Shows
Kennystix's podcastDo You Delight in God?David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.
2024-10-2326 min
Kennystix's podcastGod-Centered Children: Teaching Our Kids the Biggest VisionJohn Piper | Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.
2024-10-1650 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Beauty of Reformed TheologyJohn Piper | Reformed theology is beautiful because the God of sovereign grace is beautiful. The doctrines are windows — he is the glory.
2024-10-0252 min
Kennystix's podcastCelebrate the Reformation This October with UsJohn Piper | Luther didn’t stand alone 500 years ago. Nor does he stand alone today. We’ve created a 31-day journey to introduce you to the many heroes of the Reformation. Join us at desiringgod.org/stand.
2024-09-2503 min
Kennystix's podcastEvery Promise Is Yes in Him: The Privilege and Power of Union with ChristApart from union with Christ, we would have no access to God’s promises and no reason to rejoice in affliction. But in Christ, every promise of God is Yes.
2024-09-2548 min
Kennystix's podcastSerious Joy: The Root of Sacrificial LoveJohn Piper | How can Christians be freed from selfishness so that, at any cost to ourselves, we love others in a way that makes Christ look great? Answer: joy.
2024-09-1844 min
Kennystix's podcastJars of Clay: Pastoral Grit for the Glory of ChristThe apostle Paul was no stranger to ministry’s many strains. Yet for all his afflictions, he neither lost heart nor tampered with the truth. How?
2024-09-0453 min
Kennystix's podcastNo Neutrality: The Illusion of Indifference to JesusNo one can be neutral about Jesus Christ. Either he will have our heart and soul, our life and obedience — or hell will.
2024-08-2141 min
Kennystix's podcastTruth Triumphs Through ProvidenceWhen God makes a promise, he keeps it. And he keeps it through his purposeful, all-wise, absolute sovereignty — through his providence.
2024-08-141h 04
Kennystix's podcastZeal: To Live with All Your MightJohn Piper | God’s will is not simply that we obey God’s will, but that we obey it in a certain way: with all of our might for all of our life.
2024-08-1116 min
Kennystix's podcastToward Need, Not Comfort: The Blood-Bought Path of the Good SamaritanJohn Piper | You don’t have to be Christian to love the story of the Good Samaritan. But applauding Luke’s parable apart from his Gospel contradicts his purpose.
2024-08-0744 min
Kennystix's podcastTruth Triumphs Through PleasureWhen the Bible speaks of “truth,” it refers ultimately to God himself. Therefore, truth demands more than just our minds — truth will have our whole hearts, now and forever.
2024-07-3144 min
Kennystix's podcastGo Where God Walks: The Everyday Paths of Astonishing GraceDavid Mathis | God does not leave us to ourselves after saving us. His grace continues to flow to us through his appointed means: Bible reading, prayer, and fellowship.
2024-07-241h 09
Kennystix's podcastWhen You Pray: Speaking to God Alone and TogetherDavid Mathis | Our God isn’t just a speaking God — he’s a listening God. Whether we come to him in secret or side by side, God delights to hear his people pray.
2024-07-241h 00
Kennystix's podcastWe Read to Get God: Scripture as the Chief Means of GraceDavid Mathis | When Christians read the Bible, we’re after more than understanding God’s words. We’re after enjoying God’s Word. We’re after Jesus.
2024-07-2453 min
Kennystix's podcastKnow Your Covenant: Christian Habits for the New EraDavid Mathis | The new covenant is not a renewed, updated, or expanded covenant — it is actually new. And the new-covenant era calls for new-covenant habits.
2024-07-1047 min
Kennystix's podcastHis Power, Your Body, Our Home: Three Marks of Christian CitizensDavid Mathis | In this earthly life, Christians do more than wait for heaven. We belong to heaven, find our hope in heaven, and serve the King of heaven.
2024-07-0638 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Fullest, Longest Happiness: For Those Who Pass the TestGod never tests his saints with ill intent. As the Father of lights, his every test aims at the full and lasting happiness of his children.
2024-07-0338 min
Kennystix's podcastLord, Savior, and Treasure: The Complex Beauty of Jesus ChristDavid Mathis | In Jesus, we find the complex beauty our hearts were made to behold: meekness and majesty, nearness and transcendence, the might of the Lion and the mercy of the Lamb.
2024-06-2630 min
Kennystix's podcastWork Out What Christ Has Won: The Christian Life as Gift and DutyDavid Mathis | The everyday Christian life is both a gift and a duty. By God’s own indwelling power, we work out what Christ has won.
2024-06-1942 min
Kennystix's podcastWhat Is It Like to ‘Know Christ’?David Mathis | The Christian life has one final aim: to know and enjoy Jesus. He justified us to know him, we daily press on to know him more, and one day we will know him fully and forever.
2024-06-1241 min
Kennystix's podcastHow to Win a Fight: Heavenly Wisdom for Relational ConflictMarshall Segal | What counsel does the book of James offer for our relationships? Submit to God, ask for wisdom, temper your words, calm your anger, and embrace godly community.
2024-06-0530 min
Kennystix's podcastWhen God Listens: His Ear and Our AccessDavid Mathis | When we stop and look, we find that we know a lot more about Jesus’s spiritual disciplines than we might think. What can we learn from the prayer life of the Savior?
2024-05-291h 09
Kennystix's podcastHow Church Rescues: Christ’s Body as His MeansDavid Mathis | When we think of spiritual disciplines, we might immediately think of our time alone with God, but the Christian faith is a community project. We all need the body of Christ.
2024-05-2258 min
Kennystix's podcastWhere Jesus Travels: Introducing the Means of GraceDavid Mathis | Whomever God justifies, he also sanctifies. What means has he given us to keep growing in holiness?
2024-05-1550 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Safest Soul in All the World: Rejoicing in the Risen ChristDavid Mathis | The safest soul in all the universe is the one that rejoices in the risen Christ. God will never destroy those who delight in his Son.
2024-04-1433 min
Kennystix's podcastWhere Does Technology Come From? 2024 Scudder LectureTony Reinke | How should Christians orient toward technology? Should we ignore it, embrace it, be suspicious of it, or shun it altogether?
2024-04-0743 min
Kennystix's podcastBefore Division Comes: A Playbook for Pastoral UnityDavid Mathis | Even among pastor-elder teams, conflict comes. Disagreements are inevitable. How then might we navigate conflict with a constant eye toward God-honoring unity?
2024-03-3144 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Word of God Kept Him: Funeral Message for Sidney Boyd (1948–2023)Why do God’s people wake up as believers day after day until they die? Because the same word that made us goes on keeping us to the end.
2024-03-2813 min
Kennystix's podcastLive Like Death Is GainMarshall Segal | How can we make Jesus look good in life and in death? By enjoying him as better than anything life could ever give — and better than anything death could ever take.
2024-03-2039 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Thickest Joy on Earth: Why We Love PhilippiansDavid Mathis | Why do so many Christians love the book of Philippians? Among other reasons, because the letter is brief, accessible, memorable, and teeming with joy.
2024-03-1735 minKennystix's podcastThe Most Important People in the World: Why Christians Prioritize the ChurchDavid Mathis | The Father prioritizes the church by choosing her, the Son prioritizes her by purchasing and purifying her, and the Spirit prioritizes her in his power. So, how do we prioritize the church?
2024-03-1058 minKennystix's podcastThe ‘Ask Pastor John’ Book Is AvailableThe ‘Ask Pastor John’ book is now available at a 40% discount through our friends at Westminster Bookstore. We encourage you to order through them as you consider supporting faithful, independent Christian booksellers.
2024-03-0503 min
Kennystix's podcastLeaders in the Church: Speaking and Living God’s WordJohn Piper | Does church leadership seem endlessly complicated? Take heart. Christian leaders guide God’s people from where they are to where God wants them to go, using God’s methods.
2024-03-0356 min
Kennystix's podcastHow Jesus Knew the Word: His Secret to Scripture MemoryDavid Mathis | How did Jesus know Scripture so well? The same way we can today: through patient, prayerful meditation on the word of God.
2024-02-2918 min
Kennystix's podcastOnly One Life: Christ’s Invincible Gospel and Global MissionJohn Piper | God is sovereign, and he has purposed his gospel to spread to the ends of the earth. Those who give themselves to that purpose are invincible, even through suffering.
2024-02-2547 min
Kennystix's podcastHow Jesus Met with God: The Pace and Patterns of a Perfect LifeDavid Mathis | Jesus had a full and fruitful ministry, but unlike us, he never seemed hurried or frantic. What can we learn by observing his holy habits during his earthly life?
2024-02-1718 min
Kennystix's podcastHis Voice in Yours: How Christ Wins the WorldGod will have worshipers from every nation on earth. He will win them, and do so through us. We have only to tell them.
2024-01-2133 min
Kennystix's podcastHow to Please a Happy God: Six Glimpses of the Christian LifeDavid Mathis | What does it look like to walk in a way that is pleasing to God — to live so that God delights in the aroma of our lives?
2024-01-1443 min
Kennystix's podcastGain What You Cannot Lose: The Joy of World Mission with JesusWhen Christ calls us to the mission field with him, he calls us to deny shallow pleasures, die to ourselves, and enjoy greater and greater delight in him.
2024-01-0738 min
Kennystix's podcastDo Not Believe Every Spirit: The Threat and Defeat of False Teaching TodayAre biblical warnings about false prophets still relevant? Yes, the threat looms as large today as in the first century.
2023-12-3136 minKennystix's podcastAppeal from John PiperJohn Piper | Your prayers and financial support help us bring more people into the fullest enjoyment of the greatest treasure ever found. For every $10 per month you give, we can reach 70 more people with God-centered resources. Would you join us as a monthly partner? https://dsr.gd/Give
2023-12-2905 min
Kennystix's podcastOne Countercultural Calling: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 3David Mathis | Of the fifteen elder qualifications, “one-woman man” and “not quarrelsome” may be the two most at odds with our promiscuous, petty age.
2023-12-2752 min
Kennystix's podcastTwo Ways to Deal with Jesus: Learning Worship from the Wise MenMatthew’s Christmas story shows two ways to deal with Jesus: try to get rid of him like Herod, or fall down and worship him like the wise men.
2023-12-2410 min
Kennystix's podcastJesus Came to Save: Ten Great Realities of ChristmasThe birth of John the Baptist was great, but the birth of Jesus Christ was infinitely greater. John prepared for salvation, but Jesus purchased it.
2023-12-2338 minKennystix's podcastTwo Main Tasks in Ministry: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 2David Mathis | Scripture says elders should be “able to teach” and “sober-minded” — but why? The two correspond to a pastor’s most important tasks: feeding and leading.
2023-12-2048 min
Kennystix's podcastChristmas Was and Christmas Is: The Whole Story of AdventDavid Mathis | How do you need God’s help this Advent? What need seems most pressing? Press into the message of Christmas, and you’ll find hope and help in time of need.
2023-12-1739 min
Kennystix's podcastThree Contrasts in a Leader’s Heart: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 1David Mathis | What does Christ call church leaders to be and do? Like him, they labor heartily and happily, not for selfish gain, but for their people’s joy.
2023-12-1350 min
Kennystix's podcastWhat’s It Like to Be a Christian? Faith, Obedience, and Living as StrangersDavid Mathis | What is Christian faith? Hebrews 11 not only answers the question but tells us what faith feels like, and how it leads to obedience, and living as exiles in this world.
2023-12-1039 min
Kennystix's podcastIf God Speaks: One Voice That Changes EverythingDavid Mathis | To read the Bible is to read the very words of God. Do we grasp the significance, the reality-shaking impact, of this seemingly simple truth?
2023-12-0650 min
Kennystix's podcastBefore You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like JesusDavid Mathis | Good pastors are not naive: ministry comes with many costs. Even so, Christ has not called us to an impossible, joyless task. The cross proves otherwise.
2023-12-0348 min
Kennystix's podcastMan of War and Grace: The Greatest of Israel’s KingsDavid Mathis | Some may not think of David, the shepherd king, as particularly masculine, but Scripture paints him in a far more manly and glorious light.
2023-11-2534 min
Kennystix's podcastWhose Son Is the Messiah? King David and the God of IsraelWhen Jesus asks the Pharisees how David calls the Messiah “Lord,” they refuse to answer. What made that seemingly simple question so incendiary?
2023-11-1939 min
Kennystix's podcastGod Is: The Life-Altering Reality of Sheer Divine ExistenceJohn Piper | God is. No reality is more mind-boggling, more valuable, more life-altering, more electrifying than the absolute being of God.
2023-11-1238 min
Kennystix's podcastGrace Will Order All Your Pain: Retirement Message for Dana OlsonWhat is sovereign, sustaining grace? It is not grace that spares us pain, but grace that orders our pain — and then sustains us through the pain.
2023-10-1542 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Leader You Long to FollowDavid Mathis | From principals to presidents, leadership failures fill the news. We long for someone in power to lead with wisdom and fairness. Praise God, the ideal king has come.
2023-10-0440 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Spell That Opened Heaven: Funeral Message for Daniel Fuller (1925–2023)Romans 8:32 is perhaps the greatest verse in the Bible. No other text quite describes how far God has gone for our salvation and will go for our joy.
2023-09-1023 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Final Hours of Suffering: Funeral Message for Nancy Nelson (1952–2023)God’s word speaks to the mysteries of suffering. We will only bear pain well as we begin to see it like he does.
2023-08-0625 min
Kennystix's podcastWhy We Sing About the BloodDavid Mathis | Why do Christians sing about blood? Because of what happened at the cross, the otherwise morbid topic becomes one of glory, thanks, and praise.
2023-07-2240 min
Kennystix's podcastMore Thrilling to Be Saved Than to SucceedWhat excites a Christian most? Our deepest, truest joy does not flow from completed degrees or flourishing ministries, but from the God who saved us.
2023-07-1219 min
Kennystix's podcastHappy Pastors Make Healthy ChurchesChrist’s blood bought more than our pardon, precious as it is. His death also purchased the power we need to live a radical Christian life.
2023-07-0240 min
Kennystix's podcastWhy Bethlehem Has a College: Biblical Foundations for Church-Based EducationJohn Piper | What makes a college distinctly Christian? Education is not an end in itself, but a means to knowing and loving Christ.
2023-06-1841 min
Kennystix's podcastHamilton: An American ProdigalDavid Mathis | Neither biographers nor Broadway can ignore Alexander Hamilton’s late-flowering Christian faith. He, like the prodigal son, finally came home after his journey into the far country.
2023-06-0353 min
Kennystix's podcastNot Dead Yet: Fighting Nine Fears of Old AgeAs we age, fears can multiply like wrinkles. But for every concern, we have a blood-bought promise far, far older than our fears.
2023-05-2852 min
Kennystix's podcastPress Afresh into Jesus: Four Truths About Genuine FaithDavid Mathis | Genuine faith welcomes, enjoys, fears, strives after, and rests in God. And in doing so, genuine faith perseveres.
2023-05-1840 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Demons, the Fever, and the Word of the KingWhile on earth, Jesus spoke with unmatched power. Demons obeyed him, and fevers fled at his word. Everything was subject to him — then and now.
2023-05-1444 min
Kennystix's podcastDo Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for PastorsDavid Mathis | For pastors to be “well thought of by outsiders” certainly isn’t everything, but it made God’s list of requirements. Is it still on ours?
2023-05-0737 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Story of the Greatest CoronationDavid Mathis | When Christ ascended into heaven, an otherworldly ceremony commenced. Here was the long-awaited Son of David, the only man angels ever worshiped.
2023-04-1640 min
Kennystix's podcastDanger Averted, Destiny Attained: Funeral Message for Lois Nelson (1919–2023)When a Christian goes home to be with the Lord, we who remain have the chance to rehearse God’s loving design in every believer’s death.
2023-04-1324 min
Kennystix's podcastA World God Could Admire: Recovering His Pleasure in CreationMarshall Segal | Do you ever stop, slow down, and marvel at something God has made? If we could see it all like he does, we’d see far more than we do.
2023-03-2657 min
Kennystix's podcastWhat Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages?When our hearts run dry, and our good works languish, the Bible bids us: “Consider the end.”
2023-03-0555 min
Kennystix's podcastIt Will Be Worth It: Overcoming Obstacles to World MissionsWhen it comes to missions, reasons abound to stay rather than to go. But for every apparent obstacle, countless promises say, “It will be worth it.”
2023-01-2925 min
Kennystix's podcastOrdinary Elders, Part 2: Governing as Men Who TeachDavid Mathis | Pastors are first and foremost teachers, but they are not only teachers. They feed the sheep and lead the sheep — and they lead by feeding.
2023-01-2059 min
Kennystix's podcastOrdinary Elders, Part 1: Working for the Joy of OthersDavid Mathis | The pastors we all want are men who want to pastor, who want to see God move in them and through them for the joy of others.
2023-01-191h 02
Kennystix's podcastIs Jesus an Egomaniac? Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian FaithWhat do we call an obsessively self-centered person? An egomaniac. Then what should we call God, who demands all our praise? We call him gracious.
2023-01-0851 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New YearWhen we pray for God to preserve us, we ask that he would be not only our Lord, but our life — not only our God, but our highest and everlasting good.
2022-12-2946 min
Kennystix's podcastPrince of What Peace? How Christmas Overcomes Our ConflictsAt the root of all conflict is man’s conflict with God. At Christmas, we celebrate that God took the initiative to establish true peace.
2022-12-2545 min
Kennystix's podcastHow Majestic Is Our Lord?David Mathis | When speaking of God, we grope for fresh language to name the greatness of God. Might we learn to reach more often for the word “majesty”?
2022-12-1840 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Joy of the PuritansThe Puritans took joy seriously because they read the Bible carefully. They saw that delight in God is at the heart of all true obedience.
2022-12-111h 04
Kennystix's podcastTen Looks at Jesus, Part 2David Mathis | “For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” How happy might we be if we heeded Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s counsel?
2022-12-0542 min
Kennystix's podcastTen Looks at Jesus, Part 1David Mathis | “For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.” How happy might we be if we heeded Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s famous counsel?
2022-12-0447 min
Kennystix's podcastHe Delighted to Crush His Son: The Pleasure of God in the GospelDavid Mathis | The Father not only planned for his Son to die, but was pleased to crush him. And for those in Christ, this can be as comforting as it is astonishing.
2022-12-0157 min
Kennystix's podcastThe Purposes of God in the Pain of the WorldBefore he created the earth, God knew pain would plague this world. And not only knew, but planned. And not only planned — but purposed.
2022-11-2753 min
Kennystix's podcastHow Can a Holy God Have Pleasure in Sinners?You will not be perfect in this life, but you can be pleasing to God. You can become a real ingredient in the divine happiness.
2022-11-2059 min
Kennystix's podcastGod Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and GatheringsThe individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.
2022-11-1737 min
Kennystix's podcastSecret Liturgies: The Private Worship of a Public LeaderDavid Mathis | Blessed is the leader who meditates on God’s law day and night — not just in public, but all the more in secret.
2022-11-0643 min
Kennystix's podcastFall Back to the Banner: Four Lessons for Our DevastationsDavid Mathis | When loss surrounds us, when fears assail us, we have a banner to which to flee. We turn to the God who has spoken, and there find real hope and strength.
2022-10-3038 min
Kennystix's podcastGood Preaching Takes Hard WorkDavid Mathis | Good preachers carry many burdens before preaching, while preaching, and after preaching — and the rewards still outweigh the costs.
2022-10-2350 min
Kennystix's podcastHow Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love?When glad in God, we bend low in love for others. We imitate Christ, who not only bowed the knee but hung his body on the tree.
2022-10-0243 min
Kennystix's podcast‘Rejoice When You Are Slandered’: How to Do the Humanly ImpossibleOne of the most challenging commands in all the Bible is to rejoice when reviled. It’s not just difficult; it is humanly impossible.
2021-07-2538 min
Kennystix's podcastCan Joy Come in Sorrow? Lessons for an Authentic Christian LifeHow do joy and sorrow mingle in the Christian life? Does joy come only after sorrow passes, or can it come in the very midst of our griefs?
2021-05-0248 min
2021-03-2200 min
Kennystix's podcast‘Hallowed Be Your Name’: The Greatest Prayer in All the WorldThe lines of the Lord’s Prayer tend to pass by our eyes, and through our mouths, in a routine manner. But what might we be missing in our familiarity?
2021-02-2139 min
2021-02-1701 min
Kennystix's podcastDoing the Right Thing Never Ruins Your Life: A Belief That Prevents AbortionAbortion holds out hope that ending the unborn child’s life will spare you misery and hardship. But doing the right thing will never ruin your life.
2021-01-2842 min
Kennystix's podcastFaith That Satisfies — and Saves: What It Means to Come to JesusThe nature of genuine saving faith isn’t mere mental assent, but receiving all that God is for us in Jesus Christ.
2021-01-1736 min
Kennystix's podcastSinging, Suffering, and Scripture: How God Keeps Us Through SongSuffering may quiet our singing for a time, but God designed singing to sustain our souls. And one day, we will sing forever with unrestrained joy.
2020-11-0833 min
Kennystix's podcastEvery Letter Kills, Including Shakespeare: Pressing Through Texts in the Power of the SpiritTo exposit a text is only one part of preaching and teaching. We must drill down into the words and unearth the reality that holds the text together.
2020-07-1918 min
Kennystix's podcastAre We Adopted for Us or for God?The more gladness we have in our Father, the more we bring glory to his name. Our happiness in him shows off his holiness in us.
2018-10-0744 min
Kennystix's podcastRight with God, Right with Man: The Power of Superior PleasureReceiving Jesus as our greatest joy unlocks right standing with God and right living with others.
2018-02-2254 min