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John Piper





John Piper

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John Stephen Piper is a Calvinist and 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 book...more


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Don’t rest on past reading. Read your Bible more and more every year. Read it whether you feel like reading it or not. And pray without ceasing that the joy return and pleasures increase.




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You are confessing your lack of desire as sin, and pleading as a helpless child for the desire you long to have. Legalists don’t cry like that. The... read more »
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Desiring God: Meditations of a...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 3,337 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions
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Don't Waste Your Life
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The Passion of Jesus Christ: F...
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When I Don't Desire God: How t...
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Future Grace
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The Pleasures Of God: Meditati...
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions
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Seeing and Savoring Jesus Chri...
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A Hunger for God: Desiring God...
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God Is the Gospel: Meditations...
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“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
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

“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

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