Messages by Desiring God
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When I Don’t Desire God (Part 5)
The fight of faith is really a fight for joy. Like any real battle, you shouldn’t enter the ring without strategies for victory.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 4)
The foundation for your acceptance with God is not you own works or accolades, but simply Jesus Christ’s blood and righteousness.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 3)
The fight for faith is a fight for joy. But we can only press on because God enables us with his sufficient grace.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 2)
If it’s true that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, then the fight to be happy in God is the most important thing in life.
When I Don’t Desire God (Part 1)
God does everything for his glory. Therefore, you don’t need health, wealth, or prosperity in order to be happy.
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Part 1
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Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 3
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Love Is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 2
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Love is a Fulfilling of the Law, Part 1
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Open Their Eyes: Doing What Only God Can Do
The calling to open up the eyes of the blind must be carried out through the means of teaching the whole counsel of God.
Open Their Eyes: Doing What Only God Can Do
The greatest news of the gospel is that it brings us to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ for our everlasting satisfaction.
Submission to Civil Authority
John Piper: “Christians are not first citizens of any human nation but citizens of the kingdom of God.”
Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 3
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Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 2
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Treasuring Christ Together Above All Things
What is Bethlehem's strategy for spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things to all the world?
Fathers, Bring Them Up in the Discipline & Instruction of the Lord
Eleven precious truths taught and demonstrated to John Piper by his father.
Subjection to God and Subjection to the State, Part 1
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Honoring the Biblical Call of Motherhood
Motherhood is the life-on-life transmission of a God-centered, Christ-treasuring worldview.
What Makes the Good News Good? Seeing the Glory of Christ
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Reflections on the Life and Thought of John Owen
John Owen is worthy to be studied in his works and imitated in his life and faith.
All Things Subject to the Risen Christ
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Christ Overcame Evil with Good—Do the Same
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When Is It Right to Repay Evil with Pain?
Does God ever intend for his justice—his right to punish wrong—to be shared with men?
The Present Effects of Trembling at the Wrath of God
Believing that God is furious against sin produces a good fear that transforms everything in life.
God’s Wrath: “Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay,” Says the Lord
God’s wrath is more horrifying than we can ever imagine, but he will pardon any who take refuge in the shelter Jesus provides.
Do Not Avenge Yourselves, but Give Place to Wrath
When we lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up and carry it out. No sin will go unpunished from the God who sees all.
Live Peaceably with All, If Possible
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Bless Those Who Persecute You
If you see and savor mercy in Christ, you will love being merciful.
Contending for Our All
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Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ
Christ’s promise to meet all of our needs is what frees us from fear and greed and enables us to joyfully share with others.
Abortion, Race, Gender, and Christ
Millions of abortions are the outworking of racism and sexism. Let us find another way to freedom and equality than killing the babies.
Racial Harmony and Interracial Marriage
Interracial marriage is not only permitted by God; it is a positive good. It is not just to be tolerated, but celebrated.
Boiling for Christ
When it comes to serving Christ, half-heartedness, lukewarmness, laziness, sluggishness, and slothfulness are utterly inappropriate.
Use the Inspired Scriptures to Rejoice in Hope
If we give ourselves daily to the word of God, our hope and joy will be made unshakably strong — even in suffering.
Be Constant in Prayer for the Joy of Hope
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Happy in Hope, Patient in Pain, Constant in Prayer
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Love One Another with Brotherly Affection
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Treasuring Christ Together: The Vision and Its Cost
Beware of fearing a high price more than the possibility that God could be displeased that you didn't aim at something greater.
Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good
There is such a thing as objective good and evil outside ourselves.
Let Love Be Genuine
You can be a liberal hypocrite, and you can be fundamentalist hypocrite. But love is not that way.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 3
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The Whole Glory of the Gospel of God
All the glorious benefits of the gospel, such as forgiveness of sins, eternal life, and triumph over the powers of darkness, are not the highest good of the gospel but a means to enjoying God himself.
The Whole Glory of Christ
The cross must never receive its meaning from the whims of culture, but must be preached in all of its Godwardness, horror, saving power, and effectiveness for those who believe.
The Whole Glory of God
Satisfaction in God is the vital link between biblical doctrine and a life of sacrificial love, and in order to maintain such joy, the doctrine of God’s sovereignty must be upheld in the face of error.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 2
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The Unfathomable Riches of Christ for All Peoples, Above All Powers, Through the Church
God uses ordinary brushes to paint the world with the brilliant colors of his saving glory.
Using Our Gifts in Proportion to Our Faith, Part 1
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Doing Mercy to the Brothers of Jesus and the Broken Neighbor
If we are true Christians we will want to show mercy to suffering people.
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 2
Seeing and savoring the supremacy of God in Christ gives us the power to suffer for the sake of love, and the power to strive for the sake of purity.
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Part 1
God designed our sexuality so that we might know him more. He means to guard our sex from being perverted.