Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

We are living in the third great era of world history — the era of the Spirit. Our only hope for advancing God’s mission is to lean on the power of his Spirit.

The true grace of God is given to us in Jesus Christ, who is full of grace and truth.

Satan believes the Scriptures are God’s very words. But the difference between us and him is that he doesn’t treasure that truth.

Christians claim their true citizenship in heaven. When we submit to earthly governments, we do so out of allegiance to Christ’s eternal kingdom.

Christian leaders should exude the Bible. They need to test everything they speak and write through the grid of biblical teaching.

Jesus’s supreme authority empowers his Great Commission. We go, teach, and teach others to teach in the confidence that Jesus himself is with us.

Central to biblical Christianity is the pursuit of our joy in God. John Piper expresses fifteen hopes for the future of maximizing our joy in God.

God’s volcanic passion for his own glory erupts in overflowing delight for his Son and unceasing joy for his children who share in God’s own glorious bliss.

In all true Bible reading, we think and God gives. We work hard to comprehend the authors’ intended meaning while we simultaneously rely on God to help us understand.

Whenever we read the Bible, we depend on God’s supernatural power to illumine the words, sentences, and paragraphs with his glory.

The Bible is indispensable to the Christian life. Without the written word, we simply could not know the Incarnate Word.

Christians embrace both the New Testament and the Old because every single page of the Scriptures points to Jesus who fulfills them.

God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is not the act of a needy ego, but an act of infinite giving.

Christians can show the world the hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and serve, rather than return evil for evil.

God supplies the sustaining grace we need to love others well as we seriously pursue our joy in him.

God created the world, and sustains it every second, to show the worth of his Son’s redeeming work.

God is glorified when Christians humble themselves openly as people who are not ashamed to beg for help.

Christ’s righteousness imputed to sinners through faith undergirds the whole of the Christian faith.

Humble unity in the gospel beautifully displays to a watching world that Jesus is more satisfying than getting your own way.

God’s pursuit of his own glory opens the door to a feast of beauty and truth that satisfies the human soul forever.

God doesn’t merely give us arguments for his love, but he gives us a real, authentic experience of his love!

You don’t need complicated arguments to know the Bible is true. You can see the Glory for yourself.

Where will we find the emotional power to keep us from returning evil for evil? Not in vague notions of grace, but by trusting God’s specific promises.

I want to help parents (and leaders of children’s ministries) see how the Bible shows itself to be true — and how to communicate this vital truth to our children.

For Martin Luther, the issue of man’s bondage to sin, and moral inability to believe or obey, was the root issue of the Reformation — and the lynchpin of Protestantism.

You love your spouse more when you love them less than God. If God is not central, your marriage will not glorify God as he intended.

There won’t be any phoniness in heaven. There will only be complete authenticity. So let’s resolve to start now because the facades will fade.

There isn’t anything greater than to see the Son of God in all his divine beauty and radiance and greatness, and be supremely and increasingly happy in him forever.

In the new America, a stage is being set as never before for the display of the glory of God through the joy of his grieving people.

We should not be surprised or ashamed when we suffer in the name of Jesus. God refines us and displays the worth of Christ in and through our suffering.

“The Book of the Life of the Lamb who was Slain” is an eternal book, pledging God's redemptive act in history, and securing God's eternal praise from his redeemed.

Manhood and womanhood are not traits to be ignored, but God-given gifts we can cherish together as both genders reflect God’s good design.

The mission given to every Christian is to declare and demonstrate that the glory of Christ is more precious than life.

There is an all-permeating passion that belongs in the saved human soul, and that will not be crushed by the moral chaos of these days, or by the suffering that Christians must endure.

The more horrible, foreign, startling, fearful, uncertain, and stomach-turning the days become, the more relevant the gospel of Jesus Christ is.

In the Bible, the glory of God reveals itself to be inescapably real to the mind, and incomparably rewarding to the heart. Nothing could be more true, and nothing could be more precious.

The audacity to make disciples for Jesus from followers of other lords and other religions is based on the rock solid foundation of the words — and the reality — “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

God wants to make you new more than he wants to reveal his secret plans for tomorrow. That’s his good purpose for you in all things.

The word of God is meant to be our unshakable rock and comfort in times of trouble, and we should encourage each other with its precious truths.

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Psalm 16 gives us some of the clearest, most powerful words about our greatest happiness.

Money, Sex, and Power. Three precious gifts of God. Three dangers ready to destroy our souls. Three beautiful possibilities for worship and love.

The glory of God is the brightest beauty, and the greatest treasure, the sweetest pleasure in all of reality, and is, therefore, never to be exchanged for what sex, money, or power can bring.

Money, sex, and power are three good gifts of God. We know the basic definition of each — but is there more underneath the surface?

In order to not lose heart in ministry, we must look to the glorious and unseen things that God promises to us in his word.

Everyone struggles with doubts at some point, but God doesn’t want us to wallow in uncertainty. He gives us his Spirit to testify to our new life.

John Piper’s commencement message on the relationship between friendship with Jesus and the aims of higher education — specifically the educational aims of Bethlehem College and Seminary.

Without sourcing our love for others from our joy in God, we will never be able to risk whatever it takes draw more people to Jesus.

The greatest benefits of the cross, like justification, propitiations, salvation, and redemption, are all a means to us enjoying the one greatest benefit: glorifying God by enjoying him forever.

We may never be able to explain every instance of suffering, but we can trust that God is near, he is in control, and he is bringing us unimaginable good — even through pain.