Messages by Desiring God
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A Biblical Alternative to Serving God
A life that is lived for God’s glory must not be a life motivated by gratitude, but by faith in future grace.
The Path and the Price of Pursuing the Glory of God Among the Nations
Filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions means that we embrace suffering for the sake of bringing a personal presentation of the sufferings of Christ to the nations.
All the World Accountable to God
The need for missions is universal because all humanity has failed to know, love, fear, and glorify God.
Pursuing the Glory of God in the Gladness of the Nations in God
God’s great purpose for the world is that he would be known, praised, enjoyed, and feared among the nations, and he blesses us to become the means of that purpose.
Justified to Break the Power of Sin
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United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 3
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United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 2
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A Biblical Alternative to Serving God: Living by Prayer
The Bible calls us to serve God, but we need to remember that God’s own grace and passion for his glory enable and uphold everything we have to offer him.
Foundations for Prayer Toward the Global Purpose of God
God will sovereignly bring the nations to himself. But he will use our prayers and petitions to fuel a movement of the word that reaches the world.
United with Christ in Death and Life, Part 1
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How Justified Sinners Love Each Other
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Are We to Continue in Sin That Grace Might Increase?
Believers are commanded to become in practice what we are in Christ: dead to sin and alive to God.
The Triumph of Grace through Righteousness
God's purpose in giving the law was so that, in the end, grace would reign through Christ's righteousness on our behalf.
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 5
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Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 4
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Desiring God
The pursuit of joy in God is not icing on the cake of the Christian life but is essential to glorifying God and loving people.
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Q&A
Calvinism does not teach that human responsibility is insignificant, but rather that humans do not have ultimate self-determination over their will, including their choice to be reconciled to God.
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job
Like Job’s suffering, our pain is never meaningless. God orchestrates hardship for his eternal purposes.
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job
Jesus bore our ultimate curse and punishment on the cross. Any discipline we now receive is not to punish us, but to spur us on in the path toward Christlikeness.
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering: Job
Good theology matters. But love and grace matter just as much in our application of theology.
Holding on to Your Faith in the Midst of Suffering
God’s sovereignty is a balm of relief for sufferers. He works through every pain for our good.
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
The goal of the Christian life is to be so satisfied in knowing Jesus that the fleeting pleasures of this world fade away as we give and give and give for God’s glory.
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
Having great faith doesn’t always equal having great success. Sometimes, our faith enables us to suffer and die well — all for the glory of Christ.
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
God hasn’t left us to our own devices to battle covetousness and greed. We have the eternal promises of our heavenly Father whose kingdom endures forever and ever.
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
We will never fully escape temptations toward lust, bitterness, and unforgiveness. But by the power of the Spirit, we can fight their allure with God’s great and precious promises.
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
We walk by faith not only by looking back to the cross with thankfulness, but by trusting God for a fresh, never-ending supply of grace to empower us for every new day.
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
Every Christian stands firmly rooted in Christ’s decisive past work. But grounded there, we now look expectantly forward for more and more of God’s grace.
Future Grace for Finishing the Task
God lives for the fame of his name, and so should we. But we’ll never honor and magnify him as we should unless we first learn that our delight in him glorifies him most.
Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 3
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Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 2
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Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 1
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Let the Nations Be Glad
Jesus has sheep that are not of our fold. He has ransomed a people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation.
Counting It All Joy
Jesus Christ is magnified in the life of his people whenever they find their highest joy in him — especially in seasons of suffering and pain.
Questions and Answers
Both in tenderness and toughness, we must follow the example of Jesus as we upset the world.
Twenty Years, Then Romans
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Boasting Only in the Cross
When you die, only what you do for Christ will last. You have one life. Don’t waste it on insignificant comforts.
How to Get a Camel through a Needle's Eye
With God all things are possible. That is the basis of our prayer and our giving and our evangelism.
Jesus Christ: Alive and With Us to the End
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The Sons Are Free
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If the Lord Wills
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The Isaac Factor
There’s nothing too difficult, too complicated, or too tiresome for God. With him, all things are possible.
The Gideon Venture
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One Generation Shall Praise Your Works to Another
It is the Biblical duty of every generation to make sure that the next generation hears about the mighty acts of God.
Let All the Peoples Praise Him
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Building Our Lives on the Bible
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Fulfilling the Law of Love
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Set Apart Rick, Randy, and the Rest for the Work
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Christ Crucified, Our Boast: Education for Exultation — In the Cross
Every good thing in this life and every bad thing that God turns for good comes to us through Jesus and his cross.
You Will Be Eaten by Cannibals! Lessons from the Life of John G. Paton
Paton’s life was marked by a kind of in-your-face spiritual moxie, and God used his courageous faith to change the world for Christ.
The Word Was God and Became Flesh: Education for Exultation — In Jesus
All true education is built upon God’s truth because Jesus reigns over every square inch of the universe.