What Christ Will Do at the Second Coming

Why did God create bread, water, and light? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens John 6:1–15 to show how every good gift in creation is meant to stir our affections for Christ. 

Why does God reject some kinds of fasting? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Isaiah 58:1–12 to show that true fasting lifts burdens, breaks yokes, and overflows in mercy. 

What demonstrates the authenticity of our worship? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Isaiah 58:1–12 to call us to a faith that bears fruit every day of the week. 

If you are a Christian, death is no longer a punishment for sin. Your sin has been put away by the death of Christ. Christ took the punishment. 

We cannot celebrate an empty cross until we know there's an empty tomb. Death, shame, guilt and condemnation have been buried with Christ, and a new life has been given to all those who believe in him. The cross reveals that God loves us, and the resurrection reveals that he want ... Show More

If death belongs to the children of God, as the apostle Paul says, then death not only loses its sting, but it turns around and becomes our servant. 

We all need people who will remind us that Christ is far better than sin, and that unrepentant sin destroys. Without friends, our faith won’t survive. 

Pastor Fouad Kahwagi shares from 2 Corinthians 3 and Colossians 3 on the certainty of our death to the old self in whom we were living under the law trying to please God in the flesh, and our newness of life in Christ with whom our life is now hidden and we have become pleasing t ... Show More