Messages by Desiring God

God ordains all things, including the fall of Satan and the fall of man, for his glory in Jesus Christ.

Jesus reveals our woeful condition that causes our thirst, and then offers his cup of grace so we never have to thirst again.

God promises in the new covenant to keep believers steadfast to the end. He works with all of his heart and all of his soul, with infinite joy, to help us endure.

Health and wealth tempt us to no end, but they can never deliver what we need most. Christ is our only true life and treasure.

The work frontier missions must be carried out with an understanding of the motivation and method of missions.

Revivals cannot be manufactured by human strategies, but we can seek the things that have characterized them throughout history: prayer, repentance, and the proclamation of the gospel.

The work frontier missions must be carried out with an understanding of the task of missions and the necessity of missions.

The Gospel of John lifts Jesus up as coming from God, being full of God, and speaking and ruling as God.

Only when we decrease and Christ increases will we have full joy.

Jesus didn't come to a neutral world. He came to those already dead and guilty to make some alive and free.

The new birth is the supernatural giving of divine life to a dead soul, and God accomplishes this great work through the means of gospel preaching.

Affections are to be prized, stirred, and renewed. Pastors labor alongside you and on your behalf, striving for your joy.

If we depart from the traditional doctrine of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness we will diminish one of Christ’s great achievements, harm people who need this doctrine, and undermine the fruit of love.

John 3:16 represents a glorious love, but there is more to God’s love than the free offer of the gospel.

We have eternal life because Christ died in our place and because in him is life. He removes God’s wrath, and he supplies the everlasting life we don’t have.

Teaching children is not about indoctrination or contextualization, but about category-creation that is rooted in the God-centeredness of God.

The wind of God’s Spirit gives new birth to whomever he pleases.

Pastors should strive to be scholars and scholars should strive to be pastors.

We are called to fan into flame God’s gift. Don’t be ashamed, be courageous in God’s unbeatable power.

When God calls you to praise him, he’s not a megalomaniac. He’s a loving Father who invites you into highest, purest joy.

If you live to maximize your joy and pleasure in God above all things, you will be the most loving and generous type of person in the world.

Twenty centuries later, we can still see the truth of the Resurrection.

Jesus saves us by becoming a curse for us. Only in this substitution can we find blessing.

George Whitefield devoted his whole life to pointing people away from himself and to Jesus.

God remains in control and fulfills his good purposes, even during an economic downturn or financial collapse.

How the Bible looks at a human being in the womb.

John Piper | Joy in God is not an option in the Christian life, therefore we must employ all the means of grace God gives to us us in order to pursue it.

John Piper | The grand obligation of our lives is to pursue maximum joy in God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

John Piper | The grand obligation of our lives is to pursue maximum joy in God, because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

John Piper | The love of God consists in him doing whatever it takes, at great cost to himself, to enthrall us with the unparalleled worth of his glory forever.

John Piper | In this seminar, John Piper defines and explains Christian Hedonism.

Jesus knows everything about everyone and is still willing to love those who trust in him.

When you let Jesus’s words abide in you, they will grow into a bountiful harvest for God’s glory and your good.

We all have regrets, and we all feel the guilt for our sin. But Christians have godly grief that produces repentance to the pardoning God.

God can put his people through the fires of suffering to awaken our appetite for prayer.

Good news changes everything. Our circumstances may not change, and we may still feel stuck, but the good news of Christmas will never leave us the same.

Jesus is the new temple. Authentic worship is no longer attached to any place. It is attached to Jesus.

3 of Christ's glories on display in John 2.

Jesus’s many titles show his divinity and universal rule, yet his identity is what drove man’s wickedness to reject and kill him.

7 ways John shows us the glory of Jesus.

“Baptism with the Spirit” in John is not a technical term for one experience of the Christian life, but a general term for all that the Holy Spirit does for us because of Christ.

God’s self-exaltation is not egotistical but rather the epitome of love. While human self-exaltation draws attention away from God, God’s self-exaltation leads us to the one thing that can satisfy our souls: namely, God.

Those who embrace Jesus as their Lamb and their Lord will be sheltered from God's otherwise inescapable wrath.

What are the trials unique to singleness? Why is masturbation an enemy of missions? John Piper addresses these questions and more.

Those who by grace are born of God have seen the glory of God that Moses asked to see but wasn't permitted.

John Piper | Believing in the sovereignty of God in suffering, we must lean in with tenderness, compassion, and rightly-timed truth to care for others in their trials.

John Piper | It is personally stabilizing for our faith to understand the necessity, nature, and purpose of Christian suffering.

John Piper | God is sovereign over all things, therefore the suffering that takes place in our own individual lives and globally has meaning.

John Piper | God’s sovereignty over Satan and all the suffering he causes can be seen through his ultimate control of natural disasters, diseases, animals, temptation, spiritual blindness, and spiritual captivity.

John Piper | God is sovereign over suffering, including all the suffering that Satan is able to inflict upon people.