Sermon of the Day

By Desiring God

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One classic John Piper sermon or conference message for each day of the year, based on listeners’ recommendations and feedback. Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and is author of more than 50 books. His sermons, books, articles, and more are available free of charge at desiringGod.org.

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03.31.2023

A change is coming to this podcast on April 11.

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03.31.2023 Podcast Update A change is coming to this podcast on April 11.
03.31.2023 In These Last Days, God Has Spoken by a Son Do you want to hear God speak? God has now spoken not just by prophets, but through his Son.
03.30.2023 Why Do Christians Preach and Sing? No other religion or movement on the planet preaches and sings like Christians.
03.29.2023 The Pleasure of God in Obedience Obedience to God makes our God-glorifying hope visible and proves that it is real in our lives.
03.28.2023 The Plundering of Your Property and the Power of Hope We can joyfully accept hardship in this life because our true home is in heaven. Our best life is yet to come.
03.27.2023 The Gallows and the Gift of Life An allegory of a man in a prison called “conviction” and how he got out.
03.26.2023 The Freedom and Justice of God in Unconditional Election The nature of being God means that he has absolute free will. He has mercy on whom he will have mercy according to his sovereign choice.
03.25.2023 Why Was This Child Born Blind? Every sorrow and every time we suffer, there is a divinely designed purpose to display God’s glory and increase our joy.
03.24.2023 The Word of God Is at Work in You Walking by the Spirit is a continual depending, praying, trusting, acting, and thanking God all out of faith.
03.23.2023 I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life Jesus prepares a place in paradise for all his people. Trust him now, and you’ll reap untold riches — now and forever.
03.22.2023 Prayer Changes People’s Wills Don’t neglect the amazing influence you have in the world through prayer.
03.21.2023 The Deep Riches and Wisdom and Knowledge of God Nothing and no one compares to the greatness and grandeur of our God.
03.20.2023 Thy Word I Have Treasured in My Heart Do you hate sin in your life? As a Christian you should. Here is some practical help to fight sin.
03.19.2023 The Truth Will Set You Free Self-justification won’t work. Only Jesus can free you from Satan’s chains.
03.18.2023 When Will Prophecy Cease? The spiritual gift of prophecy has not passed away. God uses it for the good of the church until Jesus comes.
03.17.2023 Who Shall Separate Us from the Love of Christ? If we are to grow in our love to one another, we must first experience Christ’s love as a deep, unshakable love.
03.16.2023 The Pleasure of God in Those Who Hope in His Love God delights in those who place the full weight of their hope in him.
03.15.2023 Spiritual Gifts God gives us spiritual gifts so that we can help our brothers and sisters fight the good fight of faith.
03.14.2023 Why God Inspired Hard Texts God reveals himself to us clearly in his word. There are difficult passages, but their benefit is never beyond our reach.
03.13.2023 How to Find Gold in God’s Word: Reading the Bible with Supernatural Help All the Bible knowledge in the world won’t help you unless you cherish God’s truth. We’re nothing more than Pharisees unless we taste the glory of God in his word.
03.12.2023 I Am the Light of the World There is no light besides Jesus. It’s Jesus or darkness. It’s life or death. Choose this day whom you shall serve.
03.11.2023 You Cannot Follow Me Now Only Jesus could do the saving work we needed. Only he could bear the awesome weight of our sin.
03.10.2023 Do Not Love the World God offers an ever-flowing river of delight to anyone who will drink deeply of his goodness.
03.09.2023 Don’t Be Anxious, Your Heavenly Father Cares You don’t have to be anxious. Your heavenly Father will provide for all of your needs.
03.08.2023 Don’t Be Anxious, Lay Up Treasure in Heaven Our treasures on earth will fade — and fast. Our only permanent treasure lies in heaven.
03.07.2023 From God, to God, Through God Do you love the thought that you exist to make God look good? If not, you may be committing spiritual suicide.
03.06.2023 The Present Effects of Trembling at the Wrath of God Believing that God is furious against sin produces a good fear that transforms everything in life.
03.05.2023 Neither Do I Condemn You The Bible has unrivaled historical evidence. You can trust this book with your life because God has kept his word pure through the ages.
03.04.2023 Eternal Security Is a Community Project If God ultimately saves us and we have assurance of salvation by faith in Christ, why do we need other believers?
03.03.2023 I Will Go to God, My Exceeding Joy When you feel divided and distant from God, feed your soul the glorious truth of the gospel.
03.02.2023 Live to Die: A Leader Who Suffers Well God has ordained that we will see many troubles in this life. The saints must suffer to show Jesus as supreme.
03.01.2023 Let Us Walk by the Spirit From the moment you awake, till your head hits the pillow again, the Spirit waits to walk with you.
02.28.2023 No One Ever Spoke Like This Man Jesus will not allow you to call him merely interesting, intelligent, or instructive. Everyone must reckon with his actual claims.
02.27.2023 What Christ Will Do at the Second Coming Christ died once and for all. Not for his own sins, but for ours so that when we die, we don’t have to die again.
02.26.2023 Out of Your Heart Will Flow Rivers of Living Water Every river of joy in your soul will flow from Jesus. When you come to him, you get him. And he never leaves.
02.25.2023 I Act the Miracle You can fight the battle hard against your sin because Jesus has already purchased victory over your sin at the cross.
02.24.2023 God’s Ultimate Purpose: Vessels of Mercy Knowing the Riches of His Glory Heaven is where old glories ripen in memory and the thrill of new glories breaks upon us every day.
02.23.2023 Look at the Kindness and the Severity of God God’s fury at sin reminds us of the great pardon we don’t deserve. Gaze at his goodness with gratitude.
02.22.2023 Jesus Is Precious Because He Removes Our Guilt Turn away from all the intellectual, physical, and religious tactics the world uses to evade its guilt, and rest in Jesus.
02.21.2023 Do Not Avenge Yourselves, but Give Place to Wrath When we lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up and carry it out. No sin will go unpunished from the God who sees all.
02.20.2023 Kill Sin with the Word of God The sword of the Spirit is our weapon of choice in the war against sin.
02.19.2023 Kill Sin by the Spirit We will die if we are not killing sin, and we won’t be killing sin if we are not living by the Spirit.
02.18.2023 How to Kill Sin Our fight against sin does not earn our way to God, but it evidences that we belong to God’s army.
02.17.2023 How God Makes Known the Riches of His Glory to the Vessels of Mercy God freely and sovereignly acts to display his glory in all things. Who are we to question him?
02.16.2023 The Pleasure of God in His Name God’s first love is his name and not his people. And because it is, there is hope for his sinful people.
02.15.2023 Willing God’s Will as a Way of Knowing Christ’s Word You can’t know Jesus until your will is to do God’s will. And God’s will is to make much of himself.
02.14.2023 Christ Crucified, Our Boast: Education for Exultation — In the Cross Every good thing in this life and every bad thing that God turns for good comes to us through Jesus and his cross.
02.13.2023 Let the One Who Boasts Boast in the Lord: Reflections on a People and Their Preacher In all that you do, magnify Jesus. He’s the only one worth boasting about.
02.12.2023 Marriage: God’s Showcase of Covenant-Keeping Grace Because God has forgiven us in Christ, we ought to treat our spouses with the same grace that God gives us.
02.11.2023 The Hardening of Pharaoh and the Hope of the World No one tells God what to do. He is self-determining and does what he righteously and freely pleases.

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Sermon of the Day episodes:

Podcast Update

In These Last Days, God Has Spoken by a Son

Why Do Christians Preach and Sing?

The Pleasure of God in Obedience

The Plundering of Your Property and the Power of Hope

The Gallows and the Gift of Life

The Freedom and Justice of God in Unconditional Election

Why Was This Child Born Blind?

The Word of God Is at Work in You

I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

Prayer Changes People’s Wills

The Deep Riches and Wisdom and Knowledge of God

Thy Word I Have Treasured in My Heart

The Truth Will Set You Free

When Will Prophecy Cease?

Who Shall Separate Us from the Love of Christ?

The Pleasure of God in Those Who Hope in His Love

Spiritual Gifts

Why God Inspired Hard Texts

How to Find Gold in God’s Word: Reading the Bible with Supernatural Help

I Am the Light of the World

You Cannot Follow Me Now

Do Not Love the World

Don’t Be Anxious, Your Heavenly Father Cares

Don’t Be Anxious, Lay Up Treasure in Heaven

From God, to God, Through God

The Present Effects of Trembling at the Wrath of God

Neither Do I Condemn You

Eternal Security Is a Community Project

I Will Go to God, My Exceeding Joy

Live to Die: A Leader Who Suffers Well

Let Us Walk by the Spirit

No One Ever Spoke Like This Man

What Christ Will Do at the Second Coming

Out of Your Heart Will Flow Rivers of Living Water

I Act the Miracle

God’s Ultimate Purpose: Vessels of Mercy Knowing the Riches of His Glory

Look at the Kindness and the Severity of God

Jesus Is Precious Because He Removes Our Guilt

Do Not Avenge Yourselves, but Give Place to Wrath

Kill Sin with the Word of God

Kill Sin by the Spirit

How to Kill Sin

How God Makes Known the Riches of His Glory to the Vessels of Mercy

The Pleasure of God in His Name

Willing God’s Will as a Way of Knowing Christ’s Word

Christ Crucified, Our Boast: Education for Exultation — In the Cross

Let the One Who Boasts Boast in the Lord: Reflections on a People and Their Preacher

Marriage: God’s Showcase of Covenant-Keeping Grace

The Hardening of Pharaoh and the Hope of the World

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