Messages by Desiring God

John Piper | Humble unity in the gospel beautifully displays to a watching world that Jesus is more satisfying than getting your own way.

John Piper | God’s pursuit of his own glory opens the door to a feast of beauty and truth that satisfies the human soul forever.

God doesn’t merely give us arguments for his love, but he gives us a real, authentic experience of his love!

You don’t need complicated arguments to know the Bible is true. You can see the Glory for yourself.

John Piper | Where will we find the emotional power to keep us from returning evil for evil? Not in vague notions of grace, but by trusting God’s specific promises.

I want to help parents (and leaders of children’s ministries) see how the Bible shows itself to be true — and how to communicate this vital truth to our children.

For Martin Luther, the issue of man’s bondage to sin, and moral inability to believe or obey, was the root issue of the Reformation — and the lynchpin of Protestantism.

You love your spouse more when you love them less than God. If God is not central, your marriage will not glorify God as he intended.

There won’t be any phoniness in heaven. There will only be complete authenticity. So let’s resolve to start now because the facades will fade.

There isn’t anything greater than to see the Son of God in all his divine beauty and radiance and greatness, and be supremely and increasingly happy in him forever.

John Piper | In the new America, a stage is being set as never before for the display of the glory of God through the joy of his grieving people.

John Piper | We are raising up a generation of Christian leaders who love the glory of God and handle the word of God carefully.

John Piper | We should not be surprised or ashamed when we suffer in the name of Jesus. God refines us and displays the worth of Christ in and through our suffering.

“The Book of the Life of the Lamb who was Slain” is an eternal book, pledging God's redemptive act in history, and securing God's eternal praise from his redeemed.

Manhood and womanhood are not traits to be ignored, but God-given gifts we can cherish together as both genders reflect God’s good design.

John Piper | The mission given to every Christian is to declare and demonstrate that the glory of Christ is more precious than life.

There is an all-permeating passion that belongs in the saved human soul, and that will not be crushed by the moral chaos of these days, or by the suffering that Christians must endure.

The more horrible, foreign, startling, fearful, uncertain, and stomach-turning the days become, the more relevant the gospel of Jesus Christ is.

John Piper | How do we set about obeying the hundreds of commands in the Bible? John Piper explores what it means to be born again and how it happens.

In the Bible, the glory of God reveals itself to be inescapably real to the mind, and incomparably rewarding to the heart. Nothing could be more true, and nothing could be more precious.

John Piper | The audacity to make disciples for Jesus from followers of other lords and other religions is based on the rock solid foundation of the words — and the reality — “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

God wants to make you new more than he wants to reveal his secret plans for tomorrow. That’s his good purpose for you in all things.

The word of God is meant to be our unshakable rock and comfort in times of trouble, and we should encourage each other with its precious truths.

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