

Messages by Desiring God
Desiring God
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
Episodes
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Aug 9, 2025 • 19min
Will Christ Be Humiliated on the Last Day? To the Class of 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?

Aug 2, 2025 • 37min
Value the Human Body: Technology, Exercise, and the Pursuit of True Joy
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?

Jul 26, 2025 • 47min
Habits of Love: The Graces of Sharing Our Joy
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.

Jul 19, 2025 • 39min
FEAST: Five Prayers for Daily Bible Reading
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.

Jul 12, 2025 • 47min
Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election
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.

Jul 5, 2025 • 26min
The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus
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.

Jun 28, 2025 • 47min
Providence: The Purposeful Sovereignty of God
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.

Jun 21, 2025 • 34min
Do You Love Jesus? A Grand Finale of His Greatness
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.

Jun 14, 2025 • 36min
How Doubting Thomas Finds Faith
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.

Jun 7, 2025 • 52min
Be Still and Know: A Crisis-Ready Vision of God
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.