
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.

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.

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.

He Must Increase, I Must Decrease
John Piper | Only when we decrease and Christ increases will we have full joy.

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.

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.

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.

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

The Pastor as Scholar: A Personal Journey
John Piper | Pastors should strive to be scholars and scholars should strive to be pastors.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

What Is the Recession For?
John Piper | God remains in control and fulfills his good purposes, even during an economic downturn or financial collapse.

The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy
John Piper | How the Bible looks at a human being in the womb.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Pursuit of Joy in Life and Ministry
John Piper | In this seminar, John Piper defines and explains Christian Hedonism.

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

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.

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.

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.

Obedient Son, Ultimate Purifier, All-Providing Bridegroom
John Piper | 3 of Christ's glories on display in John 2.

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.

We Have Found the Messiah
John Piper | 7 ways John shows us the glory of Jesus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Earth Is the Lord’s: The Supremacy of Christ in Christian Learning
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We Beheld His Glory, Full of Grace and Truth
John Piper | By becoming a man, Jesus shows us the glory of God.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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