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Messages by Desiring God (Video)

Messages by Desiring God (Video)

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Q&A with Piper, Mason, Driscoll, Greear, and Stetzer

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.

Jun 5, 200931 min

Let the Nations Be Glad

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

Jun 5, 20091h 22m

The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands

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

May 31, 200947 min

He Must Increase, I Must Decrease

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

May 24, 200947 min

This Is the Judgment: Light Has Come into the World

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

May 17, 200948 min

God So Loved the World

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

May 10, 200947 min

God So Loved the World

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.

May 3, 200949 min

The Free Will of the Wind

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

Apr 26, 200952 min

The Pastor as Scholar: A Personal Journey

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

Apr 23, 20091h 4m

Feed the Flame of God’s Gift

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

Apr 21, 200958 min

I Have Seen the Lord

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

Apr 12, 200943 min

The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up — Like the Serpent

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

Apr 5, 200944 min

The Pleasures of God

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.

Apr 4, 2009

The Pleasures of God

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

Apr 4, 2009

The Pleasures of 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.

Apr 4, 2009

The Pleasures of God

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.

Apr 3, 2009

The Pleasures of God

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.

Apr 3, 2009

“I Will Not Be a Velvet-Mouthed Preacher!”

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

Feb 3, 20091h 23m

What Is the Recession For?

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

Feb 1, 200944 min

The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy

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

Jan 25, 200941 min

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

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.

Jan 24, 200957 min

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

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.

Jan 24, 200956 min

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

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.

Jan 24, 200946 min

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

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.

Jan 23, 200957 min

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry

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

Jan 23, 200942 min

He Knew What Was in Man

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

Jan 11, 200947 min

If My Words Abide in You

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.

Jan 4, 200948 min

Put in the Fire for the Sake of Prayer

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

Dec 28, 200850 min

Destroy This Temple, and in Three Days I Will Raise It Up

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

Dec 21, 200845 min

Obedient Son, Ultimate Purifier, All-Providing Bridegroom

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

Dec 14, 200841 min

Son of God, Son of Man, King of Israel

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.

Dec 7, 200840 min

We Have Found the Messiah

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

Nov 30, 200840 min

This Is He Who Baptizes with the Holy Spirit

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.

Nov 23, 200849 min

Behold the Lamb of God

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

Nov 16, 200843 min

From His Fullness We Have All Received, Grace Upon Grace

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.

Nov 9, 200848 min

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

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.

Nov 8, 200844 min

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

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

Nov 8, 200856 min

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

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

Nov 8, 20081h 1m

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

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.

Nov 7, 200855 min

Suffering for the Sake of the Body

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

Nov 7, 200852 min

The Earth Is the Lord’s: The Supremacy of Christ in Christian Learning

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Nov 5, 200856 min

We Beheld His Glory, Full of Grace and Truth

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

Nov 2, 200844 min

Proclaiming the Excellencies of Christ, Not Prosperity, Among the Nations

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

Oct 26, 200841 min

Filling Up What Is Lacking in Christ's Afflictions

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.

Oct 19, 200858 min

Job: When the Righteous Suffer, Part 2

John Piper | God’s merciful purpose is shown in the conclusion of the book of Job as he demonstrates his own worth and sovereign goodness, and secures the restoration and reconciliation of Job and his friends.

Oct 18, 20081h 25m

Job: When the Righteous Suffer, Part 1

John Piper | The book of Job teaches us that God is ultimately sovereign over all things, including Satan and any calamity he brings.

Oct 17, 20081h 18m

John Was Not the Light, but a Witness to the Light

John Piper | Let's join John the Baptist in saying, “Jesus must increase, but I must decrease.”

Oct 12, 200843 min

The Ultimate Meaning of True Womanhood

John Piper | True womanhood is not wimpy. It exists to uniquely display the glory of God.

Oct 9, 200846 min

In Him Was Life

John Piper | Not only is Jesus the Life that created all material life, but he is the Life that creates all eternal life.

Oct 5, 200846 min

Is There Christian Eloquence? Clear Words and the Wonder of the Cross

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Sep 28, 20081h 23m