Light + Truth

What gives us the confidence to live with radical love? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Hebrews 11:1–3 to explore our confidence-giving hope.

What does it mean to receive reconciliation from God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 5:9–11 to reveal the greatest good of the gospel.

How confident can we be about our future as God’s children? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 5:9–11 to explain the profound logic of the gospel.

How do Christians become more confident in God’s grace and love? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 5:9–11 to strengthen our assurance that God is for us.

Whether we realize it or not, we yearn to experience the love of the Father. In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 5:5–8 to deepen our grasp of his love.

How do we experience the Father’s love in our hearts? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 5:3–8 to show God’s provision for enjoying his love.

What assurance does God give that suffering will strengthen our faith? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 5:1–5 to offer hope-giving reasons for exulting in tribulations.

What does it mean to stand in the grace of God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 5:1–2 to strengthen our faith in the gospel.

What does it mean that God made us to enjoy his glory? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Romans 5:1–2 to help us see the glory of Christ shining from the gospel.

How can we live in evil days yet give thanks for everything? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper examines Ephesians 5:15–20 to provide understanding for this paradox.

As Christians, why should we do what God calls us to do? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Ephesians 5:1–6 to show how the gospel creates new desires.

What is Christian kindness? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper examines Ephesians 4:31–5:2 to explore the importance of forgiveness and love as patterns for how we treat one another.

What makes a Christian’s speech unique? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Ephesians 4:22–30 to show how our tongues are intended to be a means of grace.

What produces glad-hearted obedience to God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Ephesians 4:22–28 to show how Christian obedience flows from the gospel of grace.

What will enable us to speak the truth even when it may cost us dearly? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Ephesians 4:25 to urge us to be straightforward in our speech.

How is Christian transformation more than moral self-improvement? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Ephesians 4:22–24 to highlight our need for a supernaturally renewed mind.

What truth rescues us from our fallen condition and transforms our daily lives? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Ephesians 4:20–21 to explore the truth found in Jesus.

What does it mean to hate our lives so that we might love? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 1 Corinthians 13:4–7 to examine how Christian love shapes how we relate to others.

How does our position in Christ relate to our daily practice as Christians? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to John 12:20–26 to show how our death to sin becomes our reason to love.

How do we become more loving? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to 2 Corinthians 3:12–18 to explain how seeing Christ is the key to showing love.

How can we love other Christians with sincere brotherly love? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Romans 12:9–13 to show how God enlarges our hearts to love with tender affection.

How does Jesus expect us to love our enemies? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Matthew 5:43–48 to identify the only place we find the strength to love as he commands.

How can we love our enemies? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Matthew 5:43–48 to examine how God’s love and forgiveness provide what we need to love as God commands.

How can we practically fulfill the command to love our neighbor? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Matthew 22:34–40 to explore what transforms self-love into love for others.

What does it mean to love your neighbor as yourself? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Matthew 22:34–40 to explore Jesus’s teaching on this crucial commandment.

What does it mean to be rooted and grounded in God’s love? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper works through Romans 8:28–39 to help us discover new depths of God’s love.

Why should we spend time meditating on the love of God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper begins with 1 John 4:8 to show why focusing on God’s love is necessary for our growth.

Why does Satan want us to be bitter? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Ephesians 4:22–27 for a look at Satan’s goals for grudge-holding.

How does Satan use sexual desire against us? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens the Scriptures to show how Satan tries to convince us that his way is more satisfying than God’s.

Satan hates to see God’s word take root in our hearts. In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Mark 4:1–20 to expose the devil’s goal of snatching the word from those who hear it.

How does God assure his people that he will get us to glory? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 1 Peter 5:8–14 to strengthen our confidence that God will see us through.

What’s the relationship between humility and anxiety? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to 1 Peter 5:5–7 to show how humility is the antidote to an anxious heart.

When Peter wrote his first letter, some elders apparently no longer wanted to be elders. In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 1 Peter 5:1–4 to consider a pastor’s proper motivation.

How do we maintain joy during trials? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 1 Peter 4:12–19 to provide six reasons to keep rejoicing.

How should the end of this age inform how we live now? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to 1 Peter 4:7–11 to show how we can glorify God in all things through Jesus Christ.

How can we prepare ourselves to suffer well? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 1 Peter 4:1–6 to empower us with five encouragements.

How does God strengthen us in suffering? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to 1 Peter 3:18–22 to explain why our pain does not mean God has abandoned us.

What does it mean to sanctify Christ as Lord? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens 1 Peter 3:13–17 to show how our hope in Christ honors the supremacy of his worth.

How can your life bless others? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to 1 Peter 3:8–12 to explore our extraordinary calling to be people who do not return evil for evil.

What is the foundation under all relationships? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to 1 Peter 3:1–7 to show the secret to flourishing in difficult relationships.

What happens when we begin to see God rightly in our suffering? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Job 42:7–17 to help us taste and see that the Lord is good.

Are you ever tempted to accuse God in your suffering? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Job 38:1–42:6 for reasons we should eagerly submit to God’s wisdom and goodness.

What has God revealed about his purposes in our suffering? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper looks to Job 32:1–37:24 to protect us from interpreting our trials in unhelpful ways.

When our lives unravel, how can we hold fast to God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Job 2:11–31:40 to show how Job maintained his confidence that God was still for him.

Imagine how much strength might come if we could see behind the scenes when we suffer. In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Job 1:1 and 2:10 to provide a glimpse into heaven.

What makes us want to know and enjoy God? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Philippians 2:12–13 to illustrate how God’s providence relates to our desire for him.

What’s the relationship between God’s providence and the human will? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Philippians 2:12–13 to show how God’s sovereignty enables our willing.

In what way does God know the future? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Jeremiah 29:10 to show that God’s knowing the future means he makes the future.

What do we learn about God’s providence from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Daniel 4 to reveal the depth of God’s rule over all rulers.

God’s providence means he is always at work in our lives, even when he doesn’t seem to be. In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper turns to Matthew 2:23 to encourage us with God’s unseen care.