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Messages by Desiring God (Video)

Messages by Desiring God (Video)

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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.

Feb 16, 200853 min

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.

Feb 16, 200850 min

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.

Feb 16, 200852 min

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.

Feb 15, 200857 min

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.

Feb 15, 200844 min

What Man Does in the New Birth

John Piper | Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.

Feb 10, 200844 min

Evangelist Bill Piper: Fundamentalist Full of Grace and Joy

John Piper | Watch Now

Feb 5, 20081h 26m

Probability, Prejudice, and Christ

John Piper | What's the difference between necessary judgments of probability and sinful prejudice?

Jan 20, 200848 min

Receive with Meekness the Implanted Word

John Piper | Our souls need Scripture just like our bodies need oxygen: moment by moment, every day. If we learn to live apart from it, we will surely die.

Jan 6, 200846 min

Pray Like This: ‘Hallowed Be Your Name’

John Piper | When we pray, not only does God get more glory, but in his glorification, we get a fuller and lasting joy.

Dec 30, 200754 min

The Reason the Son of God Appeared Was to Destroy the Works of the Devil

John Piper | If any human is to be saved from their sin and from the righteous wrath of God, the Son of God had to become human for our regeneration.

Dec 23, 200745 min

Free at Last: The Miracle of New Birth

John Piper | Dead men need one thing before anything else can happen: They must be made alive. They must be born again.

Dec 16, 200732 min

Why Do We Need to Be Born Again?

John Piper | If God did not make us alive to his grace and glory, we would remain dead — completely enslaved to our sins.

Dec 9, 200742 min

What Happens in the New Birth? Part 2

John Piper | Being born again is not the improvement of your old nature, but the creation of a new one.

Dec 2, 200738 min

What Happens in the New Birth? Part 1

John Piper | In the new birth, God takes dead souls and resuscitates them to new life in Christ. This is not a work of our own, but the grace of God.

Nov 25, 200745 min

You Must Be Born Again

John Piper | The new birth produces new desires and new behaviors. An unchanged life is not a born-again life.

Nov 18, 200743 min

Justification and the Diminishing Work of Christ

John Piper | When the glory of Christ is partially obscured and the assurance of the soul is weakened, the costly, sacrificial labor of love is hindered.

Nov 14, 200758 min

Treasuring Christ in Planting Churches and Loving the Poor

John Piper | Lessons from the Philippian church on planting churches and giving to the needy.

Nov 11, 200742 min

Sexual Complementarity

John Piper | The New Testament promotes male leadership in the church, Christian ministry, and the nobility of women.

Nov 10, 200735 min

Sexual Complementarity

John Piper | What does submission and its relational dynamics look like in the church, the home, and the workplace.

Nov 10, 200759 min

Sexual Complementarity

John Piper | There are distinctions between men’s and women’s roles in marriage worth exploring.

Nov 10, 200754 min

Sexual Complementarity

John Piper | What are the roles of men and women? And nine reasons why masculine leadership is a good thing.

Nov 9, 200751 min

Sexual Complementarity

John Piper | The significance and relevance of Biblical manhood and womanhood in the culture.

Nov 9, 200749 min

Treasuring Christ Together as a Church on Multiple Campuses

John Piper | We must strategize for church growth because we have a God who builds his church day by day and thousands at a time.

Nov 4, 200746 min

How to Love Your People: The Gladness of Your People and the Glory of God

John Piper | If pastors are going to labor for the joy of their people, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:24, then they must first make it their priority to pursue their own joy in the Lord.

Oct 30, 200744 min

Treasuring Christ Together Because He Is More Valuable Than All Else

John Piper | Nothing is more important as a church grows than that its people help each other rejoice in Jesus.

Oct 28, 200742 min

‘I Am Sending You Out as Sheep in the Midst of Wolves’: The Cost and Blessing of Being a Christian Missionary

John Piper | The costs of taking the gospel to the unreached is high, but the Lamb who is worthy to receive the reward of his suffering is infinitely greater.

Oct 21, 200747 min

The Pleasures of God, Part 3

John Piper | God delighted to overcome the most significant problem in the universe. Jesus paid the price, and we forever can enjoy and make much of God.

Oct 13, 2007

The Pleasures of God

John Piper | All that God does pleases him, and all that pleases him he does — including electing ungodly sinners unto salvation.

Oct 13, 2007

The Pleasures of God, Part 1

John Piper | God has eternally enjoyed himself as Trinity and creates us to make his glory go on public display that we may be satisfied in him forever.

Oct 12, 20071h 14m

Judas Iscariot, the Suicide of Satan, and the Salvation of the World

John Piper | Every detail of the death of Christ happened according to the plan of God — even his betrayal and agonies.

Oct 7, 200739 min

Getting Old for the Glory of God

John Piper | Getting old is about God's glory, not the American Dream

Sep 30, 20071h 2m

The Sinful Origin of the Son of David

John Piper | Israel’s bad kingship was a grievous sin. But God planned bad kings to pave the road for a spectacular Savior.

Sep 23, 200745 min

Encouraging Each Other at the End of the Age

John Piper | God's command to us to meet with and encourage each other is for our happiness.

Sep 16, 200742 min

The Sale of Joseph and the Son of God

John Piper | Injustice marks both Joseph’s story and Jesus’s, but even in dire circumstances, God is sovereignly working everything for our good and his glory.

Sep 9, 200747 min

The Pride of Babel and the Praise of Christ

John Piper | The global glory of the gospel shines all the more beautifully when it filters through the prism of diversity.

Sep 2, 200738 min

The Fatal Disobedience of Adam and the Triumphant Obedience of Christ

John Piper | We are sinful by nature because of our father, Adam, but we can claim the righteousness of our Savior, Jesus.

Aug 26, 200745 min

The Fall of Satan and the Victory of Christ

John Piper | Satan and all his works are evil. But Jesus crushes Satan’s head and disarms him of his deathly power.

Aug 19, 200744 min

All Things Were Created Through Him and for Him

John Piper | God will use everything — even the tragedies of our lives — to shine a bright light on the goodness and glory of Jesus Christ.

Aug 12, 200744 min

What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate, Part 2

John Piper | John Piper answers four crucial questions people ask about divorce and remarriage.

Jul 1, 200748 min

What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate, Part 1

John Piper | Jesus calls us to keep our marriage covenant in a way that tells the truth about him.

Jun 24, 200744 min

Marriage Is Meant for Making Children . . . Disciples of Jesus, Part 2

John Piper | Don’t provoke your children to anger. Show them in your own soul how it can be replaced with tenderhearted joy.

Jun 17, 200749 min

Marriage Is Meant for Making Children . . . Disciples of Jesus, Part 1

John Piper | Marriage is not just about filling the earth with warm bodies but filling the earth with worshipers of Jesus.

Jun 10, 200740 min

Marriage, Singleness, and the Christian Virtue of Hospitality

John Piper | How can we live in a way that shows that the church is our family?

May 27, 200742 min

The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth

John Piper | The triumph of the gospel in the new heavens and new earth consists in the hope that comes through God’s promise to raise his children with glorified bodies to inhabit a world fit for their fellowship and everlasting enjoyment of God.

May 24, 200759 min

Single in Christ: A Name Better Than Sons and Daughters

John Piper | Family relationships are of great value, but the promises and blessings that come from Christ are of infinite value.

Apr 29, 200737 min

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 4

John Piper | Psalm 43 demonstrates that joy in God is the ultimate goal of our existence, and it details the steps a person can take when they feel distant from God.

Apr 22, 200746 min

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 2

John Piper | The beauty and attraction of Jesus Christ isn’t just that he is meek or just that he is strong, but that he is meek in his strength and strong in his meekness.

Apr 21, 200758 min

Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, Session 1

John Piper | Delighting in Christ is not simply a blessing that comes in time, but is the essence of saving faith itself. To enjoy Jesus is to know Jesus.

Apr 21, 20071h 6m

The Nature of Saving Faith

John Piper | Salvation comes through faith not only by believing objective facts, but by experiencing Christ as supremely satisfying.

Apr 20, 200755 min