

Messages by Desiring God (Video)
Desiring God
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
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Nov 25, 2023 • 34min
Man of War and Grace: The Greatest of Israel’s Kings
David Mathis | Some may not think of David, the shepherd king, as particularly masculine, but Scripture paints him in a far more manly and glorious light.

Oct 27, 2023 • 36min
Do Not Believe Every Spirit: The Threat and Defeat of False Teaching Today
John Piper | Are biblical warnings about false prophets still relevant? Yes, the threat looms as large today as in the first century.

Oct 26, 2023 • 48min
Before You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like Jesus
David Mathis | Good pastors are not naive: ministry comes with many costs. Even so, Christ has not called us to an impossible, joyless task. The cross proves otherwise.

Oct 8, 2023 • 40min
What’s It Like to Be a Christian? Faith, Obedience, and Living as Strangers
David Mathis | What is Christian faith? Hebrews 11 not only answers the question but tells us what faith feels like, and how it leads to obedience, and living as exiles in this world.

Sep 30, 2023 • 39min
Whose Son Is the Messiah? King David and the God of Israel
John Piper | When Jesus asks the Pharisees how David calls the Messiah “Lord,” they refuse to answer. What made that seemingly simple question so incendiary?

Sep 25, 2023 • 38min
God Is: The Life-Altering Reality of Sheer Divine Existence
John Piper | God is. No reality is more mind-boggling, more valuable, more life-altering, more electrifying than the absolute being of God.

Aug 20, 2023 • 43min
Grace Will Order All Your Pain: Retirement Message for Dana Olson
John Piper | What is sovereign, sustaining grace? It is not grace that spares us pain, but grace that orders our pain — and then sustains us through the pain.

Aug 13, 2023 • 40min
The Leader You Long to Follow
David Mathis | From principals to presidents, leadership failures fill the news. We long for someone in power to lead with wisdom and fairness. Praise God, the ideal king has come.

Jul 29, 2023 • 24min
The Spell That Opened Heaven: Funeral Message for Daniel Fuller (1925–2023)
John Piper | Romans 8:32 is perhaps the greatest verse in the Bible. No other text quite describes how far God has gone for our salvation and will go for our joy.

Jun 7, 2023 • 25min
The Final Hours of Suffering: Funeral Message for Nancy Nelson (1952–2023)
John Piper | God’s word speaks to the mysteries of suffering. We will only bear pain well as we begin to see it like he does.


