Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

God put sent Christ to die in order to demonstrate his righteousness.

The ultimate goal of God in election and predestination is that God might be praised for his glory.

The glorious, unshakable, objective foundation of your being a Christian is that God chose you to be one.

Children prove whether you are truly great or not—whether you live to serve or live to be praised.

If second things become first things, we may have a rigorous religion, but we will not have evangelical, God-centered, biblical Christianity.

In this message, Pastor John discusses the connection between serving the saints and enjoying God.

William Cowper’s life was wrought with sadness and depression. But he still produced glorious hymns that resound loudly in our churches today.

How can Christians serve as the conscience of our culture?

The Bible teaches that God's aim is not for us to be rich in material goods, but rather for us to be rich in good works.

Take the supernatural seriously and realize that we are in warfare.

God will accomplish his purpose for the church, even if he choses to use a remnant to do it.

Daniel was immersed in secular life but he still lived by prayer—daring, defiant, disciplined prayer.

Jesus frees us from sin, which is one of seven reasons for why you should trust him.

Everything, without exception, has to do with God, and gets its main meaning from God.

God is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is a searching and saving God, a God on a mission.

If we stay with Jesus, we win, and if we oppose him, we lose.

The grace of God does not spare his people suffering in this age, but rather uses suffering to bring people to himself.

If you want the Spirit's power in your life, make Jesus the center of your life.

One of the reasons we invest our lives in some insignificant ways is that we never become still enough to let the great realities hit us.

When God acts for the fame and praise of his name, he isn’t acting selfishly, but is offering us the best possible gift: full and everlasting joy in himself.

Christian worship is duty-bound to drink deeply from God.

For a Christian leader to maximize his ministry, he must blaze with a flame of joy in God, and ignite the torches of his people week in and week out.

The snow God creates and ordains demonstrates his glory.

Cornelius would not have been saved if no one had taken him the gospel. And no one will be saved today without the gospel.

Jesus does not like pessimistic views of life or history. He has surprises in store that you have never dreamed.

The truth that Jesus is the Son of God needs to be one of the central pillars in our understanding of reality.

The test of the authenticity our worship on Sunday is whether we are a radically Christ-like people on Monday.

When we come to meet God (whether in corporate worship, or in judgment at the last day), we should prepare.

All God's plans for history from beginning to end have this one goal—WORSHIP GOD!

The purpose of every small group—whatever else it is—is to keep the love of its members warm.

How does God make your mouth a fountain of life?

Our calling, our vocation is to be misunderstood, criticized, ignored, and hurt for doing what is right, and not to return hurt for hurt.

The very nature of God is that he is eager to show his power on behalf of people who trust him.

Our culture wants power to escape weakness in leisure, but Christianity offers power to endure weakness in love.

The author of Hebrews knows nothing of coasting Christianity.

Something is wrong with a private God. But if our God is great, we go public with our worship.

The steadfast love of the Lord has been the same through all the changes of the last 120 years.

God’s design in converting Paul is to give you hope for yourself and for the people you want to see converted.

Congregational authority and strong leadership under that authority are not incompatible. They are biblical, and they are vital.

God has yet more wonders to show us in the work of evangelism and world missions than we can imagine.

Luke expects the receiving of the Holy Spirit to be a real, identifiable experience, not just a logical inference from a human act of will.

There is a "faith" or a "believing" that does not save, even though it rises in the presence of true preaching and true miracles.

God makes persecution and suffering serve the unstoppable mission of the church.

Death is not just defeated and kept from destroying us; it is enslaved and made the servant of God's people.

God is not eager to punish; he is eager to forgive. But there is an end to his patience.

The greatest news in all the world is in order to make you happy and glorify Jesus, God raised him from the dead to reign forevermore.

How did Jesus destroy the temple? Why did saying so cost Stephen his life?

A major threat to the Christian movement is whatever threatens the ministry of the Word.

We are not big. But we are part of something big.

The preciousness of spiritual power is that it is finally in God's control, not ours.