Messages by Desiring God

Jesus calls his people to risk everything for him. But that temporary risk is nothing compared to all that God is and will be for us.

The glory of God is unique because of the lowly ways he chooses to show it.

The call of a gospel minister is to follow the apostolic ambition of being a worker for the joy of the church.

Husbands should take the primary role in providing for and protecting their families.

What is the husband's role as head? What is the foundation of this headship?

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Faith does not oppose reason, nor does reason oppose faith. We think over God-given truth in order to understand.

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Grace is not just forgiving and forbearing but also changing to become more like Jesus. John Piper preaches a sermon about marriage from Ephesians 5.

A passion for God’s glory and compassion for the lost are not mutually exclusive but are fused together in missions because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

The greatest, most ultimate, decisive good in the gospel is God himself.

Because we are chosen and holy and loved, we can find the grace to see our spouses the way Jesus does.

Because God has forgiven us in Christ, we ought to treat our spouses with the same grace that God gives us.

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Andrew Fuller shows us that getting Christian experience biblically right and getting the gospel biblically right are essential for the power and perseverance and fruitfulness of world missions.

With sin came shame and hostility in marriage. Only God’s Son can give comfort and restore peace in covenant-keeping love.

Marriage is about keeping a covenant — just like Jesus does with his bride, the church.

The only way that God, the righteous judge, can award us with a crown of righteousness is that Christ took our sin on himself at the cross and gave us his righteousness.

White abortionists kill more black and Hispanic babies than they do white babies every year. Abortion is a racist institution.

There are several reasons why we must be engaged in the fight for life, and the various aspects of Christ’s work in redemption directly relate to the efforts of the pro-life cause.

Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of legal slave trading in Britain.

Live in God's word and in prayer, and you will be strengthened to defeat the devil.

Satan will certainly remind you of your sinful failures. But Christ has defeated both the devil and sin to give you a redeemed passion.

God calls us to risk for the cause of Christ. But a risk is never truly a risk when God holds you in his hand.

God’s lavish invitations to ask him for good things, with the promise that he will give them, is unimaginably wonderful.

Jesus is worthy of praise because he is the eternal Son of God who became flesh and died our death that we might live. To God be glory through Jesus.

God’s glory shines throughout his word and in the world. To ignore it is to tragically miss the most beautiful and joyful reality in the universe.

God is infinitely able to know the best possible outcome of any situation and then achieve it.

The greatest aim in this world is that Christ would be seen as glorious among all peoples by the means of Christian obedience flowing from faith.

God uses his gospel to strengthen believers so that they will persevere in faith and draw all attention to his glory.

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John Piper | Bitterness and impatience may seem like frightful enemies, but when we lay claim to Scripture’s promises, we can take seeming setbacks in faith that God himself is at work for our good.

John Piper | If lust is left unchecked, it will choke the life from your soul. But God has given us great and precious promises that far surpass anything sexual pleasure has to offer.

John Piper | Battling covetousness and greed isn’t just a matter of self-denial, but trusting God that he will be for you something infinitely greater than money or stuff.

John Piper | When anxieties and struggles with sin inevitably rise up against us, the best strategy for fighting back is trusting believing specific promises of Scripture.

John Piper | Looking forward to God’s promises of our future reward empowers us to faithfulness and sacrificial love here and now.

John Piper | God’s eternal promises don’t just help us gain eternal perspective, but actually empowers us to walk in Spirit-led obedience today.

John Piper | Gratitude can only take us so far in the Christian life. To keep pressing on in holiness, we need to hold onto God’s promises, and pursue them in faith.

John Piper | Grace isn’t only God’s forgiving disposition to save us, but daily power for living, as we hope fully in all that he promises to be for us in Jesus Christ.

John Piper | Holiness isn’t optional in the Christian life. Salvation is ever by grace through faith, but genuine saving faith always works by love.

John Piper | Future grace isn’t a get-holy-quick scheme, but a biblical strategy for battling unbelief and progressing in holiness.

The gospel meant everything to William Tyndale, so much so that he died pursuing his passion to translate the Scriptures into the common language of the people.

Satan gets one mention in the book of Romans just to remind us: he's doomed.

Watch out for smooth-talking pastors, no matter how popular, if they do not manifestly prize the whole counsel of God.

No one can bear the responsibility and weight of missions, but our sufficiency is from God.

Our churches don’t need better productions and more entertainment. We need pastors and leaders who give themselves completely to exalting the supremacy of God in absolutely everything.

Pastoral ministry is a call to an intellectually robust life that thinks and meditates and ponders over God’s word and God’s world for the fame of Jesus’s name.

If a pastor doesn’t pursue his own joy in God, he compromises his ministry. To overflow with grace and love, the pastor’s heart must be centered on God himself.

All the benefits of the gospel come together in the highest good we can imagine: God brings us to joy in himself and keeps us forever safe in him.

The greatest gift of the gospel isn’t what God gives to us but who he is to us. Only when we receive him as our highest treasure will we truly know the beauty of all Jesus Christ has accomplished.