Messages by Desiring God

The thought of Jonathan Edwards, demonstrated through a handful of notable works, had a profound impact on John Piper’s life and ministry.

We’ll never love like Jesus loved until we die to ourselves. But in that death, we’ll find more life than we even could have hoped.

You won’t discover freedom by indulging in whatever you want. True liberty begins when we submit our desires to God.

Without seeing Christ, the burden to show him to others becomes slave labor.

God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.

Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.

In this sermon on Matthew 5:43–48, John Piper explains how the Great Commission helps us understand the command to love our enemies. He shows us the basis for the Golden Rule.

Loving God sustains us through all the joy and pain and perplexity and uncertainty of what loving our neighbor should be.

All of Scripture hangs on two great purposes: that God be loved with all our heart, and that we love each other as we love ourselves.

The link between our love and Christ’s is faith and the Spirit. Without the Spirit, we have no faith, and without both, we have no love.