John Piper





John Piper

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John Stephen Piper is a Baptist theologian, preacher, and author, currently serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books, including ECPA Christian Book Award winners What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of Jesus Christ. The evangelical organization Desiring God is named for his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986)

Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis since 1980, John Piper received his doctorate in theology from the University of Munich and taught at Bethel College for six years. His books include A Godward Life I...more


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If you only hope for unconditional love from God, your hope is great, but too small.




Unconditional love from God is not the sweetest experience of his love. The sweetest experience is when his love says: “I have made you so much like my Son that I delight to see you and be with you. You are a pleasure to me, because you are so radiant with my glory.”




This sweetest experience is conditional on o...

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Desiring God: Meditations o...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 5,449 ratings — published 1986 — 16 editions
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Don't Waste Your Life
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Passion of Jesus Christ
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When I Don't Desire God: Ho...
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Future Grace
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 881 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions
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The Pleasures of God: Medit...
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Seeing and Savoring Jesus C...
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Hunger for God
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God Is the Gospel: Meditati...
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“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
John Piper

“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”
John Piper

“Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”
John Piper

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