Light + Truth
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Light + Truth
Classic sermons from John Piper to help you see Christ clearly and treasure him truly. Five days a week, 20 minutes per episode. Hosted by Dan Cruver.
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The One We Dare Not Take for Granted
Do we honor God by assuming him? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Isaiah 48:9–11 to show why God’s greatness demands our attention a...
Hope That Pleases God
How can commands sound like good news? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explains Psalm 147:11 and shows why God’s call to hope is grace.
The God Who Rejoices Over You
Do you picture God helping you reluctantly? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper unpacks Jeremiah 32:40–41 to show God’s eager, wholehearted g...
God Never Stops Doing Good
How can you be sure God won’t quit doing you good? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper applies Jeremiah 32:39–41 to all who belong to Christ.
The Delight That Breaks the Power of Sin
Why do your strongest temptations keep winning? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 6:35 to show that sin loses leverage when Chri...
The Joy That Produces Radical Obedience
Why don’t fear and guilt change us more deeply? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Matthew 5:16 to show how delight in God produces br...
The Sermon That Makes God the Main Actor
Do you talk as if God is really at work? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper expounds Acts 13:17–30 and shows why biblical preaching keeps sa...
When Majesty Is Missing from Preaching
How can preaching drift out of touch with reality? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper warns that when God’s majesty is missing, we stop talk...
Why Worship Demands the Word
Why does Sunday worship center on preaching? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 2 Timothy 3:16–4:5 to show why worship demands a word...
God’s Commands Are for Your Joy
Are God’s commands restrictive? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper expounds Luke 11:46 and shows how faith learns to trust God’s way to happ...
When Faith Acts
How do you obey without sliding into legalism? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Matthew 5:16 to show how faith fills obedience with...
To Die Is Gain: How Suffering Magnifies Christ
What keeps you moving toward hard places? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper expounds Philippians 1:20–21 and shows why prisons and swords c...
Appointed to Suffer: God’s Strategy for Finishing the Mission
Is suffering a detour, or is it God’s plan? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 8:23 and shows why groaning saints are God’s str...
Down, Down, Down into Grace
Are you trying to pay God back with obedience? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper teaches 2 Corinthians 9:8 and shows how grace carries us e...
The God Who Refuses to Be Served
Can serving God actually dishonor him? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Mark 10:45 to show the Christ who refuses to be served.
God’s Design for the Pulpit
Why does preaching belong at the heart of worship? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper expounds 2 Timothy 4:2 to show how preaching helps us...
Why the Word Must Stand at the Center of Worship
What makes preaching central in worship? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper teaches 2 Timothy 3:16–4:5 and shows how the Spirit opens blind...
Fear Not: Five Incentives for Courage
What if you stopped fearing people? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper teaches Matthew 10:24–31 and shows how Jesus gives us reasons not to...
Courage for a Culture Without Truth
Why is truth so hard to hear today? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explains from 1 Timothy 4:3 how preaching to real needs (not just fel...
Why God Seeks Your Joy
Does God’s self-exaltation sound unloving to you? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper shows how God’s pursuit of our praise is actually the f...
Why God Saves
How can a holy God say, “Fear not” to guilty people? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explains from Ezekiel 20:44 why God’s commitment to...
Why Old Songs Still Matter
What makes a song endure in Christian worship? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper explores how music that speaks to shared human depths cont...
Singing the Old and the New
What sparks new worship songs? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Psalm 98:1 to show how a renewed sight of God’s glory gives rise to...
Worship in Crisis and Comfort
What if worship sounds different when lives are at stake? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper uses Psalm 57:9 to show why urgency rightly res...
Worship Between Worlds
What does faithful worship look like across differences? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper helps us see how clothing, music, and conversati...
Worship on a Cultural Continuum
What guards our worship styles from drifting with the culture? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper argues that rich, complex doctrine is pres...
Worship at the Crossroads
Is there room for both head and heart in worship? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper helps us long for what heaven promises: razor-sharp min...
White-Hot Affection, Razor-Sharp Truth
Why does God command emotion? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper shows how Scripture urges us to love truth deeply and respond with joy, awe...
Why Theology Matters in Song
What stirs true worship — sound or substance? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper shows how truth governs emotion and keeps praise from drift...
Going Hard After God Together
What frees a soul to worship deeply? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper draws a line from grace to joy, from guilt to praise.
The Prayer God Loves
What makes prayer pleasing to God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Proverbs 15:8 to show why God welcomes the cries of justified si...
Praying at God’s Fountain of Joy
What if God delights in your thirst more than your strength? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper draws from Isaiah 64:4 to describe God as a...
When Love Confronts the Earthly Powers
What kind of protest does the world need to see? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper shows from Romans 13:1–7 why the most powerful “no” show...
The Armor of Light and the Life of Love
What sustains real love over a lifetime? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 13:8–14 to show how love flows from union with the...
Mercy That Trusts God’s Wrath
How can we show mercy when wronged? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 12:19–21 to show how trusting God’s justice frees us to...
When Mercy Overcomes the World
What does mercy sound like toward an enemy? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 12:9–21 to show why blessing, not cursing, is th...
Grace That Fuels Our Service
What fuels real Christian service? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 12:9–21 to show that every step we take for Christ is a s...
Genuine Love Must Hate
Why must love sometimes hate? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 12:9–21 to show that true love fights what destroys human soul...
The Renewed Mind in Action
How should we think about ourselves? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 12:2–8 to show how faith in Christ reshapes our self-as...
How to Discern God’s Will
Can you glorify God without consciously trying? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 12:2–8 to show how the Spirit reshapes your...