In a sermon titled, “Why God Cannot Be Served But Loves to Serve,” Dr. John Piper explains the good news and the bad news of Acts 17:16-34, God is not Served by Human Hands – Bad News to the Self-Sufficient In that message, two verses stand out as the essence of why Paul had hated … More Bad News–Good News– Dr. John Piper on Acts 17
John Piper on Matthew 12:20: The Expansive Gentleness of Jesus The spirit of the ministry of Jesus is the spirit of tenderness with people who are broken and weak. Verse 20 is a beautiful stroke in the portrait of our Lord: “He will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick.” Picture an … More The Expansive Gentleness of Jesus – Dr. John Piper on Matthew 12:20
John Piper on Exodus 9:16: “For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Now we see why Paul chose to quote Exodus 9:16 in Romans 9:17 rather than one … More The Hardening of Pharaoh and the Hope of the World
“Then the Lord said to him, ‘Who made man’s mouth? Who makes him dumb or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?’” Exodus 4:11 John Piper comments on this passage: The first thing this verse means is this: Moses, the God you have been talking to, who has made you all … More God is the Divine, Sovereign Creator (Exodus 4)
John Piper encourages us from Matthew 10: Then Jesus adds one other ingredient to this argument for fearlessness: namely, verse 30: “Even the hairs of your head are all numbered.” God knows us minutely. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He has counted and named every hair, even though they are of little … More Ingredients for fearlessness and peace (Matthew 10:30)
“If God’s word of promise cannot be trusted to stand forever, then all our faith is in vain.” – John Piper, The Justification of God, (Grand Rapids, Mi.: Baker Book House, 1993), 19.
As someone passionately active in missions (vvmi.org), I am still NOT on the frontlines. I experience the joys of being involved and seeing God at work, but I do not yet personally suffer any of the costs of frontier missions. John Piper explains the COSTS and the BLESSINGS of frontier missions, in his sermon, “I … More The Costs and Blessings of Frontier Missons…John Piper on Matthew 10
John Piper ponders the Good Shepherd in Psalm 23: What Psalm 23:3 did for me was to put a huge road block in the way of my tendency toward man-centeredness, my tendency to think only on an earthly level, where much good can be done for man’s physical needs but where God seems strangely irrelevant. … More “For Your NAME’S Sake….” John Piper on Psalm 23…
In a sermon titled, “Prayer at Harvest Time: Now!” John Piper said: Not only did Jesus find a privation among the people, and feel compassion, and see a potential harvest, he also commanded us to pray it in. “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out … More “Therefore PRAY!” John Piper on Matthew 9:38
John Piper in “History is God’s Story,”: The Point Paul Was Making in Preaching This Way Now think about all this for a moment. Don’t take this kind of narration of history for granted. Let it strike you as strange as it really is. Is this the way you tell stories about what happened? When … More History is HIS Story! John Piper on Acts 13
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