“I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.” —Psalm 16:8

“All things are possible with God!” —Mark 10:27. In front these words give hope, and behind they give humility. They are the antidote to despair and pride — the perfect missionary medicine. Hear more on Solid Joys today. desiringgod.org/articles/med…

“In the contemporary, secular, God-omitting mindset, fulfillment doesn’t just come to the self: It comes from the self.” Pastor John redefines fulfillment as contentment in God. desiringgod.org/interviews/h…

What keeps faltering faith from final ruin? John Piper opens Luke 22:31–34 to show Christ praying for the faith of his people to not fail. desiringgod.org/light-and-tr…

“Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” —James 1:21–22

When the gospel is preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, God himself does what man cannot do: he creates the faith that saves. The call of God does what the call of man can’t. It raises the dead. It creates spiritual life. desiringgod.org/articles/the…

“When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.” —Psalm 94:19

We see the sun by means of seeing the rays of the sun. So we see God the Father by seeing Jesus. desiringgod.org/articles/chr…

“I don’t think we ought to comfort anyone by saying, ‘Oh, you’re just a carnal Christian. You can be a carnal Christian for forty years and still go to heaven.’ That is a very dangerous way to talk.” —John Piper desiringgod.org/labs/pauls-s…

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” —1 Corinthians 6:19–20

God is calling us to hear his final, decisive, inexhaustible Word — to meditate on it and study it and memorize it and linger over it and soak in it until it saturates us to the center of our being. desiringgod.org/articles/god…

What does Christ’s purchase mean for believers? John Piper opens Romans 1:1 to show that those he bought belong to him. desiringgod.org/light-and-tr…

Which is harder? Consistency in the gym? Or consistency with Jesus? Imagine pursuing both with the same purpose. We don’t train our bodies to impress people. We steward them to serve God. Fitness can be worship. Listen to or watch ‘Theology Refresh.’ dsr.gd/4dPyocF

“We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” —Ephesians 2:10

The roles of husband and wife are not the same. The husband is to take his special cues from Christ as the head of the church. The wife is to take her special cues from God’s design for the church as submissive to Christ. desiringgod.org/articles/hed…

“God deals with his children in many bitter providences, and he often looks on the surface like our enemy. But in Christ, he is never our enemy — never.” —John Piper desiringgod.org/interviews/w…

Can someone appear far from Christ yet be near conversion? John Piper opens Acts 9:1–19 to show Paul on the brink of salvation while actively opposing Christ. desiringgod.org/light-and-tr…

“None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” —Romans 14:7–8

God patterned marriage very purposefully after the relationship between his Son and the church, which he had planned from all eternity. Therefore, marriage is a mystery — it contains and conceals a meaning far greater than what we see on the outside. desiringgod.org/articles/the…

How does God make death serve his saints? John Piper shows from Acts 7:54–8:1 how the Spirit turned Stephen’s death into a doorway to Jesus. desiringgod.org/light-and-tr…