61

Zeal: To Live with All Your Might

62

Toward Need, Not Comfort: The Blood-Bought Path of the Good Samaritan

63

Truth Triumphs Through Pleasure

64

His Power, Your Body, Our Home: Three Marks of Christian Citizens

65

The Fullest, Longest Happiness: For Those Who Pass the Test

66

Work Out What Christ Has Won: The Christian Life as Gift and Duty

67

What Is It Like to ‘Know Christ’?

68

How to Win a Fight: Heavenly Wisdom for Relational Conflict

69

The Safest Soul in All the World: Rejoicing in the Risen Christ

70

Live Like Death Is Gain

71

The Thickest Joy on Earth: Why We Love Philippians

72

The Most Important People in the World: Why Christians Prioritize the Church

73

Leaders in the Church: Speaking and Living God’s Word

74

How Jesus Knew the Word: His Secret to Scripture Memory

75

Only One Life: Christ’s Invincible Gospel and Global Mission

76

How Jesus Met with God: The Pace and Patterns of a Perfect Life

77

His Voice in Yours: How Christ Wins the World

78

How to Please a Happy God: Six Glimpses of the Christian Life

79

Gain What You Cannot Lose: The Joy of World Mission with Jesus

80

Christmas Was and Christmas Is: The Whole Story of Advent

81

Jesus Came to Save: Ten Great Realities of Christmas

82

Man of War and Grace: The Greatest of Israel’s Kings

83

Do Not Believe Every Spirit: The Threat and Defeat of False Teaching Today

84

Before You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like Jesus

85

What’s It Like to Be a Christian? Faith, Obedience, and Living as Strangers

86

Whose Son Is the Messiah? King David and the God of Israel

87

God Is: The Life-Altering Reality of Sheer Divine Existence

88

Grace Will Order All Your Pain: Retirement Message for Dana Olson

89

The Leader You Long to Follow

90

The Spell That Opened Heaven: Funeral Message for Daniel Fuller (1925–2023)

91

The Final Hours of Suffering: Funeral Message for Nancy Nelson (1952–2023)

92

Happy Pastors Make Healthy Churches

93

Why We Sing About the Blood

94

More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed

95

Do Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors

96

Why Bethlehem Has a College: Biblical Foundations for Church-Based Education

97

Hamilton: An American Prodigal

98

Danger Averted, Destiny Attained: Funeral Message for Lois Nelson (1919–2023)

99

The Demons, the Fever, and the Word of the King

100

Press Afresh into Jesus: Four Truths About Genuine Faith

101

What Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages?

102

The Story of the Greatest Coronation

103

The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year

104

Prince of What Peace? How Christmas Overcomes Our Conflicts

105

Secret Liturgies: The Private Worship of a Public Leader

106

It Will Be Worth It: Overcoming Obstacles to World Missions

107

Is Jesus an Egomaniac? Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian Faith

108

The Joy of the Puritans

109

He Delighted to Crush His Son: The Pleasure of God in the Gospel

110

A World God Could Admire: Recovering His Pleasure in Creation

111

How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners?

112

Fall Back to the Banner: Four Lessons for Our Devastations

113

God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings

114

How Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love?

115

Water from the Rock for Undeserving People

116

God Can Handle Your Crisis

117

Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away

118

The Uncommon Virtue of Humility

119

Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It

120

The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ

121

Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News

122

What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’?

123

We Rejoice to Suffer for You: Pastoral Pain and the People’s Joy

124

Brother Ass: Stewarding the Body as Christian Hedonists

125

The Supremacy of Christ in Everything

126

‘The Joy of the Lord Is Your Stronghold’

127

The Missionary Miracle: Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture

128

The Fearlessness of Christmas Joy: Six Wonders of Christ’s Lordship

129

The Pleasures of God’s Faithfulness: Reflections on Bethlehem’s 150 Years

130

Workers for Your Joy: The Call of Christ to Christian Leaders

131

23 Tips from 23 Years of Book Reading

132

Prayer Vocalizes Our Abiding in Christ

133

The Global Glorification of the Merciful God

134

We Win the World with Singing

135

Who Are the Nations? Discovering God’s Global Mission

136

Serious Joy for Leaders Who Last: To the Class of 2021

137

‘Rejoice When You Are Slandered’: How to Do the Humanly Impossible

138

Can Joy Come in Sorrow? Lessons for an Authentic Christian Life

139

The Achievement of Christ Without Which There Would Be No Others

140

Doing the Right Thing Never Ruins Your Life: A Belief That Prevents Abortion

141

Is Love for Jesus, or Faith in Jesus, the Root of Ministry and Obedience?

142

Leading by Feeding

143

‘Hallowed Be Your Name’: The Greatest Prayer in All the World

144

Bible Reading Has Been My Life: Personal Reflections for Christian Fathers

145

Faith That Satisfies — and Saves: What It Means to Come to Jesus

146

Singing, Suffering, and Scripture: How God Keeps Us Through Song

147

Does God Intend Evil for Our Good? Providential Peril for Joseph, Jesus, and You

148

Every Letter Kills, Including Shakespeare: Pressing Through Texts in the Power of the Spirit

149

Exposition or Imposition? How Gospel-Centered Preaching Can Go Wrong

150

The Second Coming: Not Before the ‘Man of Lawlessness’

151

The Second Coming: Wrath and Rescue

152

Live for Your Greatest Desire: Jesus

153

Serious Joy, Cultural Conflict, and Christian Humility: Thoughts on Christian Education

154

Christ Magnified in His World Through Servants Satisfied in His Worth

155

How Does Humility Lead in Conflict? A Charge to Christian Leaders

156

Seek the Things That Are Above

157

A Peculiar Act of Worship: Preaching as Expository Exultation

158

‘How God Made Me Happy in Him’: John Piper’s Journey to Joy

159

Seven Reasons We Must Pursue Supreme Satisfaction in God

160

The Explosive Power of the Resurrection — Now

161

Who Will Give My Head Waters? Seven Reasons to Pray for Holy Tears

162

Christians Care About All Suffering and Injustice

163

How to Preach in the Power of the Spirit

164

The Glory of God and Why We Sing

165

Our Worth Is Not in What We Own: Fifteen-Minute Gospel Presentation

166

Pharisaism, Money, and the Greatness of God

167

What Do Christians Care About (Most)? To the Class of 2019

168

Christ Has Purchased Global Praise: The Blood, the Beast, and the Boast of Race

169

The Golden Stitches of Sovereignty: What Holds Our Gospel Together

170

Is It Right to Seek More Joy Than We Have Through Justification?

171

What Kind of Heart Does Christ Deserve? The Call of Christian Hedonism

172

The Invincible Power of Joy for World Missions: For Cowards, Consumers, and the Comfortable

173

Make Your Life Count: The Greatest Missions Letter Ever Written

174

You Are Anointed: How the Truth Becomes Precious

175

Sorrowful Love Springs from Serious Joy

176

Are We Adopted for Us or for God?

177

The Key to Simultaneous Sorrow and Joy

178

The Devil Can Do Exposition, but He Can’t Preach

179

Your Emotions Matter to God: Learning from the Bible’s Songbook

180

An Impossible Covenant — And How It Becomes a Permanent Joy

181

Joy Makes All Things New

182

Lord, Teach Us to Fight: The Double Battle in Gethsemane

183

God Rules the Heart of Every Man: Elijah’s Battle with the Prophets of Baal

184

Your Thorn for the Shaming of Satan: To the Class of 2018

185

New God, New Gospel, New Gladness: How Is Christian Joy Distinct?

186

How to Get Wisdom: Become a Fool

187

If I Could Start All Over: Six Lessons for Your Twenties

188

The Glory of Christ and Racial Unity: On the 50th Anniversary of MLK’s Death

189

From Darkness to Delight: A Fresh Call for Christian Hedonists

190

Right with God, Right with Man: The Power of Superior Pleasure

191

Jesus Raised Jesus from the Dead — And Why It Matters

192

How to Preach with Supernatural Power

193

How to Seek the Holy Spirit

194

What Is It Like to Enjoy God?

195

Joy Changes Everything: An Invitation to Christian Hedonism

196

What Made Jonathan Edwards a Christian Hedonist?

197

Heart Comes Before Head: Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God in Scripture

198

Better to Lose Your Life Than Waste It

199

Our Eyes Are on You, Lord: Thoughts on Pastoral Succession

200

How to Find Gold in God’s Word: Reading the Bible with Supernatural Help

201

Faith Alone: How (Not) to Use a Reformed Slogan

202

Soli Deo Gloria: Heart and Soul of the Reformation

203

Did Christ Die for Us or for God?

204

The Tipping Point of Sacrificial Missions: The Overflow of Joy in Jesus

205

God’s Purposes in a World of Pain

206

The Gospel-Shaped Heart: Treasuring the Glories of Christ

207

Treasure God, Magnify Christ, Love People: The Way of Christian Hedonism

208

We Need Each Other: Christian Fellowship as a Means of Perseverance

209

No Other Gospel: The Formal and Material Principles of the Reformation

210

The Pastor, the People, and the Pursuit of Joy

211

Gospel Worship: Holy Ambition for All the Peoples to Praise Christ

212

Gospel Depths: Why God Revealed the Depths of Salvation in Eternity Past

213

Seven Resolutions for Aging and Dying Well: A Funeral Message for Verna Erickson

214

The Ultimate Essence of Evil: The Majesty of God, the Triumph of Christ, and the Glory of Human Life

215

No Global Mission Without God’s Mighty Spirit

216

Sons of Freedom and Joy: How a Christian Relates to the State

217

Put the Attorneys to Work: How to Give the Bible Functional Authority in Your Speech and Writing

218

Teach the Nations to Do the Impossible

219

Fifteen Dreams for the Future of Christian Hedonism

220

Volcanic Joy

221

Jesus Is the Test of True Faith

222

The Inexplicable Life: Humility, Hope, and Love in Suffering

223

Prayer: How to Do the Humanly Impossible

224

The Heart of the Gospel: The Righteousness from God that Depends on Faith

225

The Roots of Fearless Unity in the Gospel

226

The Glory of Christ: Ultimate Goal, Alienating Problem, All-Transforming Answer

227

Courage and Contentment in the Call of the Gospel

228

How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love

229

God’s Peculiar Glory: How We Know the Bible Is True

230

Living and Loving by Faith in Future Grace

231

The Bondage of the Will, the Sovereignty of Grace, and the Glory of God

232

Love Her More, Love Her Less: Living for God’s Glory in Marriage

233

Preaching to a Persecuted People: The Pastor as Leader, Comforter, and Guide

234

Think It Not Strange: Fiery Trials and the Testimony of Christ

235

Go and Tell, ‘It Is Finished’

236

Free from Money, Rich Toward God

237

The Beast, the Book, and the Beauty of the Lamb

238

One Gospel

239

Obey the Government for God’s Sake

240

Woe to You When All Speak Well of You

241

Loving Jesus More Than Life

242

You Cannot Obey God Without God

243

The Glory of God as the Ground of the Mind’s Certainty and the Goal of the Soul’s Satisfaction

244

All Authority in Heaven and Earth

245

How to Know the Will of God: Finding Direction with the Renewed Mind

246

Seeing and Savoring the Splendor of God’s Sovereign Grace (Q&A)

247

The Only Road to Real Happiness

248

God Made You Alive for God

249

How to Miss Jesus in the Bible

250

Why Will You Wake Up a Christian?

251

One Day, We Will Rule with Christ

252

Five Reasons Calvinists Love Election

253

Calvinists Believe Every Verse

254

The Gospel Promises True Prosperity

255

Understanding the Wills of God

256

How to Read the Bible Well

257

Who Could Be Happy in a World Like Ours?

258

Hoping, Singing, and Loving (Q&A)

259

Born Again to Hope-Filled Humility

260

How to Live in History’s Last Days

261

Lose It All to Win the World

262

Do You Want Heaven for the Wrong Reason?

263

The Strongest Comfort and Statement in Trials

264

Hope That Puts the World to Shame

265

Search for Gold Beneath Biblical Tensions

266

Bless Those Who Bruise You

267

Five Steps to Feel What God Feels

268

Honor, Guard, and Cherish

269

Women the World Cannot Explain

270

John Piper Recites 1 Peter from Memory

271

Too Many Settle for Too Little in Bible Reading

272

Don’t Be a Sucker

273

The Path to Full and Lasting Pleasure

274

Unless God Gives You God

275

How You Can Know You’re a Child of God

276

Summary and Conclusion: 1 Peter 2:13–3:7

277

Broken Dynamics in Marriage (Q&A)

278

Bible Reading, Justice, and Marriage (Q&A)

279

Men, Love and Lead Your Wives

280

What Is Submission in Marriage?

281

The Beauty and Behavior of a Godly Woman

282

Christ Returned Good for Your Evil

283

How Do We Honor Dishonorable People? (Q&A)

284

The Horror and Hope in Slavery

285

For God’s Sake, Be Free

286

Submit to Laws for the Lord’s Sake

287

Your Desires Want to Kill You

288

Faith and Fear Produce Love

289

The Mind Serves the Heart

290

Imperishable, Undefiled, and Unfading

291

Getting Started in 1 Peter

292

A Realistic Book About Life Today

293

Called to Be Lights in the World

294

Destined to Obey, or Disobey

295

Born Again by the Book

296

The Infinite Price of Your Freedom

297

New Passions Are the Path to Holiness

298

A Faith More Precious Than Gold

299

Simultaneous Joy and Sorrow

300

Why Your Faith Will Not Fail

301

Born Again to a Living Hope

302

The Word Awakens Joy and Worship

303

Set Apart by the Spirit

304

Exiles on the Earth

305

Basics for Reading the Bible

306

A Survey of Suffering in 1 Peter

307

Friendship with Jesus and the Aim of Education in Serious Joy

308

Education in Serious Joy

309

Life-Risking Courage in the Cause of Love

310

It Is Right to Live for Maximum Pleasure

311

The Pain of the World and the Purposes of God

312

Biblical Foundations for Seeking God's Justice in a Sinful World

313

What Jesus Demands from the World

314

The Shoot from Jesse, the Nations, and Israel

315

Suffering, Faith, and the Sign of Fearlessness

316

A Living Hope Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

317

Undaunted by the Darkness – Invincible Joy for the Sake of the Nations

318

You Can Say No to Porn

319

Make War: The Pastor and His People in the Battle Against Sin

320

What Is Sin? The Essence and Root of All Sinning

321

The Plundering of Your Property and the Power of Hope

322

Why Do Christians Preach and Sing?

323

Gospel-Centered History and Gospel-Centered Living

324

Ten Effects of Seeing God’s Sovereignty

325

God Is Totally Free to Save You

326

Why Would God Ordain Evil?

327

God Saves Whom He Wills

328

The Difference Between Calvinists and Arminians

329

Your Joy Depends on Election

330

Who Is the True Israel?

331

Unrelenting Sorrow and Relentless Joy

332

Does God Keep His Promises?

333

All of God’s Promises Rest on God

334

Six Reasons to Read the Bible Every Day

335

Introduction to Romans 9

336

Greatest Book, Greatest Chapter, Greatest Joy

337

Predestination, Justification, No Separation

338

Groaning Creation, Groaning Saints, Groaning Spirit

339

Free from Judgment, Fighting Sin, Full Assurance

340

Scripture: The Kindling of Christian Hedonism

341

Bitter Providence and Barley Harvest

342

Are You Worthy of Jesus?

343

The Life of the Mind and the Love of Man

344

Responding to God According to His Word

345

Expressing Truth

346

The Glory of God and Gladness of Man

347

What Is the Joy of All Your Joys?

348

Persuading, Pleading, and Predestination: Human Means in the Miracle of Conversion

349

Renewing Women

350

The New Calvinism and the New Community

351

A Tender Word to Pharisees

352

Pilgrim Worship

353

The Ministry of Hudson Taylor as Life in Christ

354

Glorifying God by Bearing Fruit in Union with Christ

355

Don’t Waste Your Seminary

356

A Radical Revelation of the Cross: The Sovereignty of God and the Sacrifice of Jesus

357

The Sweetest Good of the Good News

358

Is Jesus an Egomaniac?

359

The Highest Good of the Gospel

360

Identity and Desire

361

What God Made Is Good — And Must Be Sanctified: C.S. Lewis and St. Paul on the Use of Creation

362

C.S. Lewis, Romantic Rationalist: How His Paths to Christ Shaped His Life and Ministry

363

The Cost of Love in the Call to the Nations

364

The Glory of God in the Sight of Eternity

365

Glorifying God by Reaching the Lost

366

Glorifying God by Being Compelled by God’s Love

367

Glorifying God . . . Period

368

God Works for Those Who Wait for Him

369

Live in Hope, Live in Holiness, Live in Holy Fear

370

Farewell Words to Bethlehem Baptist Church

371

The Life and Ministry of Charles Spurgeon

372

Jesus the Son of God, the Son of Mary

373

The Heart of God in the Call to Proclaim: A Joyfully Serious Courage in the Cause of World Missions

374

Future Grace (Part 2)

375

Future Grace (Q&A)

376

Future Grace (Part 1)

377

God Raised Your Great Shepherd from the Dead

378

The Essential and Prominent Place of Preaching in Worship

379

A Hunger for God: The Foundation for Faithful and Effective Ministry

380

Q & A with Eric Metaxas and John Piper

381

How to Give the Bible Functional Authority in Your Speech and Writing

382

The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation

383

The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation

384

The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation

385

The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation

386

The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation

387

The Pursuit of God’s Glory in Salvation

388

Life Together at the End of the Age

389

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God: Continue in It

390

Sailing to the Nations to Finish the Task

391

Sailing to the Nations to Finish the Task

392

The Sadness and Beauty of Paul’s Final Words

393

Saying Beautifully as a Way of Seeing Beauty: The Life of George Herbert and His Poetic Effort

394

The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God

395

Joy as the Power to Suffer in the Path of Love for the Sake of Liberation

396

Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing

397

God Created Man Male and Female: What Does It Mean to Be Complementarian?

398

Living by Faith in Future Grace

399

The Price and the Prize of the Gospel

400

When Jesus Meets Disability: How a Christian Hedonist Handles Deep Disappointment

401

Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer

402

The Sovereignty of God: ‘I Will Accomplish All My Purpose’

403

Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer

404

Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer

405

ABCs for Following God’s Call

406

Missions Exists Because Worship Doesn’t

407

Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind: Examining the Word and Works of God

408

Ablaze for His Beauty: How Your Heart Treasures God

409

Fuel for the Furnace: How Your Mind Serves Your Heart

410

Don’t Waste Your Life

411

God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him

412

Should We Celebrate Interracial Marriage?

413

Ten Ways to Pursue Ethnic Harmony in Your Church

414

Act the Miracle: Future Grace, the Word of the Cross, and the Purifying Power of God’s Promises

415

Prelude to Acting the Miracle: Putting Sanctification in Its Place

416

Why Did God Create the World?

417

Eternal Security Is a Community Project

418

Reflections on Pastoring Three Decades Downtown

419

‘I Am Who I Am’

420

He Stood by Me and Strengthened Me for the Sake of the Gospel

421

God's Delight in Being God

422

God's Delight in Being God

423

God's Delight in Being God

424

Preach the Word, For the Time of My Departure Has Come

425

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God — Continue in It

426

When a Lover of Good Thinks About Evil

427

He Cannot Deny Himself

428

In the Throne Room: The God of Holiness and Hope

429

The Search for Joy and the Supremacy of God in the Gospel

430

Let Marriage Be Held in Honor

431

My Peace I Give to You

432

If Anyone Loves Me, He Will Keep My Word

433

Preach the Word (with French Interpretation)

434

What Is Gospel-Centered Ministry? (with French Interpretation)

435

Fan the Flame (with French Interpretation)

436

Doing the Works of Jesus and Greater Works

437

The Sum of God's Word Is Truth

438

Glory, Majesty, Dominion, and Authority Keep Us Safe for Everlasting Joy

439

The Risen Christ — His Peace, Power, and Purpose

440

I Planted, Apollos Watered, But God Gave the Growth

441

Race and the Christian

442

I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

443

The Pleasures of God Roundtable

444

As I Have Loved You, Love One Another

445

The Purifying Power of the Promises of God

446

The Purifying Power of the Promises of God

447

The Solid Logic of Heaven Holds

448

The Pleasures of God Roundtable

449

You Cannot Follow Me Now

450

The Pleasures of God Roundtable

451

The Supremacy of Christ in All of Life: The Pastor and His Worldview

452

“The Frank and Manly Mr. Ryle” — The Value of a Masculine Ministry

453

Let’s Be Rich Toward God

454

They Poured Out Innocent Blood

455

From Bloodlines to Bloodline

456

The Word of God Is at Work in You

457

Seeing and Savoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ Above All Things

458

Piper One on One

459

One Life: Don’t Waste It

460

One Life: Enjoy It

461

For Men: Augustine, Sin, and Sovereign Joy

462

A Savior Is Born: Glory to God, Peace to Man

463

For His Sake and for Your Joy, Go Low

464

Belief in Jesus: Its Barriers and Blessings

465

For This Purpose I Have Come to This Hour

466

Chosen to Know and Believe and Witness That I Am He

467

If a Grain of Wheat Dies, It Bears Much Fruit

468

Gravity and Gladness

469

Gravity and Gladness

470

Gravity and Gladness

471

Gravity and Gladness

472

Leave Her Alone, Judas — This Is for My Burial

473

Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian

474

Jesus Died to Gather the Children of God

475

How the Offspring of Isaac Blesses the Sons of Ishmael

476

Let the Nations Be Glad!

477

Let the Nations Be Glad!

478

Let the Nations Be Glad!

479

Let the Nations Be Glad!

480

We Were Eager to Share with You Our Own Souls

481

Let the Peoples Praise You, O God, Let All the Peoples Praise You!

482

Thoughts on Christ, Weakness, Insults, and Homosexuality

483

Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life

484

The Pleasure of God in Everything He Does

485

This Illness Is for the Glory of God

486

Don't Waste Your Life

487

I and the Father Are One

488

I Have Other Sheep That Are Not of This Fold

489

My Abandoned Life for Your Abundant Life

490

The Infinite Worth of the Word of God

491

Be a Radically God-Centered Pastor

492

Hallowing God's Name in Public Life

493

For Judgment I Came into This World

494

The Works of God and the Worship of Jesus

495

Why Was This Child Born Blind?

496

You Will Never See Death

497

No One Will Take Your Joy from You

498

Desiring God Roundtable

499

Desiring God (Session 3)

500

Desiring God (Session 2)

501

Desiring God (Session 1)

502

You Will Know the Truth and the Truth Will Set You Free

503

If You Abide in My Word, You Are Truly My Disciples

504

Bethlehem’s Antioch Moment

505

Desiring God Roundtable

506

The Supremacy of Christ and the Sorrow of Calamity

507

Ministry Reflections with John Piper and R. C. Sproul

508

Let the Nations Be Glad!

509

Twenty-Five Years of Desiring God

510

Don’t Waste Your Life

511

The Sum of Your Word Is Truth

512

The Truth Will Set You Free

513

I Am the Light of the World

514

Neither Do I Condemn You

515

No One Ever Spoke Like This Man

516

I Act the Miracle

517

Out of Your Heart Will Flow Rivers of Living Water

518

Willing God’s Will as a Way of Knowing Christ’s Word

519

He Kissed the Rose and Felt the Thorn: Living and Dying in the Morning of Life

520

The Common Root of Unbelief in the Brothers of Jesus and the Jewish Crowds

521

Abortion and the Narrow Way That Leads to Life

522

Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name

523

Getting to the Bottom of Your Joy

524

Making Known the Manifold Wisdom of God Through Prison and Prayer

525

The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

526

Surprise Presentation of the Book “For the Fame of God’s Name”

527

What Does It Mean to Live by Faith in the Service of the Fatherless?

528

Consider Your Calling

529

Rejoicing in the Midst of Sorrow

530

How Much Does God Love This Church?

531

Did Jesus Preach the Gospel of Evangelicalism?

532

What Jesus Demands from the World, Session 2

533

What Jesus Demands from the World, Session 1

534

Suffering for the Gospel Q & A

535

The Supremacy of Christ in Suffering

536

The Immeasurable Greatness of His Power Toward Us

537

The Son of Man Must Suffer Many Things

538

Parenting with Hope in the Worst of Times

539

Why God Makes Much of Us

540

Q & A with Urban Pastors

541

Why God Makes Much of Us

542

The Pastor as Prophet: Session 4

543

The Pastor as Prophet

544

The Pastor as Prophet

545

Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul

546

I Will Build My Church

547

Born Blind for the Glory of God: Eugenics by Abortion Is an Abomination to God

548

Help the Children Love the Different People

549

Holding Fast the Word of Life

550

Is Jesus an Egomaniac?

551

Praying in the Closet and in the Spirit

552

Holy Ambition: Paul’s and Yours

553

God’s Passion for His Glory

554

You Have the Words of Eternal Life

555

It Is the Spirit That Gives Life

556

They Will All Be Taught of God

557

Skeptical Grumbling and Sovereign Grace

558

Behold, Believe, Be Raised

559

Jesus Came Not to Give Bread but to Be Bread

560

Questions and Answers

561

Do Not Labor for the Food That Perishes

562

Twelve Baskets of Bread and the Walk on Water

563

The All-Providing King Who Would Not Be King

564

The Legacy of Antioch: Partnering with the Church of the Global South for the Sake of the Gospel

565

Preach Christ (with Russian Interpretation)

566

Q & A (with Russian Interpretation)

567

Think Christ (with Russian Interpretation)

568

Feel Christ (with Russian Interpretation)

569

What Makes the Good News Good (with German Interpretation)

570

Preach Christ (with German Interpretation)

571

Interview with John Piper (with German Interpretation)

572

Think Christ (with German Interpretation)

573

Feel Christ (with German Interpretation)

574

If You Believed Moses, You Would Believe Me, for He Wrote of Me

575

Jesus Christ as Denouement in the Theater of God

576

A Conversation About Collision

577

The Love of Human Praise as the Root of Unbelief

578

Beholding Glory and Becoming Whole

579

The Life-Giving Voice of the Son of God

580

Other Sheep I Have: The Power of God’s Grace Among Native Americans Then and Now

581

Jesus: Equal With God

582

Bless the Lord, O My Soul!

583

Greatness, Humility, Servanthood

584

Healed for the Sake of Holiness

585

Go, Your Son Will Live

586

The Food of Christ Is to Give Eternal Life

587

Not in This or That Mount, but in Spirit and Truth

588

The Tragic Cost of Her Cavernous Thirst

589

The Suicide of Satan

590

You Will Never Be Thirsty Again

591

Spectacular Sins

592

Let the Nations Be Glad

593

Q&A with Piper, Mason, Driscoll, Greear, and Stetzer

594

Let the Nations Be Glad

595

The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands

596

He Must Increase, I Must Decrease

597

This Is the Judgment: Light Has Come into the World

598

God So Loved the World

599

God So Loved the World

600

The Free Will of the Wind

601

The Pastor as Scholar: A Personal Journey

602

Feed the Flame of God’s Gift

603

I Have Seen the Lord

604

The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up — Like the Serpent

605

The Pleasures of God

606

“I Will Not Be a Velvet-Mouthed Preacher!”

607

What Is the Recession For?

608

The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy

609

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

610

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

611

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

612

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

613

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

614

He Knew What Was in Man

615

If My Words Abide in You

616

Put in the Fire for the Sake of Prayer

617

Destroy This Temple, and in Three Days I Will Raise It Up

618

Obedient Son, Ultimate Purifier, All-Providing Bridegroom

619

Son of God, Son of Man, King of Israel

620

We Have Found the Messiah

621

This Is He Who Baptizes with the Holy Spirit

622

Behold the Lamb of God

623

From His Fullness We Have All Received, Grace Upon Grace

624

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

625

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

626

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

627

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

628

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

629

The Earth Is the Lord’s: The Supremacy of Christ in Christian Learning

630

We Beheld His Glory, Full of Grace and Truth

631

Proclaiming the Excellencies of Christ, Not Prosperity, Among the Nations

632

Filling Up What Is Lacking in Christ's Afflictions

633

Job: When the Righteous Suffer, Part 2

634

Job: When the Righteous Suffer, Part 1

635

John Was Not the Light, but a Witness to the Light

636

The Ultimate Meaning of True Womanhood

637

In Him Was Life

638

Is There Christian Eloquence? Clear Words and the Wonder of the Cross

639

In the Beginning Was the Word

640

The New Commandment of Christ: ‘Love One Another As I Have Loved You’

641

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship

642

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship

643

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship

644

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship

645

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship

646

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship

647

The Mind of Christ: Looking Out for the Interests of Others

648

Teaching and Admonishing One Another in All Wisdom

649

What Is Baptism and How Important Is It?

650

How Important Is Church Membership?

651

Welcome One Another for the Glory of God

652

Declare His Glory Among the Nations

653

Pour Out Your Indignation Upon Them

654

The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth

655

The Echo and the Insufficiency of Hell

656

Bless the Lord, O My Soul

657

A Broken and Contrite Heart God Will Not Despise

658

Spiritual Depression in the Psalms

659

Songs That Shape the Heart and Mind

660

Deal with Death

661

Let No One Despise You for Your Youth: A Vision for the Next Generation

662

How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice

663

T4G 2008 Panel Discussion

664

I'm Sending You to Open Their Eyes

665

You Are God's Midwife for the New Birth of Others

666

Other Sheep That Are Not of This Fold

667

The Appearance of the Unwasted Life, Part 2

668

The Appearance of the Unwasted Life, Part 1

669

The Origin of the Unwasted Life

670

The Essence of the Unwasted Life

671

The God of Peace Brought from the Dead the Good Shepherd

672

Ten Effects of Believing the Five Points of Calvinism

673

Perseverance of the Saints

674

Limited Atonement

675

Unconditional Election

676

Unconditional Election

677

No One Born of God Makes a Practice of Sinning

678

Total Depravity - Unconditional Election

679

Irresistible Grace - Total Depravity

680

Assumptions - Irresistible Grace

681

TULIP: Introduction

682

Regeneration, Faith, Love: In That Order

683

Why We Believe the Bible

684

Why We Believe the Bible

685

Why We Believe the Bible

686

Why We Believe the Bible

687

Why We Believe the Bible

688

What Man Does in the New Birth

689

Evangelist Bill Piper: Fundamentalist Full of Grace and Joy

690

Probability, Prejudice, and Christ

691

Receive with Meekness the Implanted Word

692

Pray Like This: ‘Hallowed Be Your Name’

693

The Reason the Son of God Appeared Was to Destroy the Works of the Devil

694

Free at Last: The Miracle of New Birth

695

Why Do We Need to Be Born Again?

696

What Happens in the New Birth? Part 2

697

What Happens in the New Birth? Part 1

698

You Must Be Born Again

699

Justification and the Diminishing Work of Christ

700

Treasuring Christ in Planting Churches and Loving the Poor

701

Sexual Complementarity

702

Sexual Complementarity

703

Sexual Complementarity

704

Sexual Complementarity

705

Sexual Complementarity

706

Treasuring Christ Together as a Church on Multiple Campuses

707

How to Love Your People: The Gladness of Your People and the Glory of God

708

Treasuring Christ Together Because He Is More Valuable Than All Else

709

‘I Am Sending You Out as Sheep in the Midst of Wolves’: The Cost and Blessing of Being a Christian Missionary

710

The Pleasures of God, Part 3

711

The Pleasures of God

712

The Pleasures of God, Part 1

713

Judas Iscariot, the Suicide of Satan, and the Salvation of the World

714

Getting Old for the Glory of God

715

The Sinful Origin of the Son of David

716

Encouraging Each Other at the End of the Age

717

The Sale of Joseph and the Son of God

718

The Pride of Babel and the Praise of Christ

719

The Fatal Disobedience of Adam and the Triumphant Obedience of Christ

720

The Fall of Satan and the Victory of Christ

721

All Things Were Created Through Him and for Him

722

What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate, Part 2

723

What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate, Part 1

724

Marriage Is Meant for Making Children . . . Disciples of Jesus, Part 2

725

Marriage Is Meant for Making Children . . . Disciples of Jesus, Part 1

726

Marriage, Singleness, and the Christian Virtue of Hospitality

727

The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth

728

Single in Christ: A Name Better Than Sons and Daughters

729

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 4

730

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 2

731

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 1

732

The Nature of Saving Faith

733

The Nature of Our Depravity

734

The Reason for Our Creation

735

The Beautiful Faith of Fearless Submission

736

The Peculiar Mark of Majesty, Part 2

737

What Everybody Knows Before the Gospel Comes

738

Radical Effects of the Resurrection

739

The Peculiar Mark of Majesty, Part 1

740

We Work With You for Your Joy

741

Lionhearted and Lamblike

742

Lionhearted and Lamblike: The Christian Husband as Head, Part 1

743

The Challenge of Relativism

744

Faith and Reason

745

Marriage: Pursuing Conformity to Christ in the Covenant

746

Marriage: Forgiving and Forbearing

747

Marriage: God’s Showcase of Covenant-Keeping Grace

748

Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Vision

749

Stripped in Shame, Clothed in Grace

750

Staying Married Is Not About Staying in Love

751

When Is Abortion Racism?

752

The Spring of Persistent Public Love

753

The Word of God Abides in You, and You Have Overcome the Evil One

754

How to Deal with the Guilt of Sexual Failure for the Glory of Christ and His Global Cause

755

Ask Your Father in Heaven

756

Jesus Christ in the Book of Romans

757

To Him Be Glory Forevermore

758

The Great Work of the Only Wise God

759

Command of God: The Obedience of Faith

760

God Strengthens Us by the Gospel

761

Thank God for an Inspired Bible

762

How Does It Work Against Sin?

763

How Does It Work Against Sin?

764

How Does It Work Against Sin?

765

How Does It Work Against Sin?

766

How Does It Work for Holiness?

767

How Does It Work for Holiness?

768

Is It Biblical?

769

Is It Biblical?

770

Foundational Passions

771

Foundational Passions

772

The God of Peace Will Soon Crush Satan Under Your Feet

773

Watch Out for Those Who Lead You Away from the Truth

774

The Aroma of Christ Among the Nations

775

Brothers — Feel, Think, Preach God (Part 3)

776

Brothers — Feel, Think, Preach God (Part 2)

777

Brothers — Feel, Think, Preach God (Part 1)

778

God Is the Gospel, Session 3

779

God Is the Gospel, Session 2

780

God Is the Gospel, Session 1

781

Carry My Love to My Beloved

782

The Supremacy of Christ and Joy in a Postmodern World

783

Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk-Takers for Christ

784

Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ—Together

785

Joy+Debt = A Two-Thousand-Mile Detour to Jerusalem

786

Where I Am There Will My Servant Be: A Call to Treasure Christ Together

787

Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named

788

By Signs and Wonders: Where Christ Has Not Been Named

789

Why and How We Celebrate the Lord's Supper

790

Why Expositional Preaching Is Particularly Glorifying to God

791

I Will Go to God, My Exceeding Joy

792

Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible: Why William Tyndale Lived and Died

793

A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People

794

Love Your Unborn Neighbor

795

Racial Diversity, Racial Harmony, and the Gospel Walk

796

How God’s Word Produces Our Work

797

How Our Suffering Glorifies the Greatness of the Grace of God

798

Prayer and the Victory of God

799

The Child to Be Born Will Be Called Holy — the Son of God

800

Word of Promise, Spirit of God, Hope of Man

801

Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse

802

Why Christ Became a Servant of the Jews

803

Welcome One Another to the Glory of God

804

The Kingdom of Heaven Is a Treasure

805

The Kingdom of God is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit

806

Do Not Destroy the Work of God

807

We Will All Stand Before the Judgment of God

808

Gospel to the Nations, Generosity to the Poor

809

The Suffering of Christ and the Sovereignty of God

810

Ten Aspects of God’s Sovereignty over Suffering and Satan’s Hand in It

811

Is There a “Lord’s Day”?

812

Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind

813

Consider How to Stir Up One Another to Love

814

Where Is God? The Supremacy of Christ in an Age of Terror

815

How to Welcome a Weak Brother

816

When I Don’t Desire God (Part 6)

817

When I Don’t Desire God (Part 5)

818

When I Don’t Desire God (Part 4)

819

When I Don’t Desire God (Part 3)

820

When I Don’t Desire God (Part 2)

821

When I Don’t Desire God (Part 1)

822

Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part 1

823

Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 3

824

Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 2

825

Love is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 1

826

Open Their Eyes: Doing What Only God Can Do

827

Open Their Eyes: Doing What Only God Can Do

828

Submission to Civil Authority

829

Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 3

830

Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 2

831

Treasuring Christ Together Above All Things

832

Fathers, Bring Them Up in the Discipline & Instruction of the Lord

833

Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 1

834

Honoring the Biblical Call of Motherhood

835

What Makes the Good News Good? Seeing the Glory of Christ

836

All Things Subject to the Risen Christ

837

Christ Overcame Evil with Good—Do the Same

838

When Is It Right to Repay Evil with Pain?

839

The Present Effects of Trembling at the Wrath of God

840

God’s Wrath: “Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay,” Says the Lord

841

Do Not Avenge Yourselves, but Give Place to Wrath

842

Live Peaceably with All, If Possible

843

Bless Those Who Persecute You

844

Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ

845

Abortion, Race, Gender, and Christ

846

Racial Harmony and Interracial Marriage

847

Boiling for Christ

848

Use the Inspired Scriptures to Rejoice in Hope

849

Be Constant in Prayer for the Joy of Hope

850

Happy in Hope, Patient in Pain, Constant in Prayer

851

Love One Another with Brotherly Affection

852

Treasuring Christ Together: The Vision and Its Cost

853

Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good

854

Let Love Be Genuine

855

Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 3

856

Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 2

857

The Unfathomable Riches of Christ for All Peoples, Above All Powers, Through the Church

858

Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 1

859

Doing Mercy to the Brothers of Jesus and the Broken Neighbor

860

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 2

861

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 1

862

We, Though Many, Are One Body in Christ

863

Faith: the Root and Trait of All Spiritual Gifts

864

Assessing Ourselves with Our God-Assigned Measure of Faith, Part 2

865

Assessing Ourselves With Our God-Assigned Measure of Faith, Part 1

866

What Is the Will of God and How Do We Know It?

867

The Renewed Mind and How to Have It

868

Discerning the Will of God Concerning Homosexuality and Marriage

869

Do Not Be Conformed to This World: The Indigenous and Pilgrim Principle of Christian Living

870

Predestined for Adoption to the Praise of His Glory

871

Present Your Bodies As a Living Sacrifice to God

872

Build Your Life on the Mercies of God

873

Treasuring Christ Together: The North Campus Expansion, Part 2

874

Treasuring Christ Together: North Campus Expansion, Part 1

875

When I Am Raised Up, I Will Go Before You To Galilee

876

Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom, Past and Future

877

From God, to God, Through God

878

The Deep Riches and Wisdom and Knowledge of God

879

God’s Design for History: The Glory of His Mercy

880

All Israel Will Be Saved

881

Look at the Kindness and the Severity of God

882

The Blazing Center

883

The Blazing Center, Part 3

884

The Blazing Center, Part 2

885

The Blazing Center

886

Use Means, but Trust in God

887

Continue in the Kindness of God

888

Stand Fast Through Faith

889

George Mueller's Strategy for Showing God: Simplicity of Faith, Sacred Scripture, and Satisfaction in God

890

The (Jewish) Root Supports You through Your Faith Alone

891

Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

892

All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God and Profitable

893

If the Root Is Holy, the Branches Are Holy

894

Did Israel Stumble in Order That They Might Fall?

895

Pastoral Thoughts on the Doctrine of Election

896

The Elect Obtained It But the Rest Were Hardened

897

For God's Sake, Let Grace Be Grace!

898

Has God Rejected His People? Part 2

899

Has God Rejected His People? Part 1

900

Everlasting Truth for the Joy of All Peoples

901

A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God

902

A God-Entranced Vision of All Things: Why We Need Jonathan Edwards 300 Years Later

903

A Generation Passionate for God’s Holiness

904

Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals, and the Political Welfare

905

Counting It All Joy

906

Let the Nations Be Glad

907

Questions and Answers

908

Boasting Only in the Cross

909

Finishing Well in the Face of Death

910

Finishing with Joy

911

Finishing What?

912

The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Preaching for Radical Obedience

913

The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Community Worship Service

914

Jesus Is Able to Help Those Who Are Tempted

915

Sustained by Sovereign Grace — Forever

916

Preserving Your Joy in God (with Portuguese Interpretation)

917

Finding Joy Through Loving Others (with Portuguese Interpretation)

918

Women in Ministry (with Portuguese Interpretation)

919

Fearlessness in Defense of the Truth (with Portuguese Interpretation)

920

The Social Panorama of Our Day (with Portuguese Interpretation)

921

Should We Seek Our Happiness? (with Portuguese Interpretation)

922

Leadership and Submission in the Home (with Portuguese Interpretation)

923

God's Passion for His Glory (with Portuguese Interpretation)