Synopsis
John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org; he is author of more than 50 books and travels regularly to preach and teach. New messages are posted to this podcast as they become available. Pipers sermons, books, articles, and more are available free of charge at desiringGod.org. We want people everywhere to understand and embrace the truth that God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in him.
Episodes
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Serious Joy: The Root of Sacrificial Love
18/09/2024 Duration: 44minJohn Piper | How can Christians be freed from selfishness so that, at any cost to ourselves, we love others in a way that makes Christ look great? Answer: joy.
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Jars of Clay: Pastoral Grit for the Glory of Christ
04/09/2024 Duration: 53minJohn Piper | The apostle Paul was no stranger to ministry’s many strains. Yet for all his afflictions, he neither lost heart nor tampered with the truth. How?
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No Neutrality: The Illusion of Indifference to Jesus
21/08/2024 Duration: 41minJohn Piper | No one can be neutral about Jesus Christ. Either he will have our heart and soul, our life and obedience — or hell will.
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Truth Triumphs Through Providence
14/08/2024 Duration: 01h04minJohn Piper | When God makes a promise, he keeps it. And he keeps it through his purposeful, all-wise, absolute sovereignty — through his providence.
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Zeal: To Live with All Your Might
11/08/2024 Duration: 16minJohn Piper | God’s will is not simply that we obey God’s will, but that we obey it in a certain way: with all of our might for all of our life.
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Toward Need, Not Comfort: The Blood-Bought Path of the Good Samaritan
07/08/2024 Duration: 43minJohn Piper | You don’t have to be Christian to love the story of the Good Samaritan. But applauding Luke’s parable apart from his Gospel contradicts his purpose.
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Truth Triumphs Through Pleasure
31/07/2024 Duration: 44minJohn Piper | When the Bible speaks of “truth,” it refers ultimately to God himself. Therefore, truth demands more than just our minds — truth will have our whole hearts, now and forever.
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Go Where God Walks: The Everyday Paths of Astonishing Grace
24/07/2024 Duration: 01h09minDavid Mathis | God does not leave us to ourselves after saving us. His grace continues to flow to us through his appointed means: Bible reading, prayer, and fellowship.
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We Read to Get God: Scripture as the Chief Means of Grace
24/07/2024 Duration: 55minDavid Mathis | When Christians read the Bible, we’re after more than understanding God’s words. We’re after enjoying God’s Word. We’re after Jesus.
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When You Pray: Speaking to God Alone and Together
24/07/2024 Duration: 01h07minDavid Mathis | Our God isn’t just a speaking God — he’s a listening God. Whether we come to him in secret or side by side, God delights to hear his people pray.
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Know Your Covenant: Christian Habits for the New Era
10/07/2024 Duration: 51minDavid Mathis | The new covenant is not a renewed, updated, or expanded covenant — it is actually new. And the new-covenant era calls for new-covenant habits.
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His Power, Your Body, Our Home: Three Marks of Christian Citizens
06/07/2024 Duration: 38minDavid Mathis | In this earthly life, Christians do more than wait for heaven. We belong to heaven, find our hope in heaven, and serve the King of heaven.
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The Fullest, Longest Happiness: For Those Who Pass the Test
03/07/2024 Duration: 38minJohn Piper | God never tests his saints with ill intent. As the Father of lights, his every test aims at the full and lasting happiness of his children.
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Lord, Savior, and Treasure: The Complex Beauty of Jesus Christ
26/06/2024 Duration: 30minDavid Mathis | In Jesus, we find the complex beauty our hearts were made to behold: meekness and majesty, nearness and transcendence, the might of the Lion and the mercy of the Lamb.
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Work Out What Christ Has Won: The Christian Life as Gift and Duty
19/06/2024 Duration: 42minDavid Mathis | The everyday Christian life is both a gift and a duty. By God’s own indwelling power, we work out what Christ has won.
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What Is It Like to ‘Know Christ’?
12/06/2024 Duration: 41minDavid Mathis | The Christian life has one final aim: to know and enjoy Jesus. He justified us to know him, we daily press on to know him more, and one day we will know him fully and forever.
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How to Win a Fight: Heavenly Wisdom for Relational Conflict
05/06/2024 Duration: 30minMarshall Segal | What counsel does the book of James offer for our relationships? Submit to God, ask for wisdom, temper your words, calm your anger, and embrace godly community.
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When God Listens: His Ear and Our Access
29/05/2024 Duration: 01h09minDavid Mathis | When we stop and look, we find that we know a lot more about Jesus’s spiritual disciplines than we might think. What can we learn from the prayer life of the Savior?
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How Church Rescues: Christ’s Body as His Means
22/05/2024 Duration: 58minDavid Mathis | When we think of spiritual disciplines, we might immediately think of our time alone with God, but the Christian faith is a community project. We all need the body of Christ.
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Where Jesus Travels: Introducing the Means of Grace
15/05/2024 Duration: 50minDavid Mathis | Whomever God justifies, he also sanctifies. What means has he given us to keep growing in holiness?

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