Messages by Desiring God

John Piper | Jesus’s supreme authority empowers his Great Commission. We go, teach, and teach others to teach in the confidence that Jesus himself is with us.

John Piper | Central to biblical Christianity is the pursuit of our joy in God. John Piper expresses fifteen hopes for the future of maximizing our joy in God.

John Piper | God’s volcanic passion for his own glory erupts in overflowing delight for his Son and unceasing joy for his children who share in God’s own glorious bliss.

John Piper | In all true Bible reading, we think and God gives. We work hard to comprehend the authors’ intended meaning while we simultaneously rely on God to help us understand.

John Piper | Whenever we read the Bible, we depend on God’s supernatural power to illumine the words, sentences, and paragraphs with his glory.

John Piper | The Bible is indispensable to the Christian life. Without the written word, we simply could not know the Incarnate Word.

John Piper | Christians embrace both the New Testament and the Old because every single page of the Scriptures points to Jesus who fulfills them.

John Piper | God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is not the act of a needy ego, but an act of infinite giving.

John Piper | Christians can show the world the hope they have within through joyful, humble willingness to suffer wrong and serve, rather than return evil for evil.

John Piper | God supplies the sustaining grace we need to love others well as we seriously pursue our joy in him.