Messages by Desiring God (Video)
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Gain What You Cannot Lose: The Joy of World Mission with Jesus
7 januari 2024 · 38 min
John Piper | When Christ calls us to the mission field with him, he calls us to deny shallow pleasures, die to ourselves, and enjoy greater and greater delight in him.
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Christmas Was and Christmas Is: The Whole Story of Advent
10 december 2023 · 39 min
David Mathis | How do you need God’s help this Advent? What need seems most pressing? Press into the message of Christmas, and you’ll find hope and help in time of need.
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Jesus Came to Save: Ten Great Realities of Christmas
3 december 2023 · 39 min
John Piper | The birth of John the Baptist was great, but the birth of Jesus Christ was infinitely greater. John prepared for salvation, but Jesus purchased it.
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Man of War and Grace: The Greatest of Israel’s Kings
25 november 2023 · 34 min
David Mathis | Some may not think of David, the shepherd king, as particularly masculine, but Scripture paints him in a far more manly and glorious light.
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Do Not Believe Every Spirit: The Threat and Defeat of False Teaching Today
27 oktober 2023 · 36 min
John Piper | Are biblical warnings about false prophets still relevant? Yes, the threat looms as large today as in the first century.
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Before You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like Jesus
26 oktober 2023 · 48 min
David Mathis | Good pastors are not naive: ministry comes with many costs. Even so, Christ has not called us to an impossible, joyless task. The cross proves otherwise.
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What’s It Like to Be a Christian? Faith, Obedience, and Living as Strangers
8 oktober 2023 · 40 min
David Mathis | What is Christian faith? Hebrews 11 not only answers the question but tells us what faith feels like, and how it leads to obedience, and living as exiles in this world.
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Whose Son Is the Messiah? King David and the God of Israel
30 september 2023 · 39 min
John Piper | When Jesus asks the Pharisees how David calls the Messiah “Lord,” they refuse to answer. What made that seemingly simple question so incendiary?
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God Is: The Life-Altering Reality of Sheer Divine Existence
25 september 2023 · 38 min
John Piper | God is. No reality is more mind-boggling, more valuable, more life-altering, more electrifying than the absolute being of God.
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Grace Will Order All Your Pain: Retirement Message for Dana Olson
20 augustus 2023 · 43 min
John Piper | What is sovereign, sustaining grace? It is not grace that spares us pain, but grace that orders our pain — and then sustains us through the pain.
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The Leader You Long to Follow
13 augustus 2023 · 40 min
David Mathis | From principals to presidents, leadership failures fill the news. We long for someone in power to lead with wisdom and fairness. Praise God, the ideal king has come.
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The Spell That Opened Heaven: Funeral Message for Daniel Fuller (1925–2023)
29 juli 2023 · 24 min
John Piper | Romans 8:32 is perhaps the greatest verse in the Bible. No other text quite describes how far God has gone for our salvation and will go for our joy.
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The Final Hours of Suffering: Funeral Message for Nancy Nelson (1952–2023)
7 juni 2023 · 25 min
John Piper | God’s word speaks to the mysteries of suffering. We will only bear pain well as we begin to see it like he does.
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Happy Pastors Make Healthy Churches
28 mei 2023 · 41 min
John Piper | Christ’s blood bought more than our pardon, precious as it is. His death also purchased the power we need to live a radical Christian life.
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Why We Sing About the Blood
21 mei 2023 · 40 min
David Mathis | Why do Christians sing about blood? Because of what happened at the cross, the otherwise morbid topic becomes one of glory, thanks, and praise.
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More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed
19 mei 2023 · 19 min
John Piper | What excites a Christian most? Our deepest, truest joy does not flow from completed degrees or flourishing ministries, but from the God who saved us.
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Do Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors
7 mei 2023 · 38 min
David Mathis | For pastors to be “well thought of by outsiders” certainly isn’t everything, but it made God’s list of requirements. Is it still on ours?
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Why Bethlehem Has a College: Biblical Foundations for Church-Based Education
23 april 2023 · 41 min
John Piper | What makes a college distinctly Christian? Education is not an end in itself, but a means to knowing and loving Christ.
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Hamilton: An American Prodigal
20 april 2023 · 53 min
David Mathis | Neither biographers nor Broadway can ignore Alexander Hamilton’s late-flowering Christian faith. He, like the prodigal son, finally came home after his journey into the far country.
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Danger Averted, Destiny Attained: Funeral Message for Lois Nelson (1919–2023)
13 april 2023 · 24 min
John Piper | When a Christian goes home to be with the Lord, we who remain have the chance to rehearse God’s loving design in every believer’s death.
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The Demons, the Fever, and the Word of the King
12 maart 2023 · 45 min
John Piper | While on earth, Jesus spoke with unmatched power. Demons obeyed him, and fevers fled at his word. Everything was subject to him — then and now.
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Press Afresh into Jesus: Four Truths About Genuine Faith
5 maart 2023 · 41 min
David Mathis | Genuine faith welcomes, enjoys, fears, strives after, and rests in God. And in doing so, genuine faith perseveres.
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What Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages?
30 januari 2023 · 55 min
John Piper | When our hearts run dry, and our good works languish, the Bible bids us: “Consider the end.”
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The Story of the Greatest Coronation
15 januari 2023 · 41 min
David Mathis | When Christ ascended into heaven, an otherworldly ceremony commenced. Here was the long-awaited Son of David, the only man angels ever worshiped.
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The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year
11 december 2022 · 46 min
John Piper | When we pray for God to preserve us, we ask that he would be not only our Lord, but our life — not only our God, but our highest and everlasting good.
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Prince of What Peace? How Christmas Overcomes Our Conflicts
4 december 2022 · 45 min
John Piper | At the root of all conflict is man’s conflict with God. At Christmas, we celebrate that God took the initiative to establish true peace.
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Secret Liturgies: The Private Worship of a Public Leader
6 november 2022 · 44 min
David Mathis | Blessed is the leader who meditates on God’s law day and night — not just in public, but all the more in secret.
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It Will Be Worth It: Overcoming Obstacles to World Missions
23 oktober 2022 · 25 min
John Piper | When it comes to missions, reasons abound to stay rather than to go. But for every apparent obstacle, countless promises say, “It will be worth it.”
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Is Jesus an Egomaniac? Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian Faith
15 oktober 2022 · 52 min
John Piper | What do we call an obsessively self-centered person? An egomaniac. Then what should we call God, who demands all our praise? We call him gracious.
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The Joy of the Puritans
6 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
John Piper | The Puritans took joy seriously because they read the Bible carefully. They saw that delight in God is at the heart of all true obedience.
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He Delighted to Crush His Son: The Pleasure of God in the Gospel
1 oktober 2022 · 57 min
David Mathis | The Father not only planned for his Son to die, but was pleased to crush him. And for those in Christ, this can be as comforting as it is astonishing.
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A World God Could Admire: Recovering His Pleasure in Creation
1 oktober 2022 · 58 min
Marshall Segal | Do you ever stop, slow down, and marvel at something God has made? If we could see it all like he does, we’d see far more than we do.
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How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners?
30 september 2022 · 59 min
John Piper | You will not be perfect in this life, but you can be pleasing to God. You can become a real ingredient in the divine happiness.
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Fall Back to the Banner: Four Lessons for Our Devastations
18 september 2022 · 38 min
David Mathis | When loss surrounds us, when fears assail us, we have a banner to which to flee. We turn to the God who has spoken, and there find real hope and strength.
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God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings
5 september 2022 · 37 min
John Piper | The individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.
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How Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love?
28 augustus 2022 · 43 min
John Piper | When glad in God, we bend low in love for others. We imitate Christ, who not only bowed the knee but hung his body on the tree.
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Water from the Rock for Undeserving People
17 juni 2022 · 42 min
John Piper | God promises us his life-sustaining presence, even as he leads us into waterless regions of suffering and loss.
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God Can Handle Your Crisis
12 juni 2022 · 37 min
David Mathis | Psalm 46 teaches us God can handle the earth’s undoing and nations raging against his people — and that if he can do that, he can be a very present help in our trouble.
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Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away
20 mei 2022 · 18 min
John Piper | Faith does not shipwreck upon the rocks of history, logic, science, or ethics, but on the mountains of sinful desire.
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The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
27 april 2022 · 41 min
John Piper | Humility flourishes in hearts that focus not on being humble, but on gladly exalting Jesus, who is superior to us in every possible way.
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Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It
20 april 2022 · 53 min
John Piper | There is a kind of unhealthy preaching that fails to make plain the effective connection between the sin-bearing work of Christ and the sin-killing work of the Christian.
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The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ
17 april 2022 · 39 min
David Mathis | We boast on Sunday because Christ died on Friday. No cross, no favor with God. No crucifixion, no resurrection. We live because he died.
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Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News
17 april 2022 · 37 min
David Mathis | What if, with some intentionality, the news could become a source of refreshment rather than a continual distraction and discouragement?
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What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’?
20 maart 2022 · 37 min
David Mathis | What is freedom in Christ? Freedom from trying to earn God’s acceptance, and freedom to know and enjoy God forever.
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We Rejoice to Suffer for You: Pastoral Pain and the People’s Joy
13 maart 2022 · 44 min
John Piper | Why does the apostle Paul speak so much about himself and his suffering? Because his suffering for the sake of others makes the love of Christ tangible to them.
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Brother Ass: Stewarding the Body as Christian Hedonists
2 maart 2022 · 37 min
David Mathis | Why would Christians exercise? Working and pushing these bodies, as God designed them, serves our learning, our joy, and our love.
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The Supremacy of Christ in Everything
27 februari 2022 · 45 min
John Piper | The sovereign supremacy of Christ both keeps us from error and enables us to persevere through hardships with patience and joyful thankfulness.
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‘The Joy of the Lord Is Your Stronghold’
7 februari 2022 · 54 min
John Piper | Joy in God becomes our stronghold when we are awakened to see and savor him as our greatest joy.
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The Missionary Miracle: Christ’s Call to Cross a Culture
31 december 2021
John Piper | How does the miracle of a missionary happen? God gives us a burning desire to taste and enjoy the joy of others in Jesus Christ.
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The Fearlessness of Christmas Joy: Six Wonders of Christ’s Lordship
19 december 2021 · 47 min
John Piper | The first Christmas brought good news. With it came fearless, great joy for all those who confess, “Jesus is Lord.”