

Messages by Desiring God (Video)
Desiring God
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
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Sep 18, 2022 • 38min
Fall Back to the Banner: Four Lessons for Our Devastations
David Mathis | When loss surrounds us, when fears assail us, we have a banner to which to flee. We turn to the God who has spoken, and there find real hope and strength.

Sep 5, 2022 • 37min
God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings
John Piper | The individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.

Aug 28, 2022 • 43min
How Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love?
John Piper | When glad in God, we bend low in love for others. We imitate Christ, who not only bowed the knee but hung his body on the tree.

Jun 17, 2022 • 42min
Water from the Rock for Undeserving People
John Piper | God promises us his life-sustaining presence, even as he leads us into waterless regions of suffering and loss.

Jun 12, 2022 • 37min
God Can Handle Your Crisis
David Mathis | Psalm 46 teaches us God can handle the earth’s undoing and nations raging against his people — and that if he can do that, he can be a very present help in our trouble.

May 20, 2022 • 18min
Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away
John Piper | Faith does not shipwreck upon the rocks of history, logic, science, or ethics, but on the mountains of sinful desire.

Apr 27, 2022 • 41min
The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
John Piper | Humility flourishes in hearts that focus not on being humble, but on gladly exalting Jesus, who is superior to us in every possible way.

Apr 20, 2022 • 53min
Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It
John Piper | There is a kind of unhealthy preaching that fails to make plain the effective connection between the sin-bearing work of Christ and the sin-killing work of the Christian.

Apr 17, 2022 • 39min
The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ
David Mathis | We boast on Sunday because Christ died on Friday. No cross, no favor with God. No crucifixion, no resurrection. We live because he died.

Apr 17, 2022 • 37min
Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News
David Mathis | What if, with some intentionality, the news could become a source of refreshment rather than a continual distraction and discouragement?


