Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

The Gospel of John lifts Jesus up as coming from God, being full of God, and speaking and ruling as God.

Only when we decrease and Christ increases will we have full joy.

Jesus didn't come to a neutral world. He came to those already dead and guilty to make some alive and free.

The new birth is the supernatural giving of divine life to a dead soul, and God accomplishes this great work through the means of gospel preaching.

If we depart from the traditional doctrine of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness we will diminish one of Christ’s great achievements, harm people who need this doctrine, and undermine the fruit of love.

Affections are to be prized, stirred, and renewed. Pastors labor alongside you and on your behalf, striving for your joy.

John 3:16 represents a glorious love, but there is more to God’s love than the free offer of the gospel.

We have eternal life because Christ died in our place and because in him is life. He removes God’s wrath, and he supplies the everlasting life we don’t have.

Teaching children is not about indoctrination or contextualization, but about category-creation that is rooted in the God-centeredness of God.

The wind of God’s Spirit gives new birth to whomever he pleases.

Pastors should strive to be scholars and scholars should strive to be pastors.

We are called to fan into flame God’s gift. Don’t be ashamed, be courageous in God’s unbeatable power.

If you live to maximize your joy and pleasure in God above all things, you will be the most loving and generous type of person in the world.

When God calls you to praise him, he’s not a megalomaniac. He’s a loving Father who invites you into highest, purest joy.

Twenty centuries later, we can still <em>see</em> the truth of the Resurrection.

Jesus saves us by becoming a curse for us. Only in this substitution can we find blessing.

George Whitefield devoted his whole life to pointing people away from himself and to Jesus.

God remains in control and fulfills his good purposes, even during an economic downturn or financial collapse.

How the Bible looks at a human being in the womb.

Jesus knows everything about everyone and is still willing to love those who trust in him.

When you let Jesus’s words abide in you, they will grow into a bountiful harvest for God’s glory and your good.

We all have regrets, and we all feel the guilt for our sin. But Christians have godly grief that produces repentance to the pardoning God.

God can put his people through the fires of suffering to awaken our appetite for prayer.

Good news changes everything. Our circumstances may not change, and we may still feel stuck, but the good news of Christmas will never leave us the same.

Jesus is the new temple. Authentic worship is no longer attached to any place. It is attached to Jesus.

3 of Christ's glories on display in John 2.

Jesus’s many titles show his divinity and universal rule, yet his identity is what drove man’s wickedness to reject and kill him.

7 ways John shows us the glory of Jesus.

“Baptism with the Spirit” in John is not a technical term for one experience of the Christian life, but a general term for all that the Holy Spirit does for us because of Christ.

God’s self-exaltation is not egotistical but rather the epitome of love. While human self-exaltation draws attention away from God, God’s self-exaltation leads us to the one thing that can satisfy our souls: namely, God.

Those who embrace Jesus as their Lamb and their Lord will be sheltered from God's otherwise inescapable wrath.

What are the trials unique to singleness? Why is masturbation an enemy of missions? John Piper addresses these questions and more.

Those who by grace are born of God have seen the glory of God that Moses asked to see but wasn't permitted.

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By becoming a man, Jesus shows us the glory of God.

All nations will be reached only with the wealth-renouncing witness of cross-cultural missionaries.

To fill up the afflictions of Christ means to present Christ’s completed, atoning work to those whom he died for by means of our own self-sacrificing love.

God’s merciful purpose is shown in the conclusion of the book of Job as he demonstrates his own worth and sovereign goodness, and secures the restoration and reconciliation of Job and his friends.

The book of Job teaches us that God is ultimately sovereign over all things, including Satan and any calamity he brings.

Let's join John the Baptist in saying, “Jesus must increase, but I must decrease.”

True womanhood is not wimpy. It exists to uniquely display the glory of God.

Not only is Jesus the Life that created all material life, but he is the Life that creates all eternal life.

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Whatever else you may enjoy about Jesus, John’s Gospel wants you to know and treasure Jesus in his infinite majesty.

What's new about Jesus' new commandment?

The call of the Christian life is to join God in his grand plan to magnify his own glory over all.

The book of Ruth exists to show us that God is always at work, even in our darkest hours, to bring us to worship him and display his glory.

The Father sent the Son to deliver his people, and now he sends his people to deliver the message. As the Son was sent, so now are we.

There is only one place that is safe — it’s not your bank account, your house, or anything made by man. It’s in the refuge of God’s wings.

Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz all demonstrate strategic righteousness that we should emulate in our plans and resolutions to do good.