Podcasts about desiring god

God has justified us. There is only future grace in front of us. Satan cannot overturn that decree.

Marshall Segal | Recent pro-life decisions have not forced abortions to fade away. When our country kills children by the millions, what should be our response?

Sometimes God makes seemingly strong people weaker so that his divine power will be the more evident.

David Mathis | The hostile army ignored God as long as they could, but when he looked down at them, they panicked. Then his people's newfound fear of him erupted in song and dance.

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Suffering must not drive you from God. Instead, it should drive you from everything but God.

How does God intend for us to deal with tragedy in the news? Pastor John offers six reasons why suffering should drive us to repentance and action.

Faith is like muscle tissue: if you stress it to the limit, it gets stronger, not weaker. When your faith is tested, the result is greater capacity to endure.

Our sovereign God says there is an appointed number of martyrs. They have a special role to play in planting and empowering the church.

Clinton Manley | When the allures of the world tempt us with ease and comfort, Scripture holds out better promises in every way. Taste and see that God's word is good.

Strengthen your heart and renew your courage by fixing your gaze on the invisible truth you see in the testimony of those who saw Christ face to face.

How do we respond when an employer expects us to compromise the truth? Pastor John offers counsel for keeping an uncompromised faith in the workplace.

If you don't fight lust with a seriousness that is willing to gouge out your own eye, you will go to hell and suffer forever.

In this episode, John Piper reflects on God's delight in being God. John Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including 'The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God' from Crossway. ❖ Listen to “Remembering the “Seashells” Sermon 23 Years Later" with John Piper:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Apple Podcasts | Spotify | ⁠YouTube⁠ If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show.

The heart that loves money is a heart that pins its hopes, and pursues its pleasures, and puts its trust in what human resources can offer.

Greg Morse | There are many things we can approach casually, but God's word is not among them. The Maker of worlds and Redeemer of souls deserves far more than flippant attention.

The way to thwart the devil is to strengthen the very thing he is trying most to destroy — your faith.

For the writer to the Hebrews, understanding Melchizedek means understanding Jesus. But how can an ancient king help us know the true King of glory?

Jesus is interceding for us today that our faith may not fail. Our endurance in faith and joy is finally and decisively in the hands of God.

How can we fight anxiety through financial panic and stress? Pastor John offers five truths about God's character to calm our hearts and minds.

When God's word feeds faith's appetite for God, it weans our hearts away from the deceptive taste of lust.

Trusting God's future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.

Brian Tabb | What can you do when reading the Bible feels more bewildering than edifying? Pray for illumination. Ask questions for insight. Read books for instruction.

The Bible is replete with saints struggling with sunken spirits. But God includes such testimonies so that we might use them to fight the unbelief of despondency.

How would we use our time if Christ were coming back tonight? Pastor John gives ten transforming ways to live while waiting for the second coming.

Prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of God's future grace.

God promises not merely that we will find grace “to help in time of need,” but that the grace is well-timed by God.

Gerrit Scott Dawson | When you sit down in front of God's word, does pride pull up a chair too? How we respond when we hear from God reveals much about our hearts.

Moment by moment, God supplies the strength in which we serve. He does this because the ongoing, inexhaustible supplier of power gets the glory.

David Mathis | Why is the writer of Hebrews so enthralled with an often weak and wavering church? He sees her calling, her splendor, and her majestic Savior.

Greg Morse | If you are growing bored with daily bread, longing for the world's pleasures, and grumbling against God, beware — that is the path to apostasy.

Whatever added signs and wonders God may show to amplify our witness to Christ, they will come through his grace and power.

King Asa worshiped God almost all his days, but he drifted in his old age. So, how should we respond when sin corrupts good men?

Believe in the promise that in this day God will be at work in you to will and work for his good pleasure.

Paul prayed for grace for the day, trusted that it would come with power, and then acted with all his might.

Scott Hubbard | When you sit down to read God's word and a hundred distractions flit through your mind, how do you fight for attention?

You may think you need to save your life in order to do your ministry. On the contrary, how you lose your life may be the capstone of your ministry.

Does past sexual sin ruin a future marriage? Pastor John counsels a confused young man to trust God's redeeming love for repentant sexual sinners.

Costly acts of love don't just happen. They are impelled by a new appetite — the appetite of faith for the fullest experience of God's grace. We want more of God.

The glory of Christ is magnified when we are more satisfied with his future grace than we are with the promises of sin.

When we don't believe all the promises of God, we won't receive the full measure of the Spirit.

Marshall Segal | Why do we gather to sing week after week, and why should we sing even more? God has saved his people, and all of creation joins in exulting in him.

“Works” longs for the joy of being glorified as strong. “Faith” longs for the joy of seeing God glorified as strong.

If God is sovereign, why should we pray? Pastor John encourages us to seek God with confidence in his power and plan for our lives.

When he was in anguish, Jesus rested his soul in the sovereign wisdom of God.

Faith in God's forgiveness means savoring the truth that a forgiving God is the most precious reality in the universe.

When the church sets aside every boast and embraces God's ancient plan of grace, she sings with all her heart for God's glory alone.

All the wrongs that have been done against us by believers were avenged in the death of Jesus. Look to the cross of Christ.

How can the pastor of a growing church care for each member? Pastor John encourages shepherds to care tenderly for the flock and depend on God's mercy.

No one has ever lived who was more worthy of honor than Jesus; and no one has been dishonored more. But he triumphed by entrusting himself to God.