Messages by Desiring God

Messages by Desiring God

Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.

Episodes

Our All-Nations Charge: What It Means to Be a World Christian

November 1, 2025 • 42 mins
John Piper | Cowardice, consumption, and comfort often stand between us and God’s global work. What can set us free to be world Christians?
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Our Pursuit: Joy Overflowing in Love

October 25, 2025 • 48 mins
David Mathis | Does seeking joy in God ruin our love for others? Jesus meant what he said: Remembering God’s radical reward frees us to serve those in need.
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Jesus’s Pursuit: His Father’s Glory (and His) Through Joy

October 18, 2025 • 47 mins
David Mathis | As the Son of God, Jesus pursued his joy and God’s glory in an unrepeatable way — but as man, he stands forth as an example for our own pursuit of joy.
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God’s Pursuit: His Glory in Our Joy

October 11, 2025 • 51 mins
David Mathis | Christian, your joy in God shows the kind of God he is: awesome and glorious, happy and holy, beautiful and delightful beyond measure. So, come, eat, drink, and rejoice.
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The Greatness of God in the Doctrines of Grace: TULIP Session 1

October 4, 2025 • 69 mins
John Piper | What are the doctrines of grace? Before we wade into the depths of these doctrines, we need to know something of the greatness of God.
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The People of His Majesty: Five Marks of a Marveling Church

September 27, 2025 • 46 mins
David Mathis | Those who cherish God’s majesty become a certain kind of people: a commending, called, candid, conquering, and soon-to-be crowned church.
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How to Pray When Trouble Comes

September 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Marshall Segal | How do mature Christians pray when trouble comes? David teaches us from Psalm 86: “Meet my need.” “Glorify your name.” “Teach me your way.” “Gladden my heart.”
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The Only Life Worth Living: A Live Lab on Christian Hedonism

September 13, 2025 • 47 mins
John Piper | In Jesus Christ, we find a Treasure more precious than everything we have in life and everything we lose in death.
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Enjoying God: The Key to Christian Education

September 6, 2025 • 45 mins
John Piper | How does the chief end of man — to glorify God by enjoying him forever — shape our approach to classical Christian education?
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Lay Your Buckets Down: Finding Life with the Woman at the Well

August 30, 2025 • 36 mins
Marshall Segal | No sin is too great, no place is too far, and no wall is too high to keep us from receiving the living water of Jesus — if only we’ll come to him.
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Creation Sings Through Human Lips

August 23, 2025 • 32 mins
Tony Reinke | No star or ocean, insect or tree, bird or cloud has a voice to speak God’s praise. But when we rejoice in God, we take creation’s worship and put it into words.
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God’s Mission Triumphs Through Prayerful Suffering

August 16, 2025 • 42 mins
John Piper | As Jesus bleeds in Gethsemane and then submits to arrest, we see that the mission of God triumphs through prayerful suffering, not the self-defending sword.
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Will Christ Be Humiliated on the Last Day? To the Class of 2025

August 9, 2025 • 18 mins
John Piper | When Jesus returns in glory, he will stand ashamed of those who were ashamed of him here. But what will it really mean for Jesus to be ashamed?
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Value the Human Body: Technology, Exercise, and the Pursuit of True Joy

August 2, 2025 • 36 mins
David Mathis | How might regular exercise serve not just our bodies but our souls, and so make us more ready to honor God by doing good to others?
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Habits of Love: The Graces of Sharing Our Joy

July 26, 2025 • 46 mins
David Mathis | Our “habits of grace” prime us for witnessing, giving, and serving — and God uses even these outward expressions to give us even more grace.
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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
John Piper | 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
John Piper | 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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