
Messages by Desiring God (Video)
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In the Beginning Was the Word
John Piper | Whatever else you may enjoy about Jesus, John’s Gospel wants you to know and treasure Jesus in his infinite majesty.

The New Commandment of Christ: ‘Love One Another As I Have Loved You’
John Piper | What's new about Jesus' new commandment?

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
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.

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
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.

The Pursuit of God in Corporate 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.

The Pursuit of God in Corporate 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.

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
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.

The Pursuit of God in Corporate Worship
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.

The Mind of Christ: Looking Out for the Interests of Others
John Piper | Jesus calls his people to the same humble service he so beautifully displayed in his life and death.

Teaching and Admonishing One Another in All Wisdom
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What Is Baptism and How Important Is It?
John Piper | Baptism: Immersion or sprinkling? Infants or adults? Does it matter?

How Important Is Church Membership?
John Piper | All believers should join a church if possible, because the local church is an expression of the universal church.

Welcome One Another for the Glory of God
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.

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

Pour Out Your Indignation Upon Them
John Piper | How should we understand the psalms that call down curses on others?

The Echo and the Insufficiency of Hell
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.

The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth
John Piper | Death and decay won’t have the last word. One day soon, God will release all of creation from corruption.

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

A Broken and Contrite Heart God Will Not Despise
John Piper | Brokenhearted joy colors the entire Christian life. We might struggle along, but in the end, we have ultimate victory in Jesus.

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

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

Songs That Shape the Heart and Mind
John Piper | The Psalms instruct our minds and our hearts. They combine deep doctrine with full emotion.

Let No One Despise You for Your Youth: A Vision for the Next Generation
John Piper | Old, young, or in-between, you can change the world for Jesus.

T4G 2008 Panel Discussion
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.

How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice
John Piper | Our life and ministry should reflect Jesus’s own and have a radical, risk-taking, sacrificial flavor.

I'm Sending You to Open Their Eyes
John Piper | 10 practical encouragments to evangelize.

You Are God's Midwife for the New Birth of Others
John Piper | When God gives new birth, he does so through us speaking his word, the gospel.

Other Sheep That Are Not of This Fold
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The Appearance of the Unwasted Life, Part 1
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.

The Appearance of the Unwasted Life, Part 2
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The Origin of the Unwasted Life
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.

The Essence of the Unwasted Life
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The God of Peace Brought from the Dead the Good Shepherd
John Piper | Jesus will always be our shepherd and we will always get the incomparable joy of being his sheep.

Ten Effects of Believing the Five Points of Calvinism
John Piper | The doctrines of grace, rightly understood, have several powerful affects on the Christian life.

Perseverance of the Saints
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.

Limited Atonement
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.

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

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

No One Born of God Makes a Practice of Sinning
John Piper | Being born again doesn't mean being sinless. It means coming to Jesus as your advocate.

Total Depravity - Unconditional Election
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.

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

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

TULIP: Introduction
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.

Regeneration, Faith, Love: In That Order
John Piper | Faith must come first and be the root of love. Otherwise, love will be destroyed.

Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | The claims of the Bible are most ultimately justified by the witness of the Holy Spirit in the new birth; we should deal fairly with the claims of the Bible on its own terms and rightly handle it.

Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | The claims of the Bible may be justified through the overall coherence of its canon as well as its scope, which is to give glory to God.

Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | The Bible claims to be the infallible word of God, and it may be known as such as a person appreheneds its diverse excellencies by the Holy Spirit’s power.

Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | The word of God is pure, good, and true. And we have it in the form of ink and paper, which has been preserved throughout the ages.

Why We Believe the Bible
John Piper | There are several reasons why it is vital to have confidence in the Bible as God’s infallible word.

What Man Does in the New Birth
John Piper | Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.