Messages by Desiring God (Video)

John Piper | Only those who know Jesus have the Spirit and know the truth that makes real worship possible.

John Piper | Our hearts wander to the sewer even though Jesus offers living water. Only he can transform and satisfy our deepest desires.

John Piper | God uses everything for his sovereign purposes. Even the most heinous crimes ever committed were never beyond his control.

John Piper | Jesus reveals our woeful condition that causes our thirst, and then offers his cup of grace so we never have to thirst again.

John Piper | God ordains all things, including the fall of Satan and the fall of man, for his glory in Jesus Christ.

John Piper | The work frontier missions must be carried out with an understanding of the motivation and method of missions.

John Piper, Mark Driscoll, J.D. Greear, Eric Mason, and Ed Stetzer | Revivals cannot be manufactured by human strategies, but we can seek the things that have characterized them throughout history: prayer, repentance, and the proclamation of the gospel.

John Piper | The work frontier missions must be carried out with an understanding of the task of missions and the necessity of missions.

John Piper | The Gospel of John lifts Jesus up as coming from God, being full of God, and speaking and ruling as God.

John Piper | Only when we decrease and Christ increases will we have full joy.

John Piper | Jesus didn't come to a neutral world. He came to those already dead and guilty to make some alive and free.

John Piper | John 3:16 represents a glorious love, but there is more to God’s love than the free offer of the gospel.

John Piper | We have eternal life because Christ died in our place and because in him is life. He removes God’s wrath, and he supplies the everlasting life we don’t have.

John Piper | The wind of God’s Spirit gives new birth to whomever he pleases.

John Piper | Pastors should strive to be scholars and scholars should strive to be pastors.

John Piper | We are called to fan into flame God’s gift. Don’t be ashamed, be courageous in God’s unbeatable power.

John Piper | Twenty centuries later, we can still see the truth of the Resurrection.

John Piper | Jesus saves us by becoming a curse for us. Only in this substitution can we find blessing.

John Piper | God takes pleasure in election because it is the way that his people’s salvation most ultimately is shown to be to the praise of his glorious grace.

John Piper | God created the material world and said it was good, therefore we should delight in creation as a means of worshiping God.

John Piper | God’s will and affections are often complex and multi-faceted, but one thing is supremely certain: he delights in all that he does.

John Piper | The foundation of our salvation isn’t as flimsy as our commitment to God, but is instead based on God’s own passion for the fame and glory of his own name.

John Piper | Christians care about what delights God because he has designed us to discover joy in what delights him, and to bring him glory by finding our ultimate happiness in him.

John Piper | George Whitefield devoted his whole life to pointing people away from himself and to Jesus.

John Piper | God remains in control and fulfills his good purposes, even during an economic downturn or financial collapse.

John Piper | How the Bible looks at a human being in the womb.

John Piper | Joy in God is not an option in the Christian life, therefore we must employ all the means of grace God gives to us us in order to pursue it.

John Piper | The grand obligation of our lives is to pursue maximum joy in God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

John Piper | The grand obligation of our lives is to pursue maximum joy in God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

John Piper | The love of God consists in him doing whatever it takes, at great cost to himself, to enthrall us with the unparalleled worth of his glory forever.

John Piper | In this seminar, John Piper defines and explains Christian Hedonism.

John Piper | Jesus knows everything about everyone and is still willing to love those who trust in him.

John Piper | When you let Jesus’s words abide in you, they will grow into a bountiful harvest for God’s glory and your good.

John Piper | God can put his people through the fires of suffering to awaken our appetite for prayer.

John Piper | Jesus is the new temple. Authentic worship is no longer attached to any place. It is attached to Jesus.

John Piper | 3 of Christ's glories on display in John 2.

John Piper | Jesus’s many titles show his divinity and universal rule, yet his identity is what drove man’s wickedness to reject and kill him.

John Piper | 7 ways John shows us the glory of Jesus.

John Piper | “Baptism with the Spirit” in John is not a technical term for one experience of the Christian life, but a general term for all that the Holy Spirit does for us because of Christ.

John Piper | Those who embrace Jesus as their Lamb and their Lord will be sheltered from God's otherwise inescapable wrath.

John Piper | Those who by grace are born of God have seen the glory of God that Moses asked to see but wasn't permitted.

John Piper | Believing in the sovereignty of God in suffering, we must lean in with tenderness, compassion, and rightly-timed truth to care for others in their trials.

John Piper | It is personally stabilizing for our faith to understand the necessity, nature, and purpose of Christian suffering.

John Piper | God is sovereign over all things, therefore the suffering that takes place in our own individual lives and globally has meaning.

John Piper | God’s sovereignty over Satan and all the suffering he causes can be seen through his ultimate control of natural disasters, diseases, animals, temptation, spiritual blindness, and spiritual captivity.

John Piper | God is sovereign over suffering, including all the suffering that Satan is able to inflict upon people.

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John Piper | By becoming a man, Jesus shows us the glory of God.

John Piper | All nations will be reached only with the wealth-renouncing witness of cross-cultural missionaries.

John Piper | To fill up the afflictions of Christ means to present Christ’s completed, atoning work to those whom he died for by means of our own self-sacrificing love.