Desiring God Messages by John Piper Audio
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
Messages from the ministry of John Piper.
Location:
United States
Description:
Messages from the ministry of John Piper.
Language:
English
Episodes
The Great Commission Is Never Convenient
12/11/2024
The circumstances for world missions may seem forbidding. But if we wait for the optimal time to become or send a missionary, then we won’t.
Duration:00:48:24
Hold True, Sing New: To the Next President of Our School
12/7/2024
“Hold fast the word, unchanged and true; let insight, joy, and song be new.” John Piper offers a charge to Brian Tabb, the third president of Bethlehem College and Seminary.
Duration:00:16:20
Countless Dangers, Continual Joy: How Is That Possible?
11/27/2024
Paul’s Christian life was one of countless dangers, continual sorrows, and constant joy. How is that kind of life possible?
Duration:00:55:29
Doctrine Fails Without Delight: The Mind as Servant of the Heart
11/6/2024
By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.
Duration:00:33:02
God-Centered Children: Teaching Our Kids the Biggest Vision
10/16/2024
Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.
Duration:00:50:02
The Beauty of Reformed Theology
10/2/2024
Reformed theology is beautiful because the God of sovereign grace is beautiful. The doctrines are windows — he is the glory.
Duration:00:52:45
Every Promise Is Yes in Him: The Privilege and Power of Union with Christ
9/25/2024
Apart from union with Christ, we would have no access to God’s promises and no reason to rejoice in affliction. But in Christ, every promise of God is Yes.
Duration:00:48:55
Serious Joy: The Root of Sacrificial Love
9/18/2024
How can Christians be freed from selfishness so that, at any cost to ourselves, we love others in a way that makes Christ look great? Answer: joy.
Duration:00:44:17
Jars of Clay: Pastoral Grit for the Glory of Christ
9/4/2024
The apostle Paul was no stranger to ministry’s many strains. Yet for all his afflictions, he neither lost heart nor tampered with the truth. How?
Duration:00:53:22
No Neutrality: The Illusion of Indifference to Jesus
8/21/2024
No one can be neutral about Jesus Christ. Either he will have our heart and soul, our life and obedience — or hell will.
Duration:00:41:23
Truth Triumphs Through Providence
8/14/2024
When God makes a promise, he keeps it. And he keeps it through his purposeful, all-wise, absolute sovereignty — through his providence.
Duration:01:04:57
Zeal: To Live with All Your Might
8/11/2024
God’s will is not simply that we obey God’s will, but that we obey it in a certain way: with all of our might for all of our life.
Duration:00:16:40
Toward Need, Not Comfort: The Blood-Bought Path of the Good Samaritan
8/7/2024
You don’t have to be Christian to love the story of the Good Samaritan. But applauding Luke’s parable apart from his Gospel contradicts his purpose.
Duration:00:43:59
Truth Triumphs Through Pleasure
7/31/2024
When the Bible speaks of “truth,” it refers ultimately to God himself. Therefore, truth demands more than just our minds — truth will have our whole hearts, now and forever.
Duration:00:44:30
The Fullest, Longest Happiness: For Those Who Pass the Test
7/3/2024
God never tests his saints with ill intent. As the Father of lights, his every test aims at the full and lasting happiness of his children.
Duration:00:38:34
The Word of God Kept Him: Funeral Message for Sidney Boyd (1948–2023)
3/28/2024
Why do God’s people wake up as believers day after day until they die? Because the same word that made us goes on keeping us to the end.
Duration:00:13:32
Leaders in the Church: Speaking and Living God’s Word
3/3/2024
Does church leadership seem endlessly complicated? Take heart. Christian leaders guide God’s people from where they are to where God wants them to go, using God’s methods.
Duration:00:56:01
Only One Life: Christ’s Invincible Gospel and Global Mission
2/25/2024
God is sovereign, and he has purposed his gospel to spread to the ends of the earth. Those who give themselves to that purpose are invincible, even through suffering.
Duration:00:47:25
His Voice in Yours: How Christ Wins the World
1/21/2024
God will have worshipers from every nation on earth. He will win them, and do so through us. We have only to tell them.
Duration:00:33:36
Gain What You Cannot Lose: The Joy of World Mission with Jesus
1/7/2024
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.
Duration:00:38:29