Messages by Desiring God (Video)

John Piper | When a Christian reads the Bible, a supernatural event takes place. Our regenerate souls meet the inspired word in a divine encounter.

John Piper | Only what’s done for Christ will last. Any risk, any trial, any tribulation is worth the risk when your aim in all of life is to make others glad in God.

John Piper | Sooner or later, every leader will hand off the baton to the next generation — and where better to center pastoral succession than in the word of God himself?

John Piper | All the Bible knowledge in the world won’t help you unless you cherish God’s truth. We’re nothing more than Pharisees unless we taste the glory of God in his word.

John Piper | No truth was more central to the Reformation that turned the world upside down 500 years ago: God justifies sinners by faith alone.

John Piper | God works every dot on the timeline of history for his glory. Nothing stands outside the scope of his plan to bring fame to his name, for the joy of his people.

John Piper | We often live as though we are God, but biblical thinking assumes that God is the center of all reality.

John Piper | Pain and suffering exist to make plain the horrors of the sinful heart and the wonders of the sovereign Christ.

John Piper | Only a love sustained by genuine joy in God will propel us to take the gospel to the hardest places in the world.

John Piper | The ultimate goal of the gospel is that God would be glorified in our enjoyment of him. God’s glory and our satisfaction are not two different ends, they’re one.

John Piper | Real love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others, especially when it’s costly.

John Piper | Christians don’t fly solo. Our faith won’t survive unless brothers and sisters in Christ keep us accountable.

John Piper | Five hundred years ago, the Reformers fought to recover the true gospel. Fifteen hundred years before, God used Paul to pen the Reformers’ central text for justification by faith alone.

John Piper | Your joy in God multiplies exponentially as you seek the good of your brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.

John Piper | God has a place for every single one of us in missions. Some of us send, some of us go, but we must all have a gospel ambition.

John Piper | The only reason any of us know God is because he chose us before the foundation of the world. Nothing we’ve done can earn our way to him — it’s all grace.

John Piper | At the end of your life, as your energy fades, God will be your refuge and strength.

John Piper | The very essence of evil is running to anything but God for ultimate joy. Watch, read, or listen to John Piper’s message from Passion 2017.

John Piper | We are living in the third great era of world history — the era of the Spirit. Our only hope for advancing God’s mission is to lean on the power of his Spirit.

John Piper | Christians claim their true citizenship in heaven. When we submit to earthly governments, we do so out of allegiance to Christ’s eternal kingdom.

John Piper | Christian leaders should exude the Bible. They need to test everything they speak and write through the grid of biblical teaching.

John Piper | Jesus’s supreme authority empowers his Great Commission. We go, teach, and teach others to teach in the confidence that Jesus himself is with us.

John Piper | Central to biblical Christianity is the pursuit of our joy in God. John Piper expresses fifteen hopes for the future of maximizing our joy in God.

John Piper | God’s volcanic passion for his own glory erupts in overflowing delight for his Son and unceasing joy for his children who share in God’s own glorious bliss.

John Piper | Christians embrace both the New Testament and the Old because every single page of the Scriptures points to Jesus who fulfills them.

John Piper | Christians can show the world the hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and serve, rather than return evil for evil.

John Piper | God is glorified when Christians humble themselves openly as people who are not ashamed to beg for help.

John Piper | Christ’s righteousness imputed to sinners through faith undergirds the whole of the Christian faith.

John Piper | Humble unity in the gospel beautifully displays to a watching world that Jesus is more satisfying than getting your own way.

John Piper | God’s pursuit of his own glory opens the door to a feast of beauty and truth that satisfies the human soul forever.

John Piper | Communing with God fuels courage and contentment — and shows the resilience of our Savior before a resistant world.

John Piper | God doesn’t merely give us arguments for his love, but he gives us a real, authentic experience of his love!

John Piper | You don’t need complicated arguments to know the Bible is true. You can see the Glory for yourself.

John Piper | Where will we find the emotional power to keep us from returning evil for evil? Not in vague notions of grace, but by trusting God’s specific promises.

John Piper | For Martin Luther, the issue of man’s bondage to sin, and moral inability to believe or obey, was the root issue of the Reformation — and the lynchpin of Protestantism.

John Piper | You love your spouse more when you love them less than God. If God is not central, your marriage will not glorify God as he intended.

John Piper | In the new America, a stage is being set as never before for the display of the glory of God through the joy of his grieving people.

John Piper | We should not be surprised or ashamed when we suffer in the name of Jesus. God refines us and displays the worth of Christ in and through our suffering.

John Piper | Our mission begins where redemption ends: at the cross. Over 6,000 people groups still have not heard the gospel, so pray and go.

John Piper | If we have money and depend on it, it will kill us. If we don’t have money and crave it, it will kill us. How should we approach money?

John Piper | “The Book of the Life of the Lamb who was Slain” is an eternal book, pledging God's redemptive act in history, and securing God's eternal praise from his redeemed.

John Piper | The more horrible, foreign, startling, fearful, uncertain, and stomach-turning the days become, the more relevant the gospel of Jesus Christ is.

John Piper | “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” How should Christians relate to the American government?

John Piper | “Love your enemies.” In this short video, John Piper explains this radical, even impossible call from Jesus.

John Piper | Christianity is a deep, profound transformation of what we love. When Christ is our supreme Treasure, we belong with him.

John Piper | How do we set about obeying the hundreds of commands in the Bible? John Piper explores what it means to be born again and how it happens.

John Piper | In the Bible, the glory of God reveals itself to be inescapably real to the mind, and incomparably rewarding to the heart. Nothing could be more true, and nothing could be more precious.

John Piper | The audacity to make disciples for Jesus from followers of other lords and other religions is based on the rock solid foundation of the words — and the reality — “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

John Piper | God wants to make you new more than he wants to reveal his secret plans for tomorrow. That’s his good purpose for you in all things.

John Piper | At what point can parents be assured of their child’s salvation? To whom does John Piper turn for wise counsel?