Messages by Desiring God

There is no condemnation for those in Jesus. Clothed in the righteousness of the risen Christ, we can approach the throne with confidence.

For pastors to herald the glories of God week in and week out, they need to drink deeply from the wells of God’s salvation day in and day out.

There are wonders in God’s word, but we will not store them up unless he first works in us. Ask and pray that he may open the eyes of your heart.

To preach the Bible faithfully is to herald the incomparable supremacy of God and the riches of his glory over everything else the world has to offer.

A preacher’s task isn’t merely to explain passages of the Bible, but to awaken people to the beauty of Jesus Christ, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Christianity is not a narrow, provincial, or tribal religion. It declares things that have to do with the whole world.

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God reveals himself to us clearly in his word. There are difficult passages, but their benefit is never beyond our reach.

Who are they whose condemnation is just? Those who play games with the Word of God.

We all need the gift of righteousness that comes only through Christ by the Spirit. All who trust the Son receive this gift as true Jews.

When we keep the requirements of the law, we won’t only realize we can’t obey them perfectly, but we will look to the one who has — Jesus Christ.

Our aim in all we do is to go deep in our grasp of the greatness of God and to pursue passion in our love for the glory of God.

Every time a preacher steps into a pulpit, the canvas is clear for him to paint a fresh portrait of God’s supreme glory with the brushstrokes of Scripture.

What our pulpits need most is not self-help and how-to, but a God-entranced vision of the world and everything in it.

We who know the Bible need not only to teach others its life-saving truth, but we must be taught by the word itself.

No one honors and loves God as he or she should. For that, we deserve death. But Christ has come to give life. He is our only hope.

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It is impossible to believe that Christ indwells every believer and then mistreat one of a different race.

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Meditation on the Word is not only vital for the Christian life but for prayer as well. So what exactly is meditation?

Every person you will ever meet has God’s law written on their hearts. Even if they have never seen a Bible or heard of Jesus, they are still accountable to him.

Jesus came to destroy sin, not because it's fun but because it's fatal.

Look to Christ. Only he can save you, only he can satisfy you. There is no other Savior, there is no purer joy.

God shows no partiality. Whether Jew or Gentile, all who love and do evil will face wrath, and all who trust Christ and obey God will have glory.

When your life is over on this earth, there will be two paths you can take: you will either meet God in eternal wrath or eternal life.

God’s justice does not demand that he punish us for our sins immediately. His kindness through Jesus Christ leads him to forbear and be patient with us.

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The end-point of depravity is not just the suicidal love affair with sin, but the desire to bring others with you to destruction.

Sin enslaves us not just because we commit evil, but because God himself gives us over to our debased desires. Our only hope is for Jesus to bring renewal.

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The world’s futility and disorder is not a result of simple mistakes, but a consequence of exchanging God’s glory for other things.

God dramatizes the beauty of the gospel in the right ordering of our sexual lives.

If you value other things more than God, if your life is really driven by another value, then you exchange the imperishable for the perishable.

Finishing well in the face of death requires fighting the fight of faith, which takes hold of God’s promises for future grace in the midst of all our temptations and afflictions.

Faith, which is the root of all true obedience that glorifies God, is a coming to God to be satisfied with all that he is for us in Jesus, which means that the pursuit of joy in the Christian life is not optional, but essential.

Finishing well will not happen without a fight, and God is the decisive finisher who will powerfully work in us so that he alone gets the glory.

The greatest tragedy our world faces isn’t hunger, poverty, or crime, but blindness to the grace and beauty of Jesus Christ.

God means to get the glory for all things, including the ministry of small groups. We get the gift, the help, and the blessing, but God gets the glory.

Our hardened hearts naturally suppress the truth, but Jesus grants us new hearts to embrace his gospel.

You can escape the wrath of God against sin only when you take refuge in the gospel of his Son.

Not only does the gospel grant us the righteousness we need, but it also supplies the power for us to keep fighting sin by faith.

By faith, God gives us the righteousness we don’t deserve. We could never earn it on our own, but Jesus broke sins claim on all who believe.

The glorious hope of the gospel is that God himself supplies the righteousness he demands from us.

All who believe can taste the hope of the gospel. No matter how rough your background God has grace for you in the good news of Jesus.

There’s no other message in the world like the gospel. Other religions may have converts, but there is no true salvation outside the work of Jesus Christ.

The gospel is the greatest news in the world and the most loving truth we can share. We never have to be ashamed of its message.

Grace pays the debt we owe God for stealing his glory. And now we owe the gospel to any who still need God’s grace.

The great aim of our ministry should be the same as Paul’s: to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of God’s glory.