Messages by Desiring God (Video)

John Piper | Jesus is the only hope for everyone — and this is the best news for people who want to be happy.

John Piper | You entered this world with a spiritual flatline — no desire for the gospel and good works. You were spiritually lifeless and unmoving. But God said, “Live.”

John Piper | God is not honored unless we see him as he has revealed himself in his word. So, how do we avoid this pitfall?

John Piper | If you go to bed tonight as a believer in Christ, why do you think you’ll wake up a Christian tomorrow?

John Piper | Jesus promises Christians a share in the rule of all things. What does that mean?

John Piper | Calvinists embrace the biblical teaching called unconditional election, in which God sovereignly chooses and takes the decisive initiative to save unworthy sinners for his own glory.

John Piper | Embracing a God-centered view of salvation means welcoming the Bible’s teaching of God’s sovereign election in place of our finite and fallen logical leaps.

John Piper | Every possible blessing that heaven has to give — most notably, God himself — belongs to those who are united to him by faith.

John Piper | In order to get the blessing of God that the biblical authors intend through their writing, we need to understand what those writers meant by their words, not merely what we understand at first glance.

John Piper | Reading your Bible as a Christian gives you more insight into the mystery of the universe than Moses or King David or Solomon ever had. Reading gives you unimaginable understanding.

John Piper | God is a happy-making God, and his plan is to make his people happy. That is why we are able to be “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” even in such a world as ours.

John Piper | Marriage is not about taking hold of our rights, whether men or women, but rather walking humbly in our God-ordained roles.

John Piper | According to the apostle Peter, hope and humility go hand in hand as God awakens his elect in the new birth, providing new affections — most notably, hope — that give rise to new behavior.

John Piper | With time running short, how should we live? Live prayerfully, trust in God’s sovereignty, love your neighbors, and avoid frantic haste.

John Piper | People who follow Jesus to the cross can turn to face the malice of those who do not know God, in order to bless them and show the beauty of Christianity.

John Piper | It is better to suffer faithfully than to turn away from God. Do you believe that?

John Piper | Hope that sustains through trials brought on even by the hope itself looks peculiar to a world filled with roots that cannot withstand even everyday trials.

John Piper | When insulted, Christians are urged to respond with fearless resilience, honoring Christ, and blessing instead of retaliating, with the hope that their unexpected and gracious response may lead others to see the joy and glory in their faith.

John Piper | Letting all of the Bible speak allows us to dig beneath seeming tensions and make discoveries more glorious and rich and helpful than if we were to just throw up our hands or assume contradiction.

John Piper | Payback is planted in the bottom of our hearts — every one of us is a born retaliator. If we’re to answer wrongdoing with any other response than wrongdoing, we need a change at the core of our being.

John Piper | The Bible everywhere commands that we feel certain ways. So how do we obey the commands to feel if they seem out of our power?

John Piper | Husbands are the head. Therefore, they must go ahead and honor their wives according to knowledge.

John Piper | Godly women, rooted in unwavering hope, fear nothing — even submission to husbands who do not follow Jesus. They adorn their souls with a peculiar beauty: not base servility or brash power, but a combination of humility and lion-like courage that the world cannot explain.

John Piper | John Piper illustrates the importance of Bible memorization in the Christian life by reciting 1 Peter 1–3:7 from memory.

John Piper | To understand God’s word with power, we need to see it for ourselves, patiently investing time to dig deep and ask questions of the text.

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John Piper | Psalm 16 gives us some of the clearest, most powerful words about our greatest happiness.

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John Piper | Everyone struggles with doubts at some point, but God doesn’t want us to wallow in uncertainty. He gives us his Spirit to testify to our new life.

John Piper | The ultimate goal of 1 Peter is to encourage believers to live transformed lives in light of their hope in Christ and to glorify God.

John Piper | Issues within marriage can be helped by relating to each other openly and honestly while involving Christian community, but there will be times when a couple just has to live with a difficult situation.

John Piper | Godward prayers should fuel our Bible reading, compassionate advocacy should flavor our understanding of justice, and gospel instincts should shape our marriage struggles.

John Piper | Men, lead your wives with understanding, honoring them as the weaker vessel, and recognizing them as joint heirs of the grace of life. By doing so, your prayers may not be hindered.

John Piper | Submission has become a curse word in our culture today, even within the church. However, the Bible reveals the beauty of what submission is — and what it’s not.

John Piper | What does it mean to be a strong woman? The world and all the media will answer one way, but the gospel and the Bible paint a more beautiful and satisfying picture.

John Piper | How does what Jesus did on the cross for you relate to people who treat you badly? He models a patient, sacrificial love that would radically change all our relationships.

John Piper | How do you honor leaders while also standing up against policies, laws, or agendas that are unbiblical? John Piper addresses this question and more.

John Piper | Showing honor to one’s master is a way of honoring God and commending the gospel, including to masters who are unjust and treat you badly.

John Piper | Christians are free to submit to human authority because our citizenship is in heaven and Jesus is our King.

John Piper | The default stance for a believer is all about servitude, not some grand quest for superiority.

John Piper | When God saved us from our sin, he brought us from death into marvelous light and life. But sin still tries to entice us and destroy us, so the call to faith is a call to war.

John Piper | God’s sovereign justice and Christ’s sacrifice should cause us to fear ever doing anything to make the cross look cheap.

John Piper | God gives us knowledge about himself to help us develop deep passion for him. So, how do we learn to cultivate the right feelings for God?

John Piper | Once you grasp the glory of adoption, with its promise of an inheritance from God, you will naturally find yourself echoing the words of the apostle Peter: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!”

John Piper | To understand 1 Peter, you must understand what the apostle Peter means by “elect exiles.”

John Piper | The answer to the rise of secularism, persecution, and the prosperity gospel is to behold God's self-authenticating glory in the Bible as found in 1 Peter.

John Piper | Christians, as chosen lights, proclaim God’s excellencies through transformed living, silencing ignorance, shaming the revilers with good behavior, and bringing glory to their heavenly Father.

John Piper | Is stumbling because of disobedience any different from being born again by the mercy of God? If we are not born again, we will disobey, destined by our nature.

John Piper | According to 1 Peter, what does it mean to have your soul purified by “obedience to the truth”?

John Piper | Christians are called to both “fear not” and fear — fear to squander the precious ransom of Christ’s blood.