Messages by Desiring God

Tony Reinke | How should Christians orient toward technology? Should we ignore it, embrace it, be suspicious of it, or shun it altogether?

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?

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.

Marshall Segal | How can we make Jesus look good in life and in death? By enjoying him as better than anything life could ever give — and better than anything death could ever take.

David Mathis | Why do so many Christians love the book of Philippians? Among other reasons, because the letter is brief, accessible, memorable, and teeming with joy.

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God freely and sovereignly acts to display his glory in all things. Who are we to question him?

When your life is over on this earth, there will be two paths you can take: you will either meet God in eternal wrath or eternal life.

David Mathis | The Father prioritizes the church by choosing her, the Son prioritizes her by purchasing and purifying her, and the Spirit prioritizes her in his power. So, how do we prioritize the church?

Does church leadership seem endlessly complicated? Take heart. Christian leaders guide God’s people from where they are to where God wants them to go, using God’s methods.

David Mathis | How did Jesus know Scripture so well? The same way we can today: through patient, prayerful meditation on the word of God.

God is sovereign, and he has purposed his gospel to spread to the ends of the earth. Those who give themselves to that purpose are invincible, even through suffering.

David Mathis | Jesus had a full and fruitful ministry, but unlike us, he never seemed hurried or frantic. What can we learn by observing his holy habits during his earthly life?

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God will have worshipers from every nation on earth. He will win them, and do so through us. We have only to tell them.

David Mathis | What does it look like to walk in a way that is pleasing to God — to live so that God delights in the aroma of our lives?

When Christ calls us to the mission field with him, he calls us to deny shallow pleasures, die to ourselves, and enjoy greater and greater delight in him.

Are biblical warnings about false prophets still relevant? Yes, the threat looms as large today as in the first century.

David Mathis | Of the fifteen elder qualifications, “one-woman man” and “not quarrelsome” may be the two most at odds with our promiscuous, petty age.

Matthew’s Christmas story shows two ways to deal with Jesus: try to get rid of him like Herod, or fall down and worship him like the wise men.

The birth of John the Baptist was great, but the birth of Jesus Christ was infinitely greater. John prepared for salvation, but Jesus purchased it.

David Mathis | Scripture says elders should be “able to teach” and “sober-minded” — but why? The two correspond to a pastor’s most important tasks: feeding and leading.

David Mathis | How do you need God’s help this Advent? What need seems most pressing? Press into the message of Christmas, and you’ll find hope and help in time of need.

David Mathis | What does Christ call church leaders to be and do? Like him, they labor heartily and happily, not for selfish gain, but for their people’s joy.

David Mathis | What is Christian faith? Hebrews 11 not only answers the question but tells us what faith feels like, and how it leads to obedience, and living as exiles in this world.

David Mathis | To read the Bible is to read the very words of God. Do we grasp the significance, the reality-shaking impact, of this seemingly simple truth?

David Mathis | Good pastors are not naive: ministry comes with many costs. Even so, Christ has not called us to an impossible, joyless task. The cross proves otherwise.

David Mathis | Some may not think of David, the shepherd king, as particularly masculine, but Scripture paints him in a far more manly and glorious light.

When Jesus asks the Pharisees how David calls the Messiah “Lord,” they refuse to answer. What made that seemingly simple question so incendiary?

God is. No reality is more mind-boggling, more valuable, more life-altering, more electrifying than the absolute being of God.

What is sovereign, sustaining grace? It is not grace that spares us pain, but grace that orders our pain — and then sustains us through the pain.

David Mathis | From principals to presidents, leadership failures fill the news. We long for someone in power to lead with wisdom and fairness. Praise God, the ideal king has come.

Romans 8:32 is perhaps the greatest verse in the Bible. No other text quite describes how far God has gone for our salvation and will go for our joy.

God’s word speaks to the mysteries of suffering. We will only bear pain well as we begin to see it like he does.

Are you worthy of Jesus? We not only can be — we need to be.

In Jesus, we have eternal life if we do and keep his word. Though we all will die, death is not the end of life for all those in Christ.

God calls each one of us to love him with all our minds. The hard work of thinking rightly honors him and loves our neighbors when our minds move to action.

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God promises unimaginable blessings to every one of his children – if we have the courage to walk with Jesus through suffering.

God’s glory and our gladness do not have to be at odds, but are in fact one and the same pursuit. John Piper demonstrates how with the help of Jonathan Edwards.

God promises innumerable benefits to all who trust in him. But those gifts aren’t an end in themselves. Our greatest joy is God himself.

In his 2014 plenary message at T4G, John Piper preaches about the seeming tension between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility in all our efforts to convert the lost.

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In suffering, we come to hope more fully in God and put less confidence in the things of the world. We also come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.

God opens his arms to both prodigals and Pharisees — to those who know they don’t deserve mercy, and those who have worked for mercy their whole life.

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John Piper | We always face the threat of ruining any season of grace. Don’t waste your seminary years, but more importantly, don’t waste your life.

When we embrace Christ’s cross and the unswerving foundation of God’s sovereignty, we will be kept by merciful and omnipotent glory.

If you are a child of God, then the Holy Spirit lives and works in you to kill sin and depend on God.

Forgiveness is precious for one ultimate reason — one sweet, high, glorious reason: We get God back.

As gospel ministers do the work of finding words to help their people grow in a deeper relationship with God, they themselves will grow in depth.

What’s the difference between “missional” and “missions”? What are the key points of agreement and disagreement between John Piper and Douglas Wilson regarding eschatology?

God is ransoming a people for himself from every tribe, tongue, and nation. Therefore, missions is a call to the people groups of the world, not just the countries of the world.

John Piper | Though Christ has been accused of egomania, the accusation falters when we realize that our greatest joy and Christ’s greatest glory are not at odds but rather in harmony with one another.

Jesus won innumerable benefits for his people, but the greatest good he brings us is God himself.

The New Testament not only says that you can have a zeal and not be saved, but it also says that you cannot be saved without a zeal for God.

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Lewis’s romanticism and rationalism were the paths on which he came to Christ — and the paths on which he lived his life and did his work.

Being deeply satisfied in Jesus as your supreme treasure gives you the power to lay down your life for the good of the nations.

When our souls drink deeply from God’s delights, we can’t help but overflow and invite others to join us.

Doctrinal depth is crucial for the work of gathering Christ’s lost sheep through the proclamation of the gospel.

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You are precious to God, and the greatest gift he has for you is not to let your preciousness become your god, but to enable you to make much of him as your God.

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We should not be afraid to pray that God would make us maximally influential, provided that influence means people getting saved and becoming like Jesus. In this interview, John Piper reflects on 33 years in pastoral ministry.

There are many gods, but there is no God like our — a God who works for those who wait for him.

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We are all created for God’s glory, and the way we most glorify God is by being satisfied in him.

The new birth is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit that cleanses us from all our sin and makes us into a new creation.

As John Piper steps away from his pastoral role at Bethlehem Baptist Church, he reflects on his ministry with heartfelt gratitude to God.

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Trusting future grace in all that God promises to be for us in Jesus is the only way to successfully put sin to death and live a life of love.

Living by faith in future grace does not undermine the importance of gratitude, but rather emphasizes the repeated biblical testimony that the Christian life is a life of faith.

Faith in future grace is essential for God to be glorified in our lives of holiness.

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Pastor John addresses the Bethlehem staff in the transition of his pastoral role in 2011 concerning 20 things he is thankful for.

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Every pastor must work hard for the joy of his people. But he can only do this from the overflow of a hunger for God.

Is Dietrich Bonhoeffer a theological liberal? How should the church respond to the current political trend to legalize so-called “gay marriage”? In this interview, John Piper and Eric Metaxas discuss these questions and more.

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John Piper | The promises of God stand only if he is supremely sovereign. What does that mean for our individual salvation?

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In light of opposition to Christianity in culture, we must hold fast to the Scriptures according to the pattern of 2 Timothy 3:14–17.

Every Christian should have a holy ambition that is rooted in the word of God and aimed at meeting needs in the cause of world evangelization.

The essence of worship is the experience of being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

A life of ministry is a life of hardship. But Jesus will strengthen us to endure every trial and struggle when we press on in faith.

George Herbert’s work and effort shows that words in our life matter. And how we use them can help us capture what’s really beautiful.