Messages by Desiring God
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Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 6
We all know that Jesus Christ has great love for his people. But what we sometimes miss is that the highest expression of his love leads us to the glory of God, even when the path runs through suffering.
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 5 (Q & A)
Under God’s blessing, preaching God-Centered truth has a way of bringing all other aspects of healthy church life and Christian duty into their proper place and proportion.
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 4
Fruitful ministry doesn’t just produce right knowledge of God, but right feeling for him too. The depth of our theology should be matched by the heights of our affections.
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 3 (Q & A)
The Scriptures carry answers relating to the nature of fasting, honoring parents in a missionary calling, leading the church in a God-Centered direction, and relating to those who walk in urepentant sin, but some things we will have to wait to know until the age to come.
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 2
We have countless reasons to fear speaking up for Jesus every single day. But our Lord himself gave us even better reasons to take courage and live for him.
Getting at the Heart of God-Focused Ministry, Session 1
God does everything, including every step of redemptive history, for his own glory. And that’s good news for sinners who find refuge in his Son.
Set Free by the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus
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No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, Part 2
If you are in Christ, all of God's action toward you is almighty mercy and omnipotent assistance.
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus, One Body in Christ
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A Service of Sorrow, Self-Humbling, and Steady Hope in Our Savior and King, Jesus Christ
The sovereignty of God over all persons and events guarantees that what Jesus Christ bought for us by his own blood will infallibly become our inheritance.
No Condemnation in Christ Jesus
The essence of Christianity is this: there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
The Greatest Thing in the World
The greatest thing in the world is to know God apart from his wrath by the grace that Jesus purchased on the cross.
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 6
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Who Is This Divided Man? Part 5
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Who Is This Divided Man? Part 4
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Who Is This Divided Man? Part 3
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How Do You Keep On Going?
We could never repay the debt we owe God for his grace. But we can honor him by asking for more.
Who Is This Divided Man? Part 2
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Who Is This Divided Man? Part 1
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Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
I invite you to join me in this serious quest for well-founded, everlasting, love-producing joy in Jesus Christ.
To Be a Mother Is a Call to Suffer
Motherhood requires a unique kind of suffering that only a firm hope in God’s sovereignty can sustain.
The Deadly Team of Sin and Law
Sin fools us in two ways: it makes us hopeless of ever being righteous or it persuades us that we can do it on our own.
Jesus Christ and the Law of God
The goal of studying the Bible is primarily to see and know Jesus Christ.
Pity Not Them Who Rise With Christ
Christ is alive and able to persuade you that he is true and the greatest treasure in the universe.
Undoing the Destruction of Pleasure
We will not understand the human longing for happiness until we understand the God who can fulfill it.
How We Come to Know Sin
The law teaches us that it is God's desires, not our own, that are the measure of right and wrong.
Racial Harmony and the Gospel
John Piper | Christ came to accomplish reconciliation for us between God and between other people, so if you have prejudice and enmity against others, your relationship to God is in question.
The Importance of Knowing Our Sin
You don't have to give in to temptation in order to know your sin.
Live to Die: A Leader Who Suffers Well
God has ordained that we will see many troubles in this life. The saints must suffer to show Jesus as supreme.
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 4
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Suffering: The Path and the Price of World Evangelization
The good news of the gospel will indeed make its way to all nations, but it won’t happen without God’s people taking up their crosses and following the Lord Jesus Christ into hard places.
Preaching: Zeal That Accords with Knowledge
We can have zeal and still be condemned. Pursue a passion for God that accepts his righteousness alone for salvation.
Prayer: Pursuing Peoples When Life Is War and God Is Sovereign
One who believes that life is war, that God is sovereign, and that the victory is assured will pray to the Lord day and night.
Worship: Sharing God's Passion for His Global Glory
What fuels world missions isn’t merely a commitment to the task itself, but a passion for the supremacy of God among all peoples.
Preaching: With Confidence That It Belongs in Worship
Preaching should be prominent in the setting of corporate worship because it aligns with God’s purpose in creation to be understood truly and admired duly.
The Ethics of Interracial Marriage
John Piper | John Piper responds to five prominent arguments that use the Bible to reject interracial marriage.
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 3
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The Meaning and Significance of Race
John Piper | There is a relative triviality in the biological differences between races that exalts the reality of God’s image, and there is a diversity in the races that exalts the reality of God’s manifold redemption.
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 2
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John Newton: The Tough Roots of His Habitual Tenderness
One of the deepest roots of Newton’s habitual tenderness was that he could not get over the wonder of his own rescue by sheer, triumphant grace.
Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 1
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God at Work in Every Womb
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The Meaning and Significance of Race
John Piper | Race is significant because one God created all of humanity through one man and redeems humanity through one man, and race is insignificant in terms of the releatively small differences that separate us.
God’s Pursuit of Racial Diversity at Infinite Cost
The cost of racial reconciliation and unity came not at the blood of any man, but of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Learning to Pray in the Spirit and the Word, Part 2
What does it mean to pray in the Holy Spirit? And how do we pursue God through such prayer?
The Need for Christian Courage
The Bible warns us about our truth-ignoring culture. But it also gives us the courage season our speech with Christ day after day.
College Men’s Rally: Family, Fatherhood, and God
Fatherhood isn’t just a natural responsibility, but a gift that God gives for men to shepherd and train impressionable souls, all to his glory.
Others' Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
What does it mean to fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions? Do we, as mere followers, really have anything to add?
Our Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
By faith, God both delivers his people and grants them endurance to persevere through suffering, and in either case faith demonstrates our superior satisfaction in God.
Our Desires and Their Fulfillment in Christ
Since God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, our lifelong vocation must be to earnestly pursue joy in him and bring others into that joy.