Selama dua puluh lima tahun, Pendeta John Piper telah memprovokasi orang-orang Kristen dengan kebenaran yang sederhana namun memorak-porandakan paradigma kita bahwa Allah yang paling dimuliakan di dalam kita keika kita paling dipuaskan di dalam Dia. kepuasan, kebahagiaan, Sukacita, pengejaran kenikmatan di dalam Allah bukan hanya diperkenankan, tetapi juga esensial. Dengan membangun pesan…
Sepanjang dekade terakhir, kalangan Injili telah terbagi-bagi dalam hal bagaimana harus merespons tantangan-tantangan postmodernisme. Pilihan-pilihannya, yang meliputi penyangkalan naif sampai perangkulanyang tanpa keraguan, cenderung menderita kesalahan fatal yang sama: menempatkan penekanan pada kebudayaan ketimbang pada Kristus. Kumpulan esai ini mengoreksi kesalahan itu dengan cara menyedia…
Buku ini akan menantang Anda untuk percaya bahwa Allah benar-benar berdaulat, bukan hanya dalam tempat berlindung penelitian theologi yang aman, melainkan juga dalam kekacauan-balauan yang menyakitkan dari kehidupan nyata. Anda akan ditantang untuk hidup lebih konsisten oleh anugerah Allah dan untuk kemuliaan-Nya. -Mark D. Roberts, Pendeta Senior, Irvine Presbyterian Church Irvine, California.
"~According to Warren Wiersbe, The Supremacy of God in Preaching ""calls us back to a biblical standard for preaching, a standard exemplified by many of the pulpit giants of the past, especially Jonathan Edwards and Charles Spurgeon."" This newly revised and expanded edition is an essential guide for preachers who want to stir the embers of revival. Piper has added valuable new material reflect…
In this revised and expanded edition of Brothers, We Are Not Professionals that includes a new introduction and select all-new chapters, best-selling author John Piper pleads through a series of thoughtful essays with fellow pastors to abandon the professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry. ?We pastors are being killed by the profession…
John Piper writes, “I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader’s Digest: A couple ’took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .’…
Pierced by the Word takes up thirty-one subjects as unique as "How to Be a Refuge for Your Children," "How to Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God," and "Embracing the Pain of Shame." Some are longer, some shorter, like the real-world conversations they so closely resemble, and each comes from the fertile mind of John Piper and is written in his own inimitable style. Together, the readings wi…