What Is It Like to ‘Know Christ’?
David 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.
Jun 12, 2024•42 min
Messages by Desiring God (Video)
Messages from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
Episodes
How to Win a Fight: Heavenly Wisdom for Relational Conflict
Marshall 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.
Jun 05, 2024•30 min
The Safest Soul in All the World: Rejoicing in the Risen Christ
David Mathis | The safest soul in all the universe is the one that rejoices in the risen Christ. God will never destroy those who delight in his Son.
Apr 14, 2024•34 min
Live Like Death Is Gain
Marshall Segal | How can we make Jesus look good in life and in death? By enjoying him as better than anything life could ever give — and better than anything death could ever take.
Mar 20, 2024•40 min
The Thickest Joy on Earth: Why We Love Philippians
David Mathis | Why do so many Christians love the book of Philippians? Among other reasons, because the letter is brief, accessible, memorable, and teeming with joy.
Mar 17, 2024•35 min
The Most Important People in the World: Why Christians Prioritize the Church
David Mathis | The Father prioritizes the church by choosing her, the Son prioritizes her by purchasing and purifying her, and the Spirit prioritizes her in his power. So, how do we prioritize the church?
Mar 10, 2024•59 min
Leaders in the Church: Speaking and Living God’s Word
John Piper | Does church leadership seem endlessly complicated? Take heart. Christian leaders guide God’s people from where they are to where God wants them to go, using God’s methods.
Mar 03, 2024•56 min
How Jesus Knew the Word: His Secret to Scripture Memory
David Mathis | How did Jesus know Scripture so well? The same way we can today: through patient, prayerful meditation on the word of God.
Feb 29, 2024•19 min
Only One Life: Christ’s Invincible Gospel and Global Mission
John Piper | God is sovereign, and he has purposed his gospel to spread to the ends of the earth. Those who give themselves to that purpose are invincible, even through suffering.
Feb 25, 2024•47 min
How Jesus Met with God: The Pace and Patterns of a Perfect Life
David Mathis | Jesus had a full and fruitful ministry, but unlike us, he never seemed hurried or frantic. What can we learn by observing his holy habits during his earthly life?
Feb 17, 2024•18 min
His Voice in Yours: How Christ Wins the World
John Piper | God will have worshipers from every nation on earth. He will win them, and do so through us. We have only to tell them.
Jan 21, 2024•34 min
How to Please a Happy God: Six Glimpses of the Christian Life
David Mathis | What does it look like to walk in a way that is pleasing to God — to live so that God delights in the aroma of our lives?
Jan 14, 2024•44 min
Gain What You Cannot Lose: The Joy of World Mission with Jesus
John Piper | When Christ calls us to the mission field with him, he calls us to deny shallow pleasures, die to ourselves, and enjoy greater and greater delight in him.
Jan 07, 2024•38 min
Christmas Was and Christmas Is: The Whole Story of Advent
David Mathis | How do you need God’s help this Advent? What need seems most pressing? Press into the message of Christmas, and you’ll find hope and help in time of need.
Dec 10, 2023•39 min
Jesus Came to Save: Ten Great Realities of Christmas
John Piper | The birth of John the Baptist was great, but the birth of Jesus Christ was infinitely greater. John prepared for salvation, but Jesus purchased it.
Dec 03, 2023•39 min
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.
Nov 25, 2023•34 min
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 27, 2023•36 min
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 26, 2023•48 min
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.
Oct 08, 2023•40 min
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 30, 2023•39 min
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.
Sep 25, 2023•38 min
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 20, 2023•43 min
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.
Aug 13, 2023•40 min
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.
Jul 29, 2023•24 min
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.
Jun 07, 2023•25 min
Happy Pastors Make Healthy Churches
John Piper | Christ’s blood bought more than our pardon, precious as it is. His death also purchased the power we need to live a radical Christian life.
May 28, 2023•41 min
Why We Sing About the Blood
David Mathis | Why do Christians sing about blood? Because of what happened at the cross, the otherwise morbid topic becomes one of glory, thanks, and praise.
May 21, 2023•40 min
More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed
John Piper | What excites a Christian most? Our deepest, truest joy does not flow from completed degrees or flourishing ministries, but from the God who saved us.
May 19, 2023•19 min
Do Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors
David Mathis | For pastors to be “well thought of by outsiders” certainly isn’t everything, but it made God’s list of requirements. Is it still on ours?
May 07, 2023•38 min
Why Bethlehem Has a College: Biblical Foundations for Church-Based Education
John Piper | What makes a college distinctly Christian? Education is not an end in itself, but a means to knowing and loving Christ.
Apr 23, 2023•41 min
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