Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God
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Jun 19, 2024 • 42min

Work Out What Christ Has Won: The Christian Life as Gift and Duty

David Mathis | The everyday Christian life is both a gift and a duty. By God’s own indwelling power, we work out what Christ has won.
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Jun 12, 2024 • 42min

What Is It Like to ‘Know Christ’?

David Mathis | The Christian life has one final aim: to know and enjoy Jesus. He justified us to know him, we daily press on to know him more, and one day we will know him fully and forever.
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Jun 5, 2024 • 30min

How to Win a Fight: Heavenly Wisdom for Relational Conflict

Marshall Segal | What counsel does the book of James offer for our relationships? Submit to God, ask for wisdom, temper your words, calm your anger, and embrace godly community.
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May 29, 2024 • 1h 9min

When God Listens: His Ear and Our Access

David Mathis | When we stop and look, we find that we know a lot more about Jesus’s spiritual disciplines than we might think. What can we learn from the prayer life of the Savior?
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May 22, 2024 • 59min

How Church Rescues: Christ’s Body as His Means

David Mathis | When we think of spiritual disciplines, we might immediately think of our time alone with God, but the Christian faith is a community project. We all need the body of Christ.
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May 15, 2024 • 50min

Where Jesus Travels: Introducing the Means of Grace

David Mathis | Whomever God justifies, he also sanctifies. What means has he given us to keep growing in holiness?
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Apr 14, 2024 • 34min

The Safest Soul in All the World: Rejoicing in the Risen Christ

David Mathis | The safest soul in all the universe is the one that rejoices in the risen Christ. God will never destroy those who delight in his Son.
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Apr 7, 2024 • 44min

Where Does Technology Come From? 2024 Scudder Lecture

Tony Reinke | How should Christians orient toward technology? Should we ignore it, embrace it, be suspicious of it, or shun it altogether?
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Mar 31, 2024 • 44min

Before Division Comes: A Playbook for Pastoral Unity

David Mathis | Even among pastor-elder teams, conflict comes. Disagreements are inevitable. How then might we navigate conflict with a constant eye toward God-honoring unity?
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Mar 28, 2024 • 14min

The Word of God Kept Him: Funeral Message for Sidney Boyd (1948–2023)

Why do God’s people wake up as believers day after day until they die? Because the same word that made us goes on keeping us to the end.

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