8 Great Sermons on True Worship

The last eight sermons (by John Piper, in the months of November-December) on this page at Desiring God have been immensely helpful to me.  I believe they will be to you as well.  For the record, the two entitled “Magnifying God with Money” and “We Have Come to Worship Him” were my favorites.

What is it to glorify God?

Who better to ask than Jonathan Edwards?  Here is his answer: The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God.  Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed? Explain please? God in seeking his glory seeks the good of his creatures, because the emanation of his glory [...]

Piper’s Personally Convicting Application of Hebrews 6.4-8

What Then Do These Verses Mean for Us? I’ll be very personal, to give it it’s sharpest point. If in the coming years I commit apostasy and fall away from Christ, it will not be because I have not tasted of the word of God and the Spirit of God and the miracles of God. [...]

“If You Abide In My Word, You Are Truly My Disciples”

A characteristically helpful sermon by John Piper on John 8.31. Go here.

The Implications of the Edwardsian Principle for Corporate Worship (Part III in a Series)

What is the Edwardsian principle, that is, the keystone rule of Jonathan Edwards?  If you have paid any attention to John Piper’s ministry over the last thirty years, you know it.  And I would argue that the principle itself is not original to Edwards or Piper, but is in fact derivative.  It is derivative from [...]

The Implications of the Edwardsian Principle for Evangelism and Preaching (Part II in a Series)

What is the Edwardsian principle, that is, the keystone rule of Jonathan Edwards?  If you have paid any attention to John Piper’s ministry over the last thirty years, you know it.  And I would argue that the principle itself is not original to Edwards or Piper, but is in fact derivative.  It is derivative from [...]

The Implications of the Edwardsian Principle for Heaven and Hell

What is the Edwardsian principle, that is, the keystone rule of Jonathan Edwards?  If you have paid any attention to John Piper’s ministry over the last thirty years, you know it.  And I would argue that the principle itself is not original to Edwards or Piper, but is in fact derivative.  It is derivative from [...]

Reading Difficult Books

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it.  It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding.  It’s hard books that count.  Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you [...]

Desiring God 2011 National Conference

“Finish the Mission: For the Joy of All Peoples — Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged” September 23-25, 2011 See information [cost, speakers, etc.] and promo video here.

CHRISTian Preaching

If a Muslim liked your sermon you didn’t preach a Christian sermon.  If a Jewish person likes your sermon, you didn’t preach a Christian sermon,  – meaning, if you take any text, New or Old Testament, and preach a moral or an inspiring story, which is what many Christian pastors do, and people of various [...]