Messages by Desiring God
Desiring God
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Oct 30, 2007 • 44min
How to Love Your People: The Gladness of Your People and the Glory of God
If pastors are going to labor for the joy of their people, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:24, then they must first make it their priority to pursue their own joy in the Lord.
Oct 28, 2007 • 43min
Treasuring Christ Together Because He Is More Valuable Than All Else
Nothing is more important as a church grows than that its people help each other rejoice in Jesus.
Oct 21, 2007 • 47min
‘I Am Sending You Out as Sheep in the Midst of Wolves’: The Cost and Blessing of Being a Christian Missionary
The costs of taking the gospel to the unreached is high, but the Lamb who is worthy to receive the reward of his suffering is infinitely greater.
Oct 17, 2007 • 1h 8min
Some Sweet Blessings of Masculine Christianity
The church is blessed by strong, humble, Christ-like male leadership and the corresponding culture it breeds.
Oct 12, 2007 • 1h 15min
The Pleasures of God, Part 1
God has eternally enjoyed himself as Trinity and creates us to make his glory go on public display that we may be satisfied in him forever.
Oct 7, 2007 • 40min
Judas Iscariot, the Suicide of Satan, and the Salvation of the World
Every detail of the death of Christ happened according to the plan of God — even his betrayal and agonies.
Sep 30, 2007 • 1h 3min
Getting Old for the Glory of God
Getting old is about God's glory, not the American Dream
Sep 23, 2007 • 46min
The Sinful Origin of the Son of David
Israel’s bad kingship was a grievous sin. But God planned bad kings to pave the road for a spectacular Savior.
Sep 16, 2007 • 45min
Encouraging Each Other at the End of the Age
God's command to us to meet with and encourage each other is for our happiness.
Sep 9, 2007 • 48min
The Sale of Joseph and the Son of God
Injustice marks both Joseph’s story and Jesus’s, but even in dire circumstances, God is sovereignly working everything for our good and his glory.
