Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio
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How We Come to Know Sin
The law teaches us that it is God's desires, not our own, that are the measure of right and wrong.
The Importance of Knowing Our Sin
You don't have to give in to temptation in order to know your sin.
Live to Die: A Leader Who Suffers Well
God has ordained that we will see many troubles in this life. The saints must suffer to show Jesus as supreme.
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 4
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Suffering: The Path and the Price of World Evangelization
The good news of the gospel will indeed make its way to all nations, but it won’t happen without God’s people taking up their crosses and following the Lord Jesus Christ into hard places.
Preaching: Zeal That Accords with Knowledge
We can have zeal and still be condemned. Pursue a passion for God that accepts his righteousness alone for salvation.
Prayer: Pursuing Peoples When Life Is War and God Is Sovereign
One who believes that life is war, that God is sovereign, and that the victory is assured will pray to the Lord day and night.
Worship: Sharing God's Passion for His Global Glory
What fuels world missions isn’t merely a commitment to the task itself, but a passion for the supremacy of God among all peoples.
Preaching: With Confidence That It Belongs in Worship
Preaching should be prominent in the setting of corporate worship because it aligns with God’s purpose in creation to be understood truly and admired duly.
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 3
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Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 2
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John Newton: The Tough Roots of His Habitual Tenderness
One of the deepest roots of Newton’s habitual tenderness was that he could not get over the wonder of his own rescue by sheer, triumphant grace.
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 1
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God at Work in Every Womb
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God’s Pursuit of Racial Diversity at Infinite Cost
The cost of racial reconciliation and unity came not at the blood of any man, but of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 2
What does it mean to pray in the Holy Spirit? And how do we pursue God through such prayer?
The Need for Christian Courage
The Bible warns us about our truth-ignoring culture. But it also gives us the courage season our speech with Christ day after day.
College Men’s Rally: Family, Fatherhood, and God
Fatherhood isn’t just a natural responsibility, but a gift that God gives for men to shepherd and train impressionable souls, all to his glory.
Others' Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
What does it mean to fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions? Do we, as mere followers, really have anything to add?
Our Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
By faith, God both delivers his people and grants them endurance to persevere through suffering, and in either case faith demonstrates our superior satisfaction in God.
Our Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
Since God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, our lifelong vocation must be to earnestly pursue joy in him and bring others into that joy.
Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 1
One essential way to keep yourself in the love of God is by praying to him through the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Free Gift of God Is Eternal Life, Part 2
Sanctification is both something we do and something God does. We must work hard to obey, but only God’s grace sustains us in the fight.
The Free Gift of God Is Eternal Life, Part 1
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Slaves to God, Sanctification, Eternal Life
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Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 2
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Free from Sin, Slaves of Righteousness, Part 1
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Thank God for the Mercies of Christ
We don’t often see God's mercies in our moments of weakness, but we can take hope that he is working all things together for our good.
Do Not Let Sin Reign in Your Mortal Body, Part 2
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Do Not Let Sin Reign in Your Mortal Body, Part 1
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The Lord Stood By Me . . . That All the Nations Might Hear
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A Biblical Alternative to Serving God
A life that is lived for God’s glory must not be a life motivated by gratitude, but by faith in future grace.
All the World Accountable to God
The need for missions is universal because all humanity has failed to know, love, fear, and glorify God.
The Path and the Price of Pursuing the Glory of God Among the Nations
Filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions means that we embrace suffering for the sake of bringing a personal presentation of the sufferings of Christ to the nations.
Pursuing the Glory of God in the Gladness of the Nations in God
God’s great purpose for the world is that he would be known, praised, enjoyed, and feared among the nations, and he blesses us to become the means of that purpose.
Justified to Break the Power of Sin
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United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 3
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United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 2
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A Biblical Alternative to Serving God: Living by Prayer
The Bible calls us to serve God, but we need to remember that God’s own grace and passion for his glory enable and uphold everything we have to offer him.
Foundations for Prayer Toward the Global Purpose of God
God will sovereignly bring the nations to himself. But he will use our prayers and petitions to fuel a movement of the word that reaches the world.
United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 1
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How Justified Sinners Love Each Other
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Are We to Continue in Sin That Grace Might Increase?
Believers are commanded to become in practice what we are in Christ: dead to sin and alive to God.
The Triumph of Grace through Righteousness
God's purpose in giving the law was so that, in the end, grace would reign through Christ's righteousness on our behalf.
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 5
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Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 4
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Desiring God
The pursuit of joy in God is not icing on the cake of the Christian life but is essential to glorifying God and loving people.
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Q&A
Calvinism does not teach that human responsibility is insignificant, but rather that humans do not have ultimate self-determination over their will, including their choice to be reconciled to God.
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job
Like Job’s suffering, our pain is never meaningless. God orchestrates hardship for his eternal purposes.
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job
Jesus bore our ultimate curse and punishment on the cross. Any discipline we now receive is not to punish us, but to spur us on in the path toward Christlikeness.