Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

John Piper | Multiplying churches with different strengths and weaknesses means coming closer to meeting the needs of the world.

All children, of every degree of ability, are conceived for the purpose of displaying the glory of God.

Eight ways to help children love those who don't look like them.

There is a spiritual diet without which no Christian can be strong and healthy and fruitful. And that is a diet of the word of God.

God loves us best when he loves himself most. And in his loving glorification, we find imperishable joy.

Both disciplined and spontaneous prayer should flow from our confidence that God is already one hundred percent on our side.

A holy ambition comes from immersing yourself in the word of God. Dive deep in the Bible and let it take hold of your desires.

God’s passion for his own glory is the great ballast not only for global missions, but also for our very own souls.

John Piper | Cancer causes us to come to Christ. Earthly groans guarantee a global heritage.

Christmas is for salvation. God sent his Son into the world to save it, not condemn it.

As once-adoring followers disappear, Jesus’s message becomes clearer and clearer: their resistance itself is in God’s hands.

We come to God not because we merely made a decision, but because God has called us, drawn us, and taught us who Jesus really is.

John Piper | When we come to Jesus, we come voluntarily and freely. And behind that change in us is a decisive work of the Father.

We should hunger and thirst for God and all he has done in Jesus more than anything else in this world.

John Piper | We should accept our calling wherever God has placed us, including prison, and we should first and foremost be loyal to the Bible, not to a certain theological camp.

Our greatest need is not physical but spiritual. We crave the bread of life more than bread for our stomachs.

Jesus offers himself to us freely as the food that endures to eternal life. No amount of working for God can make you taste him for the feast he is.

Jesus’ presence brings the kind of fullness that produces generosity and risk-taking in his church.

Jesus came not mainly to give bread but to be bread. He became the all-satisfying bread of life when he gave himself up for us.

As Christianity expands in the global South, the Western church must continue to support the developing church by sending and going.

The word of God coming to us in the power of the Holy Spirit is sufficient to supply us with all the resources we need for satisfaction in God and dealing with all kinds of weaknesses in the church.

John Piper | Preaching Christ must keep the enjoyment of God as the highest good of the gospel and the glory of God as the highest goal of all history.

John Piper | Since right thinking is meant to fuel right feeling our preaching must not only aim at the head but also the heart.

Right thinking about God is meant to fuel right admiration for God.

The greatest good of the gospel is that every obstacle is removed from us enjoying the presence of God forever, and the only way a person comes to know this is through God’s sovereign grace in the gospel.