Messages by Desiring God

In all your troubles, pain, joy, and pleasures, continue to stay in the Scriptures, because there’s no better way to invest than in God’s very words.

It will cost you to stand up against evil in our day. But God will deliver you and bring you safely into his heavenly kingdom.

John Piper | We’re not called to run from suffering in the toils of ministry. We’re called to embrace suffering with confidence in Christ for the sake of his gospel.

When we say that God is holy, we have sailed to the end of language and must worship in silence and wonder.

John Piper | In the gospel, God removes everything that makes our happiness fail, and he reveals everything that makes our happiness full.

So-called same-sex marriage dishonors the partners involved and disregards God’s good design.

When Jesus went to the cross, he not only desired our faith, joy, and peace; he also secured them.

Loving Jesus is not a matter of doing excellent things. It’s a matter of delighting in an excellent Savior.

God equips his people with everything we need to serve him. And we will do even greater works than Jesus himself.

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John Piper | We believe the Bible is real because God opened our eyes. Can blind men see the sun? Can seeing men pretend they do not?

John Piper | If you had to keep yourself believing, you’d never make it. God himself sustains you every second.

Be reconciled to God: receive as a free gift his peace, his power, his purpose.

John Piper | God is supreme not only in the ministry of the church, but also in the planting and watering, and in causing faith and giving the growth.

John Piper and Tim Keller, moderated by Anthony Bradley, discuss race in America.

Jesus prepares a place in paradise for all his people. Trust him now, and you’ll reap untold riches — now and forever.

Immerse yourself in the word of God and seek him for a holy ambition so that your life will not be wasted, but instead will count for God’s glory among the nations.

John Piper | Does God’s delight in our obedience and faith feel less genuine if it’s predetermined by his sovereignty rather than being a result of our own free will? Does God primarily delight in holiness and godliness, with a secondary delight in public justice?

John Piper | Living by faith in future grace is essential for walking in holiness and putting sin to death.

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John Piper | The faith that justifies is the same faith that sanctifies as sin is defeated by the power of superior promises.

If God did not spare his only Son, but gave him up for us, he will surely give us all things with him.

John Piper | How did John Piper learn to ask great questions? Is it pastorally helpful to emphasize God’s pleasure in abolishing sin and death or God’s displeasure when discussing tragedies?

Only Jesus could do the saving work we needed. Only he could bear the awesome weight of our sin.

John Piper | How does God’s satisfaction in himself become a wonderful model for parents in how they raise their children? How does a theology centered on a big God serve as balm for the downcast soul? John Piper addresses these questions and more.