John Piper Sermons

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.

Every Christian has received a gift from God which he is responsible to use for the good of the church and for the glory of God.

God aims to be an utterly unique, wonderful, and exalted God, by condescending to forgive sinners and work for those who wait for him.

There is no necessary connection between age and wisdom, or youth and folly. Wisdom comes from the Lord and is offered to all ages.

The good news of the Bible is not that we are not worms, but that God helps worms who trust him.

We can know God's will and maintain trust in his help, if we are familiar with the trajectories of his Word.

How different, how wonderful the use of our mouths would be if we lived by faith in the God who made the mouth and not by sight—by looking at our own clumsy tongue.

Silence about Christ is dogma. Not to teach the infinite value of Christ is to teach that he is negligible.