Messages by Desiring God

Messages by Desiring God

Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.

Episodes

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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Supernatural Pastors: How to Minister in God’s Strength

January 25, 2025 • 49 mins
Brothers, if we are going to do good — lasting good — to our churches, then we must preach and lead and counsel and serve in the strength that God supplies.
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Sorrows Are Normal for Now: What to Expect on Your Journey Home

January 15, 2025 • 52 mins
David Mathis | In this fallen world, expect suffering and sorrows. But also know that, in Christ, they are limited, designed, and rewarded by a kind and gracious God.
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How to Feed a Pastor: The Secret Life of a Happy Man

January 11, 2025 • 57 mins
David Mathis | As pastors, our first priority each day is not to serve God, help his people, or engage in other ministry, but to get our soul happy in God.
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I Want You to Be a Christian Hedonist

January 1, 2025 • 42 mins
David Mathis | Do you want God to look good in your life? Then heed his invitation to find your deepest hunger, deepest thirst, and deepest longings satisfied in him.
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Slavery and Christ’s Supreme Lordship: How to Live Under Human Authority

December 18, 2024 • 37 mins
In a world of many authorities, we magnify the supreme lordship of Christ by the way we submit to the fading structures of this age.
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Countless Dangers, Continual Joy: How Is That Possible?

November 27, 2024 • 55 mins
Paul’s Christian life was one of countless dangers, continual sorrows, and constant joy. How is that kind of life possible?
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Bend the Ear of God: Three Wonders of Christian Prayer

November 20, 2024 • 81 mins
David Mathis | God not only speaks to us — he bends his ear to hear us talk. Through the work of Christ and the help of the Spirit, we have the ear of God.
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Restore Our Joy in You: A Prayer for God-Centered Revival

November 13, 2024 • 38 mins
Marshall 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

November 6, 2024 • 33 mins
By 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?

October 30, 2024 • 33 mins
David 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?

October 23, 2024 • 26 mins
David 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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