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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ABCs for Following God’s Call
28/10/2012 Duration: 24minJohn Piper walks through eight facets of making decisions for the glory of Christ.
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Missions Exists Because Worship Doesn’t
27/10/2012 Duration: 39minGod will spread the fame of his name to every tribe, nation, and tongue, but he won’t do it without his people sending and going.
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A Spectacular and Scary Promise: Fellow Heirs with Christ If We Suffer
21/10/2012 Duration: 52minThe Holy Spirit wants to assure us that we are God‘s children. All he owns belongs to us — if we suffer alongside his Son.
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Don’t Waste Your Life
17/10/2012 Duration: 56minThe unwasted life is a life of pursuing joy in God at all costs, including the sacrificial love that brings people into that joy.
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God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him
13/10/2012 Duration: 52minGod’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.
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Should We Celebrate Interracial Marriage?
03/10/2012 Duration: 29minGod is concerned with our purity of faith, not race. He never forbids marriage between ethnicities, but between believer and unbeliever.
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Ten Ways to Pursue Ethnic Harmony in Your Church
03/10/2012 Duration: 41minChrist calls us to pursue unity in diversity, but what does that look like in a local church? John Piper offers ten ways forward.
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Act the Miracle: Future Grace, the Word of the Cross, and the Purifying Power of God’s Promises
30/09/2012 Duration: 01h17minChristians tap into the sin-killing power of God when we believe a blood-bought promise and embrace it as a more precious treasure than any temptation in front of us.
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Prelude to Acting the Miracle: Putting Sanctification in Its Place
28/09/2012 Duration: 57minGod will bring our feelings, thoughts, and actions into conformity to his infinitely satisfying worth. If we are in Christ, it is as good as done.
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Why Did God Create the World?
22/09/2012 Duration: 45minGod created and sustains everything in this universe to display his glorious grace in Jesus.
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Eternal Security Is a Community Project
15/09/2012 Duration: 44minGod designed his church so that her members endure in belief by giving and receiving faith-sustaining words of life.
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Reflections on Pastoring Three Decades Downtown
09/09/2012 Duration: 24minThree decades of ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church demonstrate five important things that pastors should rememember for their ministries.
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‘I Am Who I Am’
08/09/2012 Duration: 48minThere is nothing more foundational, pervasive, and necessary than the truth and reality that God absolutely is who he is.
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He Stood by Me and Strengthened Me for the Sake of the Gospel
26/08/2012 Duration: 48minNo matter how rough the road of your life, Jesus is a rock-solid friend who encourages and strengthens you to press on.
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God's Delight in Being God
25/08/2012 Duration: 01h16minJohn Piper | God’s pleasure in election, the death of Christ, doing good to those who hope in him, and the obedience of his people all stems from his fundamental pleasure in his own excellency.
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God's Delight in Being God
25/08/2012 Duration: 01h21minJohn Piper | The destruction of the wicked is not ordained by God with the same kind of delight as the redemption of his people, though he is profoundly sovereign over all things.
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God's Delight in Being God
24/08/2012 Duration: 01h38minJohn Piper | God’s delight in being God consists in his happiness in himself as the triune God and his passion to do all things for his name’s sake.
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All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God — Continue in It
11/08/2012 Duration: 43minIn all your troubles, pain, joy, and pleasures, continue to stay in the Scriptures, because there’s no better way to invest than in God’s very words.
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When a Lover of Good Thinks About Evil
04/08/2012 Duration: 47minIt will cost you to stand up against evil in our day. But God will deliver you and bring you safely into his heavenly kingdom.