Messages by Desiring God (Video)
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Leaders in the Church: Speaking and Living God’s Word
March 03, 2024 11:00 - 56 minutes - 1.59 GB VideoJohn Piper | 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.
How Jesus Knew the Word: His Secret to Scripture Memory
February 29, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes - 546 MB VideoDavid Mathis | How did Jesus know Scripture so well? The same way we can today: through patient, prayerful meditation on the word of God.
Only One Life: Christ’s Invincible Gospel and Global Mission
February 25, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes - 1.34 GB VideoJohn Piper | 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.
How Jesus Met with God: The Pace and Patterns of a Perfect Life
February 17, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes - 750 MB VideoDavid Mathis | Jesus had a full and fruitful ministry, but unlike us, he never seemed hurried or frantic. What can we learn by observing his holy habits during his earthly life?
His Voice in Yours: How Christ Wins the World
January 21, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes VideoJohn Piper | God will have worshipers from every nation on earth. He will win them, and do so through us. We have only to tell them.
How to Please a Happy God: Six Glimpses of the Christian Life
January 14, 2024 11:00 - 43 minutes VideoDavid Mathis | What does it look like to walk in a way that is pleasing to God — to live so that God delights in the aroma of our lives?
Gain What You Cannot Lose: The Joy of World Mission with Jesus
January 07, 2024 11:00 - 38 minutes VideoJohn 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.
Christmas Was and Christmas Is: The Whole Story of Advent
December 10, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes VideoDavid 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.
Jesus Came to Save: Ten Great Realities of Christmas
December 03, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes VideoJohn 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.
Man of War and Grace: The Greatest of Israel’s Kings
November 25, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes VideoDavid 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.
Do Not Believe Every Spirit: The Threat and Defeat of False Teaching Today
October 27, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes VideoJohn Piper | Are biblical warnings about false prophets still relevant? Yes, the threat looms as large today as in the first century.
Before You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like Jesus
October 26, 2023 11:00 - 48 minutes VideoDavid 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.
What’s It Like to Be a Christian? Faith, Obedience, and Living as Strangers
October 08, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes VideoDavid 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.
Whose Son Is the Messiah? King David and the God of Israel
September 30, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes VideoJohn Piper | When Jesus asks the Pharisees how David calls the Messiah “Lord,” they refuse to answer. What made that seemingly simple question so incendiary?
God Is: The Life-Altering Reality of Sheer Divine Existence
September 25, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes VideoJohn Piper | God is. No reality is more mind-boggling, more valuable, more life-altering, more electrifying than the absolute being of God.
Grace Will Order All Your Pain: Retirement Message for Dana Olson
August 20, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes VideoJohn 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.
The Leader You Long to Follow
August 13, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 1.62 GB VideoDavid 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.
The Spell That Opened Heaven: Funeral Message for Daniel Fuller (1925–2023)
July 29, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes - 988 MB VideoJohn 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.
The Final Hours of Suffering: Funeral Message for Nancy Nelson (1952–2023)
June 07, 2023 10:00 - 25 minutes - 1000 MB VideoJohn 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.
Happy Pastors Make Healthy Churches
May 28, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 1.21 GB VideoJohn 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.
Why We Sing About the Blood
May 21, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 1.62 GB VideoDavid 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.
More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed
May 19, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutes - 613 MB VideoJohn 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.
Do Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors
May 07, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 782 MB VideoDavid 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?
Why Bethlehem Has a College: Biblical Foundations for Church-Based Education
April 23, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutes - 1.17 GB VideoJohn Piper | What makes a college distinctly Christian? Education is not an end in itself, but a means to knowing and loving Christ.
Hamilton: An American Prodigal
April 20, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes - 2.12 GB VideoDavid 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.
Danger Averted, Destiny Attained: Funeral Message for Lois Nelson (1919–2023)
April 13, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes - 990 MB VideoJohn 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.
The Demons, the Fever, and the Word of the King
March 12, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes - 1.78 GB VideoJohn 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.
Press Afresh into Jesus: Four Truths About Genuine Faith
March 05, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 1.38 GB VideoDavid Mathis | Genuine faith welcomes, enjoys, fears, strives after, and rests in God. And in doing so, genuine faith perseveres.
What Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages?
January 30, 2023 11:00 - 55 minutes - 2.22 GB VideoJohn Piper | When our hearts run dry, and our good works languish, the Bible bids us: “Consider the end.”
The Story of the Greatest Coronation
January 15, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 634 MB VideoDavid Mathis | When Christ ascended into heaven, an otherworldly ceremony commenced. Here was the long-awaited Son of David, the only man angels ever worshiped.
The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year
December 11, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes - 878 MB VideoJohn 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.
Prince of What Peace? How Christmas Overcomes Our Conflicts
December 04, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutes - 1.82 GB VideoJohn 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.
Secret Liturgies: The Private Worship of a Public Leader
November 06, 2022 11:00 - 43 minutes - 1.04 GB VideoDavid Mathis | Blessed is the leader who meditates on God’s law day and night — not just in public, but all the more in secret.
It Will Be Worth It: Overcoming Obstacles to World Missions
October 23, 2022 11:00 - 25 minutes - 881 MB VideoJohn 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.”
Is Jesus an Egomaniac? Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian Faith
October 15, 2022 11:00 - 51 minutes - 1.29 GB VideoJohn 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.
The Joy of the Puritans
October 06, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 2.32 GB VideoJohn 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.
He Delighted to Crush His Son: The Pleasure of God in the Gospel
October 01, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 1.87 GB VideoDavid 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.
A World God Could Admire: Recovering His Pleasure in Creation
October 01, 2022 10:00 - 57 minutes - 2 GB VideoMarshall 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.
How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners?
September 30, 2022 11:00 - 59 minutes - 2.39 GB VideoJohn 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.
Fall Back to the Banner: Four Lessons for Our Devastations
September 18, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 1.44 GB VideoDavid 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.
God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings
September 05, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 1.29 GB VideoJohn Piper | The individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.
How Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love?
August 28, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes - 592 MB VideoJohn 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.
Water from the Rock for Undeserving People
June 17, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutes - 1.43 GB VideoJohn Piper | God promises us his life-sustaining presence, even as he leads us into waterless regions of suffering and loss.
God Can Handle Your Crisis
June 12, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 598 MB VideoDavid 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.
Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away
May 20, 2022 10:00 - 18 minutes - 637 MB VideoJohn Piper | Faith does not shipwreck upon the rocks of history, logic, science, or ethics, but on the mountains of sinful desire.
The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
April 27, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutes - 1.66 GB VideoJohn 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.
Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It
April 20, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes - 1.49 GB VideoJohn 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.
Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News
April 17, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes - 1.5 GB VideoDavid Mathis | What if, with some intentionality, the news could become a source of refreshment rather than a continual distraction and discouragement?
The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ
April 17, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 1.13 GB VideoDavid 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.
What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’?
March 20, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 1.15 GB VideoDavid Mathis | What is freedom in Christ? Freedom from trying to earn God’s acceptance, and freedom to know and enjoy God forever.