John Piper

Is It Wrong for Men to Have Long Hair?

Roger Olson: [John] Piper deserves to be called the single most influential American theologian of the past quarter of a century.

“This week, Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary released its 2018 ranking of the ministers who set the standard for contemporary sermons.

“The issue is not whether women should attend seminary in one of its programs and get the best biblical grounding possible,” noted Piper. “The issue is whether women should be models, mentors, and teachers for those preparing for a role that is biblically designed for spiritual men.” CPost

If you dishonor a toad, you’re not very guilty. I stomped on a toad when I was a teenager, and I felt a little bad, but not much. If you dishonor a man, you’re very guilty. If you dishonor God, you are infinitely guilty because he’s infinitely worthy of every millisecond of worship in your life. If you don’t give him worship, you multiply the storehouse of wrath.

God chose you freely to belong to him. By an act of free grace. You did not qualify for God’s choice. Nor did I! It was in spite of disqualification. We were unwilling to come. We loved darkness and hated light and would not come to the light (John 3:19–20). In spite of knowing this about us, God chose some darkness-lovers to be his.

“If the brick of the Confederacy is removed from the castle of Southern culture, the building will not collapse. … Southern culture is vastly greater than slavery and the Civil War. … therefore the removal of some or all of the Confederate symbols would not cause the castle of Southern culture to collapse.” DesiringGod

John Piper: Tomorrow we will inaugurate a man to the presidency of the United States who is morally unqualified to be there. This is important to say just now because not to see it and feel it will add to the collapsing vision of leadership that enabled him to be nominated and elected.

I submit that of all possible worlds our sovereign Lord could have created, He selected this one, as this universe gives Him the most glory—not least because of the satisfying abundance of His goodness showered upon us in the form of the tiny, custom-made mint-green creme candies smothered over a layer of chocolate that they give you at the end of each meal at Olive Gar