John Piper is an American Reformed Baptist theologian and retired pastor who writes on New Testament studies and is chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis. He is best known for Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist, the 1986 book that gave its name to the ministry he founded, and for Don't Waste Your Life. Piper also wrote Spectacular Sins, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, several of which won ECPA Christian Book Awards.
