Look at the Book Podcast
1) All Scripture Is God-Breathed: 2 Timothy 3:14–17, Part 2
How do we know the Bible is the word of God? John Piper explores Jesus’s teaching alongside Paul’s claim that all Scripture is God-breathed.
2) Continue in What You Learned and Believed: 2 Timothy 3:14–17, Part 1
What is the Bible for, and how do we make the most of it? John Piper offers tools for digging into the inspired word of God.
3) Realism and Hope for the Persecuted: 2 Timothy 3:10–13
What was Paul’s aim in the midst of deadly persecutions and trials? John Piper unpacks the apostle’s realism and hope in his encouragements to Timothy.
4) Snatching Women and Stumbling to Ruin: 2 Timothy 3:6–9
What marks false teachers and their followers? John Piper confronts the impulse to hide sin behind a noncommittal appearance of godliness.
5) The Powerful Alternative to Formalism: 2 Timothy 3:1–5, Part 5
In the last days, some will be lovers of self, lovers of money, and full of every kind of sin, yet they will still maintain the appearance of godliness. How?
6) Is It Wrong to Be a Lover of Pleasure? 2 Timothy 3:1–5, Part 4
Should we love pleasure, or is doing so a sinful sign of the last days? John Piper contrasts loving pleasure for its own sake with loving pleasure in God.
7) Is Self-Love the Root of All Evils? 2 Timothy 3:1–5, Part 3
When Paul starts listing sins that define unbelievers in the last days, he leads with an example more heinous than the rest: unrighteous self-love.
8) Why Does God Ordain So Much Evil in the Last Days? 2 Timothy 3:1–5, Part 2
Paul says the last days will be full of deceivers and difficulties. But why should that be so? John Piper offers six possible reasons.
9) When Are the ‘Last Days’? 2 Timothy 3:1–5, Part 1
When Jesus came as God’s Messiah, he ushered in a new age — but not in the way so many expected. John Piper examines our place in the last days.
10) God’s Agents of Repentance: 2 Timothy 2:24–26, Part 2
If God alone grants repentance, why should parents, friends, and pastors still labor for the salvation of unbelievers?