Messages by Desiring God
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
Latest episodes
May 24, 2015 • 19min
New Passions Are the Path to Holiness
John Piper | New passions give rise to new conduct. And if you try to turn it around, you don’t have Christianity anymore.
May 24, 2015 • 22min
A Faith More Precious Than Gold
John Piper | Your faith is so valuable that God is willing to put it through fire to burn out all the dross. Don’t begrudge the school of suffering because God deems it necessary.
May 24, 2015 • 16min
Simultaneous Joy and Sorrow
John Piper | The Christian life is characterized by the simultaneous experience of both joy and sorrow. Trials are allowed by God’s necessity to test and strengthen one’s faith, all while God provides the necessary grace for each day’s challenges.
May 24, 2015 • 15min
Why Your Faith Will Not Fail
John Piper | God sustains faith, trials refine faith, and faith glorifies Christ.
May 24, 2015 • 25min
Born Again to a Living Hope
John Piper | Every Christian has been born again, and everyone who has been born again has a living hope.
May 24, 2015 • 21min
The Word Awakens Joy and Worship
John Piper | According to the apostle Peter, knowing the cause, means, and goal of our election as exiles awakens joy and worship.
May 24, 2015 • 11min
Set Apart by the Spirit
John Piper | Our exile status is connected to our election — a connection carefully woven together by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If we attempt to be exiles apart from the work of the triune God, we end up with Phariseeism.
May 24, 2015 • 28min
Exiles on the Earth
John Piper discusses the identity of Christians as aliens and exiles on Earth with citizenship in heaven. Topics include exploring apostleship, exiles, and election in 1 Peter, and the concept of 'knowing' in the Bible connected to God's election.
May 24, 2015 • 36min
Basics for Reading the Bible
John Piper | If you find the Bible boring, mythological, or distracting, then 2 Corinthians 4:6 hasn’t happened to you yet. You will not understand the Bible without the Holy Spirit.
May 24, 2015 • 25min
A Survey of Suffering in 1 Peter
John Piper | If you feel totally at home in this world, 1 Peter will either pass by you or awaken you to your alien status here.
