Messages by Desiring God

God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.

God is concerned with our purity of faith, not race. He never forbids marriage between ethnicities, but between believer and unbeliever.

Christ calls us to pursue unity in diversity, but what does that look like in a local church? John Piper offers ten ways forward.

Christians tap into the sin-killing power of God when we believe a blood-bought promise and embrace it as a more precious treasure than any temptation in front of us.

God will bring our feelings, thoughts, and actions into conformity to his infinitely satisfying worth. If we are in Christ, it is as good as done.

God created and sustains everything in this universe to display his glorious grace in Jesus.

God designed his church so that her members endure in belief by giving and receiving faith-sustaining words of life.

Three decades of ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church demonstrate five important things that pastors should rememember for their ministries.

There is nothing more foundational, pervasive, and necessary than the truth and reality that God absolutely is who he is.

No matter how rough the road of your life, Jesus is a rock-solid friend who encourages and strengthens you to press on.

John Piper | God’s pleasure in election, the death of Christ, doing good to those who hope in him, and the obedience of his people all stems from his fundamental pleasure in his own excellency.

John Piper | The destruction of the wicked is not ordained by God with the same kind of delight as the redemption of his people, though he is profoundly sovereign over all things.

John Piper | God’s delight in being God consists in his happiness in himself as the triune God and his passion to do all things for his name’s sake.

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In all your troubles, pain, joy, and pleasures, continue to stay in the Scriptures, because there’s no better way to invest than in God’s very words.

It will cost you to stand up against evil in our day. But God will deliver you and bring you safely into his heavenly kingdom.

We’re not called to run from suffering in the toils of ministry. We’re called to embrace suffering with confidence in Christ for the sake of his gospel.

When we say that God is holy, we have sailed to the end of language and must worship in silence and wonder.

In the gospel, God removes everything that makes our happiness fail, and he reveals everything that makes our happiness full.

So-called same-sex marriage dishonors the partners involved and disregards God’s good design.

When Jesus went to the cross, he not only desired our faith, joy, and peace; he also secured them.

Loving Jesus is not a matter of doing excellent things. It’s a matter of delighting in an excellent Savior.

God equips his people with everything we need to serve him. And we will do even greater works than Jesus himself.

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We believe the Bible is real because God opened our eyes. Can blind men see the sun? Can seeing men pretend they do not?

If you had to keep yourself believing, you’d never make it. God himself sustains you every second.

Be reconciled to God: receive as a free gift his peace, his power, his purpose.

God is supreme not only in the ministry of the church, but also in the planting and watering, and in causing faith and giving the growth.

John Piper and Tim Keller, moderated by Anthony Bradley, discuss race in America.

Jesus prepares a place in paradise for all his people. Trust him now, and you’ll reap untold riches — now and forever.

Immerse yourself in the word of God and seek him for a holy ambition so that your life will not be wasted, but instead will count for God’s glory among the nations.

John Piper | Does God’s delight in our obedience and faith feel less genuine if it’s predetermined by his sovereignty rather than being a result of our own free will? Does God primarily delight in holiness and godliness, with a secondary delight in public justice?

John Piper | Living by faith in future grace is essential for walking in holiness and putting sin to death.

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John Piper | The faith that justifies is the same faith that sanctifies as sin is defeated by the power of superior promises.

If God did not spare his only Son, but gave him up for us, he will surely give us all things with him.

John Piper | How did John Piper learn to ask great questions? Is it pastorally helpful to emphasize God’s pleasure in abolishing sin and death or God’s displeasure when discussing tragedies?

Only Jesus could do the saving work we needed. Only he could bear the awesome weight of our sin.

John Piper | How does God’s satisfaction in himself become a wonderful model for parents in how they raise their children? How does a theology centered on a big God serve as balm for the downcast soul? John Piper addresses these questions and more.

What are the similarities and differences between John Piper and Douglas Wilson? How have Jonathan Edwards and C.S. Lewis influenced them? In this two-hour-long conversation, John Piper and Douglas Wilson address these questions and more.

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The movement of your money expresses the movement of your heart. Where your treasure is, your heart will be also.

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God takes people from every racial and ethnic bloodline and leads by the gospel us to the one bloodline of Jesus Christ.

Walking by the Spirit is a continual depending, praying, trusting, acting, and thanking God all out of faith.

Seeing and savoring the supremacy of Jesus Christ frees you from the slavery of sin for the sacrifices of love.

Racism is not a social issue but a blood issue — the blood of Christ shed on the cross.

The life that exalts Christ, enjoys him, and happily overflows to meet the needs of others — that life will never be wasted.

We honor God most not just by obeying what he commands, but by finding our deepest satisfaction in all that he is for us.

The life of Augustine shows us that the only way to truly sever the deadly pleasures of sin is by having superior pleasure in the sovereign joy of God.