Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio

In a world where everyone will live forever somewhere, Christians have the best possible news: through Jesus, we escape eternal misery and enter eternal ecstasy.

The wrath of God is real, but so is the hope that, in Christ, God has not destined us for wrath but to obtain everlasting salvation.

What has fostered half a century of friendship between John Piper and Wayne Grudem? A common allergy to theological Jell-O and a love for God-given truth.

Brothers, if we are going to do good — lasting good — to our churches, then we must preach and lead and counsel and serve in the strength that God supplies.

If God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, then we are not merely permitted to pursue our joy in God. We must.

Some of the gospel’s most precious benefits are rooted in the superiority of Christ’s priesthood. The baby born in Bethlehem lives forever and saves to the uttermost.

In a world of many authorities, we magnify the supreme lordship of Christ by the way we submit to the fading structures of this age.

The circumstances for world missions may seem forbidding. But if we wait for the optimal time to become or send a missionary, then we won’t.

“Hold fast the word, unchanged and true; let insight, joy, and song be new.” John Piper offers a charge to Brian Tabb, the third president of Bethlehem College and Seminary.

Paul’s Christian life was one of countless dangers, continual sorrows, and constant joy. How is that kind of life possible?

By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.

Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.

Reformed theology is beautiful because the God of sovereign grace is beautiful. The doctrines are windows — he is the glory.

Apart from union with Christ, we would have no access to God’s promises and no reason to rejoice in affliction. But in Christ, every promise of God is Yes.

How can Christians be freed from selfishness so that, at any cost to ourselves, we love others in a way that makes Christ look great? Answer: joy.

The apostle Paul was no stranger to ministry’s many strains. Yet for all his afflictions, he neither lost heart nor tampered with the truth. How?

No one can be neutral about Jesus Christ. Either he will have our heart and soul, our life and obedience — or hell will.

When God makes a promise, he keeps it. And he keeps it through his purposeful, all-wise, absolute sovereignty — through his providence.

God’s will is not simply that we obey God’s will, but that we obey it in a certain way: with all of our might for all of our life.

John Piper | You don’t have to be Christian to love the story of the Good Samaritan. But applauding Luke’s parable apart from his Gospel contradicts his purpose.

John Piper | When the Bible speaks of “truth,” it refers ultimately to God himself. Therefore, truth demands more than just our minds — truth will have our whole hearts, now and forever.

God never tests his saints with ill intent. As the Father of lights, his every test aims at the full and lasting happiness of his children.

Why do God’s people wake up as believers day after day until they die? Because the same word that made us goes on keeping us to the end.

Does church leadership seem endlessly complicated? Take heart. Christian leaders guide God’s people from where they are to where God wants them to go, using God’s methods.

God is sovereign, and he has purposed his gospel to spread to the ends of the earth. Those who give themselves to that purpose are invincible, even through suffering.