Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

The battle against misplaced shame is the battle against unbelief in the trustworthy promises of God.

The most basic battle of our life is the fight to believe in the living God, and not to allow our heart to become an evil heart of unbelief.

We must help each other battle unbelief and fight the fight of faith by pointing each other to the trustworthy promises of God.

Faith that glorifies God produces fruit, looks ahead to the fulfillment of God’s promises, and battles unbelief daily.

God wants you to see your job primarily in terms of its strategic effect in making him known.

Your happiness is God's reputation. Your peace is God's memorial. And this is an everlasting sign of his love that shall not be cut off.

Not one jot or tittle will fall to the ground of all that God purposes through his omnipotent word.

Everybody needs to call upon the Lord—to seek the Lord right now while he may be found.

Will we be satisfied that God has made a covenant with us? Or will be dissatisfied until is spreads to all the nations and peoples of the world?

God is not a topic to be studied. He is a person to be experienced. He is food and life and joy for the soul.

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The lesson of tragedies is "Get right with God."

Every hour of your life brings a situation that can be bought up for eternity or missed.

God wants people who welcome his strategic interruptions and surprises.

Giving the gospel away is one of the best ways of experiencing its power in your own life.

Our great challenge is to be the kind of church and the kind of parents that raise up children who hope in the triumph of God.

Being responsible parents is a serious business. Far more serious than most of us think.

One of the ways God causes us to persevere in faith and be saved is by warning us that we could make shipwreck of our faith and be lost.

If we want to realize full assurance and hope, we must exercise the organ of faith to empower energized obedience.

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Either we press on toward the inheritance or we drift back toward destruction. There is no third option.

The great word of the resurrection is OPEN! Therefore write in capital letters over every closed door in your life, OPEN!

An allegory of a man in a prison called “conviction” and how he got out.

God is the Giver, not Taker, on both sides of our giving.

We boast in ourselves because we are selfish and don't believe all things are ours in Christ.

Let us be vigilant to keep Christ as the foundation of our church.

It's the absence of the centrality of the biblical God in all of life that is leading to the collapse of our civilization.

The Sunday sermon isn’t just another lecture, but a Spirit-empowered, Scripture-saturated heralding of good news to God’s people.

God’s passion for his glory and our longing to be satisfied are not in final conflict only because God displayed his righteousness in the cross of Christ.

Biblically balanced pastoral ministry requires the joyful gravity and brokenhearted gladness, especially in the pulpit.

The goal of preaching is to glorify God in glad submission to his authority.

There is a group of people whom Paul calls not spiritual and not natural, but "fleshly," or "babes in Christ."

Without the Spirit, we are so rebellious against the Lord that we cannot recognize the truth and beauty of a crucified Christ.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life!

God's purpose in creating man and saving sinners is that we might boast in <em>him</em>.

The cross undermines the deepest basis of disunity and lays a new foundation for unity.

The freedom of God in the calling of sinners gives us hope. No one is too bad. No one is too hard. No one is too far gone. God is free.

The prerequisite for divine guidance is not a quest for messages, but a quest for holiness.

Prayer is not a mere devotional prelude in the real business of living, it is the pathway of faith and obedience. There is no other.

God has turned his heart toward you in Jesus Christ. Don't push it away.

When Jesus comes into the world, he comes as a sun.

God will spare sinful sons, precisely because he did not spare his only sinless Son.

The New Testament does not set aside the command of tithing to minimize limitation and constraint, but to maximize liberality and willingness.

If God were only an incinerating fire, heaven would be empty. And if he were no fire, heaven would be empty.

Don't back out on your commitments, don't marry an unbeliever, and don't divorce your covenant wife.

The ministry of the Word can destroy and the ministry of the Word can save.

A great danger to the pastoral ministry is that the voice of God in Scripture may be drowned out by other voices.

If you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God, you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

Those who know God as Father should honor their majestic Father.

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