Messages by Desiring God (Video)

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.