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When our hearts run dry, and our good works languish, the Bible bids us: “Consider the end.”

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03.05.2023 What Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages? When our hearts run dry, and our good works languish, the Bible bids us: “Consider the end.”
01.29.2023 It Will Be Worth It: Overcoming Obstacles to World Missions When it comes to missions, reasons abound to stay rather than to go. But for every apparent obstacle, countless promises say, “It will be worth it.”
01.20.2023 Ordinary Elders, Part 2: Governing as Men Who Teach David Mathis \| Pastors are first and foremost teachers, but they are not only teachers. They feed the sheep and lead the sheep — and they lead by feeding.
01.19.2023 Ordinary Elders, Part 1: Working for the Joy of Others David Mathis \| The pastors we all want are men who want to pastor, who want to see God move in them and through them for the joy of others.
01.08.2023 Is Jesus an Egomaniac? Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian Faith What do we call an obsessively self-centered person? An egomaniac. Then what should we call God, who demands all our praise? We call him gracious.
12.29.2022 Appeal from John Piper John Piper \| Your prayers and financial support help us bring more people into the fullest enjoyment of the greatest treasure ever found. For every $10 per month you give, we can reach 70 more people with God-centered resources. Would ...
12.29.2022 The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year When we pray for God to preserve us, we ask that he would be not only our Lord, but our life — not only our God, but our highest and everlasting good.
12.25.2022 Prince of What Peace? How Christmas Overcomes Our Conflicts At the root of all conflict is man’s conflict with God. At Christmas, we celebrate that God took the initiative to establish true peace.
12.18.2022 How Majestic Is Our Lord? David Mathis \| When speaking of God, we grope for fresh language to name the greatness of God. Might we learn to reach more often for the word “majesty”?
12.11.2022 The Joy of the Puritans The Puritans took joy seriously because they read the Bible carefully. They saw that delight in God is at the heart of all true obedience.
12.05.2022 Ten Looks at Jesus, Part 2 David Mathis \| “For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” How happy might we be if we heeded Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s counsel?
12.04.2022 Ten Looks at Jesus, Part 1 David Mathis \| “For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” How happy might we be if we heeded Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s famous counsel?
12.01.2022 He Delighted to Crush His Son: The Pleasure of God in the Gospel David Mathis \| The Father not only planned for his Son to die, but was pleased to crush him. And for those in Christ, this can be as comforting as it is astonishing.
11.27.2022 The Purposes of God in the Pain of the World Before he created the earth, God knew pain would plague this world. And not only knew, but planned. And not only planned — but purposed.
11.20.2022 How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners? You will not be perfect in this life, but you can be pleasing to God. You can become a real ingredient in the divine happiness.
11.17.2022 God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings The individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.
11.06.2022 Secret Liturgies: The Private Worship of a Public Leader David Mathis \| Blessed is the leader who meditates on God’s law day and night — not just in public, but all the more in secret.
10.30.2022 Fall Back to the Banner: Four Lessons for Our Devastations David Mathis \| When loss surrounds us, when fears assail us, we have a banner to which to flee. We turn to the God who has spoken, and there find real hope and strength.
10.23.2022 Good Preaching Takes Hard Work David Mathis \| Good preachers carry many burdens before preaching, while preaching, and after preaching — and the rewards still outweigh the costs.
10.02.2022 How Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love? When glad in God, we bend low in love for others. We imitate Christ, who not only bowed the knee but hung his body on the tree.
08.21.2022 God Can Handle Your Crisis David Mathis \| Psalm 46 teaches us God can handle the earth’s undoing and nations raging against his people — and that if he can do that, he can be a very present help in our trouble.
08.07.2022 Water from the Rock for Undeserving People God promises us his life-sustaining presence, even as he leads us into waterless regions of suffering and loss.
07.03.2022 Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away Faith does not shipwreck upon the rocks of history, logic, science, or ethics, but on the mountains of sinful desire.
06.26.2022 The Uncommon Virtue of Humility Humility flourishes in hearts that focus not on being humble, but on gladly exalting Jesus, who is superior to us in every possible way.
06.05.2022 The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ David Mathis \| We boast on Sunday because Christ died on Friday. No cross, no favor with God. No crucifixion, no resurrection. We live because he died.
05.15.2022 What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’? David Mathis \| What is freedom in Christ? Freedom from trying to earn God’s acceptance, and freedom to know and enjoy God forever.
05.08.2022 Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It There is a kind of unhealthy preaching that fails to make plain the effective connection between the sin-bearing work of Christ and the sin-killing work of the Christian.
05.01.2022 We Rejoice to Suffer for You: Pastoral Pain and the People’s Joy Why does the apostle Paul speak so much about himself and his suffering? Because his suffering for the sake of others makes the love of Christ tangible to them.
04.24.2022 Brother Ass: Stewarding the Body as Christian Hedonists David Mathis \| Why would Christians exercise? Working and pushing these bodies, as God designed them, serves our learning, our joy, and our love.
04.17.2022 Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News David Mathis \| What if, with some intentionality, the news could become a source of refreshment rather than a continual distraction and discouragement?
04.14.2022 The Supremacy of Christ in Everything The sovereign supremacy of Christ both keeps us from error and enables us to persevere through hardships with patience and joyful thankfulness.
04.10.2022 ‘The Joy of the Lord Is Your Stronghold’ Joy in God becomes our stronghold when we are awakened to see and savor him as our greatest joy.
03.27.2022 Bible Reading Has Been My Life: Personal Reflections for Christian Fathers What does Bible reading look like for John Piper? In this message to fathers, he tells personal stories and shares how he has weaved Bible reading into all of life.
03.20.2022 How to Meet with God for a Lifetime David Mathis \| How do we meet with God in his word for a lifetime? Every morning, seek to gather a day’s portion.
03.13.2022 Harnessing the Lightning: Tesla’s 3,000-Year Backstory Tony Reinke \| Is a lightning rod — and by extension, all other tech — an act of faith or an act of God-thwarting unbelief?
03.06.2022 The Humbled Win the World David Mathis \| Before we step out to attempt big, ambitious things for Jesus, we need to prepare ourselves to receive and embrace the humbling that will inevitably come.
01.23.2022 23 Tips from 23 Years of Book Reading Tony Reinke \| Many of us today love to swipe, scroll, and stare, but hardly read. Tony Reinke shares 23 tips for reading more and better in a digital age.
01.10.2022 Prayer Vocalizes Our Abiding in Christ Prayer says more than the words it speaks. The act of praying vocalizes a profound reality: God himself abides in us, and we abide in him.
01.03.2022 Show Us Your Glory: Prayer That Sparks Reformation David Mathis \| Moses made an audacious request. God answered — but only in part. And what he revealed at Sinai pales in comparison to Calvary.
12.23.2021 The Fearlessness of Christmas Joy: Six Wonders of Christ’s Lordship The first Christmas brought good news. With it came fearless, great joy for all those who confess, “Jesus is Lord.”
12.22.2021 Year-End Request from John Piper John Piper \| The ministry of Desiring God is fueled by the prayers and financial gifts of God’s people. If you have been blessed by our resources in 2021, would you consider becoming a monthly partner? https://give.desiringgod.org/#monthly
12.19.2021 The Global Glorification of the Merciful God The church exists for missions — and because of missions. God plans for his people to come from the peoples, a promise he first made to Israel.
12.12.2021 The Pleasures of God’s Faithfulness: Reflections on Bethlehem’s 150 Years In 2021, Bethlehem Baptist celebrated 150 years as a church. As part of the celebration service, former pastor John Piper reflects on how a church could endure, and bear fruit, over generations.
11.14.2021 Workers for Your Joy: The Call of Christ to Christian Leaders David Mathis \| God made us to be led, every one of us. He designed us to thrive, not in autonomy, but under the wisdom and care of worthy leaders.
11.07.2021 We Win the World with Singing God plans to win the world with singing. Here are five connections between our joy-filled worship and the finishing of the Great Commission.
11.04.2021 Update from John Piper John Piper \| About changes to this podcast.
08.08.2021 Who Are the Nations? Discovering God’s Global Mission The Lamb who was slain will one day receive the reward of his suffering — people will come to him in joyful faith from every tribe, tongue, and nation.
07.25.2021 ‘Rejoice When You Are Slandered’: How to Do the Humanly Impossible One of the most challenging commands in all the Bible is to rejoice when reviled. It’s not just difficult; it is humanly impossible.
07.11.2021 Serious Joy for Leaders Who Last: To the Class of 2021 Christian leaders often carry great burdens. But God never leaves them without the opportunity to know serious joy, even in the hardest trials.
05.09.2021 The Achievement of Christ Without Which There Would Be No Others Christ has secured innumerable benefits for his people. But without this central, most foundational achievement, all the rest would collapse.

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Messages by Desiring God episodes:

What Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages?

It Will Be Worth It: Overcoming Obstacles to World Missions

Ordinary Elders, Part 2: Governing as Men Who Teach

Ordinary Elders, Part 1: Working for the Joy of Others

Is Jesus an Egomaniac? Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian Faith

Appeal from John Piper

The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year

Prince of What Peace? How Christmas Overcomes Our Conflicts

How Majestic Is Our Lord?

The Joy of the Puritans

Ten Looks at Jesus, Part 2

Ten Looks at Jesus, Part 1

He Delighted to Crush His Son: The Pleasure of God in the Gospel

The Purposes of God in the Pain of the World

How Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners?

God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings

Secret Liturgies: The Private Worship of a Public Leader

Fall Back to the Banner: Four Lessons for Our Devastations

Good Preaching Takes Hard Work

How Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love?

God Can Handle Your Crisis

Water from the Rock for Undeserving People

Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away

The Uncommon Virtue of Humility

The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ

What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’?

Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It

We Rejoice to Suffer for You: Pastoral Pain and the People’s Joy

Brother Ass: Stewarding the Body as Christian Hedonists

Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News

The Supremacy of Christ in Everything

‘The Joy of the Lord Is Your Stronghold’

Bible Reading Has Been My Life: Personal Reflections for Christian Fathers

How to Meet with God for a Lifetime

Harnessing the Lightning: Tesla’s 3,000-Year Backstory

The Humbled Win the World

23 Tips from 23 Years of Book Reading

Prayer Vocalizes Our Abiding in Christ

Show Us Your Glory: Prayer That Sparks Reformation

The Fearlessness of Christmas Joy: Six Wonders of Christ’s Lordship

Year-End Request from John Piper

The Global Glorification of the Merciful God

The Pleasures of God’s Faithfulness: Reflections on Bethlehem’s 150 Years

Workers for Your Joy: The Call of Christ to Christian Leaders

We Win the World with Singing

Update from John Piper

Who Are the Nations? Discovering God’s Global Mission

‘Rejoice When You Are Slandered’: How to Do the Humanly Impossible

Serious Joy for Leaders Who Last: To the Class of 2021

The Achievement of Christ Without Which There Would Be No Others

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