Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

God’s purpose in providence is to reveal his glory, and his love toward us means that he will exert his omnipotent power to bring us into enjoying that revelation.

The message of our great salvation has been confirmed by a cluster of reliable witnesses.

Life in this world is like a river, not a lake. We’re all drifting toward something — some of us to eternal life, others eternal destruction.

Angels were created for Christ's everlasting glory and for our everlasting joy.

We owe our purification to Jesus and we owe our being to him.

The purification that was made was made once for all.

Do you want to hear God speak? God has now spoken not just by prophets, but through his Son.

What are God's purposes when he says "No" to his praying people?

Our joy in God is both our worship and our evangelism.

Human reconciliation is much harder than financial donation.

The sovereignty of God over the wills of men doesn't make evangelism unnecessary; it makes it hopeful.

What is our calling as parents and as a community of Christians toward our children?

Until the wrath of God figures as largely in our worldview as it did for Paul, we will not have the passion for evangelism that he had.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge to reach worthy goals, such as winning outsiders to Christ.

Everyone we lead to Christ is a fulfillment of the promise, "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply."

Five hundred years later, we still feel the effects of Luther’s life and labor. Pastors today can learn from his devotion to the church and his rigorous, heartfelt study.

Believing in the supremacy of God leads us to believe in the existence of absolute truth.

Let us be the salt and the light of our hostile and fearful society with courageous acts of inter-racial kindness and respect.

Don’t neglect the amazing influence you have in the world through prayer.

God calls us from time to time, and some of us as a kind of vocation, to strive—to struggle, and wrestle, and persist, and prevail in prayer.

Were you ransomed when Christ died? Are you still under the guilt and power of sin when you might be free?

At the end of this season, receive the best present imaginable: Jesus giving himself to die for you and serve you.

The fact that Jesus was born to a poor couple in a cow stall tells us something about the way God meant to reach the world.

While we are diverse in what helps us connect with God, the abiding foundation of our corporate worship is always centered on God through the Word.

Our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God <em>in everything</em>, including choosing where we live.

All Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other stay satisfied in God.

When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.

All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.

Every mishap, every setback, and every roadblock in your life is an opportunity for God to lavish you with sustaining grace.

The fight for life requires overcoming all kinds of obstacles to love, and that will only happen when we live by faith in future grace.

Believing that the Bible is the Word of God is a gigantic event in the soul. Therefore God does not leave it merely to man.

Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the form of love that people can see.

Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.

We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

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Being satisfied in God’s providence means not only rejoicing that he works all things together for our good, but that he also is our ultimate good.

God’s main purpose in all of his acts of providence is the revelation of his glory.

The New Testament gives no hint that worship services and classes are the sum total of what church was supposed to be.

To give is not to buy. And that weekly crisis is utterly important to maintain.

It dishonors God to treat him as a master in need of slave labor. What honors God is not slave labor, but childlike faith in his all-sufficiency.

God eagerly waits for his lost children to come home. When they do, he receives them with open arms and a glad heart.

Jesus eating with and receiving tax collectors and sinners displays God’s heart to seek and save the lost.

Jonathan Edwards was used powerfully by God in the First Great Awakening both to promote and assess the revival in New England, as well as to leave behind a fruitful legacy of theological works that have greatly impacted the church.

The thought of Jonathan Edwards, demonstrated through a handful of notable works, had a profound impact on John Piper’s life and ministry.

The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost. He sought them, he received them, he ate with them, and he saved them.

We’ll never love like Jesus loved until we die to ourselves. But in that death, we’ll find more life than we even could have hoped.

You won’t discover freedom by indulging in whatever you want. True liberty begins when we submit our desires to God.

Without seeing Christ, the burden to show him to others becomes slave labor.

God intends for us not merely to <em>do</em> to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to <em>feel</em> toward other believers a certain way.

Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.