Messages by Desiring God

John Piper | Preaching in the gathered community of saints is appropriate, fitting, and normative in light of biblical principles and the affectional nature of worship.

John Piper | Implications of knowing that the inward essence of worship is being satisfied in God include the pursuit of joy, the understanding of worship as an end in itself, and view that all of life is worship.

John Piper | If worship is the soul’s satisfaction in all that God is for us in Jesus, then God is most loving to us when he removes every obstacle to our joy and enthralls us with himself.

John Piper | The New Testament emphasizes worship as an inward, spiritual event, and the key to understanding worship is the truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

John Piper | Corporateness in the early church was a given. Lone Christians were not the norm, and Christians came together in various ways to pursue God together.

The call of the Christian life is to join God in his grand plan to magnify his own glory over all.

The book of Ruth exists to show us that God is always at work, even in our darkest hours, to bring us to worship him and display his glory.

The Father sent the Son to deliver his people, and now he sends his people to deliver the message. As the Son was sent, so now are we.

There is only one place that is safe — it’s not your bank account, your house, or anything made by man. It’s in the refuge of God’s wings.

As Lord of all, Jesus Christ will claim people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation no matter what — but he has chosen his body, the church, to send and proclaim the message.