Synopsis
John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org; he is author of more than 50 books and travels regularly to preach and teach. New messages are posted to this podcast as they become available. Pipers sermons, books, articles, and more are available free of charge at desiringGod.org. We want people everywhere to understand and embrace the truth that God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in him.
Episodes
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Restore Our Joy in You: A Prayer for God-Centered Revival
13/11/2024 Duration: 38minMarshall Segal | When our souls grow dull to spiritual reality, the character of God is our confidence. He has restored us before; he will revive us again.
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Doctrine Fails Without Delight: The Mind as Servant of the Heart
06/11/2024 Duration: 33minBy God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.
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Do You Look to the Reward?
30/10/2024 Duration: 33minDavid Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.
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Do You Delight in God?
23/10/2024 Duration: 26minDavid Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.
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God-Centered Children: Teaching Our Kids the Biggest Vision
16/10/2024 Duration: 50minFaithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.
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The Beauty of Reformed Theology
02/10/2024 Duration: 52minReformed theology is beautiful because the God of sovereign grace is beautiful. The doctrines are windows — he is the glory.
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Celebrate the Reformation This October with Us
25/09/2024 Duration: 03minJohn Piper | Luther didn’t stand alone 500 years ago. Nor does he stand alone today. We’ve created a 31-day journey to introduce you to the many heroes of the Reformation. Join us at desiringgod.org/stand.
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Every Promise Is Yes in Him: The Privilege and Power of Union with Christ
25/09/2024 Duration: 48minApart from union with Christ, we would have no access to God’s promises and no reason to rejoice in affliction. But in Christ, every promise of God is Yes.
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Serious Joy: The Root of Sacrificial Love
18/09/2024 Duration: 44minHow can Christians be freed from selfishness so that, at any cost to ourselves, we love others in a way that makes Christ look great? Answer: joy.
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Jars of Clay: Pastoral Grit for the Glory of Christ
04/09/2024 Duration: 53minThe apostle Paul was no stranger to ministry’s many strains. Yet for all his afflictions, he neither lost heart nor tampered with the truth. How?
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No Neutrality: The Illusion of Indifference to Jesus
21/08/2024 Duration: 41minNo one can be neutral about Jesus Christ. Either he will have our heart and soul, our life and obedience — or hell will.
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Truth Triumphs Through Providence
14/08/2024 Duration: 01h04minWhen God makes a promise, he keeps it. And he keeps it through his purposeful, all-wise, absolute sovereignty — through his providence.
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Zeal: To Live with All Your Might
11/08/2024 Duration: 16minGod’s will is not simply that we obey God’s will, but that we obey it in a certain way: with all of our might for all of our life.
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Toward Need, Not Comfort: The Blood-Bought Path of the Good Samaritan
07/08/2024 Duration: 43minYou don’t have to be Christian to love the story of the Good Samaritan. But applauding Luke’s parable apart from his Gospel contradicts his purpose.
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Truth Triumphs Through Pleasure
31/07/2024 Duration: 44minWhen the Bible speaks of “truth,” it refers ultimately to God himself. Therefore, truth demands more than just our minds — truth will have our whole hearts, now and forever.
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Go Where God Walks: The Everyday Paths of Astonishing Grace
24/07/2024 Duration: 01h09minDavid Mathis | God does not leave us to ourselves after saving us. His grace continues to flow to us through his appointed means: Bible reading, prayer, and fellowship.
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We Read to Get God: Scripture as the Chief Means of Grace
24/07/2024 Duration: 55minDavid Mathis | When Christians read the Bible, we’re after more than understanding God’s words. We’re after enjoying God’s Word. We’re after Jesus.
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When You Pray: Speaking to God Alone and Together
24/07/2024 Duration: 01h07minDavid Mathis | Our God isn’t just a speaking God — he’s a listening God. Whether we come to him in secret or side by side, God delights to hear his people pray.
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Know Your Covenant: Christian Habits for the New Era
10/07/2024 Duration: 51minDavid Mathis | The new covenant is not a renewed, updated, or expanded covenant — it is actually new. And the new-covenant era calls for new-covenant habits.
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His Power, Your Body, Our Home: Three Marks of Christian Citizens
06/07/2024 Duration: 38minDavid Mathis | In this earthly life, Christians do more than wait for heaven. We belong to heaven, find our hope in heaven, and serve the King of heaven.