Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio
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Contending for Our All
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Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ
Christ’s promise to meet all of our needs is what frees us from fear and greed and enables us to joyfully share with others.
Abortion, Race, Gender, and Christ
Millions of abortions are the outworking of racism and sexism. Let us find another way to freedom and equality than killing the babies.
Racial Harmony and Interracial Marriage
Interracial marriage is not only permitted by God; it is a positive good. It is not just to be tolerated, but celebrated.
Boiling for Christ
When it comes to serving Christ, half-heartedness, lukewarmness, laziness, sluggishness, and slothfulness are utterly inappropriate.
Use the Inspired Scriptures to Rejoice in Hope
If we give ourselves daily to the word of God, our hope and joy will be made unshakably strong — even in suffering.
Be Constant in Prayer for the Joy of Hope
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Happy in Hope, Patient in Pain, Constant in Prayer
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Love One Another with Brotherly Affection
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Treasuring Christ Together: The Vision and Its Cost
Beware of fearing a high price more than the possibility that God could be displeased that you didn't aim at something greater.
Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good
There is such a thing as objective good and evil outside ourselves.
Let Love Be Genuine
You can be a liberal hypocrite, and you can be fundamentalist hypocrite. But love is not that way.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 3
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The Whole Glory of the Gospel of God
All the glorious benefits of the gospel, such as forgiveness of sins, eternal life, and triumph over the powers of darkness, are not the highest good of the gospel but a means to enjoying God himself.
The Whole Glory of God
Satisfaction in God is the vital link between biblical doctrine and a life of sacrificial love, and in order to maintain such joy, the doctrine of God’s sovereignty must be upheld in the face of error.
The Whole Glory of Christ
The cross must never receive its meaning from the whims of culture, but must be preached in all of its Godwardness, horror, saving power, and effectiveness for those who believe.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 2
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The Unfathomable Riches of Christ for All Peoples, Above All Powers, Through the Church
God uses ordinary brushes to paint the world with the brilliant colors of his saving glory.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 1
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Doing Mercy to the Brothers of Jesus and the Broken Neighbor
If we are true Christians we will want to show mercy to suffering people.
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 2
Seeing and savoring the supremacy of God in Christ gives us the power to suffer for the sake of love, and the power to strive for the sake of purity.
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 1
God designed our sexuality so that we might know him more. He means to guard our sex from being perverted.
We, Though Many, Are One Body in Christ
Our true individuality is found only in relationship to the body of Christ.
Faith: the Root and Trait of All Spiritual Gifts
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Assessing Ourselves with Our God-Assigned Measure of Faith, Part 2
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Assessing Ourselves With Our God-Assigned Measure of Faith, Part 1
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What Is the Will of God and How Do We Know It?
Saturate your mind with God’s word, and pray that the Spirit of Christ would make you so new that the spillover would be good, acceptable, and perfect.
The Renewed Mind and How to Have It
Any effort to renew our minds must follow the Holy Spirit’s initiatives and enabling. The renewal of our minds is first and decisively his work — not ours.
Are You Sure You’re Called to Stay? Five Arguments from Jesus Against Fear
Jesus’s words in Matthew 10:16–31 contain five powerful arguments that are able to dismantle our fears of speaking the truth of God’s word.
Discerning the Will of God Concerning Homosexuality and Marriage
What is wrong with homosexual marriage? Is it possible to believe this and still love homosexual people?
Do Not Be Conformed to This World: The Indigenous and Pilgrim Principle of Christian Living
Jesus’s people are in the world, but not of the world. We work for the good of our temporary homes while we always long for more.
Predestined for Adoption to the Praise of His Glory
We must understand and enjoy our own adoption before we can properly grasp what it means to adopt another.
Present Your Bodies As a Living Sacrifice to God
God gave us bodies to make his glory more visible. The aim of showing mercy is showing God.
Build Your Life on the Mercies of God
The mercies of God ground our life in Christ. Because he’s immeasurably gracious, we have endless riches forever in him.
Treasuring Christ Together: The North Campus Expansion, Part 2
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Treasuring Christ Together: North Campus Expansion, Part 1
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When I Am Raised Up, I Will Go Before You To Galilee
He is risen! Trust him today. By his mercy he can forgive your sins. And by his sovereignty he can turn all things for your good.
Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom, Past and Future
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From God, to God, Through God
Do you love the thought that you exist to make God look good? If not, you may be committing spiritual suicide.
The Deep Riches and Wisdom and Knowledge of God
Nothing and no one compares to the greatness and grandeur of our God.
God’s Design for History: The Glory of His Mercy
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Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East
What does Scripture say about the Promised Land and Israel's rights to it today?
All Israel Will Be Saved
Let us give ourselves to prayer and to the great work of gathering the fullness of the Gentiles, if by any means we might make Israel jealous of her treasures in Christ so that they believe and be saved.
Look at the Kindness and the Severity of God
God’s fury at sin reminds us of the great pardon we don’t deserve. Gaze at his goodness with gratitude.
Defending the Faith in the Public Arena
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Use Means, but Trust in God
All our labors flow from the strength God himself supplies. And whatever we do through him channels glory back to him.
Continue in the Kindness of God
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Stand Fast Through Faith
God saves us not on the basis of our ethnicity or socioeconomic status, but by his grace alone.
George Mueller's Strategy for Showing God: Simplicity of Faith, Sacred Scripture, and Satisfaction in God
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The (Jewish) Root Supports You through Your Faith Alone
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