Messages by Desiring God
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My Anguish: My Kinsmen Are Accursed
Don’t think that God's sovereignty nullifies the need to pray for a sinner's salvation. Rather, see it as the ground for praying with hope.
Imparting a Passion: A Challenge to Youth Workers
Only leaders who burn with bright passion for Jesus and his word can ignite the same flame in their people.
The Absolute Sovereignty of God: What Is Romans Nine About?
God’s unimpeachable sovereignty grounds our salvation. He has mercy on whom he will have mercy.
The Radical Cost of Following Jesus
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This Is the Will of God for You: That You Abstain from Sexual Immorality
Knowing God is the path to sexual purity. If you’re struggling with sexual sin, the immediate and long-term strategy is to know God better.
Bethlehem, Break Forth Like the Dawn
The people of Christ should not be known primarily for what we don’t do, but for what we do do.
Breaking Nets, Sinking Boats and Saving Men
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The Mighty and Merciful Message of Romans 1–8
Only the mighty and merciful power of the gospel can break the forces that bind suffering souls in darkness.
Inseparable from God While "Going Without Going"
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Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of Christ
Nothing — not hunger, not debt, not abuse, not death — can separate you from the love of Christ. These ten insights will show you why.
The All-Conquering Love of Christ
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It Is God Who Justifies!
God is the one who justifies, so let us fear the accusation of no one and love the good of all.
God Did Not Spare His Own Son
If God did the impossible thing — deliver his Son over to death — then he will surely do the easy thing: freely give us all that Christ bought for us.
Glorification: Conformed to Christ for the Supremacy of Christ
God's work to save and sanctify you is not so that you can enjoy yourself more. It's so that you might be free and fit to enjoy Christ forever.
Foreknown, Predestined, Conformed to Christ
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All Things for Good, Part 3
God takes the initiative to cause a person to love him, and he takes the initiative to keep them to the end.
All Things for Good, Part 2
If all things work for my good, then I will never be ultimately defeated in the cause of Christ.
All Things for Good, Part 1
Whatever comes our way, we can rest assured that God will only give us good through it.
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness, Part 2
How does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
The Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness, Part 1
What does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
Education for Exultation
Education and knowledge should cause us to rejoice in God. If not, then they aren't fulfilling their purpose.
Subjected to Futility in Hope, Part 2
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Subjected to Futility in Hope, Part 1
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Children, Heirs, and Fellow Sufferers
Suffering is a great mercy that keeps us from loving this world more than we should.
The Spirit-Led Are the Sons of God
The Holy Spirit testifies that we are children of God by creating affections for him within us.
Kill Sin with the Word of God
The sword of the Spirit is our weapon of choice in the war against sin.
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
John Piper | Fasting is a way to say with our bodies that our appetite for God is greater than our appetite for food.
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
John Piper | Prayer is about offering up our desires to God for things that are in agreement with his will, our greatest desire of all being for God himself.
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
John Piper | The word of God is the most vital means that God has given us for communion with himself.
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
John Piper | Communion with God takes place primarily in his word as we depend upon it by faith and receive the comfort and assurance of his promises in the gospel.
The Risen Christ: Satisfied with His Suffering
Jesus' delight in dying and rising was to enable others to rise from the dead and enjoy his majesty forever.
Jesus Declares His Kingship
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Kill Sin by the Spirit
We will die if we are not killing sin, and we won’t be killing sin if we are not living by the Spirit.
Peculiar Doctrines, Public Morals, and the Political Welfare
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The Sovereignty of God and the Soul Dynamic: Why This Topic?
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How to Kill Sin
Our fight against sin does not earn our way to God, but it evidences that we belong to God’s army.
"Father, Forgive, For We Know What We Are Doing"
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Jesus Is the End of Ethnocentrism
With Jesus came a radically new way of defining the people of God: all who have faith in the Messiah.
Planting a Passion for God: A Dream for Bethlehem in 2002
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Hold Fast to the Word and Pray for Us
Prayer and meditation are as inseparable in the Christian life as the Spirit and the Word of God.
The Word Was Made Flesh
Christians must know Jesus well so that they can discern between the Christ of Scripture and the Christ that other religions claim to honor.
Christian, Know Whose You Are
What are the essential distinctions between true Christians and non-Christians?
What Does It Mean to Fulfill the Law in Romans 8:3–4?
Jesus’s perfect righteousness is yours through faith. He obeyed perfectly so that the Father could welcome you wholly.
Why and How We Walk According to the Spirit
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How to Use the Law Lawfully to Bear Fruit for God
Meditate on the law in order to know the justice and mercy of God in Christ, your righteousness and your life.
Thankful for the Love of God
If you got everything you ever wanted but didn’t have Jesus, would you still be satisfied?
How the Spirit Does What the Law Could Not Do
The law can't overcome your rebellion and make you a loving person. But the Spirit can.
What the Law Could Not Do, God Did Sending Christ, Part 2
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‘I Will Build My Church’ — From All Peoples
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What the Law Could Not Do, God Did Sending Christ, Part 1
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