Voices and influences
John Piper
John Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946) is an American Reformed Baptist theologian, pastor, and author.
Summary
This site quotes John Piper 5 times across 5 books, and lists 8 works.
- Lived born 1946, American.
- Quoted here most in Genesis: 1 of 5.
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John Piper
- Lived
- born 1946
- Nation
- American
- Tradition
- Reformed Baptist
5 of 5 quotations
Own words
Quoted at 50 words or fewer, because John Piper's works are in copyright.
God the Father through the Son created out of nothing everything that is not God.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. BSB
"Fullness" means completely satisfying. And "forevermore" means those pleasures never stop.
The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year (sermon), 2022
Psalms 16:11 You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand. BSB
he created us to display his glory, that is, that his glory might be known and praised.
Isaiah 43:7 everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.” BSB
There is something I want you to do for me: I have some enemies that deserve to perish, and I want you to go and die in their place, so that they can have eternal life.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. BSB
God lays our sins on Christ and punishes them in him. And in Christ's obedient death, God fulfills and vindicates his righteousness and imputes (credits) it to us.
2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes John Piper 5 times across 5 books.
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The life, in order
The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
John Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946) is an American Reformed Baptist theologian, pastor, and author. Educated at Wheaton College (B.A. literature, 1968), Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D., 1971), and the University of Munich (Th.D. New Testament, 1974, under Leonhard Goppelt), Piper served as a professor of biblical studies at Bethel College (Minnesota, 1974–1980) before a 33-year senior pastorate at Bethlehem Baptist Church (Minneapolis, MN, 1980–2013). He is the founder, senior teacher, and chancellor of Desiring God (desiringgod.org, 1994–present) and Bethlehem College and Seminary (since 2009). His book catalog runs to 60+ titles, with Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986, multiple revisions) the signature work, joined by The Pleasures of God (1991), Future Grace (1995), Don't Waste Your Life (2003), Counted Righteous in Christ (2002, justification defense), The Future of Justification (2007, response to N.T. Wright), and Brothers, We Are Not Professionals (2002). Piper has biographical-spiritual treatments of Charles Spurgeon, John Owen, William Cowper, Hudson Taylor, George Whitefield, William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and others in The Swans Are Not Silent series.
8 works
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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
1986; multiple revisions through 2011
Piper's signature work. The articulation of Christian Hedonism. One of the major evangelical theological-devotional texts of the late 20th century.
Not quoted on this site yet
The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
1991
Companion to Desiring God — the divine-side counterpart, articulating the pleasures of God Himself as the basis for Christian Hedonism.
Not quoted on this site yet
Future Grace: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
1995; revised 2012
Piper's mature articulation of sanctification — by faith in the promises of future grace, against gratitude-as-primary-motivation models.
Not quoted on this site yet
Don't Waste Your Life
2003
The challenge to live for what matters eternally; widely-used among evangelical college students and missions-oriented audiences.
Not quoted on this site yet
Counted Righteous in Christ
2002
Piper's defense of imputed-righteousness justification against the New Perspective on Paul (especially N.T. Wright's What Saint Paul Really Said, 1997).
Not quoted on this site yet
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals
2002; revised 2013
Piper's pastoral-theology challenge to evangelical clergy professionalization.
Not quoted on this site yet
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
1991, ed. with Wayne Grudem
The standard CBMW articulation of complementarianism; defining text in the contemporary evangelical egalitarian-vs-complementarian debate.
Not quoted on this site yet
The Swans Are Not Silent series
multiple volumes; biographical-spiritual treatments of Spurgeon, Owen, Cowper, Edwards, Bunyan, Tyndale, Augustine, Athanasius, Wilberforce, etc.
Piper's tradition-curation work; the recovery and transmission of historical-evangelical voices.
Not quoted on this site yet
Their whole shelf sits at Desiring God.
5 quotations across 5 books
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