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Pastor John Piper's answers — 1000 episodes
When Your Boss Expects You to Lie
Surviving Financial Panics
If Jesus Returns Tonight
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Should You Marry Her Anyway?
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God’s Plan for Your Prayers
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When Your Pastor Feels Distant
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Obedience Will Never Ruin Your Life
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Why God’s Protection Still Hurts
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Spreading Great Joy in a Big God to the Next Generation
Sovereignty and My Murdered Friend
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Zeal For God Gone Wrong
Preaching Outrage
The God Who Gives You Worth
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Kill Your Ego, Find Your Joy
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Coming Back to Life Meet Stephen
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Sustained by God in the Loss of a Child Meet Brian and Caris
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The Secret Superpower of Silence
Teaching That Leads to Life Meet Vinicius
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Cherishing Christ Through Cancer Meet Monica
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Trusting God in the Midst of Suffering Meet Sherif
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The Freedom That Kills Regret
The Sadness of Religion vs. The Supremacy of Joy Meet Tiago
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Moving Beyond Programs and Entertainment Meet John
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Sharing Christ in Russian and Ukrainian Meet Sasko
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The God Over Dice
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Glorifying God by Enjoying Him Meet Nando
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Don’t Wait for the Pain to Stop
Pursuing True Reformation Meet Michael
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Trusting the Almighty with Alzheimer’s Meet Thiago
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Rescued from the Prosperity Gospel Meet Dexter
Joy That Cannot Be Shaken Meet Rae Lin
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God Rescues Marriages Meet Alexandre
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How Spectacular and Satisfying Is Eternal Life Titus 3:4–7, Part 8
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Justified by Grace in Hope of Eternal Life Titus 3:4–7, Part 7
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How We Experience the Rich Outpouring of the Holy Spirit Titus 3:4–7, Part 6
When Obedience Is Evil
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Does ‘Washing of Regeneration’ Refer to Baptismal Regeneration Titus 3:4–7, Part 5
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Why Can’t Our Good Works Save Us Titus 3:4–7, Part 4
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Don’t Miss the Diamonds in the Chest of Salvation Titus 3:4–7, Part 3
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Saved from What Titus 3:4–7, Part 2
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What Kind of God Was There Before Creation Titus 3:4–7, Part 1
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Paul’s Despicable History Titus 3:3
Finding Comfort by Sharing Christ Meet Emanuele and Ilaria
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Can a Gentle, Meek, Non-Combative Person Rebuke Titus 3:1–2, Part 2
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Suffering for Joy
Christians Go Beyond Compliance Titus 3:1–2, Part 1
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Pastor, Let No One Disregard You Titus 2:11–15, Part 6
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Pardoned to Be Passionate for Good Deeds Titus 2:11–15, Part 5
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Eagerly Awaiting Our Gladsome Hope Titus 2:11–15, Part 4
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What Are Worldly Desires Titus 2:11–15, Part 3
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What Makes the Training of Grace Christian Titus 2:11–15, Part 2
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What Is the Grace of God Titus 2:11–15, Part 1
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How Slaves Beautify Their Salvation Titus 2:9–10
President Donald Trump said he mistook the sound of the gunshot for a tray falling
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Set an Example of Incorruptible Teaching Titus 2:6–8
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How Older Women Help Younger Women Live for the Word of God Titus 2:3–5
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Healthy Teaching Makes Healthy Old Men Titus 2:1–2
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To the Pure All Things Are Pure Titus 1:15–16
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‘Cretans Are Always Liars’ — Really Titus 1:10–14, Part 2
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Ruining Households for Money Titus 1:10–14, Part 1
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What Does It Mean to Exhort and Rebuke Titus 1:5–9, Part 5
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Eleven Marks of Mature Elders Titus 1:5–9, Part 4
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One Wife, Faithful Children Titus 1:5–9, Part 3
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A Pastor’s Family Life Should Not Sully the Church Titus 1:5–9, Part 2
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Healthy Churches Exist for Life and Godliness Titus 1:5–9, Part 1
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Who Was Titus Titus 1:1–4, Part 9
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Eternal Life Was Manifested as the Word Titus 1:1–4, Part 8
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Why Was Eternal Life Promised Before Time Titus 1:1–4, Part 7
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Hope for Eternal Life Is the Basis of Godliness Titus 1:1–4, Part 6
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Paul’s Aim Faith Leading to Truth and Godliness Titus 1:1–4, Part 5
Effort in Holiness by the Power of Another (Part 10)
The Effect of Providence (Part 9)
Evangelism & Prayer (Part 8)
God Desires All to Be Saved (Part 7)
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Providence in Conversion (Part 6)
Providence Over Human Decision & Action (Part 5)
Providence over the Ruler of This World (Part 4)
Providence Over Suffering (Part 3)
Is the Doctrine of Providence Biblical (Part 2)
The Providence of God (Part 1)
Do You Use ‘The Elect’ as a Normal Name for Christians Titus 1:1–4, Part 4
The Bondage of Singleness
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What Is Christian Hedonism
How Does Joy Overflow in Love
How Do You Define Joy
Does Joy Die in Sorrow
Do We Have to Enjoy God to Believe
Christian Joy Is Not Ordinary
What Is the Secret of Joy in Suffering
Why Should We Submit to Paul’s Letters Titus 1:1–4, Part 3
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Are Christians Slaves or Sons of God Titus 1:1–4, Part 2
Incarnation, Hope, Godliness — an Overview of Titus Titus 1:1–4, Part 1
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Who is John Piper?
To live is Christ. To die is gain
Sex Is Worship
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John Piper - The Explosive Power of the Resurrection Sing! Conference Highlight
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Asaph walked right up to the brink of apostasy
What to Do When Your Spirits Sink
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Why Do We Celebrate Easter
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John Piper: Don't Waste Your Life
The Wrong Kind of Cross-Centered
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Will You Be Happy in a Million Years?
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Made Lonely by Holiness
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Dying to Live
Stop Waiting for a Sign
Your Only Roadblock to Heaven
Everything Happens for a Reason
Your Main Calling in the End Times
Five Escapes from Dry Devotions
Why Smart People Reject God
Hope for Screwups
Marks of a Godly Boss
Waiting Is the Hardest Part
The Gospel of Gorgeous
Regretting the Day I Was Born
Aging with Joy
The Hardest Heart God Can Save
Life Guidance for Sinners
Learning to Delegate
Is Sex as Dangerous as Christians Make It Seem?
Why Is Christianity the Best Religion?
Why Mental Clarity Arrives at Night
Three Metrics for Your Fitness
Are Raised Hands in Worship Just Showing Off?
Piper, Did You Miss Something?
Maximize Your Daily Bible Reading
Make a Life Plan for 2026
God Wants Your Resolve
The Gift Trap
What a Fruitful Devotional Feels Like
John Piper: Would You Help Expand Free Access?
Complacency: A Silent Killer
When You Get Accused
Loving Aging Parents Well
Keeping Sovereign Grace in Gospel Partnerships
Marriage Survival After Betrayal
The Apostasy of Impatience
Improving the Body Without Fixating on Image
Why Satan Persists
What False Teachings Should Make Me Leave a Church?
The God Who Breaks Us with Kindness
How One Bible Verse Disarmed a Mob
Shame Today Is Worth It
What Is a ‘Fleshly’ Christian?
Eight Ways to Live Out Your Assurance
How Can I Know I’m a Christian?
How I Decide What to Preach
Nine Steps to Find a Home Church
Does God Punish from His Heart?
Was Jesus Tempted by Evil Desires?
Sexual Purity Is an Act of Love
Sorrows Surprised by Happiness
Work as Worship
The Evil That Stuns Heaven
Does God Predict History?
Can Delight in God Become Self-Serving?
A Better Hope for the Childless
If God Knows Our Hearts, Why Does He Test Us?
Does Mysticism Make Us Closer to God?
Spiritual Dangers of Recreational Marijuana
Should We Rejoice When God Destroys Our Enemies?
Waging War Against Drift
Why Do Citations in the Bible Seem Sloppy?
Glorifying God in 1,000 Decisions a Day
How Much Church Can I Miss to Serve?
The High Price of Watching Nudity
We Can’t Endure on Our Own
How Can I Correct Others Gently?
How Attractive Women Abuse Their Beauty
Silent Women, Speaking Women
Was My Pre-Faith Suffering Discipline or Justice?
Living Pure in a Corrupting Screen Age
Why Do You Focus on God’s Role in Our Suffering?
Loving God in Life’s Biggest Disappointments
Coming to Christ for All the Wrong Reasons
Does God Condemn Nations Today?
Who Is Blocking My Life — Satan or Jesus?
Four Tests for False Teaching
Distorted Doctrine Destroys Lives
Surviving the Social Media Flood of Life Advice
Did We Sin Our Marriage Away?
Did God Forgive Me If I Don’t Feel Forgiven?
Guard Your Mind from Trash
Jesus’s Warnings to the Comfortable
Seven Ways to Break Free from Misplaced Hope
Are My Struggles Personal or Demonic?
Is It Wrong to Get a Little Drunk Sometimes?
Trusting God After Losing Everything
When Your Best Years Are Behind You
The Glorious Riches Awaiting You
Restoring a Repentant Adulterer
Drawing Close to a Daughter Drifting from God
Why Didn’t Christ Come Sooner?
Seven Anchors That Hold When Tragedy Hits
Wimpy Theology Makes Vulnerable Women
God Will Heal Me Completely — But When?
Common Myths About Eternal Rewards
The Most Extraordinary Experience in This World
‘No One Ever Hated His Own Body’ — Really?
Will Heaven Ever Grow Boring?
The Cost of Being a Loner
God Withholds Nothing We Need
How Can I Grow in Humility as I Grow in Knowledge?
How to Become the Mother of Jesus
Distinguishing Shame from Guilt
What Jordan Peterson Gets Wrong About Happiness
Does God Withdraw His Presence from Me?
Seven Promises That Have Kept John Piper
Help Me Live a Genuine Life
How Did Jesus Freely Live a Scripted Life?
How Much of Christianity Remains a Secret?
If No One Seeks God, How Is Anyone Saved?
Are Christians Happier Than Non-Christians in This Life?
I Never Felt Like God’s Enemy — Was I?
Advice for Reading Romans After Decades of Experience
Should I Use AI to Help Me Write Sermons?
Every Good Sermon Has Application
What Makes Someone Spiritually Dirty?
Why Does the Bible Say Baptism Saves Us?
Living with Gospel-Sized Ambition
Why Is Witchcraft Handled So Differently Across Scripture?
Is There Good Magic and Edifying Sorcery?
How Do I Become Happy in God?
If God Pastors Me, Why Do I Need Pastors?
How Do I Apply Bible Stories to My Life?
One Believer Dies, Another Lives: On Reading Providence
The Pleasure That Defeats Pornography
Does God Believe in Atheists?
Is Heaven a Real Place Right Now?
Why Pray for Protection When Suffering Keeps Coming?
The Spiritual Battles in Your Bible Reading
‘A Man at Church Thinks We Should Marry — I Disagree’
Your Bible-Reading Feedback, and How to Help Us in 2025
Am I Overusing Bible Commentaries?
Does Christmas Bring Peace or War?
The God over Geopolitics
How Does God Deliver Me from Pain by Pain?
Every Gift Points Us to Christ
Will I Suffer My Singleness Forever?
On Creepy, Darker Media
On So-Called ‘Gender Pronoun Hospitality’
Christian Thankfulness: What It Is (and Isn’t)
‘Help, I’m Struggling to Believe Anything Is True’
Will We See God in Eternity?
What’s True and False in Job?
Can a Church Require Tithing?
Can We Know Truth with Complete Certainty?
Ministry After God Takes a Beloved Wife
I Want God’s Wrath on My Enemy
How Not to Respond to Suffering
Perfectionism Makes Me Indecisive — What Can I Do?
When Are Good Grades Good Enough?
What Future Judgment Will Christians Face?
How Much Money Do I Need to Retire?
How God Guards You
Does Free Will Exist?
Do Christian Hedonists Deny Self-Denial?
Joy’s Triumph over Spiritual Sloth
Overcoming Spiritual Laziness
Rome’s Seven Deadly Errors
Celebrate the Reformation with Us This October
The Busy Soul Learning to Wait for God
American Church, Is Your Christ Too Cheap?
DG’s Slogan, Coined 36 Years Ago Today
Why Do I Exist?
Will God Forgive My Worst Sin?
The Pitfalls of Being a Thinker
On Hoarding
How to Find the Meaning of a Bible Verse
What Is ‘White-Hot Worship’?
Did My Negligence Kill My Baby?
Defining Success in My 9-to-5 Job
Your Holy Deeds Are Not Filthy Rags
Are Motorcycles for Fools?
Should We Ever Speak Directly to the Devil?
Seven Encouragements for Parents of Prodigals
Can We Pray for God to Teach Someone a Lesson?
Should My Construction Company Help Build a Casino?
When Love Wanes, the Marriage Covenant Remains
Can a Single Pastor Date in His Church?
What Makes a True Friend?
God Is Eager to Work for You
Will God Judge People for Being Born Muslim?
On Repetitive Worship Songs
Let the Bible Smash Your Bad Theology
The Good Grace of Being American
Is My Joy Commanded or Spontaneous?
The Next Generation of Missionaries
How Your Heart Governs Your Mind
Resurrection Power for Our Pain
The Emotional Roller Coaster of Bible Reading
Taste Test Your Way to God’s Will
God’s Purpose in Our Boredom
How Can I Convince Comfortable People to Embrace Christ?
Satan, the ‘Prince of the Air’ — What Does That Mean?
If I’m Not Elect, How Am I Guilty for Not Believing?
What Shia LaBeouf Gets Wrong About Joy
Killing Lust with the Cross of Christ
Ten Questions for Readers of Erotica
Warning Our Children of Rebellion
Mom’s Role in Raising Boys
The Prayer You Don’t Want Answered
How Can I Grow in Expressing Affection?
Why Does God Allow Satan to Block the Gospel?
Are Parents to Blame for Prodigals?
How to Write a Good Sentence
A Daily Morning Exercise
Am I Confident or Arrogant?
Should the Church ‘Bless’ Same-Sex Relationships?
How Can I Glorify God as I Pray for Myself?
Am I Abusing Caffeine?
‘Death Is Yours’ — What Does Paul Mean?
The Man Who Died in the Pulpit
How Do I Forget My Sinful Past?
God Delivers from the Suffering He Ordains
The Gift of God’s God-Centeredness
Should Confidence in Sovereignty Make Me Prayerless?
Your Most-Asked-About Bible Verse
How Much Error Can I Believe and Still Be Saved?
Is My Child Transgender Because of Me?
The ‘Ask Pastor John’ Book Is Here
Is Obedience Without Affection Still Love?
How Preachers Grow Graceless
Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless
Why Did God Stigmatize the Disabled?
Enjoying God in His Gifts
What’s the Essence of Love?
Political Flag-Waving Isn’t Enough
Does Hidden Sin Bring Physical Suffering?
How Should I Choose a College Major?
Do I Have a Hard Heart?
Was Jesus Confused by the Cross?
What Would World War III Mean for Missions?
Strategies for Building a Reverent Church
Leading a Church out of Casual Culture
On Coffee-Sipping in the Sanctuary
Should Christians Make Bucket Lists?
Looking Back at 2023, Looking Ahead to 2024
Make the Bible Part of Your Everyday in 2024
Feast on the Bible’s Grammar
How John Piper Marks Up His Books
Make Your Life Count: Twelve Rules for Teens
Go to the Ant
How to Study the Bible on a Topic
Learning for Those Who Don’t Love Learning
How Thanksgiving Shapes Your Life Story
How Does Learning Deepen Joy?
Learning in a World Blind to God
How to Lead Teens Deeper into Their Bibles
How Can I Return to Normal Life After Tragedy?
Hoping in God When Our Heroes Die
How Can I Kill My Selfishness?
What Do We Celebrate on Reformation Day?
Is My Painting Hobby a Wartime Waste?
Should We Consult with Dead Ancestors?
Can Pro-Life Advocates Lie to Save Lives?
John Piper on ChatGPT
Is It Sinful to Be Unhappy?
Is Joy a Choice or a Feeling?
What Old Testament Promises Are for Me?
Evidence for the Cross and Resurrection
Does God Love Us Simply for His Glory?
If Sin’s Penalty Is Eternal, Why Isn’t Jesus Still Suffering?
Six Reasons Jesus Left Earth After Easter
Even If Our Faith Is False, Aren’t Christians Happier People?
What Does Piper Mean by ‘Satisfied’?
Christ, Our Sabbath Rest at Work
How Can I Become a Humbler Calvinist?
Will We Work in Eternity?
Ten Authors for Your Soul
Why John Piper Reads Books
I Don’t Feel God’s Love — What Can I Do?
Ten Reasons You Need Unconditional Election
Ten Criticisms of John Piper’s Preaching
Do Christians Really Suffer in America?
How Can I Explain Christian Joy to Unbelievers?
Why Does God Choose the Foolish?
Resisting the Inner Skeptic in Our Bible Reading
Can I Still Have Joy in Seasons of Doubt?
How Does God’s Joy Become My Joy?
Fifty Years of Theological Battles
What Does It Mean to Be Spiritual?
How Are We Being Saved Right Now?
How Can I Encourage Without Flattering?
What Do We Give to God?
What Does It Mean to Serve God?
Learning to Forgive Family
On Sibling Rivalries
Manhood and Womanhood in Parachurch Ministry
What Will We Remember in the New Creation?
Better Than Scrolling Your Phone in the Morning
Dangers in Exposing Cultural Sins
The Sick Love of Controversy
How Much Should Pastors Make?
Can Single Men Pastor?
Why Do We Pray for Our President?
Hope for the Fragile and Fragmented
The Joy of Jesus’s Return
Why God Wills Suffering for the Children He Loves
Upcoming Changes to APJ
Go to Work, Go to Church — Christ Is Coming Back!
Death Can Only Make Me Better: Remembering Tim Keller (1950–2023)
Popular Blunders About Christ’s Return
Five Ways to Find Wisdom
Nicotine, Amphetamines, and Holy Concentration
A Beautiful Savior for the Unattractive
The Hardest Act in Parenting Teens
The Path from Orthodoxy to Demon Theology
‘Nothing Is to Be Rejected’ — Including Pot?
What Makes You Happiest?
Can I Be Saved If I Never Evangelize?
Should Men Still Pray with Lifted Hands?
Our Joyful Duty
Caring for Families with Cross-Dressing Children
Should the World Like Us or Hate Us?
Why Did Jesus Use Spit and Mud to Heal?
Does My Sexual Past Disqualify Me from Pastoring?
Overcoming Fear
The Gospel’s War Against Our Fears and Insecurities
Should We Despise the Vile — or Love Them?
If God Desires All to Be Saved, Why Aren’t They?
Christ’s Plan for the Globe — and You
Is Work a Blessing or a Curse?
Best Commentaries on the Whole Bible
How Do I Find My Identity?
Can Satan Put Thoughts into Our Heads?
Does God Read Every Thought?
John Piper’s Conversion Story
How to Glorify God in Business Success
Is Venting the Same as Complaining?
Christian Hedonism in Two Minutes
How Does Childbirth Save Women?
I’m Stuck in Sexual Sin — Should I Excommunicate Myself?
1 Percent of a Book Can Change Your Life
Is ‘De-Gendering’ a Sin?
Are Christians Obligated to Vote?
Why Christians Don’t Need Holy Shrines
Do Angels Carry Our Prayers to God?
Was Paul Really the World’s Worst Sinner?
Overcoming Fear and Passivity in Evangelism
Was God at Work in My Pre-Conversion Life?
How Could God Be Jealous?
The God-Centeredness of God Unlocks the Gospel
I Shipwrecked My Faith — Am I Doomed?
Sinners or Saints — How Should We Speak of Christians?
Why We Share the Gospel
Preaching the Gospel of the Happy God
Can I Really Trust My Interpretation of the Bible?
How to Keep Your Eyes on Christ
How Can I Have a Good Conscience?
Did Paul Oppose Fiction?
Turn Down the Noise and Listen to Jesus
Where Do You Draw Lines for Ministry Partnerships?
Were Abortions Induced on Old Testament Adulteresses?
Fight for Delight by Planning Your Devotions
Eight Counsels for Those Thinking of Quitting
When Does Despondency Become Sin?
How Do I Push Truth from My Head to My Heart?
Getting the Tone Right on Sunday Morning
Is Intermittent Fasting Sacrilegious?
The Bible’s Main Road Out of Discouragement
John Piper’s Favorite Things
Can I Be a Nurse for a ‘Gender-Reassignment’ Surgery?
Beat a Path to the Word in 2023
How Do I Put Away My Desire for Praise?
The Christmas We Needed
What Makes for a Good Musical Worship Experience?
‘Though He Slay Me’ — Why the Silence on This Verse?
Does God Still Save the Lost Through Visions?
John Piper’s 2022 Year-in-Review
Good and Bad People-Pleasing
How Can I Cast My Cares on God?
Satan Cannot Scare You into Hell
Build Structures to Serve Your Calling
How Can Satan Harm Christians?
Amusing Ourselves from Death
Give Young Christians a Chance to Lead
Should We Seek to Suffer?
Pray Your Way into Thanksgiving
How Does Baptism Save Us?
Do Unbelievers Get a Second Chance After Death?
How Do I Pray from the Misery of My Sin?
Let the Nations Be Glad! — Thirty Years Later
What If I Don’t Have a Spiritual Gift?
What Makes My Gift a Spiritual Gift?
What Makes My Life Christian?
Should I Charge Other Christians for My Expertise?
Christ’s Death Was No Accident
How Does Love Cover a Multitude of Sins?
Christian Unity in Three Steps
Step One in Preparing to Suffer
Is Suffering a Paradox for Christian Hedonists?
How Much Speculation Should We Bring into Sermons?
The Relational Pain of Ministry
How Do People Shipwreck Their Faith?
How Can I Learn to Receive Criticism?
Becoming Unshakable in a World of Pain
Is Any Part of Life Morally Neutral?
Will My Spouse Be My Best Friend in Heaven?
How Do I Persist in Prayer?
How Do I Pray for My Husband’s Salvation?
How Do I See the Glory of Christ?
What’s the Real Problem with Fearing Man?
How to Live Fearlessly
I Want to Be Baptized — My Husband Opposes It
Am I Called to Ministry? Five Tests
What Should We Think of Flashy Pastors?
Who’s More Sinful: Men or Women?
The Godly Woman’s Charm
How Much Jewelry Is Too Much Jewelry?
Does God Call Us to Submit to Everyone?
Who Are My Enemies?
My Husband Left Me — How Do I Respond?
How Do I Address My Spouse’s Ongoing Sin?
Overcoming Anger in the Home
Can I Be Angry with God and Be Holy?
Is Double Predestination Biblical?
The Two Greatest Questions in the Universe
How Do Passions Wage War Against the Soul?
What’s the Difference Between Faith and Hope?
Why Do So Many Reject Jesus?
Who Will Judge the World?
How Are We Born Again?
How Money Fears Kill Our Worship
What Makes Christian Love Different?
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Overly Righteous’?
Gospel Drift — and How to Avoid It
Why Did Jesus Need to Suffer and Die Publicly?
Does God Ever Tempt Us to Sin?
Trembling Before God on Sunday
Is My Humorous Personality a Liability?
Are Eternal Rewards and Inheritance the Same?
Fighting for Faith in the Entertainment Age
Should Non-Christians Pray for Faith?
How Do I Prioritize My Busy Life?
Learning to Follow God’s Will
The Key to Knowing God’s Will
Does God Send ‘Strong Delusions’ into the World?
God’s School of Prayer
Politics, Patriotism, and the Pulpit
Who Is the Man of Lawlessness?
Roe v. Wade Has Ended — Our Pro-Life Work Has Not
Sustain Your Prayer Life with Sleep
Is God Present or Absent in Hell?
What’s the Center of Our Holiness?
God’s Love and My Sickness
Crucial Texts for Our Hardest Battles
Is God More Honored or Dishonored in the World?
The Pervasive Problem of Loving Money
How Do I ‘Wrestle’ in Prayer?
Counsel for Wives with Harsh Husbands
Eight Essentials for Christian Living
Did Jesus Tell Us to Give to Every Panhandler?
Did Jesus Disregard the Sacrificial System?
Prayer in the Age of Global Hate
How Will I Find My Ministry Calling?
Should We Pray for Unbelievers or for Evangelists?
The Easiest Step of Love
Have I Sinned If I Fall Short of Excellence at Work?
How Do I Not Provoke My Children?
Do Answered Prayers Depend on My Holiness?
For Christians Whose Testimony Seems Boring
Would You Have Supported Prohibition in 1913?
How Greatly Am I Loved?
How Do I Make Christian Hedonism My Own?
Why Dead Men Must Die
God Saves to Make Much of Himself — Doesn’t That Lessen His Love?
Should Gospel Disagreements End a Friendship?
My Spouse Died Prematurely — Was It My Fault?
How God Makes Much of You
Does Faith Cause Regeneration?
Does God Delight in Justification or Holiness?
Why God Makes Much of You
Shame: Its Uses and Abuses
What Are Church Traditions?
The Heart of Fake Happiness
Should Pro-Lifers Embrace Embryo Adoption?
Does Romans 7 Describe a Christian?
What’s Lost When We Only Pray Alone?
Should We Dramatize Jesus’s Life for Television?
Do Christians Still Have Evil Desires?
How Fleeting Pleasures Sidetrack Our Love
I’m Too Distracted with Life to Meditate on Christ
On Permanent Birth Control
How Does God Lead Us in Daily Decisions?
In Our Racial Differences, How Is Christ ‘All’ and ‘in All’?
What Should We Make of Healing Ministries?
When Will Christ Heal My Body?
All My Sins Were Canceled — So Why Continue to Confess?
My Flesh Was Crucified — So Why Do I Still Sin?
How Do I Know If My Good Deeds Are Worthless?
If God Is Sovereign, Why Is His World Full of Suffering?
Is There a Place for Asceticism in the Christian Life?
How Do I Handle My Disordered Desires?
How Did the Cross Disarm the Devil?
How Can I Avoid Worldly Thinking in My Studies?
God’s Providence in the Ministry of Crossway Books
How Did God Reconcile ‘All Things’ to Himself?
Are Divisions in the Church Necessary?
Singing Sends Lovers of Christ to the Nations
Can We Speak with Angels?
What Does It Mean to Cry, ‘Abba, Father’?
Escaping the Love of Comfort and Safety
Has the Gospel Already Reached the Entire World?
Is My Salvation an Event or a Process?
Embracing Unpopular Truth in an Age of Political Correctness
Why Did God Make Eve from Part of Adam?
If Every Gift Comes from God, Why Thank Anyone Else?
The God Who Dwarfs Big Tech
Is Technology Holy or Worldly?
Did Bathsheba Sin with David?
I Enjoy Being Alone — Is That Unloving?
When Life Shrinks to the Size of Our Problems
How the Lottery Preys on the Poor
I Have Multiple Disabilities — How Do I Not Waste My Life?
Should I Become a Preacher?
Should I Leave an Inheritance for My Children?
Why Does God Hide Himself from Christians?
Let God’s Word Dwell in You Richly This Year
What Is an Idol?
Is Sanctification the Pursuit of Perfection?
What Desiring God Wants to Be Known For
End-of-Life Medical Intervention — or Not?
Why Is Christmas Precious to You?
History Ended at Christmas
Do the Non-Elect Have a Chance to Repent?
Is It Normal to Have a Divided Heart?
The God Who Brings Us into Everlasting Pleasure
Can We Really Give God More or Less Glory?
How ‘Progressive’ Can a Christian Get?
God’s Plan When Our Plans Fail
How Can I Resist a Critical Spirit?
John Piper’s Ministry in One Bible Text
The God Who Turns Hearts to God
Does Righteous Anger Kill Our Joy?
How Do I Write a Personal Mission Statement?
The Glorious Duty of Thanksgiving
How Can I Serve My Disabled Friends?
Is Violent Crime Under God’s Providence?
Only Jesus Knows the Full Force of Temptation
Parenting Young Children Through Life’s Pains
Is Complementarity Merely Functional?
One Day Tolerance Will End
On Cigarettes, Vaping, and Nicotine
Does God Command Our Praise for His Sake or Ours?
How to Find More Joy in God
Why Did God Make Me Unattractive?
The Church’s Calling in an Age of Recreational Pot
Finding a Life of Gospel Boldness
How Do You Find Meaning in the Bible’s Narratives?
Is Stress Making Me More Holy or More Sinful?
Would I Trust Jesus More If I Had Seen Him?
Reckoning with the Message of Job
How Do We ‘Dwell in the Shelter of the Most High’?
Five Ways Pastors Fail
Are Non-Christian Marriages Valid in God’s Eyes?
Has God Abandoned Me?
Parenting Through a Family Crisis
Ingredients for a Theology of Feasting
How Do We Prepare for the Second Coming?
You Don’t Need More Self-Love
Should Couples Use Role-Play in the Bedroom?
My Boyfriend Is Spiritually Lethargic — Should I Still Marry Him?
Does God Love Me?
How Do I Stop Rooting My Joy in My Circumstances?
Should Rich Christians Downgrade Their Lifestyle?
Prayers That Work
How Do We Discern False Teachers?
John Piper’s 9/11 Radio Interview
What Does It Mean to Be Blessed?
The Power of Your Personal Testimony
How Will Love Grow Cold in the End Times?
Did Christ Already Return?
We Become Like the Videos We Behold
What’s the Difference Between Sloth and Rest?
God Never Runs Out
How Can I Make Daily Bible Reading Authentic?
How Can I Honor My Parents If I Don’t Respect Them?
Does Christ Rule the Nations Now?
You Don’t Know God If You Don’t Love Christ
Is Death Past, Present, or Future?
Six Dangers of Podcasts
Living the Mystery of Joy in Suffering
If All My Sins Are Forgiven, Why Pursue Holiness?
Is Sex During Menstruation Sinful?
Controversy Is Essential — and Deadly
How Do We Pray in the Spirit?
If We Read Our Bibles, Why Do We Need Sermons?
How to Argue Like a Calvinist
Doing Math to the Glory of God
Can I Marry a Woman Half My Age?
The Strong Murder the Weak Every Day in America
How Much Media Is Too Much Media?
Will I Suffer More If I Follow Jesus?
The Supremacy of God in Preaching: Conclusion
Faith Won’t Survive Without Friends
Does the Bible Say I Am Unique?
Will God Really Praise Us?
Why Comfortable Christians Go Prayerless
Do Angels Walk Among Us Today?
On Codependent Dating Relationships
Why Would God Create a Baby to Live for Two Minutes?
Should We Watch for Signs from God?
Should Christians Visit Cemeteries?
One Surprising Reason for Pain
Who Is the Disciple Jesus Loved?
Plans for 2021 and Beyond
How Not to Correct a Fellow Christian
The Disabled Wife and the Proverbs 31 Woman
Are Our Enemies Spiritual, Human, or Both?
To Be Loved Infinitely
How Do I Serve Dying Unbelievers?
Should Christian Jurors Show Mercy to the Guilty?
Why Do You Want to Be Loved by God?
Is It Sinful to Pray for a Larger Income?
A Better Promise for Serial Daters
Flee to Christ in Fear
Where Is Providence in the Vanity of Ecclesiastes?
What Is a Baptist?
The Key to Killing Lust
What Does the Bible Say About Purgatory?
How Do I Love Neighbors Who Ignore Me?
Reckoning with Personal Failure
Why Have Africans Suffered So Much?
Is My Repentance Real If I Keep Committing the Same Sin?
How Churches Sabotage the Love of God
How Can I Protect My Child from State Indoctrination?
Why Did the First Humans Live for So Long?
How Have You Processed the Sin of Ravi Zacharias?
What’s Stopping You from Coming to Christ?
What Are Angels Doing Today?
How Should We Respond to Christian Conspiracy Theories?
What ‘No Condemnation’ Does to a Heart
Did Abraham Laugh at God’s Promise?
What Makes Women the ‘Weaker Vessel’?
The Problem with Asking, ‘What’s Wrong with It?’
Hope for Children from Dysfunctional Families
How Does Chronic Pain Glorify God?
Escape the World’s Infatuation with Sex
How Will Heaven Change Our Joy?
How Does Easter Change Us?
What You Need More Than Self-Confidence
What Didn’t Christ Accomplish?
How Can I Serve the Dying?
What Is the Gospel For?
How Can I Fight Sin Without Losing Sight of Christ?
I Feel Called to Missions — Should I Date Someone Who Doesn’t?
Finding Hope in God’s Unfolding Plan
Who Is God?
How Can We Know God?
The Courage We Need for Mission
Do We Dishonor God by Neglecting His Gifts?
John Piper’s Big Book on the Providence of God
Why Did Jesus Choose Judas?
Finding the Confidence to Pray
I’m Likely Going to Prison — Now What?
Should I Ever Pursue My Dreams?
Protected from False Teaching
Who Wrote the Bible?
What Is the Meaning of Life?
Sustained Through the Hardest Suffering
Why Is Baptism Important?
My Teen Is Sexually Active — What Can I Do?
The Root of Beautiful Patience
Do My Sins Hinder My Prayers?
Is My Happiness Moral or Not?
Escaping the Fog of Triviality
Has Porn Already Broken My Future Marriage?
Before You Tweet Criticism: Six Considerations
Everything Made Meaningful
Why Did God Create Us?
Am I Too Hard on Myself?
Trembling at Sin, Marveling at Grace
Martin Luther King and His Partner in the Cause
Is an Audio Bible Sufficient for Devotions?
Confronting Lukewarm Worship
How Do I Bear with Immature Christians?
How Often Should I Question My Salvation?
What Difference Does Providence Make?
Can I Take a Vaccine Made from Aborted Babies?
How Do I Become Passionate About Bible Reading?
Eight Years of APJ, and What’s Ahead
Should We Talk More About ‘Following Jesus’?
Is Christmas Too Pagan for Christians?
Why Did Christ Need a Body?
Do We Have the Exact Words of Christ, or a Paraphrase?
Does Joy Come After Suffering, Or in It?
The Sweetness of Christ in 2020
What Happens to Non-Christians Who Take the Lord’s Supper?
Christian Marries Non-Christian — How Does a Church Respond?
Fight Sin Like a Victor, Not a Victim
How Do I Battle Imposter Syndrome?
Did Jesus Say We Are gods?
What’s Keeping Me from Seeing Jesus?
Can I ‘Name It and Claim It’?
Critical Race Theory, Part 2: The Root Problem
Critical Race Theory, Part 1: The Relationships
Ten Effects of Seeing and Savoring the Providence of God
Have You Seen the Providence of God?
God’s Providence in 2020
Does God Regret Making Me?
What Makes Us Want to Move and Travel?
My Wife Is More Spiritual — How Do I Lead Her?
Am I Completely Surrendered to Christ?
How Can I Grow in Obeying God?
I Sought a Prostitute — Am I Doomed?
When Does God Harden a Sinner’s Heart?
God’s Good Design in Our Suffering
Do My Past Sins Work Toward My Future Good?
How Do We Raise Kids Who Are Not Naive or Cynical?
How Did God Call Me to Himself?
I’m Obsessed with My Appearance — How Can I Stop?
Are Our Standards for Sexual Purity Too High for Pastors?
My Suffering Feels Meaningless — What Can I Do?
How Can I Love God More Than My Boyfriend?
Is My Suffering a Correction for Sin?
How Do We Get Tricked into Sinning?
Why Did Demons Ask Jesus for Pigs?
Why Do I Need to Read the Bible When We Have Bible Teachers Online?
Dismiss the Devil with a Song
Is Enjoying God the Same as Glorifying God?
Why Is the Bible So Violent?
How Do I Overcome My Fear of the Future?
Why Does It Matter That Christ Was ‘Begotten, Not Made’?
Money Motivates Me to Work Hard — Is That Okay?
How Do I Tell If I Am Lukewarm?
What Do You Love Most About God?
‘Always Learning but Never Arriving’ — Is That Me?
What Is God Accomplishing in My Suffering?
What Do My Entertainment Habits Reveal About My Soul?
Does Every Sin Cost Me an Eternal Reward?
I Feel Unappreciated — How Should I Respond?
Is My Career in Marketing Vain?
How Do I Recover from an Unbearable Tragedy?
What Does My Stealing Say About My Soul?
Will the New Creation Look Like This One?
Is Angry Prayer Okay?
How Did John Piper Become a Calvinist?
When Should I Follow My Heart?
Ten Reasons to Read the Bible Every Day
How Does Christ Change How I Work?
How Do I Lead Someone to Christ?
Do We Need Extrabiblical Texts to Understand the Bible?
Did God Save Me to Call Attention to Himself?
Are Christian Couples Required to Have Kids?
Can a Christian Hedonist Get Depressed?
How Do I Wait for God?
John Piper Interviews J.I. Packer
How Do I Glorify God in My Daily Life?
Am I Wasting My Life in a Secular Job?
How Does God Become Totally for Me?
How Do I Wage War on My Self-Pity?
A Seriously Happy Puritan: Praising God for J.I. Packer
Seven Lessons for Productivity
What Does Freedom from the Love of Money Look Like?
How Can I Disagree with My Husband and Still Submit?
How Do I Know If I’m Doing Enough for God?
Why Do I Need to Be Saved?
Why Does ‘Atonement’ Disappear in the New Testament?
How Much Patriotism Is Too Much Patriotism?
How Can I Be Free from Materialism?
Did Moses Think Sinners Could Keep the Law?
Do I Need to Understand the Trinity to Be Saved?
How Do I Find Freedom from Worry?
Would God Have Been More Loving Not to Create Anyone?
Which Characters in Job Can We Trust?
Update from John Piper and How You Can Help Us
What Do You See When You Look at the Sky?
Why Does Christ Want Some Not to Believe?
How Should Christians Respond to Climate Change?
Why Must Our Bodies Get Resurrected?
Does the Law Aggravate Our Sin Nature?
What Are the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven?
What Do You Say to Evangelicals Who Affirm So-Called ‘Same-Sex Marriage’?
My Pastors Don’t Preach Against Sin — Is That Okay?
Does John Piper Deny Personal Assurance?
What Are God’s Purposes in a Recession?
How Much Joy Did the Curse Cost Me?
Do My Sins Ruin God’s Plan for My Life?
The God over Viruses
Does Christ Govern Every Storm?
Am I Living by Faith or Unbelief?
Could a Recession Serve Our Joy?
What Is Hyper-Calvinism?
What’s the Comfort If the Coronavirus Is Judgment?
What Is Grace?
How Can I Receive Christ?
Is the Calvinist-Arminian Debate Really Important?
How Should We Dress for Church?
What Are the Spiritual Dangers of Technology?
Is the Christian’s Heart Deceitfully Wicked?
What Sins Disqualify a Pastor for Life?
Sovereign Comfort for Uncertain Times
Why Do We Confess If Our Sins Are Already Forgiven?
Is God Humble?
More Precious Than Praise and Possessions
Fighting Loneliness in the Coronavirus Outbreak
I’m Afraid of Surrendering to Christ — What Can I Do?