Light + Truth Awakened by the Spirit
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May 6, 2026 
John Piper, Reformed pastor and author known for expository preaching and founding Desiring God, preaches about the Holy Spirit as God’s own love given to us. He urges urgency for missions and warns against spiritual complacency. He describes how the Spirit awakens believers, explains the Spirit’s personhood, and portrays the Spirit as the bond of Father and Son’s love.
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Army Awakened From Spiritual Slumber
- John Piper describes a wartime mentality awakening among believers called by the Holy Spirit.
- He uses a vivid army-awakening image: soldiers asleep with weapons, lids blink, armor is donned when the Spirit comes down.
Seek Revival Through Focused Prayer And Teaching
- Do pursue a series of teachings and personal prayer about the Holy Spirit to recover vital spiritual experience.
- Piper recounts his own 30-hour retreat and journal conviction that preaching on the Spirit would revive power and missions urgency.
Today Is The Age Of The Spirit
- H.C. Mool via John Piper frames redemptive history in three periods tied to each Trinity person, making our era uniquely the age of the Spirit.
- Piper argues today's touchstone of orthodoxy is willingness to honor and follow the Holy Spirit.
