Messages by Desiring God

If you find Jesus boring or unsatisfying, you haven’t really discovered yet who he is.

Receiving Jesus as our greatest joy unlocks right standing with God and right living with others.

John Piper | A one-of-a-kind death, and a one-of-a-kind resurrection, has been carried out by this one-of-a-kind Person who is more valuable than all else.

Christian preaching is not simply an exchange of information, but a channel through which the Holy Spirit works his miracles in both preacher and hearers.

Without the work of the Holy Spirit, we are helpless. Seek him, and he will rest upon you — especially in your hour of greatest need.

God created you not mainly to do things for him, but to delight in him. The more we enjoy God, the more he is honored, and our very purpose in life is fulfilled.

When you finally recognize that God wants to make you happier than you could ever dream, nothing will ever be the same again.

The supreme goal of all Jonathan Edwards’s life and work was that God would be glorified through his people being supremely satisfied in him.

Tuesday, October 31, 2017, marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation with Luther’s nailing of his 95 Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg.

When a Christian reads the Bible, a supernatural event takes place. Our regenerate souls meet the inspired word in a divine encounter.

John Piper | Only what’s done for Christ will last. Any risk, any trial, any tribulation is worth the risk when your aim in all of life is to make others glad in God.

Sooner or later, every leader will hand off the baton to the next generation — and where better to center pastoral succession than in the word of God himself?

All the Bible knowledge in the world won’t help you unless you cherish God’s truth. We’re nothing more than Pharisees unless we taste the glory of God in his word.

John Piper | No truth was more central to the Reformation that turned the world upside down 500 years ago: God justifies sinners by faith alone.

John Piper | God works every dot on the timeline of history for his glory. Nothing stands outside the scope of his plan to bring fame to his name, for the joy of his people.

John Piper | We often live as though we are God, but biblical thinking assumes that God is the center of all reality.

Christ calls us to live and die in such a way that we magnify his worth. Anything less is a wasted life.

John Piper | Pain and suffering exist to make plain the horrors of the sinful heart and the wonders of the sovereign Christ.

Only a love sustained by genuine joy in God will propel us to take the gospel to the hardest places in the world.

Genuine preaching aims to display the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

In the fight for faith, our minds serve our hearts. Right knowledge fuels true passion.

The ultimate goal of the gospel is that God would be glorified in our enjoyment of him. God’s glory and our satisfaction are not two different ends, they’re one.

True Christian education prepares us to enjoy God and love our neighbors even more than it prepares us for the workforce.

The Christian life is a fight. But our deadliest enemy doesn’t attack us from the outside, but from within.

Real love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others, especially when it’s costly.