Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio
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The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Preaching for Radical Obedience
Pastors much preach the beauty of holiness to awaken contrition over lack of holiness. Preaching beauty begets contrition which begets radical obedience.
The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Discussion Luncheon
What should you do if you’re in church and you don’t feel like praising God? How should pastors deal with particular sins from the pulpit?
The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: How Not to Blaspheme God
Unless preachers herald the majesties of our Maker, we won’t give our people anything more than they can get anywhere else.
The Supremacy and Sweetness of God: Community Worship Service
Preaching on a Sunday morning isn’t simply a lecture that explains a text or topic. Life-changing preaching is exposition that’s driven by and results in exultation in Christ.
Take Care How You Listen! Part 2
10 ways to prepare yourself to hear Sunday's sermon.
Take Care How You Listen! Part 1
There are four ways to hear a sermon, but only one of them leads to life.
The Final Price of Showing the Glory of Love
The gospel will continue to advance far and wide, but not without God’s people suffering with their Savior along the way.
You Must All Become Hedonists
If you want your life to count for what matters most, then your highest calling in all of life is to relentlessly pursue your joy in God.
God Is Glorified When Christ Is Gain
The task of missions is to spread far and wide the most awesome truth the world over: we glorify God truly when he satisfies us fully.
How Not to Serve God in Going and Sending
The only way to serve God and avoid the debtor’s ethic is to serve in the strength he supplies by calling upon him in our needs and trusting in his all-sufficient power to help us.
God's Passion for His Global Glory
God’s goal in all that he does is to uphold the fame and glory of his name. And that’s really good news for people made in his image.
The Place of Preaching in Worship
Why is the proclamation of the Word so prominent in corporate worship?
The Swan Is Not Silent
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Amen
God’s beauty is magnified when it is echoed in prayer and preaching with agreements like “Amen!”
Where Does Child Killing Come From?
Abortion is all about God because unborn children are made in his image, only God can forgive sins, abortion is a failure to love God supremely, and all laws to prohibit abortion are in his hands.
Every Race to Reign and Worship
By gathering his redeemed from all the races of the earth, God undercuts ethnocentric pride and throws us back on free grace.
Wonderful Things from Your Word
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The Living God Is a Missionary God
The ultimate goal of missions is to uphold and display the glory of God, for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every nation.
Open My Eyes That I May See
Prayer opens our eyes to behold wonders in God’s word, and to be changed by an extraordinary sight of his glory.
God Is Glorified in Us When Christ Is Gain to Us
‘Worship’ isn’t just for Sunday morning, but is rather the daily, all-consuming goal of every person made new by the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
Did Christ Die for Us or for God?
God didn't spare his own Son, but freely gave him up for us. Because of Jesus, we are pardoned and God remains just.
Christian Hedonism with Questions and Answers
The truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him is the ground for us to pursue genuine love for people and endure suffering.
Singing and Making Melody to the Lord
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We Have Come to Worship Him
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Magnifying God with Money
God calls his people to honor him with their bank accounts by simplifying and serving. Money isn’t only for our needs, but for God’s glory.
The Lord's Supper as Worship
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All of Life as Worship
We worship God when we seek to express and increase our satisfaction in all that he is for us in Jesus Christ.
Why God Cannot Be Served But Loves to Serve
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The Inner Essence of Worship
The inner essence of worship is experiencing Christ as absolute gain. It’s savoring him, treasuring him, and being ultimately satisfied in him.
Men at War: Pursuing an Undistracted Passion for God
Pursuing an undistracted passion for God involves discipline for the sake of delight.
Men at War: Pursuing an Undistracted Passion for God
The battle for sexual purity isn’t just a fight against lust and porn, but a quest for full satisfaction in the eternal promises of our God.
Worship God
Worship is not restricted to an event, place, or ritual. Because of Christ, worship is now done in spirit and in truth.
World Missions and the End of History
The price will be high, but God's promise that the gospel will spread to all nations will be fulfilled by his omnipotent hand.
It's All the Work of God
Christians are secure, not because they are strong, but because God is sovereign and faithful to his new covenant promises.
Obey Your Joyful Leaders, Part 2
Elders should see themselves as servants, and the church should have a bent toward trusting them.
Obey Your Joyful Leaders, Part 1
Spiritual leaders are to keep watch of the word, of Christ, of themselves, and of their people.
Let Us Go with Jesus Bearing Reproach
Jesus calls his followers to radical obedience — to forgo lives of comfort and move toward need.
Be Strengthened By Grace
How can I find and keep the strength I need to obey God's commands?
Small Group Life in the Power of God's Promises
The promises of God are the key to love and victory over sin. But we need people in our lives to "encourage us day after day" with those promises.
You Have Come to Mount Zion
Obedience is not our way of getting God to do something. It is how we act when we trust that God is already working for us.
Fail Not to Obtain the Grace of God
No suffering or trial falls outside of God’s sovereign control. He works all things together for the good of his children.
The Painful Discipline of Our Heavenly Father
God is not an ER doctor responding to our hurts; he is the master surgeon who plans our hurts in order that he might do us greater good.
Running with the Witnesses
Though the fight is difficult and the race is long, the sidelines are filled with saints who cheer you on, encouraging you to finish with faith.
Faith to Be Strong and Faith to Be Weak
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Liberated for Love by Looking to the Reward
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The Hope of Exiles on the Earth
God honors faith and obedience by using all of his wisdom, power and love to turn that kind of life into one of great joy.
The Faith of Noah, Abraham, and Sarah
Saving faith isn't merely the one-time act of receiving Jesus. It goes on trusting him.
Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God
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What Faith Knows and Hopes For
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The Supremacy of God in Missions
God will finish the Great Commission, but he won’t do it without his people being sent and sharing Jesus across cultures.