John Piper (theologian)

John Stephen Piper (born 1946) is the senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church and a prolific author from the Calvinist perspective.

Authored books

• Love Your Enemies: Jesus' Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis (Cambridge University Press, 1980; Baker, 1991).
• The Justification of God: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 9:1-23 (Baker, 1983; 2nd edition 1993).
• Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Multnomah, 1986; 2nd edition, 1996, 3rd edition, 2003).
• The Supremacy of God in Preaching (Baker, 1990, 2nd edition, 2003).
• The Pleasures of God (Multnomah, 1991; Expanded edition, 2000).
• Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Co-editor) (Crossway, 1991).
• Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions (Baker, 1993, 2nd Edition 2003).
• The Purifying Power of Living By Faith In Future Grace (Multnomah, 1995).
• A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer (Crossway, 1997).
• A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Multnomah, 1997).
• God?s Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards (Crossway, 1998).
• The Innkeeper (Crossway, 1998).
• A Godward Life, Book Two: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Multnomah, 1999).
• The Legacy of Sovereign Joy (Crossway, 2000).
• The Hidden Smile of God (Crossway, 2001).
• Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (Crossway, 2001, 2nd edition, 2004).
• The Dangerous Duty of Delight (Multnomah, 2001).
• The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God (Crossway, 2002).
• Brothers, We Are not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry (Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2002).
• The Roots of Endurance: Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce (Crossway, 2002).
• Counted Righteous in Christ: Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness? (Crossway, 2002).
• Beyond the Bounds (Co-editor) (Crossway, 2003).
• Don?t Waste Your Life (Crossway, 2003).
• Pierced By the Word (Multnomah, 2003).
• The Prodigal?s Sister (Crossway, 2003).
• The Passion of Jesus Christ (Crossway, 2004).
• When I Don?t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy (Crossway, 2004).
• Life As a Vapor (Multnomah, 2004).
• Taste and See (Multnomah, 2005).
• God is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself (Crossway, 2005).
• Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (w/ Justin Taylor, Crossway, 2005).