John Piper | When we pray for God to preserve us, we ask that he would be not only our Lord, but our life — not only our God, but our highest and everlasting good.

John Piper | At the root of all conflict is man’s conflict with God. At Christmas, we celebrate that God took the initiative to establish true peace.

What is the actual experience of receiving Christ? What happens in the soul? Saving faith sees the Son not only as useful, but precious.

John Piper | When it comes to missions, reasons abound to stay rather than to go. But for every apparent obstacle, countless promises say, “It will be worth it.”

John Piper | What do we call an obsessively self-centered person? An egomaniac. Then what should we call God, who demands all our praise? We call him gracious.

Hope produces joy and peace, and as we patiently endure tribulation by the power of the Holy Spirit, hope feeds on its own fruit and abounds all the more.

John Piper | The Puritans took joy seriously because they read the Bible carefully. They saw that delight in God is at the heart of all true obedience.

John Piper | You will not be perfect in this life, but you can be pleasing to God. You can become a real ingredient in the divine happiness.

Before he created the earth, God knew pain would plague this world. And not only knew, but planned. And not only planned — but purposed.

John Piper | The individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.