This site hosts all sermons preached at Bethlehem from 2006 through the present. To access Pastor John’s sermons before 2006, please visit Desiring God. View all sermons by date.

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  • Discerning the Body of Christ
    Saturday, October 13, 2007
    David Aikman
    1 Corinthians 11 27-34

  • What does it mean to remember Jesus in Communion?
    Sunday, July 1, 2007
    Bud Burk
    1 Corinthians 11 23-27

  • Why and How We Celebrate the Lord's Supper
    Sunday, August 13, 2006
    John Piper

    But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, 19 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. 20 When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 21 For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. 22 What!

    1 Corinthians 11 17-34

  • Why We Eat the Lord's Supper, Part 1
    Sunday, August 3, 2003
    John Piper

    For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that
    the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and
    when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body
    which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 25 In the same way
    also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new
    covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in
    remembrance of me." 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink
    the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

    1 Corinthians 11 23-26

  • Why We Eat the Lord's Supper, Part 2
    Sunday, August 10, 2003
    John Piper

    We believe that the Lord Jesus has commanded the church to
    observe two ordinances. One is baptism, which is unrepeated and
    signifies the beginning of life in Christ by symbolically burying a
    believer in water and raising him up again to signify new life in
    Christ. And the other is the Lord's Supper, which is repeated and
    signifies . . . What? That is what last week's message and this
    week's message are about.

    1 Corinthians 11 17-34

  • Why We Eat the Lord's Supper, Part 3
    Sunday, August 24, 2003
    John Piper

    Today, Lord willing, we will finish the three part series on the
    meaning of the Lord's Supper. If you think this is all about a mere
    religious ritual with little relevance for your larger
    life-concerns, you are wrong, and I hope you will keep listening to
    see how wide and long are the implications of what happens at the
    Lord's Supper—as wide as love is wide, and as long as
    eternity.

    1 Corinthians 11 17-34

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  • Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
    Sunday, April 15, 2001
    John Piper

    Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from
    the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection
    of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not
    even Christ has been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised,
    then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 15 Moreover we
    are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified
    against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in
    fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised,

    1 Corinthians 15 12-20

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