Messages by Desiring God

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.

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.

John Piper | God sustains faith, trials refine faith, and faith glorifies Christ.

John Piper | Every Christian has been born again, and everyone who has been born again has a living hope.

John Piper | According to the apostle Peter, knowing the cause, means, and goal of our election as exiles awakens joy and worship.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Piper’s commencement message on the relationship between friendship with Jesus and the aims of higher education — specifically the educational aims of Bethlehem College and Seminary.