Messages by Desiring God (Video)
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Brothers — Feel, Think, Preach God (Part 2)
John Piper | Pastoral ministry is a call to an intellectually robust life that thinks and meditates and ponders over God’s word and God’s world for the fame of Jesus’s name.
Brothers — Feel, Think, Preach God (Part 1)
John Piper | If a pastor doesn’t pursue his own joy in God, he compromises his ministry. To overflow with grace and love, the pastor’s heart must be centered on God himself.
God Is the Gospel, Session 3
John Piper | All the benefits of the gospel come together in the highest good we can imagine: God brings us to joy in himself and keeps us forever safe in him.
God Is the Gospel, Session 2
John Piper | The greatest gift of the gospel isn’t what God gives to us but who he is to us. Only when we receive him as our highest treasure will we truly know the beauty of all Jesus Christ has accomplished.
God Is the Gospel, Session 1
John Piper | The greatest gift God can give us is himself. Without him, we have no cause for joy.
Carry My Love to My Beloved
John Piper | Christians are precious to each other when they feel deeply what they have been saved from.
The Supremacy of Christ and Joy in a Postmodern World
John Piper | Some believe doctrine is stuffy at best, divisive at worst. Some prefer an undefinable personal relationship to revealed truths as found in the Bible. But in doing so they are cutting of the main channel to Christ-exalting joy.
Commending and Welcoming Radical Risk-Takers for Christ
John Piper | What can we learn from how Paul sends his greetings?
Resting and Wrestling for the Cause of Christ—Together
John Piper | Christian fellowship cuts our burdens in half and doubles our joy.
Joy+Debt = A Two-Thousand-Mile Detour to Jerusalem
John Piper | Why did Paul make another trip to Jerusalem when he expressly wanted to visit the saints in Rome?
Where I Am There Will My Servant Be: A Call to Treasure Christ Together
John Piper | When Jesus died, he didn’t just die before us—as an example to copy—but for us—as a sacrifice to trust in.
Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named
John Piper | God will not lead you down a pointless path, but to a holy ambition that meets great need for the glory of Jesus.
By Signs and Wonders: Where Christ Has Not Been Named
John Piper | In Paul's ministry, signs and wonders functioned to confirm the gospel. Should we be expecting the same miraculous confirmations of our witnessing today?
Why and How We Celebrate the Lord's Supper
John Piper | When we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we feast spiritually by faith on all the promises of God bought by the blood of Jesus.
Why Expositional Preaching Is Particularly Glorifying to God
John Piper | Preaching is not conversation or discussion. It’s not casual talk about religious things. Preaching is heralding a message permeated by the sense of God’s greatness.
I Will Go to God, My Exceeding Joy
John Piper | When you feel divided and distant from God, feed your soul the glorious truth of the gospel.
Always Singing One Note—A Vernacular Bible: Why William Tyndale Lived and Died
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A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People
John Piper | What is the pastor's calling? What does this mean for the rest of the church?
Love Your Unborn Neighbor
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Racial Diversity, Racial Harmony, and the Gospel Walk
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How God’s Word Produces Our Work
John Piper | It is wonderfully energizing to settle in your heart and mind the truth that Christ is real.
How Our Suffering Glorifies the Greatness of the Grace of God
John Piper | We can risk our lives for Jesus because he is all we need. We only lose when we embrace comfort over the cross.
Prayer and the Victory of God
John Piper | God accomplishes his purposes through our prayers. He’s completely sovereign, but he has determined to use us.
The Child to Be Born Will Be Called Holy — the Son of God
John Piper | Though the world in darkness lay, God entered into the universe this Christmas day. For sinners he came to save, and forevermore King Jesus will reign.
Word of Promise, Spirit of God, Hope of Man
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Gentiles Rejoice in the Root of Jesse
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Why Christ Became a Servant of the Jews
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Welcome One Another to the Glory of God
John Piper | Only God can give us the strength to truly love our neighbors well, and only God can empower us to glorify him as we ought.
The Kingdom of Heaven Is a Treasure
John Piper | The kingdom of God is so valuable that losing everything on earth, but getting the kingdom, is a happy trade-off.
The Kingdom of God is Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit
John Piper | The kingdom produces more than Christian liberty. It governs how you use your liberty too.
Do Not Destroy the Work of God
John Piper | Faith is what really matters in Christian behavior, not just whether you accomplish certain things or abstain from others.
We Will All Stand Before the Judgment of God
John Piper | Love your brother and help him get to heaven, instead of judging him and making it harder.
Gospel to the Nations, Generosity to the Poor
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The Suffering of Christ and the Sovereignty of God
John Piper | Only the life and death of Jesus can explain pain and suffering. His affliction gives purpose to ours.
Ten Aspects of God’s Sovereignty over Suffering and Satan’s Hand in It
John Piper | God is unquestionably sovereign over our suffering — even over Satan’s futile ploys to ruin God’s elect.
Is There a “Lord’s Day”?
John Piper | Setting apart a day of rest testifies to a self-reliant world that our work does not save or define us, Christ does.
Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind
John Piper | There are a hundred things we can disagree on in which both convictions can be done to the glory of God.
Consider How to Stir Up One Another to Love
John Piper | Don’t be a loner in the Christian life. God did not design it that way.
Where Is God? The Supremacy of Christ in an Age of Terror
John Piper | God does not answer all our questions, but he doesn’t leave us in the dark either. His deepest and loudest response to our pain is the suffering and death of his Son.
How to Welcome a Weak Brother
John Piper | How can a church hold together when some of its members are so different from one another?
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 6)
John Piper | The fight of faith is really a fight for joy. Like any real battle, you shouldn’t enter the ring without strategies for victory.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 5)
John Piper | The fight of faith is really a fight for joy. Like any real battle, you shouldn’t enter the ring without strategies for victory.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 4)
John Piper | The foundation for your acceptance with God is not you own works or accolades, but simply Jesus Christ’s blood and righteousness.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 3)
John Piper | The fight for faith is a fight for joy. But we can only press on because God enables us with his sufficient grace.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 2)
John Piper | If it’s true that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, then the fight to be happy in God is the most important thing in life.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 1)
John Piper | God does everything for his glory. Therefore, you don’t need health, wealth, or prosperity in order to be happy.
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part 1
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Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 3
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Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 2
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Love is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 1
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