Messages by Desiring God

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Either we press on toward the inheritance or we drift back toward destruction. There is no third option.

The great word of the resurrection is OPEN! Therefore write in capital letters over every closed door in your life, OPEN!

An allegory of a man in a prison called “conviction” and how he got out.

God is the Giver, not Taker, on both sides of our giving.

We boast in ourselves because we are selfish and don't believe all things are ours in Christ.

Let us be vigilant to keep Christ as the foundation of our church.

It's the absence of the centrality of the biblical God in all of life that is leading to the collapse of our civilization.

The Sunday sermon isn’t just another lecture, but a Spirit-empowered, Scripture-saturated heralding of good news to God’s people.

Biblically balanced pastoral ministry requires the joyful gravity and brokenhearted gladness, especially in the pulpit.

God’s passion for his glory and our longing to be satisfied are not in final conflict only because God displayed his righteousness in the cross of Christ.

The goal of preaching is to glorify God in glad submission to his authority.

There is a group of people whom Paul calls not spiritual and not natural, but "fleshly," or "babes in Christ."

Without the Spirit, we are so rebellious against the Lord that we cannot recognize the truth and beauty of a crucified Christ.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life!

God's purpose in creating man and saving sinners is that we might boast in him.

The cross undermines the deepest basis of disunity and lays a new foundation for unity.

The freedom of God in the calling of sinners gives us hope. No one is too bad. No one is too hard. No one is too far gone. God is free.

The prerequisite for divine guidance is not a quest for messages, but a quest for holiness.

Prayer is not a mere devotional prelude in the real business of living, it is the pathway of faith and obedience. There is no other.

God has turned his heart toward you in Jesus Christ. Don't push it away.

When Jesus comes into the world, he comes as a sun.

God will spare sinful sons, precisely because he did not spare his only sinless Son.

The New Testament does not set aside the command of tithing to minimize limitation and constraint, but to maximize liberality and willingness.

If God were only an incinerating fire, heaven would be empty. And if he were no fire, heaven would be empty.

Don't back out on your commitments, don't marry an unbeliever, and don't divorce your covenant wife.

The ministry of the Word can destroy and the ministry of the Word can save.

A great danger to the pastoral ministry is that the voice of God in Scripture may be drowned out by other voices.

If you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God, you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

Those who know God as Father should honor their majestic Father.

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Have you learned the love of God in a way that makes you tremble?

The mark of living worthily of the gospel is a unified, fearless striving for the faith of the gospel.

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God is worshiped and honored and savored both by fainting for him and by feasting on him.

When circumstances arise that alarm you, the key is to hold fast to the traditions that were taught by the apostles.

Before the day of the Lord comes, the man of lawlessness must come first.

All affliction is designed to make us worthy of the kingdom of God.

Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.

Every strength is vulnerable to its corresponding weakness. Therefore we need each other's different strengths

Don't quench the Spirit of God this morning. He may be calling you to be a leader-maker.

Consider the outcome of Barnabas' life and imitate his faith.

Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.

We are ruins being rebuilt by the grace of God. And we are here that the rest of men may seek the Lord.

Today is a day of repentance and salvation, of missions and evangelism, and of loving and sending.

In Christ's triumph our enemy is not just defeated, but captured and made to serve our eternal good.

It is the will of the Lord that we take risks for the cause of God.

The Christian life isn’t one of comfort, but sacrificial risk for Jesus and others.

On Easter Sunday morning Jesus blew the lock off the prison of death and gloom and returned to the gladness of God.

God is pleased to give you the kingdom. He is not stingy nor begrudging, but finds delight lavishing his people.