Messages by Desiring God

John Piper | Christians don’t fly solo. Our faith won’t survive unless brothers and sisters in Christ keep us accountable.

John Piper | Five hundred years ago, the Reformers fought to recover the true gospel. Fifteen hundred years before, God used Paul to pen the Reformers’ central text for justification by faith alone.

John Piper | Your joy in God multiplies exponentially as you seek the good of your brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.

God has a place for every single one of us in missions. Some of us send, some of us go, but we must all have a gospel ambition.

John Piper | The only reason any of us know God is because he chose us before the foundation of the world. Nothing we’ve done can earn our way to him — it’s all grace.

At the end of your life, as your energy fades, God will be your refuge and strength.

The very essence of evil is running to anything but God for ultimate joy. Watch, read, or listen to John Piper’s message from Passion 2017.

John Piper | We are living in the third great era of world history — the era of the Spirit. Our only hope for advancing God’s mission is to lean on the power of his Spirit.

The true grace of God is given to us in Jesus Christ, who is full of grace and truth.

Satan believes the Scriptures are God’s very words. But the difference between us and him is that he doesn’t treasure that truth.

Christians claim their true citizenship in heaven. When we submit to earthly governments, we do so out of allegiance to Christ’s eternal kingdom.

Christian leaders should exude the Bible. They need to test everything they speak and write through the grid of biblical teaching.

Jesus’s supreme authority empowers his Great Commission. We go, teach, and teach others to teach in the confidence that Jesus himself is with us.

John Piper | Central to biblical Christianity is the pursuit of our joy in God. John Piper expresses fifteen hopes for the future of maximizing our joy in God.

God’s volcanic passion for his own glory erupts in overflowing delight for his Son and unceasing joy for his children who share in God’s own glorious bliss.

In all true Bible reading, we think and God gives. We work hard to comprehend the authors’ intended meaning while we simultaneously rely on God to help us understand.

Whenever we read the Bible, we depend on God’s supernatural power to illumine the words, sentences, and paragraphs with his glory.

The Bible is indispensable to the Christian life. Without the written word, we simply could not know the Incarnate Word.

Christians embrace both the New Testament and the Old because every single page of the Scriptures points to Jesus who fulfills them.

God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is not the act of a needy ego, but an act of infinite giving.

Christians can show the world the hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and serve, rather than return evil for evil.

God supplies the sustaining grace we need to love others well as we seriously pursue our joy in him.

God created the world, and sustains it every second, to show the worth of his Son’s redeeming work.

God is glorified when Christians humble themselves openly as people who are not ashamed to beg for help.

Christ’s righteousness imputed to sinners through faith undergirds the whole of the Christian faith.