Messages by Desiring God

All of history led to and flows from the cross. If the center of reality isn’t the center of our lives, we are tragically off course.

Your convictions about the God of Romans 9 will profoundly shape your perspective on worship, prayer, salvation, and even the state of our culture.

Election is God’s business, and our job is to pray like crazy for everybody we love.

When we ask the question of how God is righteous to ordain evil (which we should), we should ask with humble faith — not to find fault with God, but to know and love God.

As we come to realize how big God is, and how horrifying our sin is, we will come to understand election as a grace so impossibly great that we could not imagine it on our own.

Theology is the study of God and his works as revealed in the Bible, and Christians should embrace mystery because we embrace the God that outruns our own reasoning.

God chooses to love and bless and save individuals not based on anything that they do or don’t do. Rather, God chooses based on his own sovereign freedom.

According to Romans 9, God has never defaulted on his promises to the true Israel of God. But who is the true Israel?

The greatest comfort in the world is that God is good and that he never breaks his promises.

According to the book of Romans, the majority of ethnic Israelites have rejected the Messiah even though they have unique privileges. How do we account for both Israel’s privileged status and Israel’s unbelief?

The word of God has not failed. Therefore, God’s promises will hold true.

The Bible, as God’s revealed word, offers us the unparalleled opportunity to come face to face with the reality of who he is and glimpse the glory of the King and Creator of the universe, making it more deserving of our efforts than any other book.

Whether you want it to or not, your understanding of the God of Romans 9 will shape everything else in your life.

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Knowing the love of God in Christ which not only chose us but purposes all things for our good makes us profoundly free to lay down our lives in sacrificial love for others.

The groaning of creation matches up with our own groaning as we wait until the day when creation will be set free from corruption and share in the glorious inheritance of God’s children.

Our justification is established through Christ’s substitutionary death, which then gives rises to the new life in the Spirit where we are able to fulfill the law of God.

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God is most satisfied in us when we are most satisfied in him. A fresh angle for the Christian Hedonist from Psalm 131.

The bitter providence of God is never the final word for his people because he always has a bright design for their future.

Are you worthy of Jesus? We not only can be — we need to be.

In Jesus, we have eternal life if we do and keep his word. Though we all will die, death is not the end of life for all those in Christ.

God calls each one of us to love him with all our minds. The hard work of thinking rightly honors him and loves our neighbors when our minds move to action.

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God promises unimaginable blessings to every one of his children – if we have the courage to walk with Jesus through suffering.

God’s glory and our gladness do not have to be at odds, but are in fact one and the same pursuit. John Piper demonstrates how with the help of Jonathan Edwards.

God promises innumerable benefits to all who trust in him. But those gifts aren’t an end in themselves. Our greatest joy is God himself.

In his 2014 plenary message at T4G, John Piper preaches about the seeming tension between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility in all our efforts to convert the lost.

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In suffering, we come to hope more fully in God and put less confidence in the things of the world. We also come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.

God opens his arms to both prodigals and Pharisees — to those who know they don’t deserve mercy, and those who have worked for mercy their whole life.

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We always face the threat of ruining any season of grace. Don’t waste your seminary years, but more importantly, don’t waste your life.

When we embrace Christ’s cross and the unswerving foundation of God’s sovereignty, we will be kept by merciful and omnipotent glory.

If you are a child of God, then the Holy Spirit lives and works in you to kill sin and depend on God.

Forgiveness is precious for one ultimate reason — one sweet, high, glorious reason: We get God back.

As gospel ministers do the work of finding words to help their people grow in a deeper relationship with God, they themselves will grow in depth.

God is ransoming a people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation. Therefore, missions is a call to the people groups of the world, not just the countries of the world.

What’s the difference between “missional” and “missions”? What are the key points of agreement and disagreement between John Piper and Douglas Wilson regarding eschatology?

Though Christ has been accused of egomania, the accusation falters when we realize that our greatest joy and Christ’s greatest glory are not at odds but rather in harmony with one another.

Jesus won innumerable benefits for his people, but the greatest good he brings us is God himself.

The New Testament not only says that you can have a zeal and not be saved, but it also says that you cannot be saved without a zeal for God.

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Lewis’s romanticism and rationalism were the paths on which he came to Christ — and the paths on which he lived his life and did his work.

Being deeply satisfied in Jesus as your supreme treasure gives you the power to lay down your life for the good of the nations.

When our souls drink deeply from God’s delights, we can’t help but overflow and invite others to join us.