Location:
New Philadelphia, OH
Description:
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
Twitter:
@JohnPiper
Language:
English
Contact:
Desiring God PO Box 2901 Minneapolis, MN 55402 1.888.346.4700
Website:
http://www.desiringgod.org/
Email:
mail@desiringgod.org
Episodes
How to Pray When Trouble Comes
9/20/2025
Marshall Segal | How do mature Christians pray when trouble comes? David teaches us from Psalm 86: “Meet my need.” “Glorify your name.” “Teach me your way.” “Gladden my heart.”
Duration:00:36:25
The Only Life Worth Living: A Live Lab on Christian Hedonism
9/13/2025
In Jesus Christ, we find a Treasure more precious than everything we have in life and everything we lose in death.
Duration:00:47:14
Enjoying God: The Key to Classical Christian Education
9/6/2025
How does the chief end of man — to glorify God by enjoying him forever — shape our approach to classical Christian education?
Duration:00:45:37
Lay Your Buckets Down: Finding Life with the Woman at the Well
8/30/2025
Marshall Segal | No sin is too great, no place is too far, and no wall is too high to keep us from receiving the living water of Jesus — if only we’ll come to him.
Duration:00:36:51
Creation Sings Through Human Lips
8/23/2025
Tony Reinke | No star or ocean, insect or tree, bird or cloud has a voice to speak God’s praise. But when we rejoice in God, we take creation’s worship and put it into words.
Duration:00:32:34
God’s Mission Triumphs Through Prayerful Suffering
8/16/2025
As Jesus bleeds in Gethsemane and then submits to arrest, we see that the mission of God triumphs through prayerful suffering, not the self-defending sword.
Duration:00:42:27
Will Christ Be Humiliated on the Last Day? To the Class of 2025
8/9/2025
When Jesus returns in glory, he will stand ashamed of those who were ashamed of him here. But what will it really mean for Jesus to be ashamed?
Duration:00:18:37
Value the Human Body: Technology, Exercise, and the Pursuit of True Joy
8/2/2025
David Mathis | How might regular exercise serve not just our bodies but our souls, and so make us more ready to honor God by doing good to others?
Duration:00:36:59
Habits of Love: The Graces of Sharing Our Joy
7/26/2025
David Mathis | Our “habits of grace” prime us for witnessing, giving, and serving — and God uses even these outward expressions to give us even more grace.
Duration:00:46:41
FEAST: Five Prayers for Daily Bible Reading
7/19/2025
Marshall Segal | When our Bible meditation feels more like a job than a joy, these five short prayers can take us beyond discipline into delight.
Duration:00:38:50
Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election
7/12/2025
Why did God set his saving love on his people before the foundation of the world? So that we might praise the glory of his sovereign grace.
Duration:00:46:35
The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus
7/5/2025
David Mathis | Did Jesus endure the cross for his joy or despite it? The answer takes us to the heart of Jesus’s unusually human joy, and ours.
Duration:00:26:18
Providence: The Purposeful Sovereignty of God
6/28/2025
It’s one thing to know God is sovereign; it’s another to know just how far his sovereignty extends and the purposes for which he wields it.
Duration:00:46:57
Do You Love Jesus? A Grand Finale of His Greatness
6/21/2025
David Mathis | At the end of his Gospel, John gives us a grand finale of the mercy, wisdom, greatness, and never-ending glory of Jesus Christ.
Duration:00:34:09
How Doubting Thomas Finds Faith
6/14/2025
The story of Jesus and Thomas assures us that Jesus really rose bodily, that his patience surpasses our indwelling sin, and that we need not see to believe.
Duration:00:35:59
Be Still and Know: A Crisis-Ready Vision of God
6/7/2025
David Mathis | Where do we turn when the ground beneath our feet seems to buckle and shift? Psalm 46 offers a vision of God to keep us through any crisis.
Duration:00:51:42
Where Does Radical Love Come From?
5/28/2025
How can we be set free from selfishness so that, at any earthly cost to ourselves, we will love other people in a way that makes Christ look great?
Duration:00:43:35
Authentic Preaching in the Age of AI
5/21/2025
Tony Reinke | In the age of artificial intelligence, do we still need preachers? Answering that question well takes us to the heart of God-glorifying preaching.
Duration:00:52:41
Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus
5/14/2025
A camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, nor can we turn our own hearts from loving money to loving Jesus. But what is impossible with man is possible with God.
Duration:00:43:19
Take Care How You Hear a Sermon
5/7/2025
There is a way to see truth without seeing it — to hear without hearing. For all who listen to sermons, the words of Jesus stand: Take care how you hear.
Duration:00:40:04