Look at the Book show

Look at the Book

Summary: Look 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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 Luke 18:18–27: Your Money May Keep You from Heaven | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Many of us read that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God and think of millionaires. The rest of the world reads it and thinks of us.

 Philippians 1:28–30: One Proof That You Are Saved | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Satan tells us that all suffering is a curse and proof that we are not loved by God. But God tells us it is a gift to show us our salvation.

 Philippians 1:27–28: Our Love Warns of God’s Wrath | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Our love for one another in the face of persecution warns our opponents of the judgment to come.

 Philippians 1:27–28: Stand Firm in Fearful Days | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Standing firm in fearful days shows that you have promises in the gospel that death, nor loss, nor prison can steal.

 Hebrews 5:7–9: How Did Jesus “Learn” Obedience? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

If Jesus “learned obedience” and “was made perfect” does that mean he was ever disobedient and imperfect?

 Hebrews 5:7–10: Jesus’s Prayer in His Darkest Hour | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

In his darkest hour, Jesus did not run from his Father, but boldly wept and cried aloud in trust before him.

 Philippians 1:27–28: Four Traits of a Life Worth Living | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

While the world gropes in the dark for significance, our God has told us how to live the worthy life.

 Philippians 1:27–28: What Does “Gospel” Mean? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

We hear the word “gospel” used all the time. But what does it actually mean?

 Philippians 1:27–28: The Constitution of Heaven | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

If you are Christ’s, your home address is not truly your home address. Live in the here and now as a citizen of your true country: heaven.

 2 Corinthians 9:6–11: God Gives to Create Cheerful Givers | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

God is able to make all grace — not some grace — abound to you so that you may overflow in cheerful giving.

 2 Corinthians 9:6–11: Do You Trust God with Your Money? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

It is hard to say that we have trusted God with our lives when we do not trust him with our wallets.

 2 Corinthians 9:6–11: Why Do You Give to the Church? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

God doesn’t want you to begrudgingly give. He wants to satisfy you with himself so that you would give cheerfully.

 Philippians 1:20–26: How Do We Get to Heaven? | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

God is sovereign over the ends and means of our salvation. Those who he has saved will continue to press on by the means of grace.

 Luke 2:15–20: The Night Was Not Exactly Silent | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

The night wasn’t silent because people were spreading the good news to others. Will we join them this Christmas?

 Luke 2:8–14: Unto Us a Savior Was Born | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Is our Christmas more about Santa Claus and cookies or Jesus Christ and his cross?

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