John Piper Sermons

John Piper | God’s sovereignty means that he ordains everything that happens — including the fall of mankind.

The New Testament gives no hint that worship services and classes are the sum total of what church was supposed to be.

To give is not to buy. And that weekly crisis is utterly important to maintain.

John Piper | Providence is not just a doctrine for theologians to argue about, but an all-encompassing truth that ignites the joy of God’s people.

It dishonors God to treat him as a master in need of slave labor. What honors God is not slave labor, but childlike faith in his all-sufficiency.

God eagerly waits for his lost children to come home. When they do, he receives them with open arms and a glad heart.

Jonathan Edwards was used powerfully by God in the First Great Awakening both to promote and assess the revival in New England, as well as to leave behind a fruitful legacy of theological works that have greatly impacted the church.

Jesus eating with and receiving tax collectors and sinners displays God’s heart to seek and save the lost.

The thought of Jonathan Edwards, demonstrated through a handful of notable works, had a profound impact on John Piper’s life and ministry.

The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost. He sought them, he received them, he ate with them, and he saved them.

We’ll never love like Jesus loved until we die to ourselves. But in that death, we’ll find more life than we even could have hoped.

You won’t discover freedom by indulging in whatever you want. True liberty begins when we submit our desires to God.

Without seeing Christ, the burden to show him to others becomes slave labor.

God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.

Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.

In this sermon on Matthew 5:43–48, John Piper explains how the Great Commission helps us understand the command to love our enemies. He shows us the basis for the Golden Rule.

Loving God sustains us through all the joy and pain and perplexity and uncertainty of what loving our neighbor should be.

All of Scripture hangs on two great purposes: that God be loved with all our heart, and that we love each other as we love ourselves.

The link between our love and Christ’s is faith and the Spirit. Without the Spirit, we have no faith, and without both, we have no love.

Of all the great things that Easter means, it also means this: it is a mighty "I meant it!" behind Jesus' death.