The Chief Design of My Life: Mortification and Universal Holiness; Reflections on the Life and Thought of John Owen
The impact and influence of John Owen's theology has been widespread throughout Christianity. This shorty biography by John Piper, The Chief Design of My Life: Mortification and Universal Holiness; Reflections on the Life and Thought of … Read more…
Beside Jesus and Paul, no one man has had a greater impact on Christianity than Augustine. His writings have influenced Catholics, Protestants and atheists. His life displays the power of Christ's redemptive love. He wrote five million words on Christianity. Yet, in the short biography The Swan Is Not Silent: Sovereign Joy in the Life and Thought of St. Au… Read more…
Jonathan Edwards has often been misunderstood as some gloomy preacher who spoke of sinners dangling over the burning fires of hell, but John Piper in this short biography illuminates Edwards as a man "besotted with God." Edwards knew that true joy and peace came not from easy sermons but from an all-encompassing faith in God. Such a vision was the purpose … Read more…
The book of Jude includes numerous references to Jewish history (Balaam, Cain, and Korah's rebellion), references Jude believed made all the more powerful his warnings against internal enemies of the church. "The Value of Learning History," an article from pastor John Piper, illuminates, using Jude as a context, the importance for each person to have a gr… Read more…
Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals, and the Political Welfare: Reflections on the Life and Labor of William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce, the famous British politician who ended the slave trade, was a devout Christian. His opposition to the heinous slave trade grew from his Christian faith, and John Piper draws from Wilberforce's life the power of j… Read more…
William Tyndale : Always Singing One Note - A Vernacular Bible: Why He Lived and Died
William Tyndale, who lived and died to translate the Greek and Hebrew Bible into English so that the common people could also read God's Word, died a martyr's death for his labor. Tyndale had caught hold of a vision that drove him beyond all else, and he refused to res… Read more…
Athanasius, a fourth century bishop of Alexandria, Egypt, fought his whole life against the Arianism belief that challenged the deity of Christ. For his trouble, he was exiled five times by Roman emperors, but he refused to concede the crucial ground of Christ's deity to the Arians. To Athanasius the deity of Christ was a personal reality, and he encourage… Read more…
The appetites of our beings do much to determine the directions of our lives. If we crave anything--be it food, power, or prestige--we exclude the most essential appetite of our lives, A Hunger for God. In this eBook, John Piper encourages us to take a "simple fast: 'This much, O God, I want you.'" Fasting has a specific place in our lives--the exclusio… Read more…
Insanity and Spiritual Songs in the Soul of a Saint: Reflections on the Life of William Cowper
The Life of William Cowper, author of famous and powerful hymns like "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood," is a testament to the devastating effects of depression and the saving power of Jesus. Cowper battled depression and despair his entire life, and, … Read more…
Why did Jesus die? Why would God send his Son to die? What did Jesus' death accomplish, especially for sinners like me? These are important questions in any person's life, and John Piper, in the eBook Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die, details fifty reasons why Jesus died. By searching through the New Testament, Piper has found fifty reasons or purpo… Read more…
“Useful men are some of the greatest blessings of a people. To have many such is more for a people’s happiness than almost anything, unless it be God’s own gracious, spiritual presence amongst them; they are precious gifts of heaven.”
Certainly one of the most useful men in evangelical history was the man who preached those words, pastor and theol… Read more…
Six of today’s leading pastor-theologians—John Piper, Voddie Baucham, D. A. Carson, Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll, and David Wells—have joined together to offer Christians a practical, biblical vision of Christ’s supremacy, so they will be better prepared to present the undeniable truth to a searching society. After grounding readers in the important tru… Read more…
