Look at the Book
1,183 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 575 ratingsLook at the Book is John Piper's ongoing series of 8-12 minute videos to help you learn to read the Bible for yourself.
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Philippians 4:8–9, Part 2: What Does the Mind of Peace Think About?
March 14, 2020 10:00 - 60.9 MB VideoWhat do you think about most? How you answer the question will reveal how much of the peace of God you experience.
Philippians 4:8–9, Part 1: The Peace of God Does Not Produce Passivity
March 10, 2020 10:00 - 45.9 MB VideoOne way to find peace beyond our circumstances is to set our minds on things above our circumstances.
Philippians 4:4–7, Part 6: How God’s Peace Guards Our Hearts and Minds
March 07, 2020 11:00 - 57.3 MB VideoThe peace of God is not a calm stream to jump in when life becomes difficult. It is a home we live in, at all times, as we wait for heaven.
Philippians 4:4–7, Part 5: Battling Anxiety with Thankful Prayer
March 03, 2020 11:00 - 58 MB VideoReplace anxiety with this way of life: In whatever would make you anxious and cause you not to rejoice, go vertical in prayer.
Philippians 4:4–7, Part 4: Is Any Christian Anxiety Good?
February 29, 2020 11:00 - 57.4 MB VideoPaul says, “Do not be anxious about anything,” but does that really mean anything? Is any Christian anxiety good?
Philippians 4:4–7, Part 3: How Is the Lord’s Coming ‘at Hand’?
February 25, 2020 11:00 - 57.7 MB Video“The Lord is at hand.” The apostle Paul wrote that more than 2,000 years ago, so why hasn’t Jesus come yet?
Philippians 4:4–7, Part 2: Gentleness Exposes Our Prayer Lives
February 22, 2020 11:00 - 55.3 MB VideoLet people hear your gentle responses. Let God hear your cries for help.
Philippians 4:4–7, Part 1: Can Anyone Really Rejoice ‘Always’?
February 18, 2020 11:00 - 55.8 MB VideoHow could we possibly, in our world full of sin and death, “rejoice always”?
Matthew 11:25–30, Part 7: Is His Yoke Really Easy?
February 15, 2020 11:00 - 71 MB VideoCountless ways exist to ruin your eternity and go to hell. Only one Way leads to eternal life: Jesus Christ.
Matthew 11:25–30, Part 6: What Kind of Rest Does Jesus Give?
February 11, 2020 11:00 - 53.6 MB VideoSin’s burden breaks the soul’s back. Jesus’s burden strengthens the soul and leads to rest.
Matthew 11:25–30, Part 5: The Sweetest Invitation in the New Testament
February 08, 2020 11:00 - 60.6 MB VideoChrist invites you to lay down self-sufficiency and come find rest for your soul in him, a rest that can never be taken.
Matthew 11:25–30, Part 4: We Cannot See Jesus Without God
February 04, 2020 11:00 - 78.8 MB VideoThousands saw Jesus, but did not see him. Millions read the Bible and do not worship Jesus. Salvation belongs to the Lord.
Matthew 11:25–30, Part 3: Only God Can Reveal God
February 01, 2020 11:00 - 66.9 MB VideoThe pride of man is eternally humbled by the simple fact that unless God reveals himself to us, we could never have repented or believed.
Matthew 11:25–30, Part 2: God Must Give Spiritual Sight
January 28, 2020 11:00 - 60.3 MB VideoIf God does not reveal himself to us, even the wisest, the strongest, the richest will not find him.
Matthew 11:25–30, Part 1: God Hides Salvation from the Proud
January 25, 2020 11:00 - 59.6 MB VideoGod has hidden works from some that if performed would have caused them to repent. Why?
Matthew 11:20–24, Part 2: Will Hell Be Worse for Some?
January 21, 2020 11:00 - 74.9 MB VideoSome cities, Jesus says, are worse than Sodom. How they responded to him increased their judgment.
Matthew 11:20–24, Part 1: Miracles Are Meant to Drive Repentance
January 18, 2020 11:00 - 58.4 MB VideoEven healing can be dangerous, if we do not reckon with the purpose of our healing: repentance.
Philippians 4:2–3, Part 4: Why Does It Matter That Their Names Are in the Book of Life?
January 14, 2020 11:00 - 54.7 MB VideoThe frustrations and grievances we carry against other Christians would feel different if we could see their names written in the book of life.
Philippians 4:2–3, Part 3: Eight Ways Paul Encourages Euodia and Syntyche to Come to One Mind
January 11, 2020 11:00 - 53 MB VideoPastors are not called to create unity in the body of Christ. They are called to help their people maintain it.
Philippians 4:2–3, Part 2: The Bible and the Sermon Are Not Always Enough
January 07, 2020 11:00 - 51.1 MB VideoReconciliation between believers in our churches will require more than the pastor’s preaching or our private Bible reading.
Philippians 4:2–3, Part 1: How Pervasive Is Paul’s Concern with Conflict in the Church?
January 04, 2020 11:00 - 58.6 MB VideoChristians share more than the same worldview. They share the same heart, the same mind, the same body, and the same Savior.
Micah 5:2, Part 4: How the Priests and Scribes Abused the Bible
December 31, 2019 11:00 - 65.3 MB VideoSome people who teach the Bible should not be teaching the Bible. Here is an example from the Bible.
Micah 5:2, Part 3: The Global Majesty of the God-Man
December 28, 2019 11:00 - 66.7 MB VideoJesus is not a small Savior for small sins against God. Jesus is the global Savior for a world full of children of wrath.
Micah 5:2, Part 2: The Lowly, Ancient Origins of the King
December 24, 2019 11:00 - 69.5 MB VideoFrom the small and lowly city of Bethlehem came the great ruler of the whole world.
Micah 5:2, Part 1: How Did Prophets See the Future?
December 21, 2019 11:00 - 66.7 MB VideoThe prophecies of the Bible can be confusing. One way to help us interpret them is to understand how prophets saw the future.
Isaiah 9:1–7, Part 4: God’s Zeal to Enthrone His Son on Earth
December 17, 2019 11:00 - 43.3 MB VideoIf men and women and children could see rightly, they would fall over themselves to enter the kingdom of a King like ours.
Isaiah 9:1–7, Part 3: What Kind of Government Will God Bring?
December 14, 2019 11:00 - 63.9 MB VideoOnly he whose hands bear the scars of nails, hands strong enough to bear our wrath, can hold the scepter over the redeemed people of God.
Isaiah 9:1–7, Part 2: Yoke Broken, Joy Soaring, Enemies Serving
December 10, 2019 11:00 - 66.5 MB VideoWhen God came to conquer his enemies, he prevailed so thoroughly that they became useful for his purposes and our good.
Isaiah 9:1–7, Part 1: Gloom to Glory by a Great Light
December 07, 2019 11:00 - 64 MB VideoThe Bible is beautifully coherent. Join John Piper as he studies the great prophecy given of Jesus in Isaiah.
Four Obstacles in Bible Reading, Part 4: ‘My Emotional Response Is Weak’
December 03, 2019 11:00 - 49 MB VideoIf you read the Bible and don’t feel anything, cry out to God, “Satisfy me in the morning with your steadfast love.”
Four Obstacles in Bible Reading, Part 3: ‘I Am Distracted and Divided’
November 30, 2019 11:00 - 37.4 MB VideoWe are so prone to distraction. Has the prayer “Unite my heart to fear your name” ever been more relevant?
Four Obstacles in Bible Reading, Part 2: ‘I Don’t See Wonders’
November 26, 2019 11:00 - 50.6 MB VideoGod must give us both eyes to see his glory in the word and hearts to love that glory.
Four Obstacles in Bible Reading, Part 1: ‘I Don’t Want to Read the Bible’
November 23, 2019 11:00 - 48.4 MB VideoWhat can I do when I don’t want to read my Bible?
2 Timothy 2:1–7, Part 4: Single-mindedness, Integrity, and Diligence Through Grace
November 19, 2019 11:00 - 59.8 MB VideoWhen Paul thought of Christian ministry, he thought of a soldier, an athlete, and a farmer. Do you?
2 Timothy 2:1–7, Part 3: Teaching the Bible Takes Supernatural Strength
November 16, 2019 11:00 - 52.2 MB VideoYou do not need new curriculum to disciple someone in the Bible; you need supernatural strength from God.
2 Timothy 2:1–7, Part 2: Grace Is Power, Not Just Pardon
November 12, 2019 13:02 - 66 MB VideoIf you think you have received grace but have no new power to seek God and kill sin, you may not have received God’s grace.
2 Timothy 2:1–7, Part 1: Is Spiritual Insight a Product of Thinking or Praying?
November 09, 2019 14:47 - 58.4 MB VideoThose who expect to have spiritual insight without thinking hard do not know how God gives understanding.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 11: God Glorified, Man Satisfied
November 05, 2019 13:02 - 77.5 MB VideoIf you desire God to get glory from your life, take your joy in him very seriously.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 10: Love for People as the Overflow of Joy
November 02, 2019 14:47 - 55.2 MB VideoPursuing greater, deeper joy in God increases, not diminishes or hinders, our love for other people.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 9: Joy in Suffering Shows the Worth of God
October 29, 2019 13:02 - 51.4 MB VideoSuffering with joy in this world is one of the greatest advertisements for the reality of the next.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 7: The Severing of Boasting and Self-Pity
October 22, 2019 13:02 - 58.6 MB VideoJoy in Christ is not passive or timid. It severs, with holy aggression, all boasting and self-pity still within us.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 6: Is Joy Essential to Saving Faith?
October 19, 2019 14:47 - 48.9 MB VideoIf our faith in Jesus does not involve an enjoying of Jesus, it is not saving faith.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 5: Conversion to Christ — and Joy
October 15, 2019 13:02 - 57.6 MB VideoThe essence of genuine conversion to Christ is awakening to Christ as supremely valuable.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 4: What Is the Essence of Evil?
October 12, 2019 14:47 - 59.2 MB VideoWe should pursue our fullest and most lasting satisfaction in God because to find that satisfaction anywhere else is the essence of evil.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 3: If You Refuse to Be Happy
October 08, 2019 13:02 - 55.3 MB VideoIt is our duty, not just our opportunity, to pursue God. And he underlines this reality by threatening judgment if we will not seek happiness in him.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 2: God Demands Our Delight
October 05, 2019 14:47 - 64.3 MB VideoGod cares more about your happiness than you do. He is so serious about your joy that he threatens hell if you refuse to find it in him.
Foundations of Christian Hedonism, Part 1: The Duty of Delight
October 01, 2019 13:02 - 87.9 MB VideoChristian Hedonism: A life devoted to pursuing the fullest and longest pleasure in God through Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4:1, Part 4: Stand Firm in the Strength of God
September 28, 2019 14:47 - 56.6 MB VideoGod does not call us to stand firm in our own willpower, relying on our own strength. He calls us to stand firm in the Lord.
Philippians 4:1, Part 3: What Crown Will Christians Receive?
September 24, 2019 13:02 - 49.7 MB VideoOther Christians will stand as evidence on the last day that you truly loved the Lord Jesus during your lifetime.
Philippians 4:1, Part 2: Can We Love Christians Too Much?
September 21, 2019 14:47 - 43.8 MB VideoHow can the apostle Paul call other believers “my joy” when he just said that he counts everything as loss compared to knowing Christ?