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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| God Is Not Ashamed of His People | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:20:33 | |
Could God really be proud to be our God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Hebrews 11:13–22 for the surprising news of why God is not ashamed of his people. | |||
| God’s Promises for the World to Come | 30 Aug 2024 | 00:22:35 | |
What does God promise to those who trust him? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Hebrews 11:13–22 to examine a promise that frees us from a love affair with the present world. | |||
| What God’s Love Does in Our Hearts | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:25:40 | |
Whether we realize it or not, we yearn to experience the love of the Father. In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 5:5–8 to deepen our grasp of his love. | |||
| Divine Judgment and Mercy | 12 Apr 2024 | 00:26:36 | |
What is God’s purpose in executing justice and showing mercy in the world? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens the book of Joel to look at why God does all that he does. | |||
| God’s Delight in Blessing Us | 11 Apr 2024 | 00:25:39 | |
Does God really delight in doing us good? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Luke 12:32 to explore the pleasure God takes in his children. | |||
| God’s Delight in Civic Righteousness | 10 Apr 2024 | 00:26:19 | |
Why would God delight in ordinary lives like ours? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Proverbs 11:1 to show why God finds pleasure in righteous living in the nonreligious areas of life. | |||
| God’s Delight in Obedience | 09 Apr 2024 | 00:25:27 | |
Why is God’s delight in our obedience good news? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 1 Samuel 15:22–23 to show how God takes pleasure in our glad efforts to obey him. | |||
| God’s Delight in Our Prayers | 08 Apr 2024 | 00:25:36 | |
Why is God delighted when we pray? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Proverbs 15:8 to show how our prayerful dependence magnifies the glory of God’s wealth. | |||
| God’s Delight in Our Hope | 05 Apr 2024 | 00:25:05 | |
Why does God delight in people who hope in him? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Psalm 147:10–11 to show how our dependence magnifies his infinite worth and power. | |||
| God’s Delight in the Death of His Son | 04 Apr 2024 | 00:25:30 | |
Why did God delight in bruising his Son? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to Isaiah 53:10 for Scripture’s profound answer to a challenging question. | |||
| God’s Delight in Loving His Own | 03 Apr 2024 | 00:25:05 | |
Why does God delight in loving you? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Zephaniah 3:17 to reveal why God sings over the redeemed with great joy. | |||
| God’s Delight in Choosing a People | 02 Apr 2024 | 00:24:50 | |
Why did God choose you? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Deuteronomy 10:14–15 for a look at the foundational reason. | |||
| God’s Delight in His Name | 01 Apr 2024 | 00:26:10 | |
Why is God’s delight in his own name the foundation for his delight in us? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to 1 Samuel 12:22 to show how God’s commitment to his own glory is our confidence. | |||
| God’s Love Is Not a Mirage | 16 Aug 2024 | 00:22:02 | |
How do we experience the Father’s love in our hearts? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 5:3–8 to show God’s provision for enjoying his love. | |||
| God’s Delight in His Works | 29 Mar 2024 | 00:26:22 | |
Why should it matter to us that God delights in his creation? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Psalm 104:31 to show how God’s joy in what he has made overflows into our lives. | |||
| God’s Delight in His Sovereignty | 28 Mar 2024 | 00:25:07 | |
What difference does it make that God does whatever he pleases? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Psalm 135:6 to look at God’s delight in all that he does. | |||
| God’s Delight in His Son | 27 Mar 2024 | 00:26:30 | |
Why is it important that God eternally delights in his Son? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Matthew 17:5 to show how this joy is the very foundation of our salvation. | |||
| Lewis and the Pursuit of Joy | 26 Mar 2024 | 00:25:54 | |
Why is the pursuit of joy such a serious matter? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores the wonder of C.S. Lewis’s conception of eternal joy. | |||
| Unexpected Lessons from Lewis | 25 Mar 2024 | 00:24:53 | |
What’s the relationship between objective truth and the experience of joy? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to the life of C.S. Lewis to show where true joy is found. | |||
| Learning from an Unlikely Teacher | 22 Mar 2024 | 00:25:21 | |
What can we, as Christians, learn from C.S. Lewis? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores what the storyteller has to teach us. | |||
| The Man from Heaven | 21 Mar 2024 | 00:25:42 | |
How does God’s sovereign grace rescue us from the sin we inherited from Adam? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 3:31–36 to show how Jesus changed everything. | |||
| All Are Going to Him | 20 Mar 2024 | 00:24:33 | |
Why did people leave John the Baptist for Jesus? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 3:22–30 to show what drew them away. | |||
| The Joy of John the Baptist | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:20:49 | |
What is it that filled John the Baptist with such joy towards the end of his short life? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 3:22–30 for a look at the source of John the Baptist’s surprising happiness. | |||
| The Light Has Come | 18 Mar 2024 | 00:26:12 | |
In Jesus, the light of God has broken into the darkness and split our world in two. In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to John 3:16–21 to show how God’s light divides humanity. | |||
| A Tested Faith | 15 Aug 2024 | 00:25:47 | |
What assurance does God give that suffering will strengthen our faith? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 5:1–5 to offer hope-giving reasons for exulting in tribulations. | |||
| What Is the Nature of Unbelief? | 15 Mar 2024 | 00:20:23 | |
When someone does not believe the gospel, why is that? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 3:16–21 to examine the reality of unbelief. | |||
| Loved by the Father | 14 Mar 2024 | 00:26:26 | |
What is God’s covenant love for you as his child? In this episode of Light + Truth, beginning with John 3:16, John Piper looks at the wonderful love of the Father for those he has adopted in Christ. | |||
| The Seven Peaks of John 3:16 | 13 Mar 2024 | 00:25:39 | |
How do we come to know Jesus as the great quencher of our soul’s thirst? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper takes us to John 3:16 to glory in God’s provision of our satisfying Savior. | |||
| The Spirit’s Irresistible Call | 12 Mar 2024 | 00:26:26 | |
What do we mean when we say that the Spirit’s work in the new birth is irresistible? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks at John 3:1–10 to explore the beauty of this aspect of the Spirit’s sovereign work. | |||
| The Wind Blows | 11 Mar 2024 | 00:24:21 | |
How does the wind help us understand how the Spirit of God works? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 3:1–10 for Jesus’s own explanation of the third person of the Trinity. | |||
| Look and Live | 08 Mar 2024 | 00:25:15 | |
What does it mean to look at Jesus and live? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 3:1–15 to explore how Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness helps us understand how the death of Jesus changes us. | |||
| The Spiritual Sight of Glory | 07 Mar 2024 | 00:25:31 | |
What is the spiritual sight of glory that saves a person? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 2:23–25 for a cross-centered answer to our greatest need. | |||
| Jesus Knows You | 06 Mar 2024 | 00:19:57 | |
How can Jesus’s infinite knowledge of us possibly be good news to us? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 2:23–25 to help us admire just how much Christ understands us. | |||
| Our Eternal Meeting Place | 05 Mar 2024 | 00:21:36 | |
Why is it good news that Jesus himself has become our new meeting place with God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to John 2:12–22 for an answer to that thought-provoking question. | |||
| Jesus Loves His Bride | 04 Mar 2024 | 00:16:20 | |
How has Christ loved the church? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 2:1–11 to see the lengths the Son has gone to have his bride. | |||
| God Is No Longer Against Us | 14 Aug 2024 | 00:21:12 | |
What does it mean to stand in the grace of God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 5:1–2 to strengthen our faith in the gospel. | |||
| Jesus Reveals His Glory | 01 Mar 2024 | 00:23:04 | |
What happens when the glory of Jesus is revealed through the preaching of the gospel? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 2:1–11 to unfold how God works through the good news. | |||
| To Him Be Glory Forever | 29 Feb 2024 | 00:25:11 | |
In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 11:36 to put the glory of God on display for our satisfaction. | |||
| Our Infinite Treasure | 28 Feb 2024 | 00:20:00 | |
How does God become our treasure when we could never deserve him? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 11:33–36 for a deeper look at the gospel. | |||
| Oh, the Depths of God | 27 Feb 2024 | 00:21:02 | |
What should happen in us when we are confronted with the depths of God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper expounds Romans 11:33–36 to explore how unfathomably great our God is. | |||
| The Nourishing Word | 26 Feb 2024 | 00:25:37 | |
How much are you currently relying on the nourishing milk of the word? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Hebrews 5:11–14 to help us understand just how much we need the Bible in order to grow to maturity. | |||
| The Eternality of Christ | 23 Feb 2024 | 00:21:14 | |
Why is the eternality of Christ’s priesthood so important? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks at Hebrews 5:4–10 to examine the significance of Christ’s never-ending ministry on our behalf. | |||
| Our Source of Eternal Salvation | 22 Feb 2024 | 00:23:59 | |
What gives us confidence, in the face of all our sin, that Christ is our source of eternal salvation? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Hebrews 5:4–10 to strengthen our assurance. | |||
| Jesus Is Alive and with God | 21 Feb 2024 | 00:21:55 | |
What does it mean for us to have a great high priest in the presence of God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Hebrews 4:14–5:3 to encourage us with the superior ministry of Jesus. | |||
| Our High Priest | 20 Feb 2024 | 00:22:12 | |
Why must we understand who Jesus is and what he’s done for us on the Bible’s terms? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to Hebrews 4:14–5:3 for the categories Scripture provides for knowing Christ. | |||
| Hear, Believe, and Embrace the Word | 19 Feb 2024 | 00:25:24 | |
Why must we be diligent with the word of God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Hebrews 4:12–13 to show us how the Scriptures help us battle an unbelieving heart. | |||
| Caught Up into Glory | 13 Aug 2024 | 00:22:17 | |
What does it mean that God made us to enjoy his glory? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 5:1–2 to help us see the glory of Christ shining from the gospel. | |||
| Our Promised Rest | 16 Feb 2024 | 00:23:53 | |
What is the future rest that God has promised his people? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper considers that coming day in Hebrews 4:1–11. | |||
| Our Eternal Security | 15 Feb 2024 | 00:24:48 | |
What makes our security in salvation eternal? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper tackles the question of eternal security from Hebrews 3:12–19. | |||
| Partakers of Christ | 14 Feb 2024 | 00:25:42 | |
What makes our union with Christ so utterly important? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Hebrews 3:7–19 to show just how dependent on him we really are. | |||
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