John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.), and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years, he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem. John is the author of more than 50 books and more than 30 years of his preaching and teaching is available free at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and twelve grandchildren. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
Series
Books
Good News of Great Joy
Daily Readings for Advent
2012
Don't Waste Your Cancer
2011
The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor
Reflections on Life and Ministry
2011
The Satisfied Soul
Showing the Supremacy of God in All of Life
2017
The Prodigal's Sister
2003
The Innkeeper
1998
Happily Ever After
Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage
2016
A Tribute to My Father With Other Writing
2013
A Hunger for God
Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer
1997
Desiring God
Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
1986
The Hidden Smile of God
The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd
2001
What Is Saving Faith?
Reflections on Receiving Christ as a Treasure
2022
Your Sorrow Will Turn To Joy
2016
For Your Joy
2005
27 Servants of Sovereign Joy
Faithful, Flawed, and Fruitful
2022
Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide
2007
Romans
The Greatest Letter Ever Written: Complete Set
2010
Astonished by God
Ten Truths to Turn the World Upside Down
2018
Finish the Mission
Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged
2012
Future Grace Study Guide
The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
2012
With Calvin in the Theater of God
The Glory of Christ and Everyday Life
2010
A Camaraderie of Confidence
The Fruit of Unfailing Faith in the Lives of Charles Spurgeon, George Muller and Hudson Taylor
2016
The Pleasures of God
Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
1991
Coronavirus and Christ
2020
The Blazing Center Study Guide
The Soul-Satisfying Supremacy of God in All Things
2006
Martin Luther
Lessons From His Life and Labor
2012
Desiring God Study Guide
Finding Complete Satisfaction and Joy in God
2010
Thinking. Loving. Doing.
A Call to Glorify God with Heart and Mind
2011
A Godward Life, Book Two
Savoring the Supremacy of God in All Life
1999
What Jesus Demands from the World
2006
This Momentary Marriage
A Parable of Permanence
2009
Life as a Vapor
Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith
2004
The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World
2007
Ruth
Under the Wings of God
2010
Spectacular Sins
And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ
2008
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
A Response to Evangelical Feminism
1991
A Peculiar Glory
How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness
2016
Acting the Miracle
God's Work and Ours in the Mystery of Sanctification
2013
The Romantic Rationalist
God, Life, and Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis
2014
Andrew Fuller
I Will Go Down If You Will Hold the Rope!
2012
The Marks of a Spiritual Leader
2011
David Brainerd
May I Never Loiter On My Heavenly Journey
2012
John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God
2008
Living in the Light
Money, Sex and Power
2016
In Our Joy
2007
The Legacy of Sovereign Joy
God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin
2000
Tulip
The Pursuit of God's Glory in Salvation
2009
The Dawning of Indestructible Joy
Daily Readings for Advent
2013
The Pleasures of God Study Guide
Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
2012
Rethinking Retirement
Finishing Life for the Glory of Christ
2009
Think It Not Strange
2016
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
2001
When the Darkness Will Not Lift
Doing What We Can While We Wait for GodAnd Joy
2006
Bloodlines
Race, Cross and the Christian
2011
Counted Righteous in Christ
Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness?
2002
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
2005
God's Passion for His Glory
Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards
1998
Lessons from a Hospital Bed
2016
Battling Unbelief
Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure
2007
The Power of Words and the Wonder of God
2009
Love to the Uttermost
Devotional Readings for Holy Week
2013
Shaped by God
Thinking and Feeling in Tune with the Psalms
1905
Jesus
the Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to be Saved?
2010
The Passion of Jesus Christ
2004
Andrew Fuller
Holy Faith, Worthy Gospel, World Mission
2016
Come, Lord Jesus
Meditations on the Second Coming of Christ
2023
Cross
Unrivaled Christ, Unstoppable Gospel, Unreached Peoples, Unending Joy
2015
Doctrine Matters
Ten Theological Trademarks from a Lifetime of Preaching
2013
Future Grace
1995
Letter to a Friend
2014
Don't Waste Your Life
2003
The Supremacy of God in Preaching
1990
A Sweet and Bitter Providence
Sex, Race and the Sovereignty of God
2009
When I Don't Desire God
How to Fight For Joy: Study Guide
2008
What's the Difference?
Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible
1990
Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce
2007
Adoniram Judson
How Few There Are Who Die So Hard!
2012
Contending for Our All
Defending Truth and Treasuring Christ in the Lives of Athanasius, John Owen, and J. Gresham Machen
2006
When I Don't Desire God
How to Fight for Joy
2004
Finally Alive
2009
Future of Justification
A Response to N.T. Wright
2002
Expository Exultation
Christian Preaching as Worship
2018
Beyond the Bounds
Open Theism and the Undermining of Biblical Christianity
2003
Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion
2012
John G. Paton
You Will Be Eaten By Cannibals!
2012
Take Care How You Listen
Sermons by John Piper on Receiving the Word
2012
50 Crucial Questions
An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood
1991
Love Your Enemies (A History of the Tradition and Interpretation of Its Uses)
Jesus' Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis
1980
All That Jesus Commanded
The Christian Life according to the Gospels
2023
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals
A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
2002
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
2006
Stand
A Call for the Endurance of the Saints
2008
Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God
2025
The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God
2002
A Holy Ambition
To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
2011
A Godward Heart
Treasuring the God Who Loves You
2013
God Is the Gospel
Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
2005
Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully
The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis
2014
A Godward Life
Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life
1992
Reading the Bible Supernaturally
Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God in Scripture
2017
Captive to Glory
Celebrating the Vision and Influence of Jonathan Edwards
2013
Risk Is Right
Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It
2013
Why I Love the Apostle Paul
30 Reasons
2019
Five Points
2013
An All-Consuming Passion for Jesus
Appeals to the Rising Generation
2014
Joy to the World
Daily Readings for Advent
2013
The Justification of God
An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 9:1-23
1993
Still Not Professionals
Ten Pleas for Today's Pastors
2013
Alive to Wonder
Celebrating the Influence of C.S. Lewis
2013
Taste and See
Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life
2005
Redeeming Singleness
How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life
2010
Think
The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
2010
Pierced by the Word
Thirty-One Meditations for Your Soul
2003
A God Entranced Vision of All Things
The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
2004
Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ
The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton
2009
Charles Spurgeon
Preaching Through Adversity
2015
Risk Is Right
2013
Providence
2020
Let the Nations Be Glad!
The Supremacy of God in Missions
1993
Job
2008
Esther
2012
Does God Desire All to Be Saved?
2013
Velvet Steel
The Joy of Being Married to You: Selections from the Poems of John Piper
2009
Preparing for Marriage
Help for Christian Couples
2018
21 Servants of Sovereign Joy
Faithful, Flawed, and Fruitful
2018
The Roots of Endurance
Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce
2002
Sanctification in the Everyday
Three Sermons by John Piper
2012
The Dangerous Duty of Delight
Daring to Make God Your Greatest Desire
2001
