Crumbs from the Master's Table

This series of posts is creative, interesting, and instructive. Here's how to preach like  D. A. Carson  without sounding like him. ...

In John Piper's sermon this last Lord's Day, he spoke of how the moral landscape is different now from when he first became a pasto...

Here is some perspective on the task of the gospel going global into all the nooks and crannies of unreached or unengaged people groups. ...

Piper on professionalism and the pastorate: We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, persecute...

What does professionalization in the pastorate look like? Professionalization carries the connotation of an education, a set of skills, an...

Piper on cowardice in the pastorate: We are surrounded in America by people like [the chief priests and elders in Matt. 21:23-27]. Instead...

"If you try to do deeds 'for the glory of God' without treasuring the glory of God in your heart, it is a sham. The word hypoc...

John Piper on the practice of Christian meditation: What does meditation involve? The word meditation in Hebrew means basically to speak ...

Piper on reading the Scriptures: If your longing is to be spontaneous in the way you commune with God, then build discipline into your Bib...

"The pastor's job is to look at the Bible and work hard to understand what's in it, and then work hard to make it understandabl...

Piper speaks to the cosmic treason of relativism: Relativism is a pervasive rebellion against the very concept of divine law. Therefore, i...

I'm not a pastor. But I still find this to be an important word about guarding time to read. More to the point, it is an important word...

In Part One of his book The Supremacy of God in Preaching , John Piper unpacks four elements in making God supreme in preaching: (1) The G...

"Don't strive to be a kind of preacher. Strive to be a kind of person!"—John Piper —John Piper, T he Supremacy of God in Pre...

"No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save." — James Denney — Quoted in John Pi...

John Piper on the preacher's dependence on the Holy Spirit in the work of preaching: All genuine preaching is rooted in a feeling of de...

The audio and video from "Finishing the Mission" are now available at  Desiring God .  Sessions 2, 4, and 7 are particularly worth...

I enjoyed reading Piper's thoughts about the leave of absence the Pipers took for eight months. But the portion that left me most encour...

The Desiring God national conference turned out once again to be invigorating.  My wife and I needed to be stirred out of dullness (especial...

In my regular reading through the Scriptures with my wife, we've come to Deutoronomy.  This is one of my favorite OT books on account of...