Lost in God’s Providence: How He Works Our Wanderings for Good
Greg Morse | Our lives often take strange turns. How good to know, then, that God can turn all the unplanned oddities of your life for your good and his glory.
Oct 20, 2024•11 min
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We Groan for Home: Waiting and Hoping Like Children of God
Jon Bloom | Christians can only be so happy in this world. Even our best seasons are accompanied by groanings for a home beyond this world.
Oct 18, 2024•10 min
Christ in Me? Three Wonders of Life in the Spirit
David Mathis | Christian, how often do you marvel that you have the Spirit of God in you? God with us has become God in us — empowering us, interceding for us, and testifying to us.
Oct 11, 2024•15 min
Lost in the Maze of Me: How Introspection Goes Wrong
Scott Hubbard | Our Lord calls us to look within. Yet alongside healthy introspection are a dozen dangers — paths that will yield not more self-knowledge but rather more anxiety and fear.
Oct 08, 2024•12 min
No Condemnation: A Dream Before God’s Judgment Seat
Greg Morse | One day, every soul from every corner of creation will stand trial before the Judge of all. When that day comes, and your records are read, what will your plea be?
Oct 06, 2024•16 min
Glory May Cost You Everything: An Invitation to Romans 8
Marshall Segal | If you want to stabilize your soul, fortify your heart, and inflame your joy, then come walk the cliffs and peaks of the greatest of all chapters: Romans 8.
Oct 01, 2024•9 min
Some Mock, Others Believe: Pondering Strangeness in Our Preaching
David Mathis | “You bring some strange things to our ears.” Some in Athens said it to the apostle Paul. Some in America will say it to faithful preachers today.
Sep 29, 2024•15 min
Christ Is King: A Warning to God’s Foes
Greg Morse | One sound shakes the spheres, makes mountains tremble, puts enemy armies to flight, and echoes throughout the hosts of heaven — the laughter of God at his enemies.
Sep 27, 2024•15 min
Celebrate the Reformation with Us
John 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.
Sep 25, 2024•4 min
Growing Wise as We Grow Old: How Hardship Teaches Us to Hope
Jon Bloom | Our lives are both shorter and harder than we expect. But for the believer, God designs these sorrows to teach us wisdom and hope.
Sep 24, 2024•10 min
Stay Strange: The Church as a Home for Exiles
Scott Hubbard | Christians are sojourners and exiles in this world — strangers. And to live up to that name, we need a community to help us stay faithfully strange.
Sep 22, 2024•12 min
The Prayer of a Hunted Man
Greg Morse | Even in the deadliest circumstances, David was a man on the hunt for beauty. In the end, he would discover that he did not hunt beauty as much as Beauty hunted him.
Sep 15, 2024•14 min
How to Plan Wickedly Well
Marshall Segal | When you plan, do you acknowledge what you don’t know, admit what you can’t control, and ask God for help? If not, your plans may be well-laid but wicked.
Sep 11, 2024•13 min
Will You Love Jesus in Five Years? Training Your Soul to Delight in Him
David Mathis | Your soul is being conditioned every day for what you will delight in five years from now. Are you training yourself for delight in Jesus, or for indifference to him?
Sep 10, 2024•12 min
Life Is Too Brief to Waste: Learning to Number Our Days
Jon Bloom | When we learn to number our days, we see just how brief life is — briefer than we tend to assume, and far too brief to waste.
Sep 08, 2024•8 min
Strangers to Sin: How Heaven Makes Us Holy
Greg Morse | Christian, you are not a citizen of this world. You hope for a better home and greater reward. Does this hope help you flee from sin now?
Sep 06, 2024•12 min
Ten Sweeter, Stronger Looks: How Examining Self Illuminates Christ
Scott Hubbard | Godly introspection is a road, not a room, that ever takes us to the same glorious place: Jesus. And some of the best sights of Christ come at the end of that road.
Sep 01, 2024•13 min
Our Most Important Citizenship: Four Checks for ‘World Christians’
David Mathis | Have the world’s patterns and “cultural moments” dulled the global scope and Great-Commission interests of your faith?
Aug 31, 2024•13 min
To Gain the World and Lose Your Soul
Greg Morse | There is one item in the world that has no fair trade — the soul. And yet, how many trade the most priceless thing they own to gain mere trifles?
Aug 27, 2024•11 min
If the Men Aren’t Singing: Five Questions for Worship Leaders
Jon Bloom | God made men to sing. But sometimes, our lyrics miss their hearts, our keys miss their registers, and as a result, our churches miss their voices.
Aug 24, 2024•11 min
If You Confess: How to Bring Your Sins to God
Scott Hubbard | How can we confess our sins in a way that pleases God? Heed God’s fatherly hand, honestly name your sins, embrace God’s free forgiveness, and walk away glad in him.
Aug 20, 2024•12 min
Love Her Less to Love Her More: The Dangers of Idolizing a Wife
Greg Morse | A husband loves his wife as she ought to be loved — he loves her best — only when he loves her as his wife and not as his god.
Aug 17, 2024•14 min
‘Abraham, Take Your Son’: Wrestling with God’s Unsettling Test
Jon Bloom | God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son. How do we know he won’t call us to do the same today?
Aug 10, 2024•12 min
Facing a Task Unfinished: A Battle-Hymn for Mission
Greg Morse | The Great Commission remains an unfinished task, and yet how many feel any urgency to see it completed?
Aug 06, 2024•11 min
Live a Larger Life: An Invitation to World Christianity
Scott Hubbard | Are you a world Christian serving a worldwide Lord? Jesus sends us outside of ourselves, our families, and our comforts to care about the nations he came to save.
Aug 03, 2024•14 min
‘Be Perfect’? The Holiness God Requires of Us
Jon Bloom | “Be perfect,” Jesus tells us in his Sermon on the Mount. But what kind of perfection does he expect while we still deal with indwelling sin?
Jul 30, 2024•12 min
Forget Your First Name: How to Live for Legacy
Greg Morse | We are a generation of first names, of forgotten pasts and rootless family trees. But in Christ, God empowers us to live for something bigger, greater, and far longer lasting.
Jul 27, 2024•13 min
Does God Delight in Me? His Pleasure in (Imperfect) Holiness
Scott Hubbard | How can the present holiness of Christians bring God pleasure? Because true holiness, however imperfect, beats sin with God’s own pleasure in himself.
Jul 25, 2024•13 min
‘Enter into My Happiness’: Jesus’s Invitation to Infinite Joy
David Mathis | Nine times in rapid succession, Jesus invites us into the very happiness of God. Surprising as that may be, his conditions for entrance may shock us even more.
Jul 23, 2024•11 min
Keep Watch Over Souls: A One-Verse Charge to Pastors
Greg Morse | Hebrews 13:17 offers a solemn and glorious charge to every pastor: keep watch over immortal souls as those who will give an account to Christ.
Jul 20, 2024•16 min
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