Messages by Desiring God

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  1. Sailing to the Nations to Finish the Task

    15 februari 2013 · 45 min

    Afspelen

    The essence of worship is the experience of being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

  2. The Sadness and Beauty of Paul’s Final Words

    14 februari 2013 · 35 min

    Afspelen

    A life of ministry is a life of hardship. But Jesus will strengthen us to endure every trial and struggle when we press on in faith.

  3. Saying Beautifully as a Way of Seeing Beauty: The Life of George Herbert and His Poetic Effort

    5 februari 2013 · 1 uur 16 min

    Afspelen

    George Herbert’s work and effort shows that words in our life matter. And how we use them can help us capture what’s really beautiful.

  4. The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God

    20 januari 2013 · 17 min

    Afspelen

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  5. Thinking Seriously About the Lost People You Love

    18 januari 2013 · 41 min

    Afspelen

    We don’t have the power to save the lost ones we love, but God can. Pray to him and share the good news of a glorious Redeemer.

  6. Joy as the Power to Suffer in the Path of Love for the Sake of Liberation

    3 januari 2013 · 40 min

    Afspelen

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  7. Sorrowful Yet Always Rejoicing

    29 december 2012 · 45 min

    Afspelen

    What the world needs from the church is our indomitable joy in Jesus in the midst of suffering and sorrow.

  8. God Created Man Male and Female: What Does It Mean to Be Complementarian?

    24 november 2012 · 44 min

    Afspelen

    God has designed men for Christlike servant-leadership, and God has designed women to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership.

  9. Living by Faith in Future Grace

    17 november 2012 · 45 min

    Afspelen

    Though our faith is founded on past acts of redeeming grace, the way faith works now is by looking to the boundless fountain of future grace.

  10. The Price and the Prize of the Gospel

    10 november 2012 · 42 min

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    The gospel is the good news that God in Christ paid the price of suffering, so that we could have the prize of enjoying him forever.

  11. When Jesus Meets Disability: How a Christian Hedonist Handles Deep Disappointment

    8 november 2012 · 59 min

    Afspelen

    God reigns so supreme, that he can even turn our deepest disappointments into our greater good.

  12. Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer

    3 november 2012 · 1 uur 21 min

    Afspelen

    John Piper | The essence of fasting is hunger for God, and we can forgo food for a season in order to demonstrate that hunger.

  13. The Sovereignty of God: ‘I Will Accomplish All My Purpose’

    3 november 2012 · 47 min

    Afspelen

    From galaxies to molecules, God rules over all. His power encompasses everything.

  14. Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer

    3 november 2012 · 1 uur 21 min

    Afspelen

    John Piper | Communion with God in prayer involves expressing our desires for God and asking him for assistance in understanding and living out his word.

  15. Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer

    2 november 2012 · 1 uur 51 min

    Afspelen

    John Piper | The sacred Scriptures are the lifeblood of our relationship with God. Don’t disconnect yourself of the restoring, rejuvenating effects of God’s word.

  16. ABCs for Following God’s Call

    28 oktober 2012 · 24 min

    Afspelen

    John Piper walks through eight facets of making decisions for the glory of Christ.

  17. Missions Exists Because Worship Doesn’t

    27 oktober 2012 · 39 min

    Afspelen

    God will spread the fame of his name to every tribe, nation, and tongue, but he won’t do it without his people sending and going.

  18. A Spectacular and Scary Promise: Fellow Heirs with Christ If We Suffer

    21 oktober 2012 · 53 min

    Afspelen

    The Holy Spirit wants to assure us that we are God‘s children. All he owns belongs to us — if we suffer alongside his Son.

  19. Don’t Waste Your Life

    17 oktober 2012 · 56 min

    Afspelen

    The unwasted life is a life of pursuing joy in God at all costs, including the sacrificial love that brings people into that joy.

  20. God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him

    13 oktober 2012 · 52 min

    Afspelen

    God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.

  21. Should We Celebrate Interracial Marriage?

    3 oktober 2012 · 30 min

    Afspelen

    God is concerned with our purity of faith, not race. He never forbids marriage between ethnicities, but between believer and unbeliever.

  22. Ten Ways to Pursue Ethnic Harmony in Your Church

    3 oktober 2012 · 42 min

    Afspelen

    Christ calls us to pursue unity in diversity, but what does that look like in a local church? John Piper offers ten ways forward.

  23. Act the Miracle: Future Grace, the Word of the Cross, and the Purifying Power of God’s Promises

    30 september 2012 · 1 uur 17 min

    Afspelen

    Christians tap into the sin-killing power of God when we believe a blood-bought promise and embrace it as a more precious treasure than any temptation in front of us.

  24. Prelude to Acting the Miracle: Putting Sanctification in Its Place

    28 september 2012 · 57 min

    Afspelen

    God will bring our feelings, thoughts, and actions into conformity to his infinitely satisfying worth. If we are in Christ, it is as good as done.

  25. Why Did God Create the World?

    22 september 2012 · 46 min

    Afspelen

    God created and sustains everything in this universe to display his glorious grace in Jesus.

  26. Eternal Security Is a Community Project

    15 september 2012 · 44 min

    Afspelen

    God designed his church so that her members endure in belief by giving and receiving faith-sustaining words of life.

  27. Reflections on Pastoring Three Decades Downtown

    9 september 2012 · 24 min

    Afspelen

    Three decades of ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church demonstrate five important things that pastors should rememember for their ministries.

  28. ‘I Am Who I Am’

    8 september 2012 · 48 min

    Afspelen

    There is nothing more foundational, pervasive, and necessary than the truth and reality that God absolutely is who he is.

  29. He Stood by Me and Strengthened Me for the Sake of the Gospel

    26 augustus 2012 · 48 min

    Afspelen

    No matter how rough the road of your life, Jesus is a rock-solid friend who encourages and strengthens you to press on.

  30. God's Delight in Being God

    25 augustus 2012 · 1 uur 16 min

    Afspelen

    John Piper | God’s pleasure in election, the death of Christ, doing good to those who hope in him, and the obedience of his people all stems from his fundamental pleasure in his own excellency.

  31. God's Delight in Being God

    25 augustus 2012 · 1 uur 21 min

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    John Piper | The destruction of the wicked is not ordained by God with the same kind of delight as the redemption of his people, though he is profoundly sovereign over all things.

  32. God's Delight in Being God

    24 augustus 2012 · 1 uur 39 min

    Afspelen

    John Piper | God’s delight in being God consists in his happiness in himself as the triune God and his passion to do all things for his name’s sake.

  33. Preach the Word, For the Time of My Departure Has Come

    18 augustus 2012 · 50 min

    Afspelen

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  34. All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God — Continue in It

    11 augustus 2012 · 44 min

    Afspelen

    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.

  35. When a Lover of Good Thinks About Evil

    4 augustus 2012 · 47 min

    Afspelen

    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.

  36. He Cannot Deny Himself

    21 juli 2012 · 40 min

    Afspelen

    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.

  37. In the Throne Room: The God of Holiness and Hope

    23 juni 2012 · 45 min

    Afspelen

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

  38. The Search for Joy and the Supremacy of God in the Gospel

    22 juni 2012 · 45 min

    Afspelen

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

  39. Let Marriage Be Held in Honor

    16 juni 2012 · 51 min

    Afspelen

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

  40. My Peace I Give to You

    9 juni 2012 · 53 min

    Afspelen

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

  41. If Anyone Loves Me, He Will Keep My Word

    2 juni 2012 · 51 min

    Afspelen

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

  42. Doing the Works of Jesus and Greater Works

    21 april 2012 · 44 min

    Afspelen

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

  43. Reflections on the Life of Isaac Newton

    20 april 2012 · 37 min

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  44. The Sum of God's Word Is Truth

    13 april 2012 · 1 uur 1 min

    Afspelen

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

  45. Glory, Majesty, Dominion, and Authority Keep Us Safe for Everlasting Joy

    12 april 2012 · 1 uur

    Afspelen

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

  46. The Risen Christ — His Peace, Power, and Purpose

    7 april 2012 · 39 min

    Afspelen

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

  47. I Planted, Apollos Watered, But God Gave the Growth

    31 maart 2012 · 53 min

    Afspelen

    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.

  48. Race and the Christian

    28 maart 2012 · 1 uur 16 min

    Afspelen

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

  49. I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

    23 maart 2012 · 43 min

    Afspelen

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

  50. Controlled by a Holy Ambition

    22 maart 2012 · 39 min

    Afspelen

    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.