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Messages by Desiring God

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Jan 25, 2025 • 50min

Supernatural Pastors: How to Minister in God’s Strength

Brothers, if we are going to do good — lasting good — to our churches, then we must preach and lead and counsel and serve in the strength that God supplies.
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Jan 15, 2025 • 53min

Sorrows Are Normal for Now: What to Expect on Your Journey Home

David Mathis | In this fallen world, expect suffering and sorrows. But also know that, in Christ, they are limited, designed, and rewarded by a kind and gracious God.
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Jan 11, 2025 • 58min

How to Feed a Pastor: The Secret Life of a Happy Man

David Mathis | As pastors, our first priority each day is not to serve God, help his people, or engage in other ministry, but to get our soul happy in God.
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Jan 1, 2025 • 42min

I Want You to Be a Christian Hedonist

David Mathis | Do you want God to look good in your life? Then heed his invitation to find your deepest hunger, deepest thirst, and deepest longings satisfied in him.
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Dec 18, 2024 • 37min

Slavery and Christ’s Supreme Lordship: How to Live Under Human Authority

In a world of many authorities, we magnify the supreme lordship of Christ by the way we submit to the fading structures of this age.
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Nov 27, 2024 • 55min

Countless Dangers, Continual Joy: How Is That Possible?

Paul’s Christian life was one of countless dangers, continual sorrows, and constant joy. How is that kind of life possible?
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Nov 20, 2024 • 1h 21min

Bend the Ear of God: Three Wonders of Christian Prayer

David Mathis | God not only speaks to us — he bends his ear to hear us talk. Through the work of Christ and the help of the Spirit, we have the ear of God.
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Nov 13, 2024 • 39min

Restore Our Joy in You: A Prayer for God-Centered Revival

Marshall Segal | When our souls grow dull to spiritual reality, the character of God is our confidence. He has restored us before; he will revive us again.
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Nov 6, 2024 • 33min

Doctrine Fails Without Delight: The Mind as Servant of the Heart

By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.
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Oct 30, 2024 • 33min

Do You Look to the Reward?

David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.

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