Messages by Desiring God (Video)
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Men, Love and Lead Your Wives
29 mei 2015
John Piper | Men, lead your wives with understanding, honoring them as the weaker vessel, and recognizing them as joint heirs of the grace of life. By doing so, your prayers may not be hindered.
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What Is Submission in Marriage?
29 mei 2015
John Piper | Submission has become a curse word in our culture today, even within the church. However, the Bible reveals the beauty of what submission is — and what it’s not.
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The Beauty and Behavior of a Godly Woman
29 mei 2015
John Piper | What does it mean to be a strong woman? The world and all the media will answer one way, but the gospel and the Bible paint a more beautiful and satisfying picture.
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Christ Returned Good for Your Evil
29 mei 2015
John Piper | How does what Jesus did on the cross for you relate to people who treat you badly? He models a patient, sacrificial love that would radically change all our relationships.
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How Do We Honor Dishonorable People? (Q&A)
29 mei 2015
John Piper | How do you honor leaders while also standing up against policies, laws, or agendas that are unbiblical? John Piper addresses this question and more.
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The Horror and Hope in Slavery
29 mei 2015
John Piper | Showing honor to one’s master is a way of honoring God and commending the gospel, including to masters who are unjust and treat you badly.
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For God’s Sake, Be Free
29 mei 2015
John Piper | Christians are free to submit to human authority because our citizenship is in heaven and Jesus is our King.
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Submit to Laws for the Lord’s Sake
29 mei 2015
John Piper | The default stance for a believer is all about servitude, not some grand quest for superiority.
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Your Desires Want to Kill You
29 mei 2015
John Piper | When God saved us from our sin, he brought us from death into marvelous light and life. But sin still tries to entice us and destroy us, so the call to faith is a call to war.
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Faith and Fear Produce Love
29 mei 2015
John Piper | God’s sovereign justice and Christ’s sacrifice should cause us to fear ever doing anything to make the cross look cheap.
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The Mind Serves the Heart
29 mei 2015
John Piper | God gives us knowledge about himself to help us develop deep passion for him. So, how do we learn to cultivate the right feelings for God?
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Imperishable, Undefiled, and Unfading
29 mei 2015
John Piper | Once you grasp the glory of adoption, with its promise of an inheritance from God, you will naturally find yourself echoing the words of the apostle Peter: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!”
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Getting Started in 1 Peter
29 mei 2015
John Piper | To understand 1 Peter, you must understand what the apostle Peter means by “elect exiles.”
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A Realistic Book About Life Today
29 mei 2015
John Piper | The answer to the rise of secularism, persecution, and the prosperity gospel is to behold God's self-authenticating glory in the Bible as found in 1 Peter.
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Called to Be Lights in the World
24 mei 2015 · 26 min
John Piper | Christians, as chosen lights, proclaim God’s excellencies through transformed living, silencing ignorance, shaming the revilers with good behavior, and bringing glory to their heavenly Father.
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Destined to Obey, or Disobey
24 mei 2015 · 19 min
John Piper | Is stumbling because of disobedience any different from being born again by the mercy of God? If we are not born again, we will disobey, destined by our nature.
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Born Again by the Book
24 mei 2015 · 13 min
John Piper | According to 1 Peter, what does it mean to have your soul purified by “obedience to the truth”?
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The Infinite Price of Your Freedom
24 mei 2015 · 16 min
John Piper | Christians are called to both “fear not” and fear — fear to squander the precious ransom of Christ’s blood.
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New Passions Are the Path to Holiness
24 mei 2015 · 19 min
John Piper | New passions give rise to new conduct. And if you try to turn it around, you don’t have Christianity anymore.
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A Faith More Precious Than Gold
24 mei 2015 · 22 min
John Piper | Your faith is so valuable that God is willing to put it through fire to burn out all the dross. Don’t begrudge the school of suffering because God deems it necessary.
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Simultaneous Joy and Sorrow
24 mei 2015 · 16 min
John Piper | The Christian life is characterized by the simultaneous experience of both joy and sorrow. Trials are allowed by God’s necessity to test and strengthen one’s faith, all while God provides the necessary grace for each day’s challenges.
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Why Your Faith Will Not Fail
24 mei 2015 · 15 min
John Piper | God sustains faith, trials refine faith, and faith glorifies Christ.
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Born Again to a Living Hope
24 mei 2015 · 25 min
John Piper | Every Christian has been born again, and everyone who has been born again has a living hope.
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The Word Awakens Joy and Worship
24 mei 2015 · 21 min
John Piper | According to the apostle Peter, knowing the cause, means, and goal of our election as exiles awakens joy and worship.
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Set Apart by the Spirit
24 mei 2015 · 11 min
John Piper | Our exile status is connected to our election — a connection carefully woven together by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If we attempt to be exiles apart from the work of the triune God, we end up with Phariseeism.
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Exiles on the Earth
24 mei 2015 · 28 min
John Piper | As Christians, our earthly identity is that of aliens, strangers, sojourners, and exiles, with our true citizenship found in heaven.
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Basics for Reading the Bible
24 mei 2015 · 36 min
John Piper | If you find the Bible boring, mythological, or distracting, then 2 Corinthians 4:6 hasn’t happened to you yet. You will not understand the Bible without the Holy Spirit.
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A Survey of Suffering in 1 Peter
24 mei 2015 · 25 min
John Piper | If you feel totally at home in this world, 1 Peter will either pass by you or awaken you to your alien status here.
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Friendship with Jesus and the Aim of Education in Serious Joy
16 mei 2015 · 21 min
John Piper | John Piper’s commencement message on the relationship between friendship with Jesus and the aims of higher education — specifically the educational aims of Bethlehem College and Seminary.
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Education in Serious Joy
15 mei 2015
John Piper | Education at Bethlehem College and Seminary is education in serious joy.
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Life-Risking Courage in the Cause of Love
2 mei 2015 · 38 min
John Piper | Without sourcing our love for others from our joy in God, we will never be able to risk whatever it takes draw more people to Jesus.
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It Is Right to Live for Maximum Pleasure
1 mei 2015 · 37 min
John Piper | The greatest benefits of the cross, like justification, propitiations, salvation, and redemption, are all a means to us enjoying the one greatest benefit: glorifying God by enjoying him forever.
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The Pain of the World and the Purposes of God
26 april 2015 · 53 min
John Piper | We may never be able to explain every instance of suffering, but we can trust that God is near, he is in control, and he is bringing us unimaginable good — even through pain.
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Biblical Foundations for Seeking God's Justice in a Sinful World
14 april 2015 · 59 min
John Piper, Thabiti Anyabwile, Voddie Baucham, D.A. Carson, Tim Keller, and Miguel Núñez | The foundation of the gospel propels us to seek justice in this world which gives people what they deserve, and even more to seek grace which gives people better than they deserve. Lees meer
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What Jesus Demands from the World
14 april 2015 · 1 uur 2 min
John Piper | Jesus demands the impossible, whole-hearted love for God and others, but he does not abandon us to the task.
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The Shoot from Jesse, the Nations, and Israel
14 april 2015 · 56 min
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Suffering, Faith, and the Sign of Fearlessness
9 april 2015 · 43 min
John Piper | God graciously gives his people suffering and faith so that they might enjoy magnifying Christ to their adversaries through fearlessness of faith and humble love.
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A Living Hope Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
5 april 2015 · 48 min
John Piper | The living hope every Christian enjoys now and waits for in the future is rooted in the mercy of God, the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and the new birth.
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Undaunted by the Darkness – Invincible Joy for the Sake of the Nations
7 maart 2015 · 44 min
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You Can Say No to Porn
11 februari 2015
John Piper | Addiction is a relative term. If the stakes are high enough and sure enough, you’ll have all the self-control you need to resist any sexual temptation.
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Make War: The Pastor and His People in the Battle Against Sin
3 februari 2015 · 1 uur 8 min
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What Is Sin? The Essence and Root of All Sinning
3 februari 2015 · 1 uur 5 min
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The Plundering of Your Property and the Power of Hope
18 januari 2015 · 56 min
John Piper | We can joyfully accept hardship in this life because our true home is in heaven. Our best life is yet to come.
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Why Do Christians Preach and Sing?
3 januari 2015 · 54 min
John Piper | No other religion or movement on the planet preaches and sings like Christians.
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Gospel-Centered History and Gospel-Centered Living
16 november 2014 · 59 min
John Piper | All of history led to and flows from the cross. If the center of reality isn’t the center of our lives, we are tragically off course.
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Ten Effects of Seeing God’s Sovereignty
15 november 2014 · 12 min
John Piper | Your convictions about the God of Romans 9 will profoundly shape your perspective on worship, prayer, salvation, and even the state of our culture.
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God Is Totally Free to Save You
15 november 2014 · 27 min
John Piper | Election is God’s business, and our job is to pray like crazy for everybody we love.
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Why Would God Ordain Evil?
15 november 2014 · 20 min
John Piper | When we ask the question of how God is righteous to ordain evil (which we should), we should ask with humble faith — not to find fault with God, but to know and love God.
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God Saves Whom He Wills
15 november 2014 · 41 min
John Piper | As we come to realize how big God is, and how horrifying our sin is, we will come to understand election as a grace so impossibly great that we could not imagine it on our own.
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The Difference Between Calvinists and Arminians
15 november 2014 · 26 min
John Piper | Theology is the study of God and his works as revealed in the Bible, and Christians should embrace mystery because we embrace the God that outruns our own reasoning.