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How can preachers rebuke and exhort without wandering into hypocrisy and pride? John Piper offers six hallmarks of godly, humble preaching.

When Paul tells Timothy to preach, he uses some of the weightiest language found in any biblical command. John Piper draws out four initial implications.

How do we know the Bible is the word of God? John Piper explores Jesus’s teaching alongside Paul’s claim that all Scripture is God-breathed.

What is the Bible for, and how do we make the most of it? John Piper offers tools for digging into the inspired word of God.

What was Paul’s aim in the midst of deadly persecutions and trials? John Piper unpacks the apostle’s realism and hope in his encouragements to Timothy.

What marks false teachers and their followers? John Piper confronts the impulse to hide sin behind a noncommittal appearance of godliness.

In the last days, some will be lovers of self, lovers of money, and full of every kind of sin, yet they will still maintain the appearance of godliness. How?

Should we love pleasure, or is doing so a sinful sign of the last days? John Piper contrasts loving pleasure for its own sake with loving pleasure in God.

When Paul starts listing sins that define unbelievers in the last days, he leads with an example more heinous than the rest: unrighteous self-love.

Paul says the last days will be full of deceivers and difficulties. But why should that be so? John Piper offers six possible reasons.

When Jesus came as God’s Messiah, he ushered in a new age — but not in the way so many expected. John Piper examines our place in the last days.

If God alone grants repentance, why should parents, friends, and pastors still labor for the salvation of unbelievers?

How do we escape Satan’s clutches, especially when we have no hope of loving the truth on our own? We come to our senses only when God grants repentance.

If the Christian life is about fleeing sin and pursuing righteousness, faith, love, and peace, how do we do so? John Piper offers some means of grace.

How do we get a pure heart? John Piper meditates on righteousness, faith, love, and peace as vital pursuits for the Christian life.

What does it mean to be an honorable part of God’s great household? John Piper encourages believers to pursue usefulness in every good work.

When Christianity seems fragile, and false teaching leads people toward more and more ungodliness, how do we know that God’s purposes haven’t failed?

Irreverent babble leads only to more ungodliness. John Piper warns against teaching that is as poisonous as it is empty.

How do we teach the word of God in a manner approved by God? John Piper emphasizes the importance of faith and grace in the work of ministry.

When it comes to defending the words of the Bible, how do we know when we’ve begun ruining our hearers with quarrels? Pastor John offers five guidelines.

God promises to keep everyone he saves, yet Scripture also mentions conditions Christians must meet in order to get to glory. How do those two truths fit together?

Does God remain faithful to us even when we are unfaithful to him? John Piper considers the promise that God will never deny himself.

What does the doctrine of election do for evangelism? It puts the omnipotent, unfailing power of God behind the gospel call.

The word of God is not bound by anything. Yet God chooses to use human heralds and their faithful suffering to advance the good news.

Mature Christians are much occupied with Jesus. They do not forget him but remember him hourly and in everything.