
Messages by Desiring God (Video)
952 episodes — Page 15 of 20

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.

Evangelist Bill Piper: Fundamentalist Full of Grace and Joy
John Piper | Watch Now

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Treasuring Christ in Planting Churches and Loving the Poor
John Piper | Lessons from the Philippian church on planting churches and giving to the needy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.