logo
episode-header-image
May 2025
43m 35s

Where Does Radical Love Come From?

DESIRING GOD
About this episode
How can we be set free from selfishness so that, at any earthly cost to ourselves, we will love other people in a way that makes Christ look great? 
Up next
Nov 15
Contrite Courage: How the Guilty Lean on Grace
How do Christians respond to God’s fatherly indignation against our sin? The prophet Micah teaches us: Respond with brokenhearted boldness, with contrite courage.<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10727/17209836.gif" height="1" width="1"/> 
43m 15s
Nov 8
Enjoy Him: The Call to Commune with Jesus
David Mathis | God invites us to quench our thirst by hearing his voice, having his ear, and belonging to his body. So, come stand under the waterfall of his grace. 
1h 5m
Nov 1
Our All-Nations Charge: What It Means to Be a World Christian
Cowardice, consumption, and comfort often stand between us and God’s global work. What can set us free to be world Christians?<img src="https://feed.desiringgod.org/link/10727/17201044.gif" height="1" width="1"/> 
42m 53s
Recommended Episodes
May 2024
For What Shall it Profit a Man to Gain the World But Lose His Soul?
What should we be willing to do for Christ? Is a Christian really required to die to the world to have eternal life, and what does that even mean? How do we die for Christ in our modern society? The Fathers speak! 
1h 23m
Jul 2024
Spending Money Like This World is Not Our Home
<p>As followers of Jesus, we often say that this world is not our home, but is that reflected in the way we view our money? Do we spend our resources on that which will matter for eternity, or are we primarily focused on temporary comforts and pleasures? In this message from Davi ... Show More
44m 17s
Sep 2024
How to Love Yourself with Chris Stefanick
The words that we speak to ourselves shape our self-perception; how we see ourselves, and how we act. Despite being told perhaps more than any other generation to love and believe in themselves, this generation struggles more than any other with anxiety, self-loathing, and low se ... Show More
41m 32s
Sep 2024
#219: The Cost of Following Jesus (For me to Live, is Christ)
The world places self-love as the most important. The world says that "I" am the most important and what "I" want is all that matters. Jesus teaches a different Gospel. His Gospel is one that sets us free from the bondage of self. To live for Jesus and to surrender to His Lordshi ... Show More
12m 24s
Oct 2024
Does Free Will Exist?
Do humans have free will — and if so, what is it? Pastor John considers the depravity of the human heart and the sovereign grace that saves us. 
12m 19s
Jul 2023
Loving the unlovely.
How can we expect to love the unlovely as God does when we are sinful and imperfect? Scripture says the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. That's the only way we are able to love the unlovely.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 
1 m
Jul 2024
Find your treasure and find your heart!
Tim Keller is quoted as having said that, "every other treasure you have to purchase: Jesus is the only treasure that purchased you". How true is that! Salvation is a free gift and is of infinite, incomparable value - there is nothing that even comes close. In light of this, the ... Show More
29m 30s
Jan 2025
I Am Not My Sin
Dr. Rossi reflects on how we are not are sins or our virtues. What, then, is left? Can we love ourselves for who we are? 
1s
Jul 2025
Summer Sermon Series #3 “Don’t Waste Your Life” | John Piper
<p>In this video, John Piper opens Galatians 6:14 and proclaims the cross of Christ as the only thing worth boasting in. He calls Christians to live lives shaped by Calvary—where every joy and trial is seen as a blood-bought mercy, and every purpose is surrendered to God’s glory. ... Show More
42m 17s
Dec 2023
Joy to the World (and You)
What exactly does it mean to be joyful? Finding God’s definition of happiness shows that joy is always accessible to us. As we learn to activate what God is freely giving, Pastor Zack Curry challenges us to walk in new heights of fulfillment, freedom, and hope. 
48m 48s