Messages by Desiring God

The unwasted life is a life lived for the purpose of displaying the worth of Jesus Christ for others to see and cherish.

If God is magnified in our showing that he is valuable by treasuring him above all things — if that’s what the unwasted life is — then something has to happen to us, because we don’t do that by nature.

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Jesus will always be our shepherd and we will always get the incomparable joy of being his sheep.

By nature, those who are born again love others like God who gave his Son for them.

John Piper | The doctrines of grace, rightly understood, have several powerful affects on the Christian life.

John Piper | The doctrine of perseverance is not meant to elicit passivity, but rather to impart assurance to us in the fight of faith to the end.

John Piper | The doctrine of limited atonement teaches that God did more in the cross than obtain a bonafide offer of forgiveness for all who believe; namely, he also secured the saving faith of all the elect.

John Piper | Unconditional election is fully in accord with justice because in election God upholds his unswerving allegiance to his glory.

John Piper | Unconditional election is demonstrated throughout Scripture, especially in the Gospel of John.

Being born again doesn't mean being sinless. It means coming to Jesus as your advocate.

John Piper | The doctrine of unconditional election concerns how God chooses people for salvation according to his own sovereign, free, and gracious purposes, apart from any faith or good works in them.

John Piper | The doctrine of total depravity concerns how humanity is pervasively sinful due fundamentally to their rebellion against God.

John Piper | Seven assumptions are given that guide this message series, as well as the biblical foundations for irresistible grace.

John Piper | The doctrines of grace are not meant to be used for starting arguments, but for worship and survival in an embattled life of faith.

Faith must come first and be the root of love. Otherwise, love will be destroyed.

What has driven and shaped John Piper’s ministry over the years? Here are sixteen core convictions.

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Newborn believers obey God's commandments, knowing that even when they fail they will never ultimately fall away.

The Gospel is news and we are born again by believing that it is true and embracing it.

John Piper | The claims of the Bible are most ultimately justified by the witness of the Holy Spirit in the new birth; we should deal fairly with the claims of the Bible on its own terms and rightly handle it.

John Piper | The claims of the Bible may be justified through the overall coherence of its canon as well as its scope, which is to give glory to God.

John Piper | The Bible claims to be the infallible word of God, and it may be known as such as a person appreheneds its diverse excellencies by the Holy Spirit’s power.

John Piper | The word of God is pure, good, and true. And we have it in the form of ink and paper, which has been preserved throughout the ages.

John Piper | There are several reasons why it is vital to have confidence in the Bible as God’s infallible word.

Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.

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New birth is God's kindness, philanthropy, and mercy to us. It has nothing to do with even our best deeds.

How is abortion similar to the child-sacrificing in the Old Testament?

What's the difference between necessary judgments of probability and sinful prejudice?

The new birth does not give us a mere temporary resuscitation. It gives indestructible, imperishable life.

Our souls need Scripture just like our bodies need oxygen: moment by moment, every day. If we learn to live apart from it, we will surely die.

When we pray, not only does God get more glory, but in his glorification, we get a fuller and lasting joy.

If any human is to be saved from their sin and from the righteous wrath of God, the Son of God had to become human for our regeneration.

Dead men need one thing before anything else can happen: They must be made alive. They must be born again.

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If God did not make us alive to his grace and glory, we would remain dead — completely enslaved to our sins.

Being born again is not the improvement of your old nature, but the creation of a new one.

In the new birth, God takes dead souls and resuscitates them to new life in Christ. This is not a work of our own, but the grace of God.

The new birth produces new desires and new behaviors. An unchanged life is not a born-again life.

When the glory of Christ is partially obscured and the assurance of the soul is weakened, the costly, sacrificial labor of love is hindered.

Lessons from the Philippian church on planting churches and giving to the needy.

John Piper | The New Testament promotes male leadership in the church, Christian ministry, and the nobility of women.

John Piper | What does submission and its relational dynamics look like in the church, the home, and the workplace.

John Piper | There are distinctions between men’s and women’s roles in marriage worth exploring.

John Piper | What are the roles of men and women? And nine reasons why masculine leadership is a good thing.

John Piper | The significance and relevance of Biblical manhood and womanhood in the culture.

We must strategize for church growth because we have a God who builds his church day by day and thousands at a time.

If pastors are going to labor for the joy of their people, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:24, then they must first make it their priority to pursue their own joy in the Lord.