John Piper

Athanasius. Owen. Machen. When Augustine handed over the leadership of his church in AD 426, his successor was so overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy that he declared, "The swan is silent," fearing the spiritual giant's voice would be lost in time. But for 1,600 years Augustine has not been silent―and neither have the men who faithfully trumpeted the cause of Christ after him. Their lives have inspired every generation of believers and should compel us to a greater passion for God. In his fourth book in the Swans Are Not Silent series, John Piper explores the lives of Athanasius, John Owen, and J. Gresham Machen―a bishop, a pastor, and the founder of a seminary. Each of these men stood for the truth of the gospel in the face of intense opposition―all out of a deep love for Jesus and a desire for people to know him in his fullness. They took no joy in controversy for argument's sake, and they were willing to suffer for the sake of guarding the sanctity of the gospel. Threats of harm, years of exile, the death of loved ones, opposition from friends and authorities, sickness and pain―none of these setbacks could keep these three from maintaining their efforts to further the gospel or quench their zeal for Jesus himself. In each of their lives, personal holiness was emphasized publicly and privately despite suffering. They were true soldiers for the sake of the cross, and each man offers life lessons for Christians today. We pray that their perseverance, courage, and resolve will arouse such Christ-honoring passions in you.

English title: When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy Je souhaite ardemment aider les croyants et les incroyants qui voient le changement de coeur essentiel qu'exige la Biblepour vivre le christianisme - en particulier, le fait que nous devrions d sirer Dieu plus que toute autre chose... Je souhaite aider ceux qui entrevoient que si le salut n'est pas l' veil d'une nouvelle soif de Dieu, il n'est alors rien du tout... Je veux aiderceux qui saisissent que la conversion engendre non seulement de nouvelles obligations, mais aussi de nouveaux d sirs... La gloire de Dieu est en cause. Et plusieurs, en larmes, veulent savoir: "Que faire si je ne d sire pas Dieu ?" Si Dieu le veut, j'aimerais vous aider. -JOHN PIPERDepuis de nombreuses ann es, John Piper proclame qui veut l'entendre que le but principal de l'homme est de glorifier Dieu en trouvant continuellement sa joie en lui. Il appelle cela l'h donisme chr tien . Dans ce livre, l'auteur affirme que notre satisfaction en Dieu est indispensable pour d montrer la valeur inestimable de Dieu et encourager des sacrifices inspir s par l'amour. J sus a support la croix en vue de la joie qui lui tait r serv e. Il a go t cette joie qui l'a soutenu travers les souffrances les plus profondes. Son P re a t glorifi et son peuple sauv . C'est ainsi qu'agit la joie en Dieu. La pr occupation la plus pressante devient donc: Que faire si je ne la poss de pas ? De son coeur de pasteur, anim d'une passion radicale pour la gloire de Christ, John Piper nous aide trouver la r ponse cette question.

When Augustine handed over the leadership of his church in AD 426, his successor was so overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy that he declared, "The swan is silent," fearing the spiritual giant's voice would be lost in time. But for 1,600 years Augustine has not been silent--and neither have the men who faithfully trumpeted the cause of Christ after him. Their lives have inspired every generation of believers and should compel us to a greater passion for God. John Bunyan suffered long-term imprisonment, even when a simple promise to cease preaching would have freed him, and was moved to rely on God even more. William Cowper, despite month after month of debilitating depression, wrote poems that reflected the sustaining character of God and led him to worship more deeply. David Brainerd so desired to honor God that through the loneliness of wilderness ministry and the agony of tuberculosis, he pressed on, transforming world missions forever. In this noteworthy Swans Are Not Silent book, John Piper invites you into the lives of Bunyan, Cowper, and Brainerd to discover how God takes the privilege of faith and strengthens it with trials so that we experience a greater hunger for him. The perseverance of these godly servants exemplifies the essential fruit that affliction can produce in your own life. Their enduring faith will fortify you in your suffering, reminding you that "behind a frowning providence, God hides a smiling face." And their stories and witness will inspire in you a similar passion for the supremacy of God in your life.

“Besides Jesus, no one has kept me from despair, or taken me deeper into the mysteries of the gospel, than the apostle Paul.” —John Piper No one has had a greater impact on the world for eternal good than the apostle Paul—except Jesus himself. For John Piper, this impact is very personal. He does not just admire and trust Paul. He loves him. Piper gives us thirty glimpses into why his heart and mind respond this way. Can a Christian-killer really endure 195 lashes from a heart of love? Can a mystic who thinks he was caught up into heaven be a model of lucid rationality? Can an ethnocentric Jew write the most beautiful call to reconciliation? Can a person who lives with the unceasing anguish of empathy be always rejoicing? Can a man’s description of the horrors of human sin be exceeded by his delight in human splendor? Can a man with a backbone of steel be as tender as a nursing mother? If we know this man—if we see what Piper sees—we too will love him. Paul’s testimony is a matter of life and death. Piper invites you into his relationship with Paul in the hope that you will know life, forever.

Turn your world on its head. For more than thirty years, John Piper pastored in the rough and tumble realities of downtown Minneapolis, preaching his people through the ups and down of life one Sunday at a time. When it came to capturing a generation of joy in one final sermon series, he turned to ten trademark truths to leave ringing in his peoples' ears.1. God Is 2. The Glory of God 3. Christian Hedonism 4. The Sovereignty of God 5. The Gospel of God in Christ 6. The Call to Global Missions 7. Living the Christian Life 8. The Perseverance of the Saints 9. Biblical Manhood and Womanhood 10. Sorrowful Yet Always RejoicingThese ten are world-shaking truths--each astonishing in its own way. First they turned Piper's own world upside down. Then his church's. And they will continue to turn the whole world upside down as the gospel of Christ advances in distance and depth. These surprising doctrines, as Piper writes, are "wildly untamable, explosively uncontainable, and electrically future-creating." Join a veteran author, pastor, and Christian statesman as he captures the ten astonishing, compassionate, life-giving, joy-awakening, hope-sustaining truths that have held everything together for him.(This book is a revised edition of the earlier title, Doctrine Matters.)

Getting to know that special someone naturally includes learning about family and friends, education and athletics, favor-ite pastimes, and your hopes and dreams. Ideally, you'll ask each other all kinds of questions, some vital and some trivial, and you'll talk about life's best moments and worst, the brightest places in your background and the darkest. But what about God? What is his role in your relationship? What do each of you believe about him, and how do you understand his dream for marriage--for your marriage? At Desiring God, one of our most accessed pages online is a set of questions John Piper put together for couples preparing for marriage (an updated version appears in Appendix I). You'll find many of the typical questions here--about friends and entertainment and lifestyle and children, and many people have found that John's way of putting these questions helps get right at some pretty deep stuff. But you'll find other questions here, too--about theology, worship and devotion, and the roles of husband and wife--ques-tions that far too many couples don't think to ask. When preparing for marriage, or even in just beginning to con-sider it, it can be immensely helpful to have the perspective of someone like John Piper, not only a seasoned husband of nearly 50 years, but also a sea-soned pastor, careful thinker, and faithful theologian. Our hope is that a few couples--whether dating and considering marriage, or engaged and preparing for marriage--would find some benefit here, getting to know each other better in some of life's most significant matters, and becoming more fit to discern God's leading for their lives. But John has more to offer than just the pre-marriage questions. Chapter 1 includes John's counsel about engagement, chapter 2 about wedding planning (and finances). Chapter 3 provides invaluable instruction about the beautiful, complementary dynamic the Bible teaches between husband and wife. Sexual relations in marriage is the topic of chapter 4. (We know some of you may be flipping straight to that one, now that you know it's there. That's okay. Do read the rest of the book when you can ) Here there is so much potential for pleasure, and so much potential for pain. Don't shy away from giving the topic of sex good consideration and honest discussion during your engagement. Then, in chapter 5, John helps us ponder how we can guard our marriages in a day in which they are under assault from every side. Finally, chapter 6 is based on perhaps John Piper's single most important message on marriage. There he goes more macro than many of us have ever dared to go in thinking about what marriage is, and what God designed it for. This is a glorious, true, life-changing vision. After John's long list of pre-marriage questions to discuss, the second appendix is about mission together. Marriage is for mission, too. In particular, the focus here is on hospital-ity. It's a lightly edited sermon from the series that became the book This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence, which is where we'd send you to learn more about marriage fol-lowing this book. (We'd also want to point you to a 30-day devotional for young married couples called Happily Ever After: Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage, by John Piper and other contributors to desiringGod.org.) For Christians, talking about ministry together, including hospitality (literally, in the New Tes-tament, "love for strangers") is essential preparation. Reevaluate your commitments, check your priorities, rethink your normal. It will be well worth your time to ask difficult questions and think hard about the answers. For your joy, the good of others, and the glory of the church's Groom.

“God has appointed preaching in worship as one great means of accomplishing his ultimate goal in the world.” —John Piper John Piper makes a compelling claim in these pages about the purpose of preaching: it is intended not merely as an explanation of the text but also as a means of awakening worship by being worship in and of itself. Christian preaching is a God-appointed miracle aiming to awaken the supernatural seeing, savoring, and showing of the glory of Christ. Distilling over forty years of experience in preaching and teaching, Piper shows preachers how and what to communicate from God’s Word, so that God’s purpose on earth will advance through Bible-saturated, Christ-exalting, God-centered preaching—in other words, expository exultation.

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God wants your heart... The Psalms are in a category of their own. They are not just commanding; they are contagious. And they can change us. Tears, affliction, shame, regret, grief, anger, discouragement, turmoil...we hear all these cries, we feel their overflow, and we see that all these things happen in relation to our totally sovereign God.

People today have access to endless pleasures and luxuries: cars to drive, clothes to wear, vacations to take, and entertainment to enjoy. Yet despite the fact that the pursuit of such things is the norm in our world today, this mind-set is opposite of what God desires for his people. How, then, are Christians to relate to the world in which we live? In Worldliness, C. J. Mahaney and fellow pastors such as Dave Harvey, Jeff Purswell, and Bob Kauflin wisely lead us to see the often subtle presence of worldliness in our hearts. Looking specifically at the media we consume, the music we listen to, the modesty we cultivate, and the material possessions we collect, this book stands as a passionate plea for Christians to avoid the dangers of being shaped by the world and instead pursue godliness through the grace of the gospel.

Does it take a miracle to read the Bible? God wrote a book, and its pages are full of his glory. But we cannot see his beauty on our own, with mere human eyes. In Reading the Bible Supernaturally, John Piper aims to show us how God works through his written Word when we pursue the natural act of reading the Bible, so that we experience his sightgiving power—a power that extends beyond the words on the page. Ultimately, Piper shows us that in the seemingly ordinary act of reading the Bible, something miraculous happens: we are given eyes to behold the glory of the living God.

Do You Control Your Phone—Or Does Your Phone Control You? Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted. Drawing from the insights of numerous thinkers, published studies, and his own research, writer Tony Reinke identifies twelve potent ways our smartphones have changed us—for good and bad. Reinke calls us to cultivate wise thinking and healthy habits in the digital age, encouraging us to maximize the many blessings, avoid the various pitfalls, and wisely wield the most powerful gadget of human connection ever unleashed.

John Piper, one of the most important and influential pastor-theologians of our time, has dedicated his life to heralding the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples in Jesus Christ. This 14-volume set brings together for the first time all of Piper’s published writings from 1970 to 2015, featuring the latest editions of fifty books along with hundreds of articles and chapters, compiled into one beautifully designed resource. With fresh introductions to each volume written by Piper himself and a detailed index volume for topical reference, this is a collection that will be treasured by anyone who has benefited from the ministry of John Piper. These high-quality volumes are printed in Italy on specialty book paper designed for maximum readability. Each volume features a durable, smyth-sewn binding. Volume 1Love Your EnemiesThe Justification of GodVolume 2Desiring GodThe Pleasures of GodVolume 3The Supremacy of God in PreachingBrothers, We Are Not ProfessionalsLet the Nations Be Glad! Volume 4Future GraceA Hunger for GodVolume 5God's Passion for His GloryThe Dangerous Duty of DelightSeeing and Savoring Jesus ChristCounted Righteous in ChristDon't Waste Your LifeFifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to DieVolume 6When I Don't Desire GodGod Is the GospelWhat Jesus Demands from the WorldVolume 7The Future of JustificationSpectacular SinsFinally AliveThis Momentary MarriageVolume 8A Sweet and Bitter ProvidenceThinkBloodlinesFive PointsDoes God Desire All To Be Saved? Volume 9The Legacy of Sovereign JoyThe Hidden Smile of GodThe Roots of EnduranceContending for Our AllFilling Up the Afflictions of ChristSeeing Beauty and Saying BeautifullyVolume 10A Godward LifeTaste and SeeVolume 11Pierced by the WordLife as a VaporA Godward HeartThe Dawning of Indestructible JoyThe InnkeeperThe Misery of Job and the Mercy of GodThe Prodigal's SisterVelvet SteelRuthEstherVolume 12ArticlesForewordsVolume 13Chapters Index

By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next gives you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do. There are a lot of myths about productivity--what it means to get things done and how to accomplish work that really matters. In our current era of innovation and information overload, it may feel harder than ever to understand the meaning of work or to have a sense of vocation or calling. So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity? Matt Perman has spent his career helping people learn how to do work in a gospel-centered and effective way. What's Best Next explains his approach to unlocking productivity and fulfillment in work by showing how faith relates to work, even in our everyday grind. What's Best Next is packed with biblical and theological insight and practical counsel that you can put into practice today, such as:How to create a mission statement for your life that's actually practicable. How to delegate to people in a way that really empowers them. How to overcome time killers like procrastination, interruptions, and multitasking by turning them around and making them work for you. How to process workflow efficiently and get your email inbox to zero every day. How to have peace of mind without needing to have everything under control. How generosity is actually the key to unlocking productivity. This expanded edition includes:a new chapter on productivity in a fallen worlda new appendix on being more productive with work that requires creative thinking. Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done--the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. You can learn how to do work that matters and how to do it well.