Messages by Desiring God (Video)
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God’s Peculiar Glory: How We Know the Bible Is True
28 april 2016 · 48 min
John Piper | You don’t need complicated arguments to know the Bible is true. You can see the Glory for yourself.
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Living and Loving by Faith in Future Grace
22 april 2016 · 57 min
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.
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The Bondage of the Will, the Sovereignty of Grace, and the Glory of God
13 april 2016 · 1 uur 1 min
John Piper | 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.
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Love Her More, Love Her Less: Living for God’s Glory in Marriage
11 april 2016 · 23 min
John Piper | 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.
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Preaching to a Persecuted People: The Pastor as Leader, Comforter, and Guide
26 januari 2016 · 1 uur 14 min
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.
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Think It Not Strange: Fiery Trials and the Testimony of Christ
25 januari 2016 · 1 uur 1 min
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.
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Go and Tell, ‘It Is Finished’
25 januari 2016
John Piper | Our mission begins where redemption ends: at the cross. Over 6,000 people groups still have not heard the gospel, so pray and go.
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Free from Money, Rich Toward God
4 januari 2016
John Piper | If we have money and depend on it, it will kill us. If we don’t have money and crave it, it will kill us. How should we approach money?
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The Beast, the Book, and the Beauty of the Lamb
3 januari 2016 · 52 min
John Piper | “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.
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One Gospel
28 december 2015 · 46 min
John Piper | The more horrible, foreign, startling, fearful, uncertain, and stomach-turning the days become, the more relevant the gospel of Jesus Christ is.
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Obey the Government for God’s Sake
21 december 2015
John Piper | “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” How should Christians relate to the American government?
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Woe to You When All Speak Well of You
7 december 2015
John Piper | “Love your enemies.” In this short video, John Piper explains this radical, even impossible call from Jesus.
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Loving Jesus More Than Life
23 november 2015
John Piper | Christianity is a deep, profound transformation of what we love. When Christ is our supreme Treasure, we belong with him.
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You Cannot Obey God Without God
11 november 2015 · 11 min
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.
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The Glory of God as the Ground of the Mind’s Certainty and the Goal of the Soul’s Satisfaction
9 oktober 2015 · 1 uur 7 min
John Piper | 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.
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All Authority in Heaven and Earth
8 oktober 2015 · 50 min
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.”
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How to Know the Will of God: Finding Direction with the Renewed Mind
27 september 2015 · 53 min
John Piper | 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.
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Seeing and Savoring the Splendor of God’s Sovereign Grace (Q&A)
26 september 2015
John Piper | At what point can parents be assured of their child’s salvation? To whom does John Piper turn for wise counsel?
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The Only Road to Real Happiness
26 september 2015
John Piper | Jesus is the only hope for everyone — and this is the best news for people who want to be happy.
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God Made You Alive for God
26 september 2015
John Piper | You entered this world with a spiritual flatline — no desire for the gospel and good works. You were spiritually lifeless and unmoving. But God said, “Live.”
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How to Miss Jesus in the Bible
26 september 2015
John Piper | God is not honored unless we see him as he has revealed himself in his word. So, how do we avoid this pitfall?
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Why Will You Wake Up a Christian?
26 september 2015
John Piper | If you go to bed tonight as a believer in Christ, why do you think you’ll wake up a Christian tomorrow?
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One Day, We Will Rule with Christ
26 september 2015
John Piper | Jesus promises Christians a share in the rule of all things. What does that mean?
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Five Reasons Calvinists Love Election
26 september 2015
John Piper | Calvinists embrace the biblical teaching called unconditional election, in which God sovereignly chooses and takes the decisive initiative to save unworthy sinners for his own glory.
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Calvinists Believe Every Verse
26 september 2015
John Piper | Embracing a God-centered view of salvation means welcoming the Bible’s teaching of God’s sovereign election in place of our finite and fallen logical leaps.
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The Gospel Promises True Prosperity
25 september 2015
John Piper | Every possible blessing that heaven has to give — most notably, God himself — belongs to those who are united to him by faith.
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Understanding the Wills of God
25 september 2015
John Piper | In order to get the blessing of God that the biblical authors intend through their writing, we need to understand what those writers meant by their words, not merely what we understand at first glance.
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How to Read the Bible Well
25 september 2015
John Piper | Reading your Bible as a Christian gives you more insight into the mystery of the universe than Moses or King David or Solomon ever had. Reading gives you unimaginable understanding.
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Who Could Be Happy in a World Like Ours?
25 september 2015
John Piper | God is a happy-making God, and his plan is to make his people happy. That is why we are able to be “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” even in such a world as ours.
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Hoping, Singing, and Loving (Q&A)
19 september 2015
John Piper | Marriage is not about taking hold of our rights, whether men or women, but rather walking humbly in our God-ordained roles.
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Born Again to Hope-Filled Humility
19 september 2015
John Piper | According to the apostle Peter, hope and humility go hand in hand as God awakens his elect in the new birth, providing new affections — most notably, hope — that give rise to new behavior.
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How to Live in History’s Last Days
19 september 2015
John Piper | With time running short, how should we live? Live prayerfully, trust in God’s sovereignty, love your neighbors, and avoid frantic haste.
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Lose It All to Win the World
19 september 2015
John Piper | People who follow Jesus to the cross can turn to face the malice of those who do not know God, in order to bless them and show the beauty of Christianity.
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Do You Want Heaven for the Wrong Reason?
19 september 2015
John Piper | It is better to suffer faithfully than to turn away from God. Do you believe that?
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The Strongest Comfort and Statement in Trials
19 september 2015
John Piper | Hope that sustains through trials brought on even by the hope itself looks peculiar to a world filled with roots that cannot withstand even everyday trials.
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Hope That Puts the World to Shame
19 september 2015
John Piper | When insulted, Christians are urged to respond with fearless resilience, honoring Christ, and blessing instead of retaliating, with the hope that their unexpected and gracious response may lead others to see the joy and glory in their faith. Lees meer
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Search for Gold Beneath Biblical Tensions
19 september 2015
John Piper | Letting all of the Bible speak allows us to dig beneath seeming tensions and make discoveries more glorious and rich and helpful than if we were to just throw up our hands or assume contradiction.
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Bless Those Who Bruise You
19 september 2015
John Piper | Payback is planted in the bottom of our hearts — every one of us is a born retaliator. If we’re to answer wrongdoing with any other response than wrongdoing, we need a change at the core of our being.
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Five Steps to Feel What God Feels
18 september 2015
John Piper | The Bible everywhere commands that we feel certain ways. So how do we obey the commands to feel if they seem out of our power?
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Honor, Guard, and Cherish
18 september 2015
John Piper | Husbands are the head. Therefore, they must go ahead and honor their wives according to knowledge.
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Women the World Cannot Explain
18 september 2015
John Piper | Godly women, rooted in unwavering hope, fear nothing — even submission to husbands who do not follow Jesus. They adorn their souls with a peculiar beauty: not base servility or brash power, but a combination of humility and lion-like courage that the world cannot explain. Lees meer
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John Piper Recites 1 Peter from Memory
18 september 2015
John Piper | John Piper illustrates the importance of Bible memorization in the Christian life by reciting 1 Peter 1–3:7 from memory.
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Too Many Settle for Too Little in Bible Reading
18 september 2015
John Piper | To understand God’s word with power, we need to see it for ourselves, patiently investing time to dig deep and ask questions of the text.
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Don’t Be a Sucker
21 augustus 2015 · 30 min
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The Path to Full and Lasting Pleasure
11 augustus 2015 · 55 min
John Piper | Psalm 16 gives us some of the clearest, most powerful words about our greatest happiness.
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Unless God Gives You God
5 juni 2015
John Piper | Watch Now
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How You Can Know You’re a Child of God
31 mei 2015 · 49 min
John Piper | Everyone struggles with doubts at some point, but God doesn’t want us to wallow in uncertainty. He gives us his Spirit to testify to our new life.
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Summary and Conclusion: 1 Peter 2:13–3:7
29 mei 2015
John Piper | The ultimate goal of 1 Peter is to encourage believers to live transformed lives in light of their hope in Christ and to glorify God.
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Broken Dynamics in Marriage (Q&A)
29 mei 2015
John Piper | Issues within marriage can be helped by relating to each other openly and honestly while involving Christian community, but there will be times when a couple just has to live with a difficult situation.
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Bible Reading, Justice, and Marriage (Q&A)
29 mei 2015
John Piper | Godward prayers should fuel our Bible reading, compassionate advocacy should flavor our understanding of justice, and gospel instincts should shape our marriage struggles.