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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Psalm 8: Majesty in Meekness
April 25, 2017 13:00 - 62 MB VideoGod conquers his foes by weak babies and rules the world with weak men. He is more likely to use your weaknesses for his glory than your strengths.
Psalm 8: God Wages War Through Our Weakness
April 20, 2017 13:00 - 92.3 MB VideoGod conquers his foes with babies and rules his world through the frailty of man, all to demonstrate the splendors of his majesty.
Romans 8:18–23: Suffering Exposes Our Sin
April 18, 2017 13:00 - 55.7 MB VideoWars rage, cancer lingers, and suffering remains so that we all might know how horrible sin really is.
2 Corinthians 4:16–18: Suffering Prepares Us to Enjoy God
April 13, 2017 13:00 - 56.8 MB VideoFor God’s children, all suffering is light compared to the weight of the glory coming, and all affliction is temporary compared to eternal bliss.
Hebrews 12:6–11: Suffering Conforms Us to Christ
April 11, 2017 13:00 - 41.6 MB VideoSatan loves to lie to us in our suffering. He tells us that God must be against us if he would allow us to experience pain, the experience of discipline really proves that we are children.
2 Corinthians 1:8–9: Suffering Makes Us Depend on God
April 06, 2017 13:00 - 40.1 MB VideoIf you who are evil know how to embrace your children when they cry, how much more will your heavenly Father embrace those who run to him in their pain?
Luke 13:1–5: Suffering Brings Us to Repentance
April 04, 2017 13:00 - 64.1 MB VideoWhen we suffer, we often cast ourselves as the victims. When Jesus was asked about suffering, he called a world of sinners to repent.
Revelation 4:10–11: How to Rejoice in Revelation
March 30, 2017 13:00 - 83 MB VideoThe final chapter in any book is often the best, and yet many Christians do not rejoice in Revelation because it can be hard to understand. In this lab, Pastor John helps us read the last pages of Scripture.
How to Read Revelation: Revelation 4:10–11
March 28, 2017 13:00 - 52.9 MB VideoRevelation can be difficult to interpret. In this lab, Pastor John illustrates how to begin to understand the symbols, and apply them to life today.
Revelation 4:10–11: How to Read Revelation
March 28, 2017 13:00 - 41.1 MB VideoRevelation can be difficult to interpret. In this lab, Pastor John illustrates how to begin to understand the symbols, and apply them to life today.
Ephesians 6:23–24: Can Our Love Be Corrupted?
March 23, 2017 13:00 - 60.9 MB VideoWe can lose our love for one another. One comment, one moment, one interaction can put out the flame of our affection. But can our love for God be extinguished?
1 Peter 1–5: 1 Peter in 1 Sentence
March 21, 2017 13:00 - 31.6 MB VideoEvery Christian tastes and sees that God is good. Then we suffer and witness to a dying world, hoping that they might taste and see the same.
1 Peter 5:13–14: God’s Grace Creates a Family
March 16, 2017 13:00 - 56.7 MB VideoHeartache, brokenness, and death may mark our biological families, but God’s grace creates a new family that death, disease, and disaster cannot shake.
1 Peter 5:12: Stand Firm in Grace
March 14, 2017 13:00 - 48.8 MB VideoThe grace of God meets us more faithfully than the morning and strengthens us more ardently than our daily bread. We rest, labor, and stand firm in grace.
1 Peter 5:12: We Get Grace, God Gets Glory
March 09, 2017 13:00 - 45.8 MB VideoGod’s grace turns rebels into citizens, orphans into children, an adulteress into a sinless bride. We receive the grace, he receives the glory.
1 Peter 5:10–11: How Long Must I Suffer?
March 07, 2017 13:00 - 50.3 MB VideoOur suffering can be so severe that all we can say is, “How long, oh Lord?” In those moments, God gently responds with, “Just a little while longer.”
1 Peter 5:10: The God of Amazing Grace
March 02, 2017 13:00 - 39 MB VideoGod’s grace is amazing because God is. His tenderness and compassion avalanche upon us from the peaks of his steadfast love and mercy.
1 Peter 5:8–10: How to Fight the Devil
February 28, 2017 13:00 - 48.5 MB VideoAs Christians, we have often been trained to fight pride, lust, anxiety, laziness, and other sins. But do we know how to war with Satan?
1 Peter 5:8–9: Can Satan Devour Christians?
February 23, 2017 13:00 - 55.8 MB VideoSatan is a fierce predator. He has devoured souls of men and women, children and the elderly. He hates none more than Christians. Can he destroy them?
1 Peter 5:8–9: Kept by God Day by Day
February 21, 2017 13:00 - 49.5 MB VideoThe grace of God saves us. The grace of God frees us. The grace of God enslaves us. The grace of God keeps us.
1 Peter 5:8: Stay Alert Against Satan
February 16, 2017 13:00 - 49.2 MB VideoWhile the world sings sweet lullabies to try and destroy us, God calls us to joyful wakefulness. Our eternity hangs on how we respond.
1 Timothy 2:15: How Are Women Saved Through Childbearing?
February 14, 2017 13:00 - 44.7 MB VideoWomen are saved by faith in Christ. In what sense then, according to 1 Timothy 2:15, are they saved through childbirth?
1 Peter 5:7–9: Are You a Passive Christian?
February 09, 2017 13:00 - 53.6 MB VideoThe Bible is serious about two realities: God cares for, saves, and protects his people, and his people need to be alert, active, and aggressive against Satan and sin.
1 Peter 5:7–8: How Not to Battle Anxiety
February 07, 2017 13:00 - 52.5 MB VideoAnxieties attack our faith and torment our peace. The question with anxiety is not whether it will come, but rather, how can I fight it when it does?
Romans 5:20–6:2: Do I Have Any Righteousness of My Own?
February 02, 2017 13:00 - 49.8 MB VideoRighteousness is a big deal for every single person on the planet. In this lab, John Piper shows why Jesus being perfect on our behalf does not free us from pursuing perfection.
1 Peter 5:6–7: Four Reasons God Hates Pride
January 31, 2017 13:00 - 46.7 MB VideoPride not only multiplies the weight of our anxieties, but makes our loving Creator, our honorable King, our gracious God into our omnipotent enemy.
1 Peter 5:5: Clothe Yourself in Humility Daily
January 26, 2017 13:00 - 57.6 MB VideoThe world scratches and fights each other in order to be exalted. The church joyfully submits to each other in order to exalt their King.
1 Peter 5:4: Does God Reward Pastors?
January 24, 2017 13:00 - 54.3 MB VideoDoes God reward pastors for their service? And if so, doesn’t that contaminate the pure aims of loving others?
1 Peter 5:2–3: How Not to Lead a Church
January 19, 2017 13:00 - 62.8 MB VideoThe world’s CEOs often are ambitious, stern, and overworked. The church’s leaders need to be happy, holy, and humble.
1 Peter 5:1: Practice What You Preach
January 17, 2017 13:00 - 46.3 MB VideoPastors cannot be men who preach what others should practice, but do not practice what they preach.
Acts 16:19–31: What to Do When God Is Silent
January 12, 2017 13:00 - 91.9 MB VideoSilence from family and friends is one thing, silence from God is another. But no matter how hard it is, we must trust that he is working all things for our good.
Acts 13:48: The Chosen Choose God
January 10, 2017 13:00 - 62 MB VideoIf God has not redeemed you, nothing will make you choose God over your sin. If God has chosen you, no scheme of Satan can keep you from choosing him.
Acts 13:48: Unconditional Election
January 05, 2017 13:00 - 64.2 MB VideoUnconditional election means that God chose his people without them first meeting any conditions. God’s choice does not depend on our works, faith, or beauty, but rather his choice creates each in us.
Lamentations 5:21: God, Bring Me Back to You
January 03, 2017 13:00 - 27.6 MB VideoWhen our thoughts have been unruly, our hearts hard, our deeds despicable, when we teeter from the devastation of sin and straddle the precipice of hell, cry out to God for mercy.
1 Peter 4:12–19: Six Parts of a Christian Worldview
December 29, 2016 13:00 - 57.8 MB VideoAll thoughts are not created equal, all opinions are not valid, and no worldview matters but God’s.
1 Peter 4:19: Christians Never Need Revenge
December 27, 2016 13:00 - 54.8 MB VideoWhile the world threatens, the Christian serves. As the world imprisons, the Christian prays. When the world does evil, the Christian does good.
Luke 1:26–38: Seven Reasons to Worship on Christmas
December 24, 2016 13:00 - 58.3 MB VideoThe baby lay in the manger and the man hung on the cross, that by his life and death we would be free to enjoy God forever.
Matthew 1:18–25: What Makes Christmas Merry?
December 22, 2016 13:00 - 54.4 MB VideoWhen a Christian Hedonist says, “Merry Christmas,” he means much more than a warm holiday with friends and family.
God’s Miraculous Conception: Matthew 1:18–21
December 20, 2016 13:00 - 72.9 MB VideoHow Jesus Christ came to lay in the cradle, has massive implications for what he did on the cross.
God’s Miraculous Conception: Matthew 1:18–21
December 20, 2016 13:00 - 72.9 MB VideoHow Jesus Christ came to lay in the cradle, has massive implications for what he did on the cross.
1 Peter 4:17–18: Saved Through the Fire of Suffering
December 15, 2016 13:00 - 45.9 MB VideoAlthough the world may send us into its furnace for not bowing our knees, we know that the Son of God is with us in the flames.
Saved Through the Fire of Suffering: 1 Peter 4:17–18
December 15, 2016 13:00 - 45.9 MB VideoAlthough the world may send us into its furnace for not bowing our knees, we know that the Son of God is with us in the flames.
Christian, Your Suffering Is Not Eternal: 1 Peter 4:17
December 13, 2016 13:00 - 58.6 MB VideoNo matter how bad your sufferings are in this life, rejoice that they can only cut so deep and last for so long.
1 Peter 4:17: God Is Working in Your Suffering
December 08, 2016 13:00 - 46.2 MB VideoIt’s hard to hear in the moment that God is sovereign over our suffering, but in the long run it makes all the difference.
1 Peter 4:17: How Will Christians Be Judged?
December 06, 2016 12:00 - 47.2 MB VideoIf the Father judged Jesus on our behalf, doesn’t that mean that we won’t be?
Unashamed: 1 Peter 4:16
December 01, 2016 13:00 - 40.8 MB VideoWe know we should never be ashamed of Jesus. But when that coworker asks, or that relative puts us on the spot, we can be slow to own the name Christian.
1 Peter 4:16: Unashamed
December 01, 2016 13:00 - 31.5 MB VideoWe know we should never be ashamed of Jesus. But when that coworker asks, or that relative puts us on the spot, we can be slow to own the name Christian.
1 Peter 4:15: Mind Your Own Business
November 29, 2016 13:00 - 46.4 MB VideoNon-believers often tell Christians to mind their own business. They may be more right than we might think.
1 Peter 4:15: Do You Suffer Because of Your Sin?
November 24, 2016 13:00 - 48.5 MB VideoThe cross defangs the fatal bite of sin — but it can still have devastating consequences. Don't consider yourself to be a martyr when you suffer because of your sin.
1 Peter 4:14: Would I Be Able to Endure Persecution?
November 22, 2016 13:00 - 53.9 MB VideoWe read stories about Christians being horrifically persecuted for their love of Christ. We marvel at their endurance and secretly wonder: if I were in their place, would I endure?