Messages by Desiring God

God’s children are immensely precious to him, and he ensures that their preciousness to him does not become their god, but that he is their God.

We might not agree with Lewis on everything, but his romantic rationalism applied to the Christian faith can open our eyes to more of God’s wonders.

Multiplying churches with different strengths and weaknesses means coming closer to meeting the needs of the world.

All children, of every degree of ability, are conceived for the purpose of displaying the glory of God.

Eight ways to help children love those who don't look like them.

There is a spiritual diet without which no Christian can be strong and healthy and fruitful. And that is a diet of the word of God.

God loves us best when he loves himself most. And in his loving glorification, we find imperishable joy.

Both disciplined and spontaneous prayer should flow from our confidence that God is already one hundred percent on our side.

A holy ambition comes from immersing yourself in the word of God. Dive deep in the Bible and let it take hold of your desires.

God’s passion for his own glory is the great ballast not only for global missions, but also for our very own souls.

Cancer causes us to come to Christ. Earthly groans guarantee a global heritage.

Christmas is for salvation. God sent his Son into the world to save it, not condemn it.

As once-adoring followers disappear, Jesus’s message becomes clearer and clearer: their resistance itself is in God’s hands.

We come to God not because we merely made a decision, but because God has called us, drawn us, and taught us who Jesus really is.

When we come to Jesus, we come voluntarily and freely. And behind that change in us is a decisive work of the Father.

We should hunger and thirst for God and all he has done in Jesus more than anything else in this world.

Our greatest need is not physical but spiritual. We crave the bread of life more than bread for our stomachs.

We should accept our calling wherever God has placed us, including prison, and we should first and foremost be loyal to the Bible, not to a certain theological camp.

Jesus offers himself to us freely as the food that endures to eternal life. No amount of working for God can make you taste him for the feast he is.

Jesus’ presence brings the kind of fullness that produces generosity and risk-taking in his church.

Jesus came not mainly to give bread but to be bread. He became the all-satisfying bread of life when he gave himself up for us.

As Christianity expands in the global South, the Western church must continue to support the developing church by sending and going.

The word of God coming to us in the power of the Holy Spirit is sufficient to supply us with all the resources we need for satisfaction in God and dealing with all kinds of weaknesses in the church.

Preaching Christ must keep the enjoyment of God as the highest good of the gospel and the glory of God as the highest goal of all history.

Since right thinking is meant to fuel right feeling our preaching must not only aim at the head but also the heart.

Right thinking about God is meant to fuel right admiration for God.

The greatest good of the gospel is that every obstacle is removed from us enjoying the presence of God forever, and the only way a person comes to know this is through God’s sovereign grace in the gospel.

Preaching Christ must have the glory of God as its central aim.

Right thinking about God is essential for right feeling for God and right behavior to God.

The implications of Christian Hedonism are breathtaking for the Christian life.

The task of the pastor is to love God with all his heart and love his people by having his heart burn with the truth of God’s word and let that passion pervade his preaching and teaching.

Wherever God is revealed in the Old Testament, Jesus is revealed.

John Piper interviews Doug Wilson about *Collision*, his filmed debate series with Christopher Hitchens.

The dry root of unbelief is the desire for self-praise, but true faith seeks satisfaction in Christ, the fount of living waters.

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At least six observations about the final judgment can be made from John 5:25-29.

The regular role of preaching in the pulpit, week in and week out, is not enough to adequately minister to the church.

There is great encouragement and hope to labor among Native Americans, and all other peoples of the word, because Christ will gather his sheep no matter where they are scattered.

John 5:1-24 has at least 3 extraordinary things to teach us about Jesus.

Missions should be driven by a great vision of God, as demonstrated through the lives of frontier missionaries and described in Jesus’s words in John 10:16.

All the reasons we have to bless the Lord flow from the cross of Christ.

Humility is happy to rely on God and quick to give him the credit for all that’s accomplished.

Jesus healed a few but left many more unhealed. Until he comes back, the main issue is not that we have perfect physical health, but that we meet him in our brokenness.

What do Jesus' miracles say about Jesus?

The natural timeframe of sowing and reaping does not pertain to Jesus and his saving power.

Worship is an end in itself, not a means to some other end. God gets the glory and we get the joy.

The deepest root of our worship must be God's passion for his own glory. Only his glory satisfies eternally.

Only those who know Jesus have the Spirit and know the truth that makes real worship possible.

Our hearts wander to the sewer even though Jesus offers living water. Only he can transform and satisfy our deepest desires.

God uses everything for his sovereign purposes. Even the most heinous crimes ever committed were never beyond his control.