Authentic Preaching in the Age of AI
Tony Reinke | In the age of artificial intelligence, do we still need preachers? Answering that question well takes us to the heart of God-glorifying preaching.
May 21, 2025•53 min
Messages by Desiring God (Video)
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
Episodes
Turning Sadness at Losing Money to Gladness at Gaining Jesus
John Piper | A camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, nor can we turn our own hearts from loving money to loving Jesus. But what is impossible with man is possible with God.
May 14, 2025•43 min
Take Care How You Hear a Sermon
John Piper | There is a way to see truth without seeing it — to hear without hearing. For all who listen to sermons, the words of Jesus stand: Take care how you hear.
May 07, 2025•40 min
The Privilege of Preaching
John Piper | Though fraught with challenges and temptations to lose heart, preaching the word of God is a glorious privilege. John Piper gives ten reasons why.
Apr 30, 2025•56 min
The Power of Preaching
John Piper | God has chosen to bind the fullness of his supernatural effectiveness to the human ministry of the word. So, how might we preach in ways that release his power?
Apr 23, 2025•51 min
Big-God Preaching for God-Hungry People
David Mathis | Pastor, all your hearers are hungry for the living God, even if they don’t know it or can’t name it. And only big-God preaching will enduringly satisfy them.
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 4 min
The Glory of Big-God Preaching
John Piper | When preachers herald the glory of God from the heart, the pride of man dies, all of life becomes meaningful, and we rejoice like never before.
Apr 09, 2025•57 min
Foundations for the Future of Your Church
John Piper | A church endures in faithfulness only as its leaders and members rejoice in the glory of God, savor the word of God, and treasure the Son of God.
Apr 02, 2025•49 min
We Will Go Out with Joy: Christian Fellowship as a Means of Grace
David Mathis | Fellowship is not a nice addition to personal Christianity but a vital means of grace. Through fellowship, we help each other hold fast till heaven.
Mar 26, 2025•46 min
What the World Needs from Your Church
John Piper | Chipper churches leave no lasting impression on the world. The greatest gift we have to give is indomitable joy in Jesus in the midst of suffering and sorrow.
Mar 05, 2025•51 min
The Mighty Ministry of Song: How Praise Shapes the Saints
John Piper | When the people of God gladly sing of his riches together, the saints mature, Satan retreats, and the word of Christ goes forth.
Jan 29, 2025
Supernatural Pastors: How to Minister in God’s Strength
John Piper | Brothers, if we are going to do good — lasting good — to our churches, then we must preach and lead and counsel and serve in the strength that God supplies.
Jan 25, 2025•50 min
Slavery and Christ’s Supreme Lordship: How to Live Under Human Authority
John Piper | In a world of many authorities, we magnify the supreme lordship of Christ by the way we submit to the fading structures of this age.
Dec 18, 2024•37 min
Countless Dangers, Continual Joy: How Is That Possible?
John Piper | Paul’s Christian life was one of countless dangers, continual sorrows, and constant joy. How is that kind of life possible?
Nov 27, 2024•55 min
Restore Our Joy in You: A Prayer for God-Centered Revival
Marshall Segal | When our souls grow dull to spiritual reality, the character of God is our confidence. He has restored us before; he will revive us again.
Nov 13, 2024•39 min
Doctrine Fails Without Delight: The Mind as Servant of the Heart
John Piper | By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.
Nov 06, 2024•33 min
Do You Look to the Reward?
David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.
Oct 30, 2024•33 min
Do You Delight in God?
David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.
Oct 23, 2024•26 min
God-Centered Children: Teaching Our Kids the Biggest Vision
John Piper | Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.
Oct 16, 2024•50 min
The Beauty of Reformed Theology
John Piper | Reformed theology is beautiful because the God of sovereign grace is beautiful. The doctrines are windows — he is the glory.
Oct 02, 2024•53 min
Serious Joy: The Root of Sacrificial Love
John 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.
Sep 18, 2024•44 min
Jars of Clay: Pastoral Grit for the Glory of Christ
John 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?
Sep 04, 2024•53 min
No Neutrality: The Illusion of Indifference to Jesus
John Piper | No one can be neutral about Jesus Christ. Either he will have our heart and soul, our life and obedience — or hell will.
Aug 21, 2024•41 min
Truth Triumphs Through Providence
John Piper | When God makes a promise, he keeps it. And he keeps it through his purposeful, all-wise, absolute sovereignty — through his providence.
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Zeal: To Live with All Your Might
John 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.
Aug 11, 2024•17 min
Toward Need, Not Comfort: The Blood-Bought Path of the Good Samaritan
John 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.
Aug 07, 2024•44 min
Truth Triumphs Through Pleasure
John 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.
Jul 31, 2024•45 min
His Power, Your Body, Our Home: Three Marks of Christian Citizens
David 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.
Jul 06, 2024•39 min
The Fullest, Longest Happiness: For Those Who Pass the Test
John 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.
Jul 03, 2024•39 min
Work Out What Christ Has Won: The Christian Life as Gift and Duty
David 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.
Jun 19, 2024•42 min
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