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You Need the Local Church to Be Healthy
In less than three minutes, Trip Lee explains why the local church is essential to every Christian’s health. The following is a lightly edited transcript.When I first began to follow Jesus, there were...
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The Soul-Shattering Sting of Loneliness
The online video is stirring. A young man, Karim, approaches a middle aged homeless man on the street, and holds out cash. The homeless man is startled from a drowsy sleep state, flinches in...
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Your Old Passions War Against You
There are desires inside of you that want to destroy you. In this lab, John Piper teaches us to fight remaining sin in our own hearts.Watch Now
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Ransomed
I was an indie kid. The term is convoluted, but to boil it down, my tastes and fashion sense were a silent rebellion against the mainstream. I avoided brand names and labels, and instead preferred...
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Join Us in Spreading Joy
At Desiring God, we get up in the morning and go to bed at night asking, “How can we magnify God’s greatness and increase everlasting joy in him for more people?” Our daily prayer is, “Lord, make us...
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Modesty Lets Our Light Shine
Last Saturday evening, Ayesha Curry, wife of NBA star Stephen Curry, was flipping through a Style Weekly and shared her observations with Twitter:Everyone's into barely wearing clothes these days huh?...
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I Read the Bible and Feel Nothing — What Should I Do?
When you don’t feel affections for God while reading your Bible, Pastor John counsels that you apply your heart.Listen Now
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How to Get Dressed in the Morning
Hardly anyone forgets to put on clothes before going to work or school in the morning. In fact, some of us are very meticulous when it comes to getting dressed. We shop at our favorite stores, we are...
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
This translation of an anonymous Latin hymn doubles as a prayer for the first and second coming of Christ. It takes us into the mind of old Israel, longing for the first coming of the Messiah. And it...
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Adoption: A New Father and a New Heart
Martin Luther, whose tormented conscience and anguished thinking launched the Protestant Reformation, once remarked, “If the doctrine of justification is lost, the whole of Christian doctrine is lost.”...
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Where Did Satan’s First Desire for Evil Come From?
Pastor John admits that although God is sovereign over all things, including sin, some things remain a mystery.Listen Now
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Four Truths About God’s Provision
When you put your faith in Christ, God commissions himself to protect, provide, and care for you (Philippians 4:19). God always provides for his children, though often it is not in the way we expect or...
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A Perfect Christmas
The store aisles are filling up with pine garlands and embroidered stockings, while glossy magazines invite me to dream of cookies too pretty to eat and ornaments too fragile for children. I linger...
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Teach Us to Pray
Learn to pray again as John Piper rehearses some of the most profound and familiar words ever spoken in this four-minute feature video.Watch Now
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God Lived Among Us
What is Christmas? In this lab, John Piper walks through the familiar words of John 1 to explain the unexplainable mystery of God becoming a man for us.Watch Now
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How the Bible Came Alive
I’ve taken Bible study seriously since I was young. God gave us a book that we all believe is from him, so doesn’t that mean we ought to really know what it says? So I studied, I memorized, and I...
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Staying Godly in a Godless Workplace
Very few, if any, awake one morning and decide all of a sudden, “Today is the day I’m going rogue. Enough with all that honesty stuff. From now on, I’m all about corruption.”It typically begins as an...
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I Will Not Leave Jesus — But I’m Done with the Church
In a short clip, Pastor John answers why Christians need to be committed to the church. Listen Now
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The Pride in Our Holiday Stress
Decorating our house for Christmas is a day our whole family looks forward to. We bring up boxes from our basement and delight over the sentimental treasures that dress our home. Christmas music fills...
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Be a Yoda, Not a Grinch
In the next seven days, Star Wars and Christmas return, and for many, it may feel like almost too much to handle. December’s already the most anticipated month of the year with the first snowfall, the...
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