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Classic sermons from John Piper to help you see Christ clearly and treasure him truly. Five days a week, 20 minutes per episode. Hosted by Dan Cruver.

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Your Failure Is Not Final

2026/10/16

What frees us from guilt after sexual failure? John Piper opens Romans 8:3 to show that God condemned our sin in Christ’s flesh at the cross.

Beauty That Breaks Lust

2026/10/15

What breaks lust’s power over us? John Piper opens Galatians 5:23 to show how the Spirit produces self-control by revealing Christ as more satisfying than sex.

Gratitude Unseats Lust

2026/10/14

What loosens lust’s grip on the heart? John Piper shows from Ephesians 5:3–6 how thanksgiving displaces the covetous desires that feed lust.

Know God, Fight Lust

2026/10/13

What delight can defeat sexual sin? John Piper opens 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8 to show that knowing God himself enables purity.

Why God Wills Purity

2026/10/12

What does God demand in the fight for sexual purity? John Piper opens 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8 to show that God’s will is holiness of heart and body.

Sexual Desire: God’s Gift, Satan’s Target

2026/10/09

What makes Satan’s sexual lies lose their appeal? John Piper opens 1 Corinthians 7:1–7 to show how knowing God exposes false satisfaction.

Free to Be a Slave to God

2026/10/08

What breaks the grip of enslaving desire? John Piper opens Romans 6:16 to show why true freedom is found not in having no master, but in gladly belonging to God.

God’s Design for Sexual Desire

2026/10/07

What turns sexual desire into worship? John Piper shows from 1 Timothy 4:1–5 how God gives marital pleasure to evoke thanksgiving.

Pure Hearts Will See God

2026/10/06

What kind of heart will behold God’s glory? John Piper unfolds Matthew 5:8 to show God cleansing divided hearts to delight in his presence.

Grace Gets Us Home

2026/10/05

How can you know you’ll reach glory? John Piper opens Romans 8:28–30 to show that God will surely glorify everyone he justifies.

The Man Who Reigns in Heaven

2026/10/02

Why does Christ’s humanity matter now? John Piper opens Matthew 21:42 to unveil the man rejected by men, reigning from heaven.

Labor That Is Not in Vain

2026/10/01

Can anything done in Christ be wasted? John Piper opens 1 Corinthians 15:51–58 to show that life with Christ carries our labor beyond death.

Death Lost Its Sting

2026/09/30

What removes death’s terror? John Piper shows from 1 Corinthians 15:51–58 that Christ took the sting of death our sin deserved.

Suffering That Shows Christ

2026/09/29

How do believers make Christ’s afflictions visible? John Piper opens Colossians 1:24 to show how we joyfully reveal to others what Christ suffered.

Hope Worth Any Hardship

2026/09/28

What makes costly love worth it? John Piper opens 1 Corinthians 15:12–19 to show how resurrection hope frees us to take risks for love’s sake.

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4.8 out of 5

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Please I’m Begging You 2026/10/15

Very Bad

“John Piper opens Romans 6:16 to show why true freedom is found not in having no master, but in gladly belonging to God.” Psychotic, thought termina...

★★★★★

Nesorneb 2025/12/08

Bold Truth + Bright Light

John Piper's teachings "push & pull" us out of darkness & lies and into the renewing & regenerative truth & light of God.

★★★★★

hoodilu 2025/05/25

A blessing

This podcast and Desiring GOD before it have been pivotal in my walk with GOD. I can’t say enough about John Piper’s teaching from THE WORD about our ...

★★★★★

Swamp 2021 2025/05/06

Grateful

I’m glad to have found this podcast. I’m relatively new in my faith. I spent a lot of time in all the wrong places trying to understand scripture and ...

★★★★★

godspeaksforhimself 2024/11/10

Spiritual Growth

I am so grateful for John. He is the clearest teacher of the Scriptures I’ve ever listened to. And I’ve been a Christian since 1987. Every teaching on...

★★★★★

Pastor Julio Calderin 2024/10/25

Pastor Julio Calderin

I work full time in a State Prison as a Chaplain and I really cannot thank you enough for this bread I consume on my way to Prison every day Thank you...

★★★★★

MG1776KC 2024/06/16

Just what I need!

Christ centered pastoral preaching! John is a teacher but he is also a preacher and this podcast is perfect to lift my soul up to Jesus every day, tha...

★★★★☆

joelvonn 2024/05/08

Fix Audio?

Love listening when I can. Everything about the podcast is amazing except one thing: Due to Piper’s wide range of volume, when he gets quiet or whis...

★★★★★

KVanAbel 2024/01/29

Update: give it a chance! Please post full sermons again!

Update: initially I struggled with the format change. Seems altogether silly to reflect on now. I am thankful that old sermons are coming out of the a...

★☆☆☆☆

al_gundogs 2023/12/13

Bring back old format!

Love the content, but please bring back old format of full sermons!

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