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John Piper answering tough theological and pastoral questions.

Episode Date
Warning Our Children of Rebellion
May 16, 2024
Mom’s Role in Raising Boys
May 13, 2024
The Prayer You Don’t Want Answered
May 09, 2024
How Can I Grow in Expressing Affection?
May 06, 2024
Why Does God Allow Satan to Block the Gospel?
May 02, 2024
Are Parents to Blame for Prodigals?
Apr 29, 2024
How to Write a Good Sentence
Apr 25, 2024
A Daily Morning Exercise
Apr 22, 2024
Am I Confident or Arrogant?
Apr 18, 2024
Should the Church ‘Bless’ Same-Sex Relationships?
Apr 15, 2024
How Can I Glorify God as I Pray for Myself?
Apr 11, 2024
Am I Abusing Caffeine?
Apr 08, 2024
‘Death Is Yours’ — What Does Paul Mean?
Apr 04, 2024
The Man Who Died in the Pulpit
Apr 01, 2024
How Do I Forget My Sinful Past?
Mar 28, 2024
God Delivers from the Suffering He Ordains
Mar 25, 2024
The Gift of God’s God-Centeredness
Mar 21, 2024
Should Confidence in Sovereignty Make Me Prayerless?
Mar 18, 2024
Your Most-Asked-About Bible Verse
Mar 14, 2024
How Much Error Can I Believe and Still Be Saved?
Mar 11, 2024
Is My Child Transgender Because of Me?
Mar 07, 2024
The ‘Ask Pastor John’ Book Is Here
Mar 05, 2024
Is Obedience Without Affection Still Love?
Mar 04, 2024
How Preachers Grow Graceless
Feb 29, 2024
Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless
Feb 26, 2024
Why Did God Stigmatize the Disabled?
Feb 22, 2024
Enjoying God in His Gifts
Feb 19, 2024
What’s the Essence of Love?
Feb 15, 2024
Political Flag-Waving Isn’t Enough
Feb 12, 2024
Does Hidden Sin Bring Physical Suffering?
Feb 08, 2024
How Should I Choose a College Major?
Feb 05, 2024
Do I Have a Hard Heart?
Feb 01, 2024
Was Jesus Confused by the Cross?
Jan 29, 2024
What Would World War III Mean for Missions?
Jan 25, 2024
Strategies for Building a Reverent Church
Jan 22, 2024
Leading a Church out of Casual Culture
Jan 18, 2024
On Coffee-Sipping in the Sanctuary
Jan 15, 2024
Should Christians Make Bucket Lists?
Jan 11, 2024
Looking Back at 2023, Looking Ahead to 2024
Dec 21, 2023
Make the Bible Part of Your Everyday in 2024
Dec 18, 2023
Feast on the Bible’s Grammar
Dec 14, 2023
How John Piper Marks Up His Books
Dec 11, 2023
Make Your Life Count: Twelve Rules for Teens
Dec 07, 2023
Go to the Ant
Dec 04, 2023
How to Study the Bible on a Topic
Nov 30, 2023
Learning for Those Who Don’t Love Learning
Nov 27, 2023
How Thanksgiving Shapes Your Life Story
Nov 23, 2023
How Does Learning Deepen Joy?
Nov 20, 2023
Learning in a World Blind to God
Nov 16, 2023
How to Lead Teens Deeper into Their Bibles
Nov 13, 2023
How Can I Return to Normal Life After Tragedy?
Nov 09, 2023
Hoping in God When Our Heroes Die
Nov 06, 2023
How Can I Kill My Selfishness?
Nov 02, 2023
What Do We Celebrate on Reformation Day?
Oct 30, 2023
Is My Painting Hobby a Wartime Waste?
Oct 26, 2023
Should We Consult with Dead Ancestors?
Oct 23, 2023
Can Pro-Life Advocates Lie to Save Lives?
Oct 19, 2023
John Piper on ChatGPT
Oct 16, 2023
Is It Sinful to Be Unhappy?
Oct 12, 2023
Is Joy a Choice or a Feeling?
Oct 09, 2023
What Old Testament Promises Are for Me?
Oct 05, 2023
Evidence for the Cross and Resurrection
Oct 02, 2023
Does God Love Us Simply for His Glory?
Sep 28, 2023
If Sin’s Penalty Is Eternal, Why Isn’t Jesus Still Suffering?
Sep 25, 2023
Six Reasons Jesus Left Earth After Easter
Sep 21, 2023
Even If Our Faith Is False, Aren’t Christians Happier People?
Sep 18, 2023
What Does Piper Mean by ‘Satisfied’?
Sep 14, 2023
Christ, Our Sabbath Rest at Work
Sep 11, 2023
How Can I Become a Humbler Calvinist?
Sep 07, 2023
Will We Work in Eternity?
Sep 04, 2023
Ten Authors for Your Soul
Aug 31, 2023
Why John Piper Reads Books
Aug 28, 2023
I Don’t Feel God’s Love — What Can I Do?
Aug 24, 2023
Ten Reasons You Need Unconditional Election
Aug 21, 2023
Ten Criticisms of John Piper’s Preaching
Aug 17, 2023
Do Christians Really Suffer in America?
Aug 14, 2023
How Can I Explain Christian Joy to Unbelievers?
Aug 10, 2023
Why Does God Choose the Foolish?
Aug 07, 2023
Resisting the Inner Skeptic in Our Bible Reading
Aug 03, 2023
Can I Still Have Joy in Seasons of Doubt?
Jul 31, 2023
How Does God’s Joy Become My Joy?
Jul 27, 2023
Fifty Years of Theological Battles
Jul 24, 2023
What Does It Mean to Be Spiritual?
Jul 20, 2023
How Are We Being Saved Right Now?
Jul 17, 2023
How Can I Encourage Without Flattering?
Jul 13, 2023
What Do We Give to God?
Jul 10, 2023
What Does It Mean to Serve God?
Jul 06, 2023
Learning to Forgive Family
Jul 03, 2023
On Sibling Rivalries
Jun 29, 2023
Manhood and Womanhood in Parachurch Ministry
Jun 26, 2023
What Will We Remember in the New Creation?
Jun 22, 2023
Better Than Scrolling Your Phone in the Morning
Jun 19, 2023
Dangers in Exposing Cultural Sins
Jun 15, 2023
The Sick Love of Controversy
Jun 12, 2023
How Much Should Pastors Make?
Jun 08, 2023
Can Single Men Pastor?
Jun 05, 2023
Why Do We Pray for Our President?
Jun 01, 2023
Hope for the Fragile and Fragmented
May 29, 2023
The Joy of Jesus’s Return
May 26, 2023
Why God Wills Suffering for the Children He Loves
May 24, 2023
Upcoming Changes to APJ
May 23, 2023
Go to Work, Go to Church — Christ Is Coming Back!
May 22, 2023
Death Can Only Make Me Better: Remembering Tim Keller (1950–2023)
May 19, 2023
Popular Blunders About Christ’s Return
May 19, 2023
Five Ways to Find Wisdom
May 17, 2023
Nicotine, Amphetamines, and Holy Concentration
May 15, 2023
A Beautiful Savior for the Unattractive
May 12, 2023
The Hardest Act in Parenting Teens
May 10, 2023
The Path from Orthodoxy to Demon Theology
May 08, 2023
‘Nothing Is to Be Rejected’ — Including Pot?
May 05, 2023
What Makes You Happiest?
May 03, 2023
Can I Be Saved If I Never Evangelize?
May 01, 2023
Should Men Still Pray with Lifted Hands?
Apr 28, 2023
Our Joyful Duty
Apr 26, 2023
Caring for Families with Cross-Dressing Children
Apr 24, 2023
Should the World Like Us or Hate Us?
Apr 21, 2023
Why Did Jesus Use Spit and Mud to Heal?
Apr 19, 2023
Does My Sexual Past Disqualify Me from Pastoring?
Apr 17, 2023
Overcoming Fear
Apr 14, 2023
The Gospel’s War Against Our Fears and Insecurities
Apr 12, 2023
Should We Despise the Vile — or Love Them?
Apr 10, 2023
If God Desires All to Be Saved, Why Aren’t They?
Apr 07, 2023
Christ’s Plan for the Globe — and You
Apr 05, 2023
Is Work a Blessing or a Curse?
Apr 03, 2023
Best Commentaries on the Whole Bible
Mar 31, 2023
How Do I Find My Identity?
Mar 29, 2023
Can Satan Put Thoughts into Our Heads?
Mar 27, 2023
Does God Read Every Thought?
Mar 24, 2023
John Piper’s Conversion Story
Mar 22, 2023
How to Glorify God in Business Success
Mar 20, 2023
Is Venting the Same as Complaining?
Mar 17, 2023
Christian Hedonism in Two Minutes
Mar 15, 2023
How Does Childbirth Save Women?
Mar 13, 2023
I’m Stuck in Sexual Sin — Should I Excommunicate Myself?
Mar 10, 2023
1 Percent of a Book Can Change Your Life
Mar 08, 2023
Is ‘De-Gendering’ a Sin?
Mar 06, 2023
Are Christians Obligated to Vote?
Mar 03, 2023
Why Christians Don’t Need Holy Shrines
Mar 01, 2023
Do Angels Carry Our Prayers to God?
Feb 27, 2023
Was Paul Really the World’s Worst Sinner?
Feb 24, 2023
Overcoming Fear and Passivity in Evangelism
Feb 22, 2023
Was God at Work in My Pre-Conversion Life?
Feb 20, 2023
How Could God Be Jealous?
Feb 17, 2023
The God-Centeredness of God Unlocks the Gospel
Feb 15, 2023
I Shipwrecked My Faith — Am I Doomed?
Feb 13, 2023
Sinners or Saints — How Should We Speak of Christians?
Feb 10, 2023
Why We Share the Gospel
Feb 08, 2023
Preaching the Gospel of the Happy God
Feb 06, 2023
Can I Really Trust My Interpretation of the Bible?
Feb 03, 2023
How to Keep Your Eyes on Christ
Feb 01, 2023
How Can I Have a Good Conscience?
Jan 30, 2023
Did Paul Oppose Fiction?
Jan 27, 2023
Turn Down the Noise and Listen to Jesus
Jan 25, 2023
Where Do You Draw Lines for Ministry Partnerships?
Jan 23, 2023
Were Abortions Induced on Old Testament Adulteresses?
Jan 20, 2023
Fight for Delight by Planning Your Devotions
Jan 18, 2023
Eight Counsels for Those Thinking of Quitting
Jan 16, 2023
When Does Despondency Become Sin?
Jan 13, 2023
How Do I Push Truth from My Head to My Heart?
Jan 11, 2023
Getting the Tone Right on Sunday Morning
Jan 09, 2023
Is Intermittent Fasting Sacrilegious?
Jan 06, 2023
The Bible’s Main Road Out of Discouragement
Jan 04, 2023
John Piper’s Favorite Things
Jan 02, 2023
Can I Be a Nurse for a ‘Gender-Reassignment’ Surgery?
Dec 30, 2022
Beat a Path to the Word in 2023
Dec 28, 2022
How Do I Put Away My Desire for Praise?
Dec 26, 2022
The Christmas We Needed
Dec 23, 2022
What Makes for a Good Musical Worship Experience?
Dec 21, 2022
‘Though He Slay Me’ — Why the Silence on This Verse?
Dec 19, 2022
Does God Still Save the Lost Through Visions?
Dec 16, 2022
John Piper’s 2022 Year-in-Review
Dec 14, 2022
Good and Bad People-Pleasing
Dec 12, 2022
How Can I Cast My Cares on God?
Dec 09, 2022
Satan Cannot Scare You into Hell
Dec 07, 2022
Build Structures to Serve Your Calling
Dec 05, 2022
How Can Satan Harm Christians?
Dec 02, 2022
Amusing Ourselves from Death
Nov 30, 2022
Give Young Christians a Chance to Lead
Nov 28, 2022
Should We Seek to Suffer?
Nov 25, 2022
Pray Your Way into Thanksgiving
Nov 23, 2022
How Does Baptism Save Us?
Nov 21, 2022
Do Unbelievers Get a Second Chance After Death?
Nov 18, 2022
How Do I Pray from the Misery of My Sin?
Nov 16, 2022
Let the Nations Be Glad! — Thirty Years Later
Nov 14, 2022
What If I Don’t Have a Spiritual Gift?
Nov 11, 2022
What Makes My Gift a Spiritual Gift?
Nov 09, 2022
What Makes My Life Christian?
Nov 07, 2022
Should I Charge Other Christians for My Expertise?
Nov 04, 2022
Christ’s Death Was No Accident
Nov 02, 2022
How Does Love Cover a Multitude of Sins?
Oct 31, 2022
Christian Unity in Three Steps
Oct 28, 2022
Step One in Preparing to Suffer
Oct 26, 2022
Is Suffering a Paradox for Christian Hedonists?
Oct 24, 2022
How Much Speculation Should We Bring into Sermons?
Oct 21, 2022
The Relational Pain of Ministry
Oct 19, 2022
How Do People Shipwreck Their Faith?
Oct 17, 2022
How Can I Learn to Receive Criticism?
Oct 14, 2022
Becoming Unshakable in a World of Pain
Oct 12, 2022
Is Any Part of Life Morally Neutral?
Oct 10, 2022
Will My Spouse Be My Best Friend in Heaven?
Oct 07, 2022
How Do I Persist in Prayer?
Oct 05, 2022
How Do I Pray for My Husband’s Salvation?
Oct 03, 2022
How Do I See the Glory of Christ?
Sep 30, 2022
What’s the Real Problem with Fearing Man?
Sep 28, 2022
How to Live Fearlessly
Sep 26, 2022
I Want to Be Baptized — My Husband Opposes It
Sep 23, 2022
Am I Called to Ministry? Five Tests
Sep 21, 2022
What Should We Think of Flashy Pastors?
Sep 19, 2022
Who’s More Sinful: Men or Women?
Sep 16, 2022
The Godly Woman’s Charm
Sep 14, 2022
How Much Jewelry Is Too Much Jewelry?
Sep 12, 2022
Does God Call Us to Submit to Everyone?
Sep 09, 2022
Who Are My Enemies?
Sep 07, 2022
My Husband Left Me — How Do I Respond?
Sep 05, 2022
How Do I Address My Spouse’s Ongoing Sin?
Sep 02, 2022
Overcoming Anger in the Home
Aug 31, 2022
Can I Be Angry with God and Be Holy?
Aug 29, 2022
Is Double Predestination Biblical?
Aug 26, 2022
The Two Greatest Questions in the Universe
Aug 24, 2022
How Do Passions Wage War Against the Soul?
Aug 22, 2022
What’s the Difference Between Faith and Hope?
Aug 19, 2022
Why Do So Many Reject Jesus?
Aug 17, 2022
Who Will Judge the World?
Aug 15, 2022
How Are We Born Again?
Aug 12, 2022
How Money Fears Kill Our Worship
Aug 10, 2022
What Makes Christian Love Different?
Aug 08, 2022
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Overly Righteous’?
Aug 05, 2022
Gospel Drift — and How to Avoid It
Aug 03, 2022
Why Did Jesus Need to Suffer and Die Publicly?
Aug 01, 2022
Does God Ever Tempt Us to Sin?
Jul 29, 2022
Trembling Before God on Sunday
Jul 27, 2022
Is My Humorous Personality a Liability?
Jul 25, 2022
Are Eternal Rewards and Inheritance the Same?
Jul 22, 2022
Fighting for Faith in the Entertainment Age
Jul 20, 2022
Should Non-Christians Pray for Faith?
Jul 18, 2022
How Do I Prioritize My Busy Life?
Jul 15, 2022
Learning to Follow God’s Will
Jul 13, 2022
The Key to Knowing God’s Will
Jul 11, 2022
Does God Send ‘Strong Delusions’ into the World?
Jul 08, 2022
God’s School of Prayer
Jul 06, 2022
Politics, Patriotism, and the Pulpit
Jul 04, 2022
Who Is the Man of Lawlessness?
Jul 01, 2022
Roe v. Wade Has Ended — Our Pro-Life Work Has Not
Jun 30, 2022
Sustain Your Prayer Life with Sleep
Jun 29, 2022
Is God Present or Absent in Hell?
Jun 27, 2022
What’s the Center of Our Holiness?
Jun 24, 2022
God’s Love and My Sickness
Jun 22, 2022
Crucial Texts for Our Hardest Battles
Jun 20, 2022
Is God More Honored or Dishonored in the World?
Jun 17, 2022
The Pervasive Problem of Loving Money
Jun 15, 2022
How Do I ‘Wrestle’ in Prayer?
Jun 13, 2022
Counsel for Wives with Harsh Husbands
Jun 10, 2022
Eight Essentials for Christian Living
Jun 08, 2022
Did Jesus Tell Us to Give to Every Panhandler?
Jun 06, 2022
Did Jesus Disregard the Sacrificial System?
Jun 03, 2022
Prayer in the Age of Global Hate
Jun 01, 2022
How Will I Find My Ministry Calling?
May 30, 2022
Should We Pray for Unbelievers or for Evangelists?
May 27, 2022
The Easiest Step of Love
May 25, 2022
Have I Sinned If I Fall Short of Excellence at Work?
May 23, 2022
How Do I Not Provoke My Children?
May 20, 2022
Do Answered Prayers Depend on My Holiness?
May 18, 2022
For Christians Whose Testimony Seems Boring
May 16, 2022
Would You Have Supported Prohibition in 1913?
May 13, 2022
How Greatly Am I Loved?
May 11, 2022
How Do I Make Christian Hedonism My Own?
May 09, 2022
Why Dead Men Must Die
May 06, 2022
God Saves to Make Much of Himself — Doesn’t That Lessen His Love?
May 04, 2022
Should Gospel Disagreements End a Friendship?
May 02, 2022
My Spouse Died Prematurely — Was It My Fault?
Apr 29, 2022
How God Makes Much of You
Apr 27, 2022
Does Faith Cause Regeneration?
Apr 25, 2022
Does God Delight in Justification or Holiness?
Apr 22, 2022
Why God Makes Much of You
Apr 20, 2022
Shame: Its Uses and Abuses
Apr 18, 2022
What Are Church Traditions?
Apr 15, 2022
The Heart of Fake Happiness
Apr 13, 2022
Should Pro-Lifers Embrace Embryo Adoption?
Apr 11, 2022
Does Romans 7 Describe a Christian?
Apr 08, 2022
What’s Lost When We Only Pray Alone?
Apr 06, 2022
Should We Dramatize Jesus’s Life for Television?
Apr 04, 2022
Do Christians Still Have Evil Desires?
Apr 01, 2022
How Fleeting Pleasures Sidetrack Our Love
Mar 30, 2022
I’m Too Distracted with Life to Meditate on Christ
Mar 28, 2022
On Permanent Birth Control
Mar 25, 2022
How Does God Lead Us in Daily Decisions?
Mar 23, 2022
In Our Racial Differences, How Is Christ ‘All’ and ‘in All’?
Mar 21, 2022
What Should We Make of Healing Ministries?
Mar 18, 2022
When Will Christ Heal My Body?
Mar 16, 2022
All My Sins Were Canceled — So Why Continue to Confess?
Mar 14, 2022
My Flesh Was Crucified — So Why Do I Still Sin?
Mar 11, 2022
How Do I Know If My Good Deeds Are Worthless?
Mar 09, 2022
If God Is Sovereign, Why Is His World Full of Suffering?
Mar 07, 2022
Is There a Place for Asceticism in the Christian Life?
Mar 04, 2022
How Do I Handle My Disordered Desires?
Mar 02, 2022
How Did the Cross Disarm the Devil?
Feb 28, 2022
How Can I Avoid Worldly Thinking in My Studies?
Feb 25, 2022
God’s Providence in the Ministry of Crossway Books
Feb 23, 2022
How Did God Reconcile ‘All Things’ to Himself?
Feb 21, 2022
Are Divisions in the Church Necessary?
Feb 18, 2022
Singing Sends Lovers of Christ to the Nations
Feb 16, 2022
Can We Speak with Angels?
Feb 14, 2022
What Does It Mean to Cry, ‘Abba, Father’?
Feb 11, 2022
Escaping the Love of Comfort and Safety
Feb 09, 2022
Has the Gospel Already Reached the Entire World?
Feb 07, 2022
Is My Salvation an Event or a Process?
Feb 04, 2022
Embracing Unpopular Truth in an Age of Political Correctness
Feb 02, 2022
Why Did God Make Eve from Part of Adam?
Jan 31, 2022
If Every Gift Comes from God, Why Thank Anyone Else?
Jan 28, 2022
The God Who Dwarfs Big Tech
Jan 26, 2022
Is Technology Holy or Worldly?
Jan 25, 2022
Did Bathsheba Sin with David?
Jan 24, 2022
I Enjoy Being Alone — Is That Unloving?
Jan 21, 2022
When Life Shrinks to the Size of Our Problems
Jan 19, 2022
How the Lottery Preys on the Poor
Jan 17, 2022
I Have Multiple Disabilities — How Do I Not Waste My Life?
Jan 14, 2022
Should I Become a Preacher?
Jan 12, 2022
Should I Leave an Inheritance for My Children?
Jan 10, 2022
Why Does God Hide Himself from Christians?
Jan 07, 2022
Let God’s Word Dwell in You Richly This Year
Jan 05, 2022
What Is an Idol?
Jan 03, 2022
Is Sanctification the Pursuit of Perfection?
Dec 31, 2021
What Desiring God Wants to Be Known For
Dec 29, 2021
End-of-Life Medical Intervention — or Not?
Dec 27, 2021
Why Is Christmas Precious to You?
Dec 24, 2021
History Ended at Christmas
Dec 22, 2021
Do the Non-Elect Have a Chance to Repent?
Dec 20, 2021
Is It Normal to Have a Divided Heart?
Dec 17, 2021
The God Who Brings Us into Everlasting Pleasure
Dec 15, 2021
Can We Really Give God More or Less Glory?
Dec 13, 2021
How ‘Progressive’ Can a Christian Get?
Dec 10, 2021
God’s Plan When Our Plans Fail
Dec 08, 2021
How Can I Resist a Critical Spirit?
Dec 06, 2021
John Piper’s Ministry in One Bible Text
Dec 03, 2021
The God Who Turns Hearts to God
Dec 01, 2021
Does Righteous Anger Kill Our Joy?
Nov 29, 2021
How Do I Write a Personal Mission Statement?
Nov 26, 2021
The Glorious Duty of Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 2021
How Can I Serve My Disabled Friends?
Nov 22, 2021
Is Violent Crime Under God’s Providence?
Nov 19, 2021
Only Jesus Knows the Full Force of Temptation
Nov 17, 2021
Parenting Young Children Through Life’s Pains
Nov 15, 2021
Is Complementarity Merely Functional?
Nov 12, 2021
One Day Tolerance Will End
Nov 10, 2021
On Cigarettes, Vaping, and Nicotine
Nov 08, 2021
Does God Command Our Praise for His Sake or Ours?
Nov 05, 2021
How to Find More Joy in God
Nov 03, 2021
Why Did God Make Me Unattractive?
Nov 01, 2021
The Church’s Calling in an Age of Recreational Pot
Oct 29, 2021
Finding a Life of Gospel Boldness
Oct 27, 2021
How Do You Find Meaning in the Bible’s Narratives?
Oct 25, 2021
Is Stress Making Me More Holy or More Sinful?
Oct 22, 2021
Would I Trust Jesus More If I Had Seen Him?
Oct 20, 2021
Reckoning with the Message of Job
Oct 18, 2021
How Do We ‘Dwell in the Shelter of the Most High’?
Oct 15, 2021
Five Ways Pastors Fail
Oct 13, 2021
Are Non-Christian Marriages Valid in God’s Eyes?
Oct 11, 2021
Has God Abandoned Me?
Oct 08, 2021
Parenting Through a Family Crisis
Oct 06, 2021
Ingredients for a Theology of Feasting
Oct 04, 2021
How Do We Prepare for the Second Coming?
Oct 01, 2021
You Don’t Need More Self-Love
Sep 29, 2021
Should Couples Use Role-Play in the Bedroom?
Sep 27, 2021
My Boyfriend Is Spiritually Lethargic — Should I Still Marry Him?
Sep 24, 2021
Does God Love Me?
Sep 22, 2021
How Do I Stop Rooting My Joy in My Circumstances?
Sep 20, 2021
Should Rich Christians Downgrade Their Lifestyle?
Sep 17, 2021
Prayers That Work
Sep 15, 2021
How Do We Discern False Teachers?
Sep 13, 2021
John Piper’s 9/11 Radio Interview
Sep 11, 2021
What Does It Mean to Be Blessed?
Sep 10, 2021
The Power of Your Personal Testimony
Sep 08, 2021
How Will Love Grow Cold in the End Times?
Sep 06, 2021
Did Christ Already Return?
Sep 03, 2021
We Become Like the Videos We Behold
Sep 01, 2021
What’s the Difference Between Sloth and Rest?
Aug 30, 2021
God Never Runs Out
Aug 27, 2021
How Can I Make Daily Bible Reading Authentic?
Aug 25, 2021
How Can I Honor My Parents If I Don’t Respect Them?
Aug 23, 2021
Does Christ Rule the Nations Now?
Aug 20, 2021
You Don’t Know God If You Don’t Love Christ
Aug 18, 2021
Is Death Past, Present, or Future?
Aug 16, 2021
Six Dangers of Podcasts
Aug 13, 2021
Living the Mystery of Joy in Suffering
Aug 11, 2021
If All My Sins Are Forgiven, Why Pursue Holiness?
Aug 09, 2021
Is Sex During Menstruation Sinful?
Aug 06, 2021
Controversy Is Essential — and Deadly
Aug 04, 2021
How Do We Pray in the Spirit?
Aug 02, 2021
If We Read Our Bibles, Why Do We Need Sermons?
Jul 30, 2021
How to Argue Like a Calvinist
Jul 28, 2021
Doing Math to the Glory of God
Jul 26, 2021
Can I Marry a Woman Half My Age?
Jul 23, 2021
The Strong Murder the Weak Every Day in America
Jul 21, 2021
How Much Media Is Too Much Media?
Jul 19, 2021
Will I Suffer More If I Follow Jesus?
Jul 16, 2021
The Supremacy of God in Preaching: Conclusion
Jul 15, 2021
Faith Won’t Survive Without Friends
Jul 14, 2021
Does the Bible Say I Am Unique?
Jul 12, 2021
Will God Really Praise Us?
Jul 09, 2021
Why Comfortable Christians Go Prayerless
Jul 07, 2021
Do Angels Walk Among Us Today?
Jul 05, 2021
On Codependent Dating Relationships
Jul 02, 2021
Why Would God Create a Baby to Live for Two Minutes?
Jun 30, 2021
Should We Watch for Signs from God?
Jun 28, 2021
Should Christians Visit Cemeteries?
Jun 25, 2021
One Surprising Reason for Pain
Jun 23, 2021
Who Is the Disciple Jesus Loved?
Jun 21, 2021
Plans for 2021 and Beyond
Jun 18, 2021
How Not to Correct a Fellow Christian
Jun 16, 2021
The Disabled Wife and the Proverbs 31 Woman
Jun 14, 2021
Are Our Enemies Spiritual, Human, or Both?
Jun 11, 2021
To Be Loved Infinitely
Jun 09, 2021
How Do I Serve Dying Unbelievers?
Jun 07, 2021
Should Christian Jurors Show Mercy to the Guilty?
Jun 04, 2021
Why Do You Want to Be Loved by God?
Jun 02, 2021
Is It Sinful to Pray for a Larger Income?
May 31, 2021
A Better Promise for Serial Daters
May 28, 2021
Flee to Christ in Fear
May 26, 2021
Where Is Providence in the Vanity of Ecclesiastes?
May 24, 2021
What Is a Baptist?
May 21, 2021
The Key to Killing Lust
May 19, 2021
What Does the Bible Say About Purgatory?
May 17, 2021
How Do I Love Neighbors Who Ignore Me?
May 14, 2021
Reckoning with Personal Failure
May 12, 2021
Why Have Africans Suffered So Much?
May 10, 2021
Is My Repentance Real If I Keep Committing the Same Sin?
May 07, 2021
How Churches Sabotage the Love of God
May 05, 2021
How Can I Protect My Child from State Indoctrination?
May 03, 2021
Why Did the First Humans Live for So Long?
Apr 30, 2021
How Have You Processed the Sin of Ravi Zacharias?
Apr 29, 2021
What’s Stopping You from Coming to Christ?
Apr 28, 2021
What Are Angels Doing Today?
Apr 26, 2021
How Should We Respond to Christian Conspiracy Theories?
Apr 23, 2021
What ‘No Condemnation’ Does to a Heart
Apr 21, 2021
Did Abraham Laugh at God’s Promise?
Apr 19, 2021
What Makes Women the ‘Weaker Vessel’?
Apr 16, 2021
The Problem with Asking, ‘What’s Wrong with It?’
Apr 14, 2021
Hope for Children from Dysfunctional Families
Apr 12, 2021
How Does Chronic Pain Glorify God?
Apr 09, 2021
Escape the World’s Infatuation with Sex
Apr 07, 2021
How Will Heaven Change Our Joy?
Apr 05, 2021
How Does Easter Change Us?
Apr 02, 2021
What You Need More Than Self-Confidence
Mar 31, 2021
What Didn’t Christ Accomplish?
Mar 29, 2021
How Can I Serve the Dying?
Mar 26, 2021
What Is the Gospel For?
Mar 24, 2021
How Can I Fight Sin Without Losing Sight of Christ?
Mar 22, 2021
I Feel Called to Missions — Should I Date Someone Who Doesn’t?
Mar 19, 2021
Finding Hope in God’s Unfolding Plan
Mar 17, 2021
Who Is God?
Mar 15, 2021
How Can We Know God?
Mar 12, 2021
The Courage We Need for Mission
Mar 10, 2021
Do We Dishonor God by Neglecting His Gifts?
Mar 08, 2021
John Piper’s Big Book on the Providence of God
Mar 06, 2021
Why Did Jesus Choose Judas?
Mar 05, 2021
Finding the Confidence to Pray
Mar 03, 2021
I’m Likely Going to Prison — Now What?
Mar 01, 2021
Should I Ever Pursue My Dreams?
Feb 26, 2021
Protected from False Teaching
Feb 24, 2021
Who Wrote the Bible?
Feb 22, 2021
What Is the Meaning of Life?
Feb 19, 2021
Sustained Through the Hardest Suffering
Feb 17, 2021
Why Is Baptism Important?
Feb 15, 2021
My Teen Is Sexually Active — What Can I Do?
Feb 12, 2021
The Root of Beautiful Patience
Feb 10, 2021
Do My Sins Hinder My Prayers?
Feb 08, 2021
Is My Happiness Moral or Not?
Feb 05, 2021
Escaping the Fog of Triviality
Feb 03, 2021
Has Porn Already Broken My Future Marriage?
Feb 01, 2021
Before You Tweet Criticism: Six Considerations
Jan 29, 2021
Everything Made Meaningful
Jan 27, 2021
Why Did God Create Us?
Jan 25, 2021
Am I Too Hard on Myself?
Jan 22, 2021
Trembling at Sin, Marveling at Grace
Jan 20, 2021
Martin Luther King and His Partner in the Cause
Jan 18, 2021
Is an Audio Bible Sufficient for Devotions?
Jan 15, 2021
Confronting Lukewarm Worship
Jan 13, 2021
How Do I Bear with Immature Christians?
Jan 11, 2021
How Often Should I Question My Salvation?
Jan 08, 2021
What Difference Does Providence Make?
Jan 06, 2021
Can I Take a Vaccine Made from Aborted Babies?
Jan 04, 2021
How Do I Become Passionate About Bible Reading?
Jan 01, 2021
Eight Years of APJ, and What’s Ahead
Dec 30, 2020
Should We Talk More About ‘Following Jesus’?
Dec 28, 2020
Is Christmas Too Pagan for Christians?
Dec 25, 2020
Why Did Christ Need a Body?
Dec 23, 2020
Do We Have the Exact Words of Christ, or a Paraphrase?
Dec 21, 2020
Does Joy Come After Suffering, Or in It?
Dec 18, 2020
The Sweetness of Christ in 2020
Dec 16, 2020
What Happens to Non-Christians Who Take the Lord’s Supper?
Dec 14, 2020
Christian Marries Non-Christian — How Does a Church Respond?
Dec 11, 2020
Fight Sin Like a Victor, Not a Victim
Dec 09, 2020
How Do I Battle Imposter Syndrome?
Dec 07, 2020
Did Jesus Say We Are gods?
Dec 04, 2020
What’s Keeping Me from Seeing Jesus?
Dec 02, 2020
Can I ‘Name It and Claim It’?
Nov 30, 2020
Critical Race Theory, Part 2: The Root Problem
Nov 24, 2020
Critical Race Theory, Part 1: The Relationships
Nov 23, 2020
Ten Effects of Seeing and Savoring the Providence of God
Nov 20, 2020
Have You Seen the Providence of God?
Nov 18, 2020
God’s Providence in 2020
Nov 16, 2020
Does God Regret Making Me?
Nov 13, 2020
What Makes Us Want to Move and Travel?
Nov 11, 2020
My Wife Is More Spiritual — How Do I Lead Her?
Nov 09, 2020
Am I Completely Surrendered to Christ?
Nov 06, 2020
How Can I Grow in Obeying God?
Nov 04, 2020
I Sought a Prostitute — Am I Doomed?
Nov 02, 2020
When Does God Harden a Sinner’s Heart?
Oct 30, 2020
God’s Good Design in Our Suffering
Oct 28, 2020
Do My Past Sins Work Toward My Future Good?
Oct 26, 2020
How Do We Raise Kids Who Are Not Naive or Cynical?
Oct 23, 2020
How Did God Call Me to Himself?
Oct 21, 2020
I’m Obsessed with My Appearance — How Can I Stop?
Oct 19, 2020
Are Our Standards for Sexual Purity Too High for Pastors?
Oct 16, 2020
My Suffering Feels Meaningless — What Can I Do?
Oct 14, 2020
How Can I Love God More Than My Boyfriend?
Oct 12, 2020
Is My Suffering a Correction for Sin?
Oct 09, 2020
How Do We Get Tricked into Sinning?
Oct 07, 2020
Why Did Demons Ask Jesus for Pigs?
Oct 05, 2020
Why Do I Need to Read the Bible When We Have Bible Teachers Online?
Oct 02, 2020
Dismiss the Devil with a Song
Sep 30, 2020
Is Enjoying God the Same as Glorifying God?
Sep 28, 2020
Why Is the Bible So Violent?
Sep 25, 2020
How Do I Overcome My Fear of the Future?
Sep 23, 2020
Why Does It Matter That Christ Was ‘Begotten, Not Made’?
Sep 21, 2020
Money Motivates Me to Work Hard — Is That Okay?
Sep 18, 2020
How Do I Tell If I Am Lukewarm?
Sep 16, 2020
What Do You Love Most About God?
Sep 14, 2020
‘Always Learning but Never Arriving’ — Is That Me?
Sep 11, 2020
What Is God Accomplishing in My Suffering?
Sep 09, 2020
What Do My Entertainment Habits Reveal About My Soul?
Sep 07, 2020
Does Every Sin Cost Me an Eternal Reward?
Sep 04, 2020
I Feel Unappreciated — How Should I Respond?
Sep 02, 2020
Is My Career in Marketing Vain?
Aug 31, 2020
How Do I Recover from an Unbearable Tragedy?
Aug 28, 2020
What Does My Stealing Say About My Soul?
Aug 26, 2020
Will the New Creation Look Like This One?
Aug 24, 2020
Is Angry Prayer Okay?
Aug 21, 2020
How Did John Piper Become a Calvinist?
Aug 19, 2020
When Should I Follow My Heart?
Aug 17, 2020
Ten Reasons to Read the Bible Every Day
Aug 14, 2020
How Does Christ Change How I Work?
Aug 12, 2020
How Do I Lead Someone to Christ?
Aug 10, 2020
Do We Need Extrabiblical Texts to Understand the Bible?
Aug 07, 2020
Did God Save Me to Call Attention to Himself?
Aug 05, 2020
Are Christian Couples Required to Have Kids?
Aug 03, 2020
Can a Christian Hedonist Get Depressed?
Jul 31, 2020
How Do I Wait for God?
Jul 29, 2020
John Piper Interviews J.I. Packer
Jul 28, 2020
How Do I Glorify God in My Daily Life?
Jul 27, 2020
Am I Wasting My Life in a Secular Job?
Jul 24, 2020
How Does God Become Totally for Me?
Jul 22, 2020
How Do I Wage War on My Self-Pity?
Jul 20, 2020
A Seriously Happy Puritan: Praising God for J.I. Packer
Jul 19, 2020
Seven Lessons for Productivity
Jul 17, 2020
What Does Freedom from the Love of Money Look Like?
Jul 15, 2020
How Can I Disagree with My Husband and Still Submit?
Jul 13, 2020
How Do I Know If I’m Doing Enough for God?
Jul 10, 2020
Why Do I Need to Be Saved?
Jul 08, 2020
Why Does ‘Atonement’ Disappear in the New Testament?
Jul 06, 2020
How Much Patriotism Is Too Much Patriotism?
Jul 03, 2020
How Can I Be Free from Materialism?
Jul 01, 2020
Did Moses Think Sinners Could Keep the Law?
Jun 29, 2020
Do I Need to Understand the Trinity to Be Saved?
Jun 26, 2020
How Do I Find Freedom from Worry?
Jun 24, 2020
Would God Have Been More Loving Not to Create Anyone?
Jun 22, 2020
Which Characters in Job Can We Trust?
Jun 19, 2020
Update from John Piper and How You Can Help Us
Jun 18, 2020
What Do You See When You Look at the Sky?
Jun 17, 2020
Why Does Christ Want Some Not to Believe?
Jun 15, 2020
How Should Christians Respond to Climate Change?
Jun 12, 2020
Why Must Our Bodies Get Resurrected?
Jun 10, 2020
Does the Law Aggravate Our Sin Nature?
Jun 08, 2020
What Are the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven?
Jun 05, 2020
What Do You Say to Evangelicals Who Affirm So-Called ‘Same-Sex Marriage’?
Jun 03, 2020
My Pastors Don’t Preach Against Sin — Is That Okay?
Jun 01, 2020
Does John Piper Deny Personal Assurance?
May 29, 2020
What Are God’s Purposes in a Recession?
May 27, 2020
How Much Joy Did the Curse Cost Me?
May 25, 2020
Do My Sins Ruin God’s Plan for My Life?
May 22, 2020
The God over Viruses
May 20, 2020
Does Christ Govern Every Storm?
May 18, 2020
Am I Living by Faith or Unbelief?
May 15, 2020
Could a Recession Serve Our Joy?
May 13, 2020
What Is Hyper-Calvinism?
May 11, 2020
What’s the Comfort If the Coronavirus Is Judgment?
May 11, 2020
What Is Grace?
May 08, 2020
How Can I Receive Christ?
May 06, 2020
Is the Calvinist-Arminian Debate Really Important?
May 04, 2020
How Should We Dress for Church?
May 01, 2020
What Are the Spiritual Dangers of Technology?
Apr 29, 2020
Is the Christian’s Heart Deceitfully Wicked?
Apr 27, 2020
What Sins Disqualify a Pastor for Life?
Apr 24, 2020
Sovereign Comfort for Uncertain Times
Apr 22, 2020
Why Do We Confess If Our Sins Are Already Forgiven?
Apr 20, 2020
Is God Humble?
Apr 17, 2020
More Precious Than Praise and Possessions
Apr 15, 2020
Fighting Loneliness in the Coronavirus Outbreak
Apr 14, 2020
I’m Afraid of Surrendering to Christ — What Can I Do?
Apr 13, 2020
Why Do We Celebrate Easter?
Apr 10, 2020
Why the Sovereignty of God Is Good News
Apr 09, 2020
Coronavirus and Christ (Audiobook)
Apr 08, 2020
How Do I Know If the Holy Spirit Is in Me?
Apr 06, 2020
Is It a Sin to Back Out of a Commitment?
Apr 03, 2020
Plan for Something Greater Than Retirement
Apr 01, 2020
How to Talk to Children About the Coronavirus
Mar 31, 2020
Public, Private, Online, Homeschool?
Mar 30, 2020
What’s Next for an Aging Pastor?
Mar 27, 2020
How Do I Fight My Coronavirus Fears?
Mar 26, 2020
Grace for Our Hardest Moments
Mar 25, 2020
Are IVF Babies Knit Together by God Too?
Mar 23, 2020
A Word to Men Who Demean Their Wives
Mar 20, 2020
Jesus Didn’t Die for Our Present Prosperity
Mar 18, 2020
Jesus Came to Bring Violence — but What Does That Mean for Us?
Mar 16, 2020
How Do I Take Risks Without Being Unwise?
Mar 13, 2020
John Piper’s Death-Row Plea
Mar 11, 2020
Am I Mainly the Product of My Background?
Mar 09, 2020
If God Is Sovereign, Are My Prayers Pointless?
Mar 06, 2020
Will Suffering Weaken My Ministry?
Mar 04, 2020
How Do I Care for My Depressed Wife?
Mar 02, 2020
How Can Couples Heal After Adultery?
Feb 28, 2020
How Do We Make Sense of the Coronavirus?
Feb 28, 2020
How Can I Jumpstart My Prayer Life?
Feb 26, 2020
How Much Victory Can I Expect over Sinful Desires?
Feb 24, 2020
How Do I Bless My Children Before Bed?
Feb 21, 2020
Why Is My Theology Not Changing My Life?
Feb 19, 2020
Should Christians Attend Alcoholics Anonymous?
Feb 17, 2020
Can We Love Both God and Pleasure?
Feb 14, 2020
How Do I Let Go of Anger over Past Wrongs?
Feb 12, 2020
Would God Be Just as Glorified If We Were His Slaves?
Feb 10, 2020
How Do I Find a Good Church?
Feb 07, 2020
How Do I Grow in Wisdom?
Feb 05, 2020
Should My Husband Pray with Me More?
Feb 03, 2020
Should We Call Female Leaders ‘Pastors’?
Jan 31, 2020
Who Is Yahweh?
Jan 29, 2020
Is John Piper Popular Because He Makes Christianity Look Intelligent?
Jan 27, 2020
Did My Dad Die Because I Lacked Faith?
Jan 24, 2020
Is Something Evil Only If It Harms Others?
Jan 22, 2020
What Is the State of Race Relations in the Church?
Jan 20, 2020
Is a Similar Sense of Calling Required for Marriage?
Jan 17, 2020
How Should I Parent My Non-Christian Teen?
Jan 15, 2020
Are Hell and the Cross Overkill for Sin?
Jan 13, 2020
How Do We Respond to Claims That Christianity Is Dangerous?
Jan 10, 2020
What Every Marriage Needs Most
Jan 08, 2020
How Do I Respond to Sexual Dreams?
Jan 06, 2020
What Should I Expect My First Time Through the Bible?
Jan 03, 2020
Are Personal Resolutions Effective or Futile?
Jan 01, 2020
I Have a New Journaling Bible — How Should I Mark It Up?
Dec 30, 2019
How Concerned Should Christians Be with Consumerism?
Dec 27, 2019
Why Was Christ Born into This World?
Dec 25, 2019
Should I Use Christmas Dinner for Evangelism?
Dec 23, 2019
Does the Bible Forbid My Nativity Set?
Dec 20, 2019
How Do I Banish Low Thoughts of Christ?
Dec 18, 2019
How Do I Battle Subtle Temptations to Lust?
Dec 16, 2019
Will All Nations Be Reached Before Christ Returns?
Dec 13, 2019
What’s the Deepest Desire of My Heart?
Dec 11, 2019
Does Christmas Create Racial Tensions?
Dec 11, 2019
I’m Not Good at My Job — Is the Lord Telling Me to Quit?
Dec 09, 2019
How Can I Revitalize My Church from the Pulpit?
Dec 06, 2019
What Happens When We Sing Together
Dec 04, 2019
Why Do I Still Struggle with My Pre-Conversion Sins?
Dec 02, 2019
My Life Is Endless Drudgery — How Do I Find Joy in Christ?
Nov 29, 2019
How Do We Feast to the Glory of God?
Nov 27, 2019
How Should I Handle My Regrets?
Nov 25, 2019
Is It Sinful to Watch Sin on a Screen?
Nov 22, 2019
Is the God-Centeredness of God Precious?
Nov 20, 2019
How Do I Stay Attracted to My Aging Spouse?
Nov 18, 2019
Will We Pray in Heaven?
Nov 15, 2019
The Key to Our Victory over Sin
Nov 13, 2019
I Feel No Sexual Attraction — Should I Still Pursue Marriage?
Nov 11, 2019
Why Does the Bible Stress the Power of Jesus’s Name?
Nov 08, 2019
‘I Don’t Believe in Christ — Why Is Faith So Hard?’
Nov 06, 2019
When Has My Career Become My Idol?
Nov 04, 2019
Advice for Christians Who Work Sundays
Nov 01, 2019
What Did the Reformation Give Us?
Oct 30, 2019
Should We Stop Reading Dead White Guys?
Oct 28, 2019
Should Anyone Say, ‘I Am of Calvin’?
Oct 25, 2019
What Makes a Sermon Good?
Oct 23, 2019
Should Stay-at-Home Moms Take a Day Off?
Oct 21, 2019
Are God’s Providence and God’s Sovereignty the Same?
Oct 18, 2019
When to Stop Listening to This Podcast
Oct 16, 2019
How Do I Follow God’s Will in the Face of Two Good Options?
Oct 14, 2019
What Does the Bible Say About ‘National Coming Out Day’?
Oct 11, 2019
How Do We Respond When a Pastor Leaves the Faith?
Oct 09, 2019
How Much ‘Lover’ Language Should We Use in Worship Songs?
Oct 07, 2019
Should We Call Out False Teachers or Ignore Them?
Oct 04, 2019
How Do I Submit to My Unbelieving Husband?
Oct 02, 2019
Is Everyone Punished the Same in Hell?
Sep 30, 2019
John Piper’s Most Bizarre Moment in Preaching
Sep 27, 2019
Who Is John Piper?
Sep 25, 2019
Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation?
Sep 23, 2019
We’re Back! — Update from John Piper
Sep 20, 2019
Should We Sing of God’s ‘Reckless Love’?
Sep 18, 2019
When God Feels Distant, He May Want Us to Grow Up
Sep 16, 2019
God’s Sovereign Plans Behind Your Most Unproductive Days
Sep 13, 2019
How Does ‘Willful Sinning’ Threaten My Salvation?
Sep 11, 2019
Two Strategies to Win the War on Lust
Sep 09, 2019
What’s the Origin of Desiring God’s Slogan?
Sep 06, 2019
When Worship Lyrics Miss the Mark
Sep 04, 2019
Can Loved Ones in Heaven Look Down on Me?
Sep 02, 2019
How Do I Pray Without Ceasing?
Aug 30, 2019
Should Children Sit Through ‘Big Church’?
Aug 28, 2019
Can a Christian Blaspheme the Holy Spirit?
Aug 26, 2019
Bikinis and Modesty
Aug 23, 2019
Ten Principles for Personal Productivity
Aug 21, 2019
I Slept with My Girlfriend — Now What?
Aug 19, 2019
Has My Sexual Sin Made Me Unsavable?
Aug 16, 2019
Why Do Christians Fast?
Aug 14, 2019
What Does It Mean for a Man to Lead His Family Spiritually?
Aug 12, 2019
Where Did Satan’s First Desire for Evil Come From?
Aug 09, 2019
How Do I Know God’s Calling for My Life?
Aug 07, 2019
Will God Ever Give Us More Than We Can Handle?
Aug 05, 2019
Watershed Differences Between Calvinists and Arminians
Aug 02, 2019
Don’t Waste Your Mornings
Jul 31, 2019
How Do I Take My Thoughts Captive?
Jul 29, 2019
What Is God’s Glory?
Jul 26, 2019
Is Drinking Alcohol a Sin?
Jul 24, 2019
Would You Attend a Gay Wedding?
Jul 22, 2019
Can a Born-Again Christian Lose Salvation?
Jul 19, 2019
How Do I Live Like a Son Rather Than a Slave?
Jul 17, 2019
How Does ‘Christ Live in Me’ (Galatians 2:20)?
Jul 15, 2019
Does Jesus Teach Us to Sell All Our Possessions?
Jul 12, 2019
How Can I Forgive My Parents for Childhood Abuse?
Jul 10, 2019
I’m Terrified of Giving Birth — Should I Still Pursue Marriage?
Jul 08, 2019
How Do I Survive This Midlife Crisis?
Jul 05, 2019
Is God Just as Sovereign over Damnation as Salvation?
Jul 03, 2019
What Is a Father’s Role in Caring for an Infant?
Jul 01, 2019
Would God Be Less Glorious If He Never Created?
Jun 28, 2019
Is God Angry at Me When I Sin?
Jun 26, 2019
The Heart of the Calvinist-Arminian Divide
Jun 24, 2019
What Is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?
Jun 21, 2019
How Do I Trust God with the Eternal Destiny of My Child?
Jun 19, 2019
Does God Ever Soften a Heart He Has Hardened?
Jun 17, 2019
How Should a Husband Treat His Quarrelsome Wife?
Jun 14, 2019
Should My Boyfriend and I Travel Alone?
Jun 12, 2019
Do Human Technologies Ever Threaten Divine Sovereignty?
Jun 10, 2019
Was Job a Man or a Myth?
Jun 07, 2019
Why Does God Discipline Some Christians with Death?
Jun 05, 2019
How Do I Kill My Pride?
Jun 03, 2019
Do I Need to Love Myself More?
May 31, 2019
How Much Authority Does Satan Have in the World?
May 29, 2019
Are Christians Righteous or Unrighteous?
May 27, 2019
Should We Postpone Children While I Finish My Degree?
May 24, 2019
Why Is It Better That Christ Went Away (John 16:7)?
May 22, 2019
Will Marriage Cure My Lust?
May 20, 2019
Can an Elect Person Die Without Hearing the Gospel?
May 17, 2019
Should a Gay Couple, Once Converted, Stay ‘Married’?
May 15, 2019
Is It Sinful to Want to Die?
May 13, 2019
Should We Expect Revival or More Social Decay?
May 10, 2019
How Does the Gospel Speak to Self-Hate?
May 08, 2019
Does Christ’s Righteousness Cover My Joylessness?
May 06, 2019
Does God Direct All the Details of My Life?
May 03, 2019
What Does It Mean to Live ‘in the Flesh’?
May 01, 2019
Is Cremation Okay If I Give My Body to Science?
Apr 29, 2019
Does Junk Food Dishonor God?
Apr 26, 2019
I Want Jesus to Be My Treasure — Is the Wanting Enough?
Apr 24, 2019
My Joy Is So Short-Lived — How Do I Make It Last?
Apr 22, 2019
What’s the Significance of Simon Carrying Jesus’s Cross?
Apr 19, 2019
Where Was the Holy Spirit on Good Friday?
Apr 17, 2019
Is There Any Place for Fear in the Christian Life?
Apr 15, 2019
How Does God Answer Today’s Skeptics?
Apr 12, 2019
How Do Christians Survive in Middle-Class America?
Apr 10, 2019
What Is the Sovereignty of God?
Apr 08, 2019
Why Have Kids If They Might End Up in Hell?
Apr 05, 2019
I’m Eager to Pastor Now — Should I Skip Seminary?
Apr 03, 2019
Why Did Jesus Need to ‘Become Superior’ to Angels?
Apr 01, 2019
How Much Can Christians Learn from Non-Christians?
Mar 29, 2019
He Killed His Wife and Children — Can He Really Be Forgiven?
Mar 27, 2019
Does the Old Testament Alienate the Disabled?
Mar 25, 2019
Why Does God Choose Some and Not Others?
Mar 22, 2019
Money, Mardi Gras, and Something Far Better: Stories from South America
Mar 20, 2019
How Do I Resist Smartphone Overuse?
Mar 08, 2019
Can a Coin Flip Reveal God’s Will for My Life?
Feb 27, 2019
My Girlfriend Affirms Homosexual Love — Is This a Deal-Breaker?
Feb 25, 2019
What Does Jesus Mean by ‘I Never Knew You’?
Feb 22, 2019
My Husband Is Passive — What Can I Do?
Feb 20, 2019
How Do I Break My Entertainment Addiction?
Feb 18, 2019
How Much Entertainment Is Too Much?
Feb 15, 2019
I’m an Anxious Person — How Do I ‘Rest in Christ’?
Feb 13, 2019
How Can I See the Beauty of God?
Feb 04, 2019
Is Street Evangelism Better Than Building Relationships?
Feb 01, 2019
Why Global Missions Requires Healthy Churches
Jan 30, 2019
Should Hell Motivate Our Missionaries?
Jan 28, 2019
I Feel Trapped in My Job — What Should I Do?
Jan 25, 2019
How Your Career Could Crush You
Jan 23, 2019
Is Investing in Stocks Any Better Than Gambling?
Jan 21, 2019
Did Jesus Endorse Polygamy in the Parable of the Ten Virgins?
Jan 18, 2019
Why Is God Withholding Marriage from Me?
Jan 16, 2019
Are Calvinists Inconsistent with Romans 9?
Jan 14, 2019
How Can We Prioritize Our Marriage over Work and Kids?
Jan 11, 2019
When Does Bible Neglect Become Sinful?
Jan 09, 2019
I’m Tired and Busy — How Do I Make Time for the Bible?
Jan 07, 2019
I Have an Hour a Day to Read — How Much Should Be Bible?
Jan 04, 2019
Three Reasons to Read the Bible Every Day in 2019
Jan 02, 2019
How Do I Make the Most of Daily Bible Reading?
Dec 31, 2018
Can a Christian Survive in Silicon Valley?
Dec 28, 2018
How Do I Welcome Christ at Christmas?
Dec 25, 2018
What Makes Christmas So Controversial?
Dec 23, 2018
What Is the Rapture?
Dec 21, 2018
Will We Meet Jesus as Soon as We Die?
Dec 19, 2018
How Will Christ ‘Reconcile’ Unbelievers to Himself?
Dec 17, 2018
Why Do We Give Christmas Gifts?
Dec 14, 2018
What Should I Tell My Kids About Santa?
Dec 12, 2018
How Do We Know Jesus Is the Messiah?
Dec 10, 2018
I Will Die Young — How Do I Fight for Hope?
Dec 07, 2018
My Friend Claims She’s Gay — What Do I Say?
Dec 05, 2018
How Do Introverts Guard Against Selfishness?
Dec 03, 2018
Why Is the Ministry Called ‘Desiring God’?
Nov 30, 2018
What Will Become of Christian Hedonism After You’re Gone?
Nov 28, 2018
What Does Christian Hedonism Add to Reformed Theology?
Nov 26, 2018
Should I Ever Go Through the Motions in Worship?
Nov 23, 2018
Do I Need to ‘Hear from God’ Before I Make a Decision?
Nov 21, 2018
How Do I Respond to Blasphemous Thoughts?
Nov 19, 2018
Seven Ways This Podcast Will Kill Your Joy
Nov 16, 2018
What Comes First: My Obedience to Jesus or My Joy in Jesus?
Nov 14, 2018
How Do I Pray for Healing and Honor God’s ‘No’?
Nov 12, 2018
Does My Sexual Past Make Me Unsavable?
Nov 09, 2018
Does Jesus Commend Dishonesty in Luke 16?
Nov 07, 2018
How Can God Be Sovereign and Good and Allow Suffering?
Nov 05, 2018
Do Gender Roles Apply Beyond Marriage?
Nov 02, 2018
What Is Union with Christ?
Oct 31, 2018
Is It Sinful to Gamble on Fantasy Sports?
Oct 29, 2018
How to Read the Bible for Teenagers
Oct 26, 2018
How Do I Question Someone’s Salvation at the End of His Life?
Oct 24, 2018
I Didn’t Treasure Christ When I First Believed — Was I Unsaved?
Oct 22, 2018
My Girlfriend Is Pregnant — What Do I Do Next?
Oct 19, 2018
Does Premarital Pregnancy Nullify ‘Unequally Yoked’?
Oct 17, 2018
Why Does Piper Avoid Politics and What’s Trending?
Oct 15, 2018
Why Does John Piper Journal?
Oct 12, 2018
Does Depression Disqualify a Pastor?
Oct 10, 2018
When You Sin at Home: Learning to Pause and Repent
Oct 08, 2018
How John Piper Became a ‘Christian Hedonist’
Oct 05, 2018
Are We Fighting Against Sin or for Joy?
Oct 03, 2018
Should We Raise Our Hands in Worship?
Oct 01, 2018
How to Raise Children in a Pornographic Culture
Sep 28, 2018
My Funding Dried Up — Is This My Sign to Leave the Ministry?
Sep 26, 2018
What Part Does God Play in Positive Social Change?
Sep 24, 2018
Should I Attend the Wedding of a Couple Already Living Together?
Sep 21, 2018
How Do I Teach ‘Christian Hedonism’ to My Kids?
Sep 19, 2018
Should I Ever Take an Action I Don’t ‘Have Peace’ About?
Sep 17, 2018
Five Ways Jesus Changes Our Relationship to the Old Testament
Sep 14, 2018
What Is the Place of Faith in My Unanswered Prayers?
Sep 12, 2018
What Hope Does God Offer in My Depression?
Sep 10, 2018
Ministering Without R.C. Sproul
Sep 07, 2018
Real Sermons Are Not Lectures or Moral Stories
Sep 05, 2018
How Do I Feed My Joy in Jesus Every Morning?
Sep 03, 2018
How Do I Choose Good Books and Grow My Library?
Aug 31, 2018
I Have Chronic Fatigue — How Do I Not Waste My Life?
Aug 29, 2018
How Self-Esteem Ruins Bible Reading
Aug 27, 2018
How Has Social Media Changed Bible Reading?
Aug 24, 2018
Women of the Word: Reading the Bible for Ourselves
Aug 22, 2018
Is It Wrong for Men to Have Long Hair?
Aug 20, 2018
How Do We Respect Others While Rejecting Their False Beliefs?
Aug 17, 2018
Piper’s Reflections After a Mainline Church Service
Aug 15, 2018
What Can We Learn from the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon?
Aug 13, 2018
Why Is My Child Disabled?
Aug 10, 2018
Three Threats to the Joy of This Generation
Aug 08, 2018
What’s the Point of My Life?
Aug 06, 2018
John Piper’s Most-Used Promises
Aug 03, 2018
How to Win the War for Morning Devotions
Aug 01, 2018
The Miracle of Waiting Faithfully
Jul 30, 2018
How Do I Cling to God — When Life Feels Easy?
Jul 27, 2018
How Much Joy Can We Really Expect in This Life?
Jul 25, 2018
Make War on Your Urge to Sulk
Jul 23, 2018
When God Answers ‘No’ to Our Prayers
Jul 20, 2018
How to Navigate Conversations About Sexual Identity
Jul 18, 2018
Am I Less Human If I’m Sexually Unfulfilled?
Jul 16, 2018
The Christian Debate over Sexual Identity
Jul 13, 2018
Does God Want Me to Be Happy or Holy?
Jul 11, 2018
Did Paul and Moses Prioritize Mission over Joy in God?
Jul 09, 2018
Does John Piper Add (Joy) to the Gospel?
Jul 06, 2018
Universalism Distorts the Grace of God
Jul 04, 2018
Universalism Is ‘Alive and Well’ — How Do We Oppose It?
Jul 02, 2018
Did C.S. Lewis Warn Against Christian Hedonism?
Jun 29, 2018
What Does It Feel Like to See the Beauty of Christ?
Jun 27, 2018
Is God Glorified in Those Who Reject Him?
Jun 25, 2018
What 40-Year-Old David Platt Would Say to His 20-Year-Old Self
Jun 22, 2018
Isn’t the Joy-Centered Life Just an Emotional Roller Coaster?
Jun 20, 2018
How Do I Find God’s Will for My Life?
Jun 18, 2018
Does Scripture Forbid Entrepreneurs from Raising Big Money?
Jun 15, 2018
How Do I Overcome Crippling Self-Consciousness?
Jun 13, 2018
Where Is Satan Most Visibly Active Today?
Jun 11, 2018
A Word to Strengthen Parents of Disabled Children
Jun 08, 2018
How Do I Overcome My Fear of Death?
Jun 06, 2018
Should Christians Save for Retirement?
Jun 04, 2018
Drug Users and Christian Hedonists — Aren’t Both Just Chasing the Next High?
Jun 01, 2018
How Can We Tweet to the Glory of God?
May 30, 2018
The Secret to Fighting Anxiety
May 28, 2018
Should We Sing of God’s ‘Reckless Love’?
May 25, 2018
Is My Joy Essential in Glorifying God?
May 23, 2018
Reflections on the Seashells Sermon, 18 Years Later
May 21, 2018
How Do I Know If a Sermon Is Too Long or Too Short?
May 18, 2018
What Is the Place of Eloquence in Christian Preaching?
May 16, 2018
How to Read the Bible — and Preach It
May 14, 2018
Piper’s Six-Stage Process for Writing Books
May 11, 2018
How Does God’s Sovereignty Not Violate Our Decision-Making?
May 09, 2018
My Body: Friend or Foe?
May 07, 2018
Isn’t God Most Glorified in Me When I Am Most Self-Giving?
May 04, 2018
How to Keep Your Faith When You Lose Confidence in a Local Church
May 02, 2018
Why Do We See So Few Miracles Today?
Apr 30, 2018
Where the Gospel of Roman Catholicism Fails
Apr 27, 2018
Do Paul’s Missions Leave Us with a Geographic Pattern to Follow?
Apr 25, 2018
Why Will Some of Us Get Fewer Rewards in Heaven?
Apr 23, 2018
Will Profanity Make Us More Relevant in Reaching Our Culture?
Apr 20, 2018
Can We Skip the Parts of the New Testament Not in the Original Manuscripts?
Apr 18, 2018
Do the Biblical Warnings Against Riches Apply to Most Americans?
Apr 16, 2018
Have I Really Forgiven Someone If I Keep Remembering Their Wrong?
Apr 13, 2018
How Do I Avoid the Pitfalls of Too Little Introspection and Too Much?
Apr 11, 2018
When Do We Intervene in Other People’s Conflicts?
Apr 09, 2018
Does the Bible Portray Women as Emotional and Men as Rational?
Apr 06, 2018
How Do I Show Kindness to My Children and Expect Them to Obey?
Apr 04, 2018
Is the Great Commission for Every Individual Christian?
Apr 02, 2018
Does Reformed Theology Impede Racial Reconciliation?
Mar 30, 2018
Dating: Good Jealousy and Bad
Mar 28, 2018
Is It Sinful for My Husband and Me to Pray Against Pregnancy?
Mar 26, 2018
Isn’t It Loving to My Family to Prepare for Doomsday?
Mar 23, 2018
How to Climb the Corporate Ladder — for Jesus’s Sake
Mar 21, 2018
My Midlife Crisis — and Counsel for Yours
Mar 19, 2018
Sex-Abuse Allegations and the Egalitarian Myth
Mar 16, 2018
When God Feels Distant, He May Want Us to Grow Up
Mar 14, 2018
God’s Sovereign Plans Behind Your Most Unproductive Days
Mar 12, 2018
How Do We Avoid Over-Thinking (or Under-Thinking) the Christian Life?
Mar 09, 2018
Do Christians Carry More Emotional Stress Than Non-Christians?
Mar 07, 2018
Christians Are Marrying Later — How Do I Wait in Faith?
Mar 05, 2018
Will We Be Finally ‘Saved’ by Faith Alone?
Mar 02, 2018
Do Reproductive Technologies Oppose God’s Design?
Feb 28, 2018
In What Way Will Christians Judge Angels?
Feb 26, 2018
Do Cessationists Miss Out on the Full Joys of Christianity?
Feb 23, 2018
On the Day Billy Graham Died
Feb 21, 2018
Can a Devout Roman Catholic Be Genuinely Born Again?
Feb 21, 2018
How Does ‘Willful Sinning’ Threaten My Salvation?
Feb 19, 2018
Isn’t Veganism Closer to God’s Original Design?
Feb 16, 2018
In What Sense Did Christ Die for the Non-Elect?
Feb 14, 2018
Avoiding Pride in a World of Selfie Sticks and Social Media Platforms
Feb 12, 2018
Did Jesus Advocate Castration to Break Sex Addiction?
Feb 09, 2018
How Important Is It to Confess My Sin to Someone Other Than God?
Feb 07, 2018
Did Jesus Say I’d Be Healthier If My Faith Were Stronger?
Feb 05, 2018
How Do I Fight Pride When Competing in School, Business, and Sports?
Feb 02, 2018
Two Strategies to Win the War on Lust
Jan 31, 2018
Following Christ Is Costly — But How Do You Count the Cost?
Jan 29, 2018
“Let Your Light Shine” — Should I Instagram My Good Works?
Jan 26, 2018
Is This Life Too Short to Determine Our Eternal Destiny?
Jan 24, 2018
Is There a Place for Female Professors at Seminary?
Jan 22, 2018
Does God’s Happiness Depend on Mine?
Jan 19, 2018
What Value Is the Old Testament to the Christian Life?
Jan 17, 2018
Does God Love the Non-Elect?
Jan 15, 2018
Do Non-Christians Ever Please God?
Jan 12, 2018
What’s Wrong with Dressing Immodestly for Attention?
Jan 10, 2018
To Discouraged Pastors and Their Wives
Jan 08, 2018
Why ‘Falling Out of Love’ Never Justifies Divorce
Jan 05, 2018
Deep Bible Reading Strategies for the Tired and Busy
Jan 03, 2018
A New Year, A New Bible Reading Plan
Jan 01, 2018
I’m Retired and Want to Do Missions — What’s My First Step?
Dec 29, 2017
Where Is Heaven Right Now?
Dec 27, 2017
Why Did Jesus Need to ‘Learn Obedience’?
Dec 25, 2017
Why Christmas Never Lives Up to the Buildup
Dec 22, 2017
Do I Love God for His Gifts or for Who He Is?
Dec 20, 2017
Did Jesus Diminish His Divine Power to Become Human?
Dec 18, 2017
Keep Close to the Heart of Christmas
Dec 15, 2017
To Live Is Christ — What Does That Mean?
Dec 13, 2017
What Is the ‘Sin Not Leading to Death’ in 1 John 5?
Dec 11, 2017
Can I Leave and Cleave If We Live with My Parents?
Dec 08, 2017
How to Live Wisely in the End Times
Dec 06, 2017
We Are Accountable for What We Know
Dec 04, 2017
When Do Christians Resist a Government That Kills Its Citizens?
Dec 01, 2017
To Whom Did Jesus Pay Our Ransom?
Nov 29, 2017
Did Public Controversy over the Nashville Statement Hurt the Cause?
Nov 27, 2017
Does Hebrews Tell Us to “Grow Up” Beyond the Gospel?
Nov 24, 2017
How Do You Structure Your Prayer Life?
Nov 22, 2017
Does God Decree Events He Doesn’t Want to Happen?
Nov 20, 2017
How Do I Glorify God in My Job?
Nov 17, 2017
How Do I Process Personal Criticism?
Nov 15, 2017
Why Does Gossip Feel So Good?
Nov 13, 2017
Am I Wrong to Prepare for a Nuclear Doomsday?
Nov 10, 2017
Why Does God’s Sovereignty Make Some Ambitious and Others Apathetic?
Nov 08, 2017
How Do I Love God More Than My Entertainment?
Nov 06, 2017
The Dignity of Those with Dementia
Nov 03, 2017
Six Common Ways Preachers Dishonor God’s Word
Nov 01, 2017
How Do I Know If I’m Loving My Wife Well?
Oct 30, 2017
Church Membership Has Left Me Relationally Jaded
Oct 27, 2017
Is God a Megalomaniac?
Oct 25, 2017
How Much of My Happiness Is Settled by Factors Outside My Immediate Control?
Oct 23, 2017
How Martin Luther Built a Brand That Changed the World
Oct 20, 2017
What Are the Best Reformation Biographies?
Oct 18, 2017
Why the Reformation Remains Relevant After 500 Years
Oct 16, 2017
Is Anyone Born a Racist? Or Is It Learned?
Oct 13, 2017
Is Knowing God’s Sovereignty Important to My Daily Life?
Oct 11, 2017
God Is Holy and Righteous — Are Those the Same?
Oct 09, 2017
Ephesians 1:18: Who Will Receive the Riches of Heaven?
Oct 06, 2017
Confronting Emotional and Verbal Abuse in the Home
Oct 04, 2017
Is It Harmful to Date in High School?
Oct 02, 2017
The Great Marriage Killer
Sep 29, 2017
Reading Is Agonizing for Me — How Can I Study the Bible in Small Bits?
Sep 27, 2017
The Lord’s Supper — Somber or Cheerful?
Sep 25, 2017
What Does It Mean to ‘Abide in Christ’?
Sep 22, 2017
What’s the Origin of Desiring God’s Slogan?
Sep 20, 2017
Did Adam and Eve Sin Before the Bite?
Sep 18, 2017
Does God Control All Things All the Time?
Sep 15, 2017
Popular Author Stumbles — What Should We Do With His Books?
Sep 13, 2017
Are We Called to Thank God for Our Severest Suffering?
Sep 11, 2017