Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

Jesus endured for the joy set before him. Moses obeyed, expecting the Messiah. The early church suffered for a better reward. This is faith.

When God ordains sufferings for the good of his people, he also sustains them and cares for them with all the strength of his love.

Because God’s purposeful sovereignty reaches absolutely everywhere, his gospel can satisfy, his mission will succeed, and his people can never be lost.

Jesus’s glorified body, his purpose for believers, his astonishing power, and the glory of the new creation all insist that the resurrection must happen.

There has never been, nor will there ever be, a greater reality than the God we see when we look at Jesus Christ. His very supremacy is our deepest hope.

What is the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and how does it relate to making music to God in a church gathering? God opens our eyes so we can sing to him.

Joy in Jesus is an invitation and a privilege. Is it also a duty? John Piper lays out six reasons joy in God is essential to the Christian life.

When we believe in Jesus, we receive him as living water, bread of life, and all-satisfying treasure. Saving faith is the awakening of joy in Christ.

David walked with God through disasters, diseases, attacks, and his own sins. What pattern of life did he follow to depend on God through it all?

When a child dies, how can it still be well with our souls? Pastor John offers six soul-steadying realities in a funeral for a precious twelve-year-old.

How do Christians respond to God’s fatherly indignation against our sin? The prophet Micah teaches us: Respond with brokenhearted boldness, with contrite courage.

Cowardice, consumption, and comfort often stand between us and God’s global work. What can set us free to be world Christians?

The doctrines of grace raise a host of questions. John Piper addresses warning passages, God’s relationship to the non-elect, the Spirit’s indwelling, and more.

We need enduring faith for final salvation, but our perseverance does not rest on our resolve: It rests on God, who keeps his own.

For years, maybe decades, we resisted God. But then, at the perfect moment, God opened our eyes to see his glory in the face of his Son.

Christ’s sheep hear his voice and come to him not ultimately because they chose him but because he chose them. Their faith rests on God’s free choice.

Because of Jesus’s atoning death, salvation can be offered to all. But does his death secure anything more for those he has chosen?

Are all humans born totally depraved? Even though many appear good without God, none of us can please him apart from his grace.

In this life of affliction, suffering, and groaning, Christians always have reason to rejoice in hope of the eternal glory of God.

What made and sustained the friendship between John Piper and John MacArthur? A common taste for the honey of heaven in the word of God and the face of Christ.

What are the doctrines of grace? Before we wade into the depths of these doctrines, we need to know something of the greatness of God.

In Jesus Christ, we find a Treasure more precious than everything we have in life and everything we lose in death.

How does the chief end of man — to glorify God by enjoying him forever — shape our approach to classical Christian education?

As Jesus bleeds in Gethsemane and then submits to arrest, we see that the mission of God triumphs through prayerful suffering, not the self-defending sword.

When Jesus returns in glory, he will stand ashamed of those who were ashamed of him here. But what will it really mean for Jesus to be ashamed?

Why did God set his saving love on his people before the foundation of the world? So that we might praise the glory of his sovereign grace.

It’s one thing to know God is sovereign; it’s another to know just how far his sovereignty extends and the purposes for which he wields it.

The story of Jesus and Thomas assures us that Jesus really rose bodily, that his patience surpasses our indwelling sin, and that we need not see to believe.

How can we be set free from selfishness so that, at any earthly cost to ourselves, we will love other people in a way that makes Christ look great?

A camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, nor can we turn our own hearts from loving money to loving Jesus. But what is impossible with man is possible with God.

There is a way to see truth without seeing it — to hear without hearing. For all who listen to sermons, the words of Jesus stand: Take care how you hear.

Though fraught with challenges and temptations to lose heart, preaching the word of God is a glorious privilege. John Piper gives ten reasons why.

No matter how great our sins have been, if we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised him from the dead, we will be saved.

God has chosen to bind the fullness of his supernatural effectiveness to the human ministry of the word. So, how might we preach in ways that release his power?

When preachers herald the glory of God from the heart, the pride of man dies, all of life becomes meaningful, and we rejoice like never before.

A church endures in faithfulness only as its leaders and members rejoice in the glory of God, savor the word of God, and treasure the Son of God.

We were made to see and savor, with everlasting satisfaction, the soul-staggering glory of Christ. Only then will our lusts lose their power.

What kept the apostle Paul from losing heart as he suffered for the truth? In 2 Corinthians 4, he gives six remarkable reasons to keep speaking and serving.

When we see the glory of God in his word, we know for sure and we rejoice forever. Glory persuades and pleases, gives certainty and satisfaction.

Chipper churches leave no lasting impression on the world. The greatest gift we have to give is indomitable joy in Jesus in the midst of suffering and sorrow.

However long we serve Christ, we can look back and say, “My King has done me no wrong.” John Piper encourages a friend after four decades in ministry.

In a world where everyone will live forever somewhere, Christians have the best possible news: through Jesus, we escape eternal misery and enter eternal ecstasy.

The wrath of God is real, but so is the hope that, in Christ, God has not destined us for wrath but to obtain everlasting salvation.

What has fostered half a century of friendship between John Piper and Wayne Grudem? A common allergy to theological Jell-O and a love for God-given truth.

Brothers, if we are going to do good — lasting good — to our churches, then we must preach and lead and counsel and serve in the strength that God supplies.

If God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, then we are not merely permitted to pursue our joy in God. We must.