
Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio
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The Sovereignty of God: ‘I Will Accomplish All My Purpose’
From galaxies to molecules, God rules over all. His power encompasses everything.

ABCs for Following God’s Call
John Piper walks through eight facets of making decisions for the glory of Christ.

Missions Exists Because Worship Doesn’t
God will spread the fame of his name to every tribe, nation, and tongue, but he won’t do it without his people sending and going.

A Spectacular and Scary Promise: Fellow Heirs with Christ If We Suffer
The Holy Spirit wants to assure us that we are God‘s children. All he owns belongs to us — if we suffer alongside his Son.

Don’t Waste Your Life
The unwasted life is a life of pursuing joy in God at all costs, including the sacrificial love that brings people into that joy.

God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him
God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.

God's Plan for Poetry
Poetry is an effort to awaken or intensify a moving experience by using language that is chosen and structured differently from ordinary prose.

Should We Celebrate Interracial Marriage?
God is concerned with our purity of faith, not race. He never forbids marriage between ethnicities, but between believer and unbeliever.

Ten Ways to Pursue Ethnic Harmony in Your Church
Christ calls us to pursue unity in diversity, but what does that look like in a local church? John Piper offers ten ways forward.

Act the Miracle: Future Grace, the Word of the Cross, and the Purifying Power of God’s Promises
Christians tap into the sin-killing power of God when we believe a blood-bought promise and embrace it as a more precious treasure than any temptation in front of us.

Prelude to Acting the Miracle: Putting Sanctification in Its Place
God will bring our feelings, thoughts, and actions into conformity to his infinitely satisfying worth. If we are in Christ, it is as good as done.

Why Did God Create the World?
God created and sustains everything in this universe to display his glorious grace in Jesus.

Eternal Security Is a Community Project
God designed his church so that her members endure in belief by giving and receiving faith-sustaining words of life.

Reflections on Pastoring Three Decades Downtown
Three decades of ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church demonstrate five important things that pastors should rememember for their ministries.

‘I Am Who I Am’
There is nothing more foundational, pervasive, and necessary than the truth and reality that God absolutely is who he is.

He Stood by Me and Strengthened Me for the Sake of the Gospel
No matter how rough the road of your life, Jesus is a rock-solid friend who encourages and strengthens you to press on.

Preach the Word, For the Time of My Departure Has Come
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All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God — Continue in It
In all your troubles, pain, joy, and pleasures, continue to stay in the Scriptures, because there’s no better way to invest than in God’s very words.

When a Lover of Good Thinks About Evil
It will cost you to stand up against evil in our day. But God will deliver you and bring you safely into his heavenly kingdom.

He Cannot Deny Himself
We’re not called to run from suffering in the toils of ministry. We’re called to embrace suffering with confidence in Christ for the sake of his gospel.

In the Throne Room: The God of Holiness and Hope
When we say that God is holy, we have sailed to the end of language and must worship in silence and wonder.

The Search for Joy and the Supremacy of God in the Gospel
In the gospel, God removes everything that makes our happiness fail, and he reveals everything that makes our happiness full.

Let Marriage Be Held in Honor
So-called same-sex marriage dishonors the partners involved and disregards God’s good design.

My Peace I Give to You
When Jesus went to the cross, he not only desired our faith, joy, and peace; he also secured them.

If Anyone Loves Me, He Will Keep My Word
Loving Jesus is not a matter of doing excellent things. It’s a matter of delighting in an excellent Savior.

Doing the Works of Jesus and Greater Works
God equips his people with everything we need to serve him. And we will do even greater works than Jesus himself.

Reflections on the Life of Isaac Newton
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The Sum of God's Word Is Truth
We believe the Bible is real because God opened our eyes. Can blind men see the sun? Can seeing men pretend they do not?

Glory, Majesty, Dominion, and Authority Keep Us Safe for Everlasting Joy
If you had to keep yourself believing, you’d never make it. God himself sustains you every second.

The Risen Christ — His Peace, Power, and Purpose
Be reconciled to God: receive as a free gift his peace, his power, his purpose.

I Planted, Apollos Watered, But God Gave the Growth
God is supreme not only in the ministry of the church, but also in the planting and watering, and in causing faith and giving the growth.

Race and the Christian
John Piper and Tim Keller, moderated by Anthony Bradley, discuss race in America.

I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life
Jesus prepares a place in paradise for all his people. Trust him now, and you’ll reap untold riches — now and forever.

Controlled by a Holy Ambition
Immerse yourself in the word of God and seek him for a holy ambition so that your life will not be wasted, but instead will count for God’s glory among the nations.

As I Have Loved You, Love One Another
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The Solid Logic of Heaven Holds
If God did not spare his only Son, but gave him up for us, he will surely give us all things with him.

You Cannot Follow Me Now
Only Jesus could do the saving work we needed. Only he could bear the awesome weight of our sin.

The Supremacy of Christ in All of Life: The Pastor and His Worldview
What are the similarities and differences between John Piper and Douglas Wilson? How have Jonathan Edwards and C.S. Lewis influenced them? In this two-hour-long conversation, John Piper and Douglas Wilson address these questions and more.

“The Frank and Manly Mr. Ryle” — The Value of a Masculine Ministry
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Let’s Be Rich Toward God
The movement of your money expresses the movement of your heart. Where your treasure is, your heart will be also.

They Poured Out Innocent Blood
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From Bloodlines to Bloodline
God takes people from every racial and ethnic bloodline and leads by the gospel us to the one bloodline of Jesus Christ.

The Word of God Is at Work in You
Walking by the Spirit is a continual depending, praying, trusting, acting, and thanking God all out of faith.

Piper One on One
Racism is not a social issue but a blood issue — the blood of Christ shed on the cross.

Seeing and Savoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ Above All Things
Seeing and savoring the supremacy of Jesus Christ frees you from the slavery of sin for the sacrifices of love.

One Life: Don’t Waste It
The life that exalts Christ, enjoys him, and happily overflows to meet the needs of others — that life will never be wasted.

For Men: Augustine, Sin, and Sovereign Joy
The life of Augustine shows us that the only way to truly sever the deadly pleasures of sin is by having superior pleasure in the sovereign joy of God.

One Life: Enjoy It
We honor God most not just by obeying what he commands, but by finding our deepest satisfaction in all that he is for us.

A Savior Is Born: Glory to God, Peace to Man
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For His Sake and for Your Joy, Go Low
All Christians have the high, spiritual status of being a child of God. And with this high standing, there is a call to go low.