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Look at the Book is John Piper's ongoing series of 8-12 minute videos to help you learn to read the Bible for yourself.
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Paul could have commanded Philemon, with all the force of an apostle, to treat his runaway slave with love. So, why does Paul prefer to appe...
How does Christian love touch and refresh all our relationships? Springing up from personal delight in Jesus, love overflows to do good to o...
Why does Paul think of Philemon as the sort of man who would welcome back a runaway slave? Because he has heard of Philemon’s refreshing fai...
When Paul wrote to Philemon on a personal matter, he intended the entire church — including us — to receive grace and peace through his word...
Paul is an apostle of Jesus Christ, with all the authority that commission entails. But as he writes to Philemon, he approaches as a friend.
Why did Paul write his letter to Philemon? A delicate matter between a master and his slave becomes teaching that nourishes the worldwide ch...
A strong message rings through Paul’s letter to Titus like the toll of a great bell: Let Christians devote themselves to good works in the g...
When good doctrine produces good works, the church flourishes — but dissent and controversies cause division. That worthlessness needs to be...
God’s message of salvation is utterly trustworthy. But what should his promises produce in those who have received them by faith?
By justifying us through Christ’s blood, God has made us heirs of eternal life. But what is that life, and why does it matter?
When we think of God’s grace in salvation, how does justification by faith lead to our adoption as children of God and the gift of eternal l...
When the Bible tells us to be renewed, how is that supposed to happen? The Holy Spirit works in us to make us taste and enjoy God’s great lo...
Does regeneration come from washing, or does washing come from regeneration? When God gives us new life, he also makes us clean by his power...
Why do our good works in Christ please God when even our best works outside Christ added to our guilt? John Piper explores the insufficiency...
Mercy, regeneration, justification, grace, inheritance, hope, eternal life — salvation is full of wonders for us to study and enjoy.
For Christians, the word “saved” is so common that we might easily overlook its sobering implications. From what danger did God rescue us?
The God who devised the plan of salvation through Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection must be a certain kind of God. Come and see his kind...
God’s mercy shines all the brighter against the darkness of our sinful past, when our rebellious desires drove us into every kind of malice...
A Christian’s meekness comes not from a certain disposition but from the Holy Spirit — the same Spirit who sometimes moves us to rebuke.
Because of the redemption Christ has accomplished, we are free to submit without fear to human rulers as we pursue the good works God has gi...
The church needs pastors through whom the word of God overflows in everyday speech, including in words of exhortation and authoritative rebu...
When Christ gave himself for our sake, what did he accomplish? His redeeming work breaks the power of sin and purifies us so that we belong...
Jesus’s second coming is supposed to be our greatest hope. But what is it about that hope that should make us wait so eagerly?
How do we know the difference between a godly desire and a worldly desire? A godly desire will only grow sweeter as our desire for God grows...
The training regimen of grace goes deeper than moral imperatives — “Do this” and “Do that.” God’s grace trains us to start and end at the cr...
Where does grace start, and where does it go? Before all ages, God planned to save us by his grace and to make us holy through that same pow...
In the most vulnerable places in society, God has called believers who will make his salvation beautiful through their submission, diligence...
What could be more important for young men than self-control? Paul finishes his instructions to various generations with a word to young men...
What does love for the word of God look like for women in various stages of life? By God’s design, older women can guide younger women in Ch...
Sound doctrine — God’s revelation in Christ — has the power to guard us from silliness and immaturity and frivolity, and to make us healthy...
Any good deed could be an act of hypocrisy if it denies the promises of God. So, what kind of heart makes good deeds actually good?
Why would Paul quote — and agree with — someone who seems to insult everyone in his mission field? Paul is aiming for rebuke that leads to r...
In a world full of evil, an elder’s job is not to fight an impossible battle against outside influences but to silence error within the chur...
What enables elders to rebuke and exhort with all authority? Only their tight grip on the healthy doctrine given to them in the word of God.
What do the various elder qualifications mean, and where can we go to learn more about them? Each is rooted to Scripture and crucial for pas...
In Paul’s list of elder qualifications, does “husband of one wife” mean “never remarried” — and does “his children are faithful” mean they m...
An elder’s ability to lead his family reflects more than his ability to lead the church — it reflects how outsiders will view the church its...
What task could be so important that an apostle would leave behind a trusted friend to see it accomplished? For Paul, it was establishing le...
Paul had a trusted messenger all over the Roman Empire, grounded in the same faith and so dear to him that he called him his child. Who was...
When Paul talks about the hope of eternal life, he considers the word a crucial ingredient — but does he mean the word he preached or the Wo...
Before the beginning of time, God promised eternal life — and not only that, but he planned everything it would take to bring about his purp...
What can hold up our faith, deepen our knowledge, and set free our godliness so that it overflows to others? Only the hope of eternal life.
How does internal godliness reveal itself? For the elect, the knowledge of the truth can’t help but produce good works.
With boldness and delight, the New Testament talks about God’s people as elect from before the foundation of the world. Why don’t we talk th...
When Jesus changed Paul from a persecutor to a preacher, he gave Paul authority as an apostle. But what does that apostleship mean for the c...
If Christians are sons of God, why does Paul call himself a slave of God? John Piper describes what it means to be a slave (and yet a friend...
What is the message of Paul’s letter to Titus? John Piper points out three mountain peaks to guide those who study this powerful text.
After all that Paul says in his final letter, what parting desire did he have for Timothy? He wanted him to experience the Lord Jesus’s pres...
At the end of his letter and his life, Paul bursts into a doxology at the thought that God will rescue him from the lion’s mouth and bring h...
What hope do we have in suffering and persecution? John Piper meditates on the power of God to strengthen us even when everyone else has tur...
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