Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

Have you learned the love of God in a way that makes you tremble?

The mark of living worthily of the gospel is a unified, fearless striving for the faith of the gospel.

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God is worshiped and honored and savored both by fainting for him and by feasting on him.

When circumstances arise that alarm you, the key is to hold fast to the traditions that were taught by the apostles.

Before the day of the Lord comes, the man of lawlessness must come first.

All affliction is designed to make us worthy of the kingdom of God.

Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.

Every strength is vulnerable to its corresponding weakness. Therefore we need each other's different strengths

Don't quench the Spirit of God this morning. He may be calling you to be a leader-maker.

Consider the outcome of Barnabas' life and imitate his faith.

Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.

We are ruins being rebuilt by the grace of God. And we are here that the rest of men may seek the Lord.

Today is a day of repentance and salvation, of missions and evangelism, and of loving and sending.

In Christ's triumph our enemy is not just defeated, but captured and made to serve our eternal good.

It is the will of the Lord that we take risks for the cause of God.

The Christian life isn’t one of comfort, but sacrificial risk for Jesus and others.

On Easter Sunday morning Jesus blew the lock off the prison of death and gloom and returned to the gladness of God.

God is pleased to give you the kingdom. He is not stingy nor begrudging, but finds delight lavishing his people.

Having just and honest dealings in the world display our confidence that God always cares and provides for his children.

Obedience to God makes our God-glorifying hope visible and proves that it is real in our lives.

Prayer is that wonderful transaction where the wealth of God’s glory is magnified and the wants of our soul are satisfied.

God delights in those who place the full weight of their hope in him.

God's pleasure in his name and his pleasure in doing good to sinners meet and marry in his pleasure in bruising his Son.

God does not do you good out of some constraint or coercion. He is free! And in his freedom he overflows in joy to do you good.

God takes pleasure in election because it magnifies his name.

God’s first love is his name and not his people. And because it is, there is hope for his sinful people.

God rejoices in what he has made because all of creation points to the grandeur and majesty of his glory.

God is never constrained to do a thing that he despises. He does whatever he pleases.

The first and most fundamental thing we can say about the pleasures of God is that he takes pleasure in his Son.

Fight the social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany and imagine what is really happening behind clinic doors.

God lives in the soul of man by the indwelling of his Spirit.

The Lord's Prayer is an invitation not only to pray but to pray together with other believers.

We all need a cause to live for that accords with our Creator's purposes.

Advent celebrates the coming of Christ, whose kingdom will last forever and has been opened to all who trust in him, both Jews and Gentiles.

God prepares a person to receive Christ by stirring up a longing for consolation and redemption that can come only from Christ.

The use of money can make or break your eternal destiny.

The great obstacle to recognizing the truth of Christ is not deficient resources but deep rebellion against God.

To recognize and receive Christ for who he really is, God the Father must reveal it to you.

How are we supposed to understand and live out the paradoxes of Scripture?

God's purpose is to be known and praised and enjoyed and feared among all the nations of the earth.

The most potent antidote for sin’s sickness is gratitude to God for the glories of the gospel.

Christian kindness is not merely an external change of manners; it is an internal change of heart.

Four kinds of rotten language, and a whole new way to think about words.

You can live to HAVE, either legally or illegally. Or you can become a Christian and live to give.

If we walk with Jesus, we will be straightforward, open, and honest in all our dealings and in every relationship.

When Paul says, put off the old person and put on the new person, he is not talking about an optional elective, but core curriculum in the school of Christ.

God has ordained that we be related to other believers in such a way that we can help each other fight the fight of faith successfully day in and day out until the end.

Escape from futility! Live a different way. Walk a different path.

Endurance is a gift and endurance is a duty. And these are not in conflict.