Messages by Desiring God (Video)

John Piper | New passions give rise to new conduct. And if you try to turn it around, you don’t have Christianity anymore.

John Piper | Your faith is so valuable that God is willing to put it through fire to burn out all the dross. Don’t begrudge the school of suffering because God deems it necessary.

John Piper | The Christian life is characterized by the simultaneous experience of both joy and sorrow. Trials are allowed by God’s necessity to test and strengthen one’s faith, all while God provides the necessary grace for each day’s challenges.

John Piper | God sustains faith, trials refine faith, and faith glorifies Christ.

John Piper | Every Christian has been born again, and everyone who has been born again has a living hope.

John Piper | According to the apostle Peter, knowing the cause, means, and goal of our election as exiles awakens joy and worship.

John Piper | Our exile status is connected to our election — a connection carefully woven together by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If we attempt to be exiles apart from the work of the triune God, we end up with Phariseeism.

John Piper | As Christians, our earthly identity is that of aliens, strangers, sojourners, and exiles, with our true citizenship found in heaven.

John Piper | If you find the Bible boring, mythological, or distracting, then 2 Corinthians 4:6 hasn’t happened to you yet. You will not understand the Bible without the Holy Spirit.

John Piper | If you feel totally at home in this world, 1 Peter will either pass by you or awaken you to your alien status here.

John Piper | John Piper’s commencement message on the relationship between friendship with Jesus and the aims of higher education — specifically the educational aims of Bethlehem College and Seminary.

John Piper | Education at Bethlehem College and Seminary is education in serious joy.

John Piper | Without sourcing our love for others from our joy in God, we will never be able to risk whatever it takes draw more people to Jesus.

John Piper | The greatest benefits of the cross, like justification, propitiations, salvation, and redemption, are all a means to us enjoying the one greatest benefit: glorifying God by enjoying him forever.

John Piper | We may never be able to explain every instance of suffering, but we can trust that God is near, he is in control, and he is bringing us unimaginable good — even through pain.

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John Piper, Thabiti Anyabwile, Voddie Baucham, D.A. Carson, Tim Keller, and Miguel Núñez | The foundation of the gospel propels us to seek justice in this world which gives people what they deserve, and even more to seek grace which gives people better than they deserve.

John Piper | Jesus demands the impossible, whole-hearted love for God and others, but he does not abandon us to the task.

John Piper | God graciously gives his people suffering and faith so that they might enjoy magnifying Christ to their adversaries through fearlessness of faith and humble love.

John Piper | The living hope every Christian enjoys now and waits for in the future is rooted in the mercy of God, the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and the new birth.

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John Piper | Addiction is a relative term. If the stakes are high enough and sure enough, you’ll have all the self-control you need to resist any sexual temptation.

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John Piper | We can joyfully accept hardship in this life because our true home is in heaven. Our best life is yet to come.

John Piper | No other religion or movement on the planet preaches and sings like Christians.

John Piper | All of history led to and flows from the cross. If the center of reality isn’t the center of our lives, we are tragically off course.

John Piper | Your convictions about the God of Romans 9 will profoundly shape your perspective on worship, prayer, salvation, and even the state of our culture.

John Piper | Election is God’s business, and our job is to pray like crazy for everybody we love.

John Piper | When we ask the question of how God is righteous to ordain evil (which we should), we should ask with humble faith — not to find fault with God, but to know and love God.

John Piper | As we come to realize how big God is, and how horrifying our sin is, we will come to understand election as a grace so impossibly great that we could not imagine it on our own.

John Piper | Theology is the study of God and his works as revealed in the Bible, and Christians should embrace mystery because we embrace the God that outruns our own reasoning.

John Piper | God chooses to love and bless and save individuals not based on anything that they do or don’t do. Rather, God chooses based on his own sovereign freedom.

John Piper | According to Romans 9, God has never defaulted on his promises to the true Israel of God. But who is the true Israel?

John Piper | The greatest comfort in the world is that God is good and that he never breaks his promises.

John Piper | According to the book of Romans, the majority of ethnic Israelites have rejected the Messiah even though they have unique privileges. How do we account for both Israel’s privileged status and Israel’s unbelief?

John Piper | The word of God has not failed. Therefore, God’s promises will hold true.

John Piper | The Bible, as God’s revealed word, offers us the unparalleled opportunity to come face to face with the reality of who he is and glimpse the glory of the King and Creator of the universe, making it more deserving of our efforts than any other book.

John Piper | Whether you want it to or not, your understanding of the God of Romans 9 will shape everything else in your life.

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John Piper | Knowing the love of God in Christ which not only chose us but purposes all things for our good makes us profoundly free to lay down our lives in sacrificial love for others.

John Piper | The groaning of creation matches up with our own groaning as we wait until the day when creation will be set free from corruption and share in the glorious inheritance of God’s children.

John Piper | Our justification is established through Christ’s substitutionary death, which then gives rises to the new life in the Spirit where we are able to fulfill the law of God.

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John Piper | The bitter providence of God is never the final word for his people because he always has a bright design for their future.

John Piper | Are you worthy of Jesus? We not only can be — we need to be.

John Piper | God calls each one of us to love him with all our minds. The hard work of thinking rightly honors him and loves our neighbors when our minds move to action.

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John Piper | God’s glory and our gladness do not have to be at odds, but are in fact one and the same pursuit. John Piper demonstrates how with the help of Jonathan Edwards.