Messages by Desiring God

Messages by Desiring God

Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.

Episodes

FEAST: Five Prayers for Daily Bible Reading

July 19, 2025 • 38 mins
Marshall Segal | When our Bible meditation feels more like a job than a joy, these five short prayers can take us beyond discipline into delight.
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Why Did God Choose You? The Goal and Ground of His Election

July 12, 2025 • 46 mins
Why did God set his saving love on his people before the foundation of the world? So that we might praise the glory of his sovereign grace.
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The Unusually Human Joy of Jesus

July 5, 2025 • 26 mins
David Mathis | Did Jesus endure the cross for his joy or despite it? The answer takes us to the heart of Jesus’s unusually human joy, and ours.
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Providence: The Purposeful Sovereignty of God

June 28, 2025 • 46 mins
It’s one thing to know God is sovereign; it’s another to know just how far his sovereignty extends and the purposes for which he wields it.
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Do You Love Jesus? A Grand Finale of His Greatness

June 21, 2025 • 34 mins
David Mathis | At the end of his Gospel, John gives us a grand finale of the mercy, wisdom, greatness, and never-ending glory of Jesus Christ.
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How Doubting Thomas Finds Faith

June 14, 2025 • 35 mins
The story of Jesus and Thomas assures us that Jesus really rose bodily, that his patience surpasses our indwelling sin, and that we need not see to believe.
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Be Still and Know: A Crisis-Ready Vision of God

June 7, 2025 • 51 mins
David Mathis | Where do we turn when the ground beneath our feet seems to buckle and shift? Psalm 46 offers a vision of God to keep us through any crisis.
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Where Does Radical Love Come From?

May 28, 2025 • 43 mins
How can we be set free from selfishness so that, at any earthly cost to ourselves, we will love other people in a way that makes Christ look great?
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Authentic Preaching in the Age of AI

May 21, 2025 • 52 mins
Tony Reinke | In the age of artificial intelligence, do we still need preachers? Answering that question well takes us to the heart of God-glorifying preaching.
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Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus

May 14, 2025 • 43 mins
A camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, nor can we turn our own hearts from loving money to loving Jesus. But what is impossible with man is possible with God.
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Take Care How You Hear a Sermon

May 7, 2025 • 40 mins
There is a way to see truth without seeing it — to hear without hearing. For all who listen to sermons, the words of Jesus stand: Take care how you hear.
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The Privilege of Preaching

April 30, 2025 • 56 mins
Though fraught with challenges and temptations to lose heart, preaching the word of God is a glorious privilege. John Piper gives ten reasons why.
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The Power of Preaching

April 23, 2025 • 50 mins
God has chosen to bind the fullness of his supernatural effectiveness to the human ministry of the word. So, how might we preach in ways that release his power?
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Big-God Preaching for God-Hungry People

April 16, 2025 • 64 mins
David Mathis | Pastor, all your hearers are hungry for the living God, even if they don’t know it or can’t name it. And only big-God preaching will enduringly satisfy them.
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The Glory of Big-God Preaching

April 9, 2025 • 56 mins
When preachers herald the glory of God from the heart, the pride of man dies, all of life becomes meaningful, and we rejoice like never before.
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Foundations for the Future of Your Church

April 2, 2025 • 48 mins
A church endures in faithfulness only as its leaders and members rejoice in the glory of God, savor the word of God, and treasure the Son of God.
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We Will Go Out with Joy: Christian Fellowship as a Means of Grace

March 26, 2025 • 46 mins
David Mathis | Fellowship is not a nice addition to personal Christianity but a vital means of grace. Through fellowship, we help each other hold fast till heaven.
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Blessed Satisfaction: The Sin-Slaying, Soul-Staggering Glory of Christ

March 19, 2025 • 50 mins
We were made to see and savor, with everlasting satisfaction, the soul-staggering glory of Christ. Only then will our lusts lose their power.
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The Glory of God for Doubting Minds and Dull Hearts

March 15, 2025 • 55 mins
When we see the glory of God in his word, we know for sure and we rejoice forever. Glory persuades and pleases, gives certainty and satisfaction.
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What the World Needs from Your Church

March 5, 2025 • 51 mins
Chipper churches leave no lasting impression on the world. The greatest gift we have to give is indomitable joy in Jesus in the midst of suffering and sorrow.
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