Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

God is a very important person and he does not like being taken for granted.

Be free from domesticated, comfort-seeking, entertainment-addicted Christianity.

The wicked flee for fear of the retribution that their wrongs deserve, but the righteous--those cleared of wrongdoing through Christ--stand boldly.

Unity in Christ and fearlessness before our opponents make the worth of the gospel clear.

The story of Easter doesn't end with a mangled shepherd lying dead among three dead wolves.

It was the will of the Lord to crush him, NOT because of his own sins, but because of our sins.

We deserved to be slaughtered for our sin, but Jesus was slaughtered instead.

Instead of crushing us for our iniquities, God's Servant is crushed for them as our substitute.

The covenant we make together as a local church is only possible because the God we have is abundatly gracious and steadfast in love.

How do you preserve the covenant community in spite of sickness and sin?

Don't get into people's lives only when things are falling apart; get in when things are going well and help each other keep that course.

Every Christian has a crucial need for covenant relationships, regardless of how un-American it may be.

The covenant that makes us belong to God makes us belong to each other.

We must seek a better understanding of the covenantal meaning of the local church.

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How shall we obey God's command to honor the king—or the president, or the governor—when they promote dishonorable deeds?

God designed prayer to give his disciples the joy of bearing fruit while God himself gets the glory.

The great need of the hour is to know God more deeply and personally and biblically. Only then will we find great delight.

We need to be like lights shining in a dark place. Which means we need to behold Jesus. We need to gaze at Christ.

The Bible's picture of our Savior too radical that it should be the mere creation of sinful men.

Even if we don't have the same heart for a particular issue facing us, let us have the same heart for each other.

If we say we are useless, we not only say no to the idea of the body, but worse, we say no to God. We don't trust him.

Gifts are for the glory of God and the good of the church.

Christianity has to do with everything your body has to do with—food and sex and sleep and talking and playing and working.

Why doesn't God give everyone the same faith and gifts?

The truth that there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, is a truth for inside the church and outside the church.

Love abounding in knowledge and discernment is what builds Christ's body.

The aim of your ministry as a Christian is to build up the body as a whole.

Christ did not simply die for an unworthy woman or for a reluctant woman, but for a woman who found him repulsive.

God’s grace works so powerfully in every believer that none remains unchanged. The grace that accepts us unquestionably also alters us irrevocably.

God was pleased to bruise his Son, not because he delights in violence, but because Jesus lived every second to glorify his Father in heaven.

When we sin, we hurt ourselves and those around us. But most fundamentally our sin offends an infinitely holy God who will not stand to have injustice go unpunished for long.

The Lord's Supper exists to deepen and strengthen our participation in the benefits of the cross and to nourish our fellowship with Christ.

Jesus is the point in redemptive history where the true Israel becomes the church of Christ and the church emerges as the true Israel.

God means to fill the universe with the glory of his Son by putting the church on display as the embodiment of his Son.

No matter what the issue is, it exists for Christ, or for nothing. Because CHRIST IS ALL.

Though our outer self daily wastes away, we do not lose heart. We have an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

The world sees the suffering love of Christ for sinners in the suffering love of his people for sinners.

We come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.

God has a purpose for every obstacle and every frustration and every pain and every affliction that comes into our lives.

Our eternal destiny hinges on the way we run our race. Let us strive to win the eternal prize.

As we run our races, eternity hangs in the balance — disqualification and death, or victory and life.

Fear of hell is no proof of love for God.

The horror of hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

God has made the cities of this world, and he cares for them. So should we.

God wants us to have assurance that no matter how much evil and suffering and futility we see now, he will make all things new.

What if it's true that Christ rose from the dead?

Assurance does not come from making holiness optional. It comes from knowing God is faithful.

God’s call is effective. It doesn’t go out and then return empty, but creates the faith it commands.

Being justified means being forgiven, being reckoned righteous, being loved by God, and being secured by God forever.