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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Get a Holy Ambition — and Skip Adultolescence
22/10/2011 Duration: 44minAdultolescence impedes the advance of the gospel. Skip years of immature indulgence and get a holy ambition.
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How the Offspring of Isaac Blesses the Sons of Ishmael
22/10/2011 Duration: 42minGod invites everyone to embrace the good news of Jesus. And he uses his people to proclaim and spread the message.
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Sovereignty, Substitution, and Solidarity
18/10/2011 Duration: 24minThe sovereignty of God brings about the substitution of Christ, which produces the globally diverse solidarity of the church of Jesus Christ.
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Let the Nations Be Glad!
15/10/2011 Duration: 01h24minJohn Piper | The ultimate goal of missions is worship, which is pursued by reliance upon God through prayer and the life-giving means of the word of God.
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Let the Nations Be Glad!
15/10/2011 Duration: 01h18minJohn Piper | Our motivations of compassion for the lost and living for the glory of God come together as we pursue the highest joy of the nations through the gospel.
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Let the Nations Be Glad!
14/10/2011 Duration: 40minJohn Piper | Though the calling of a missionary may include some subjective and mysterious elements, it can never be divorced from a deep, prayer-saturated study of the Scriptures.
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Let the Nations Be Glad!
14/10/2011 Duration: 01h54minJohn Piper | The goal of global evangelization is both a great remaining task and also something that through the power of God the church is able to complete.
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We Were Eager to Share with You Our Own Souls
01/10/2011 Duration: 47minGod made us to live life together. We can only flourish with brothers and sisters in Christ at our side.
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Let the Peoples Praise You, O God, Let All the Peoples Praise You!
25/09/2011 Duration: 01h05minMissions exists because the knowledge of God, the praise of God, the enjoyment of God, and the fear of God don’t exist among the nations.
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Thoughts on Christ, Weakness, Insults, and Homosexuality
23/09/2011 Duration: 25minTrue contentment that is able to weather all kinds of hardship comes from knowing Christ as our surpassing treasure.
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Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life
17/09/2011 Duration: 44minJohn Piper | God does not mainly love us in this life by sparing us from suffering. He mainly loves us by giving us more of himself and his glory.
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Victor Watters Converses with Death: A Meditation on 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
11/09/2011 Duration: 22minListen Now
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This Illness Is for the Glory of God
10/09/2011 Duration: 38minJesus loved Lazarus so much that he allowed him to die. But he also raised Lazarus to life and promises to do the same for all who trust in him.
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God’s Passion for Our Joy
03/09/2011 Duration: 01h09minThe way we glorify God is to pursue and live out of superior satisfaction in him at all costs.
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God’s Passion for Others’ Joy
03/09/2011 Duration: 01h08minLove is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others; therefore, in order to love people we must pursue our deepest joy in God.
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God's Passion for His Glory
02/09/2011 Duration: 01h02minGod pursues his own praise, which is the greatest act of love not because he won’t be God until he gets it, but because we won’t be happy until we give it.
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Show Christ
31/08/2011 Duration: 01h37sShowing Christ is a work of love, which will only take place as the overflow of our joy in all that God is for us in Jesus reaching out to meet the needs of others.
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Think Christ
30/08/2011 Duration: 57minGod is honored in our affections when our affections are rooted in knowledge of the truth.