Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

Receive with Meekness the Implanted Word 06.01.2008 46:50 ↓

Our souls need Scripture just like our bodies need oxygen: moment by moment, every day. If we learn to live apart from it, we will surely die.

Pray Like This: ‘Hallowed Be Your Name’ 30.12.2007 54:50 ↓

When we pray, not only does God get more glory, but in his glorification, we get a fuller and lasting joy.

The Reason the Son of God Appeared Was to Destroy the Works of the Devil 23.12.2007 45:28 ↓

John Piper | If any human is to be saved from their sin and from the righteous wrath of God, the Son of God had to become human for our regeneration.

Free at Last: The Miracle of New Birth 16.12.2007 32:58 ↓

John Piper | Dead men need one thing before anything else can happen: They must be made alive. They must be born again.

A Pastor and His Poetry 15.12.2007 1:09:25 ↓

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Why Do We Need to Be Born Again? 09.12.2007 42:16 ↓

John Piper | If God did not make us alive to his grace and glory, we would remain dead — completely enslaved to our sins.

What Happens in the New Birth? Part 2 02.12.2007 38:58 ↓

John Piper | Being born again is not the improvement of your old nature, but the creation of a new one.

What Happens in the New Birth? Part 1 25.11.2007 45:48 ↓

In the new birth, God takes dead souls and resuscitates them to new life in Christ. This is not a work of our own, but the grace of God.

You Must Be Born Again 18.11.2007 43:49 ↓

John Piper | The new birth produces new desires and new behaviors. An unchanged life is not a born-again life.

Justification and the Diminishing Work of Christ 14.11.2007 58:20 ↓

When the glory of Christ is partially obscured and the assurance of the soul is weakened, the costly, sacrificial labor of love is hindered.

Treasuring Christ in Planting Churches and Loving the Poor 11.11.2007 42:10 ↓

John Piper | Lessons from the Philippian church on planting churches and giving to the needy.

Treasuring Christ Together as a Church on Multiple Campuses 04.11.2007 46:56 ↓

We must strategize for church growth because we have a God who builds his church day by day and thousands at a time.

How to Love Your People: The Gladness of Your People and the Glory of God 30.10.2007 44:09 ↓

If pastors are going to labor for the joy of their people, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:24, then they must first make it their priority to pursue their own joy in the Lord.

Treasuring Christ Together Because He Is More Valuable Than All Else 28.10.2007 42:39 ↓

Nothing is more important as a church grows than that its people help each other rejoice in Jesus.

‘I Am Sending You Out as Sheep in the Midst of Wolves’: The Cost and Blessing of Being a Christian Missionary 21.10.2007 47:22 ↓

The costs of taking the gospel to the unreached is high, but the Lamb who is worthy to receive the reward of his suffering is infinitely greater.

Some Sweet Blessings of Masculine Christianity 17.10.2007 1:07:40 ↓

The church is blessed by strong, humble, Christ-like male leadership and the corresponding culture it breeds.

The Pleasures of God, Part 1 12.10.2007 1:14:32 ↓

John Piper | God has eternally enjoyed himself as Trinity and creates us to make his glory go on public display that we may be satisfied in him forever.

Judas Iscariot, the Suicide of Satan, and the Salvation of the World 07.10.2007 39:43 ↓

Every detail of the death of Christ happened according to the plan of God — even his betrayal and agonies.

Getting Old for the Glory of God 30.09.2007 1:02:33 ↓

Getting old is about God's glory, not the American Dream

The Sinful Origin of the Son of David 23.09.2007 45:44 ↓

Israel’s bad kingship was a grievous sin. But God planned bad kings to pave the road for a spectacular Savior.

The Majesty of Christ — and the Micro-Level of Our Lives 19.09.2007 46:38 ↓

Passion for God’s supremacy must be connected to the details of our daily lives in order to keep our worship from short-circuiting.

Encouraging Each Other at the End of the Age 16.09.2007 42:58 ↓

God's command to us to meet with and encourage each other is for our happiness.

The Sale of Joseph and the Son of God 09.09.2007 47:48 ↓

Injustice marks both Joseph’s story and Jesus’s, but even in dire circumstances, God is sovereignly working everything for our good and his glory.

Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer 07.09.2007 35:28 ↓

In the Christian life, joy sustains us in suffering, flavors our suffering, and is the goal of our suffering.

Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer 06.09.2007 42:57 ↓

John Piper | The world exists in its current suffering state because it best prepares the world for God’s plan of redemption, which is centered on displaying the worth of Christ through his death and resurrection.