Messages by Desiring God (Video)

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.

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

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

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

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

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John Piper | Whatever else you may enjoy about Jesus, John’s Gospel wants you to know and treasure Jesus in his infinite majesty.

John Piper | What's new about Jesus' new commandment?

John Piper | What unites Christians in the worship of the triune God is not forms, styles, or musical taste, but rather a commitment to God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated gatherings.

John Piper | Preaching in the gathered community of saints is appropriate, fitting, and normative in light of biblical principles and the affectional nature of worship.

John Piper | Implications of knowing that the inward essence of worship is being satisfied in God include the pursuit of joy, the understanding of worship as an end in itself, and view that all of life is worship.

John Piper | If worship is the soul’s satisfaction in all that God is for us in Jesus, then God is most loving to us when he removes every obstacle to our joy and enthralls us with himself.

John Piper | The New Testament emphasizes worship as an inward, spiritual event, and the key to understanding worship is the truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

John Piper | Corporateness in the early church was a given. Lone Christians were not the norm, and Christians came together in various ways to pursue God together.

John Piper | Jesus calls his people to the same humble service he so beautifully displayed in his life and death.

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John Piper | Baptism: Immersion or sprinkling? Infants or adults? Does it matter?

John Piper | All believers should join a church if possible, because the local church is an expression of the universal church.

John Piper | When we accept and welcome one other across barriers and boundaries as Christ did for us, not only is God glorified, but our joy in him expands in the joy of others.

John Piper | God summons us to sing, and in doing so to summon the nations to sing a new song with us.

John Piper | How should we understand the psalms that call down curses on others?

John Piper | The threat of hell might scare us toward God, but only a deep love for Jesus can take us all the way home to him.

John Piper | Death and decay won’t have the last word. One day soon, God will release all of creation from corruption.

John Piper | Perhaps nothing is more effective in helping children fear God than verbally blessing the Lord in their presence.

John Piper | Brokenhearted joy colors the entire Christian life. We might struggle along, but in the end, we have ultimate victory in Jesus.

John Piper | When we think and feel with the Psalms, we learn how to fight for hope in the most difficult times.

John Piper | Jesus faced death, died, and transformed it forever so that we can face death with confidence and hope — not fear.

John Piper | The Psalms instruct our minds and our hearts. They combine deep doctrine with full emotion.

John Piper | Old, young, or in-between, you can change the world for Jesus.

John Piper | Our life and ministry should reflect Jesus’s own and have a radical, risk-taking, sacrificial flavor.

John Piper, Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, C.J. Mahaney, and Albert Mohler | Sacrificial obedience can only be empowered and sustained by a view of the surpassingly great value of Christ over all things.

John Piper | 10 practical encouragments to evangelize.

John Piper | When God gives new birth, he does so through us speaking his word, the gospel.

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John Piper | If God is magnified in our showing that he is valuable by treasuring him above all things — if that’s what the unwasted life is — then something has to happen to us, because we don’t do that by nature.

John Piper | The unwasted life is a life lived for the purpose of displaying the worth of Jesus Christ for others to see and cherish.

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John Piper | Jesus will always be our shepherd and we will always get the incomparable joy of being his sheep.

John Piper | The doctrines of grace, rightly understood, have several powerful affects on the Christian life.

John Piper | The doctrine of perseverance is not meant to elicit passivity, but rather to impart assurance to us in the fight of faith to the end.

John Piper | The doctrine of limited atonement teaches that God did more in the cross than obtain a bonafide offer of forgiveness for all who believe; namely, he also secured the saving faith of all the elect.

John Piper | Unconditional election is fully in accord with justice because in election God upholds his unswerving allegiance to his glory.

John Piper | Unconditional election is demonstrated throughout Scripture, especially in the Gospel of John.

John Piper | Being born again doesn't mean being sinless. It means coming to Jesus as your advocate.

John Piper | The doctrine of unconditional election concerns how God chooses people for salvation according to his own sovereign, free, and gracious purposes, apart from any faith or good works in them.

John Piper | The doctrine of total depravity concerns how humanity is pervasively sinful due fundamentally to their rebellion against God.

John Piper | Seven assumptions are given that guide this message series, as well as the biblical foundations for irresistible grace.

John Piper | The doctrines of grace are not meant to be used for starting arguments, but for worship and survival in an embattled life of faith.

John Piper | Faith must come first and be the root of love. Otherwise, love will be destroyed.