“God has appointed preaching in worship as one great means of accomplishing his ultimate goal in the world.” —John Piper John Piper makes a compelling claim in these pages about the purpose of preaching: it is intended not merely as an explanation of the text but also as a means of awakening worship by being worship in and of itself. Christian preaching is a God-appointed miracle aiming to awaken the supernatural seeing, savoring, and showing of the glory of Christ. Distilling over forty years of experience in preaching and teaching, Piper shows preachers how and what to communicate from God’s Word, so that God’s purpose on earth will advance through Biblesaturated, Christ-exalting, God-centered preaching—in other words, expository exultation.
Expository Exultation
Surely every preachershould say,with all gravity, “Who is sufficient for these things”—to savesinners, to revivethe church, to preserve the saints! So I repeat my thesis: Gladness and gravity should be woven together inthelife and ...
John Piper has devoted his life to showing us that the glory of God is object of the soul’s happiness. Now, his burden in this book is to demonstrate that this same glory is the ground of the mind’s certainty.
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Outlines procedures for preaching without the benefits of notes.
Divine Election and God’s Desire for All to Be Saved In this short, theological essay, John Piper builds a scriptural case that God’s unconditional election unto salvation is compatible with God’s genuine desire and offer for all to ...
With this brief book, Piper is sure to spur fellow baby boomers in their resolve to invest themselves in the sacrifices of love-and to grow old with godly zeal.
22:2), the Father's last entreaty or God's “final emissary” to rebellious Israel, and the one “to whom the vineyard rightly belonged.”55 The vineyard is Israel (“the vineyard . . . is the house of Israel,” Isa. 5:7).56 The tenants, ...
Prominent authors call pastors to pursue gospel-saturated, preaching-centered ministries.