
Messages by Desiring God
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
Latest episodes

Oct 3, 2012 • 30min
Should We Celebrate Interracial Marriage?
God is concerned with our purity of faith, not race. He never forbids marriage between ethnicities, but between believer and unbeliever.

Oct 3, 2012 • 42min
Ten Ways to Pursue Ethnic Harmony in Your Church
Christ calls us to pursue unity in diversity, but what does that look like in a local church? John Piper offers ten ways forward.

Sep 30, 2012 • 1h 17min
Act the Miracle: Future Grace, the Word of the Cross, and the Purifying Power of God’s Promises
John Piper | Christians tap into the sin-killing power of God when we believe a blood-bought promise and embrace it as a more precious treasure than any temptation in front of us.

Sep 28, 2012 • 57min
Prelude to Acting the Miracle: Putting Sanctification in Its Place
John Piper | God will bring our feelings, thoughts, and actions into conformity to his infinitely satisfying worth. If we are in Christ, it is as good as done.

Sep 22, 2012 • 46min
Why Did God Create the World?
God created and sustains everything in this universe to display his glorious grace in Jesus.

Sep 15, 2012 • 44min
Eternal Security Is a Community Project
John Piper | God designed his church so that her members endure in belief by giving and receiving faith-sustaining words of life.

Sep 9, 2012 • 24min
Reflections on Pastoring Three Decades Downtown
Three decades of ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church demonstrate five important things that pastors should rememember for their ministries.

Sep 8, 2012 • 48min
‘I Am Who I Am’
There is nothing more foundational, pervasive, and necessary than the truth and reality that God absolutely is who he is.

Aug 26, 2012 • 48min
He Stood by Me and Strengthened Me for the Sake of the Gospel
No matter how rough the road of your life, Jesus is a rock-solid friend who encourages and strengthens you to press on.

Aug 25, 2012 • 1h 17min
God's Delight in Being God
John Piper | God’s pleasure in election, the death of Christ, doing good to those who hope in him, and the obedience of his people all stems from his fundamental pleasure in his own excellency.