Facts help us grasp abortion in our communities. With the internet no one is innocently ignorant. Here are some facts from the Twin Cities to San Antonio. There are no grizzly pictures here. But there are some miracles. I won't show you what the babies look like after they are killed, but before.

Start with the on-the-ground facts. There are five places to get elective abortions in the Twin Cities, Planned Parenthood (671 Vandalia St.,
 St. Paul), Robbinsdale Clinic (3819 West Broadway, Minneapolis), Mildred Hanson (710 East 24th St., Minneapolis) and two locations of the Whole Woman's Health (33 South 5th St, Minneapolis, and 825 S. 8th St. #1018 Minneapolis). I encourage you to visit the…

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Of course Black History is worthy of the chunks of your life as well as the cracks. But I’m laying claim to the unused parts of dressing, and brushing your teeth and driving and walking.

I am listening to The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. It is Equiano’s autobiography published in 1789, and is one of the first widely read slave narratives. I would like to invite you to listen with me to some significant history during Black History Month. This book or three others. It is all free, both audio and written.

Near the end of chapter two Equiano calls for “nominal Christians” to live up to Jesus’s command: “Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you.” It gives a …

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Live-Stream Schedule: Wednesday, February 6

Watch the live-stream at www.desiringGod.org/live.

Updates on the conference will be available through Desiring God’s Facebook page and Twitter account (hashtag #DGPASCON).

Note: All times are approximate and listed here in Eastern Standard Time. For those onsite, see the schedule here in Central Standard Time.

10:00 - 11:00 AM EST, Mack Stiles

• Supernatural World Missions: “With Man This Is Impossible”

11:30 - 12:30 AM EST, Speaker Panel

• Hughes, Patrick, Koleoso, Stiles, Meyer, Piper

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Live-Stream Schedule: Tuesday, February 5

Watch the live-stream at www.desiringGod.org/live.

Updates on the conference will be available through Desiring God's Facebook page and Twitter account (hashtag #DGPASCON).

Note: All times are approximate and listed here in Eastern Standard Time. For those onsite, see the schedule here in Central Standard Time.

10:00 - 11:00 AM EST, Jason Meyer

• Pastoral Transition after a 32-Year Ministry: Strategy and the Supernatural

11:30 - 12:30 AM EST, Tope Koleoso

• Sovereign Grace, Spiritual Gifts, and the Pastor: How Should a Reformed Pastor Be Charismatic?

2:45 - 4:00 PM EST, John Piper

• The Pastor-Shepherd as Poet and Prophet: Thoughts from t…

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Live-Stream Schedule

Watch the live-stream at www.desiringGod.org/live, beginning at 2:30 PM EST today.

Updates on the conference will be available through Desiring God’s Facebook page and Twitter account (hashtag #DGPASCON).

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Note: All times are approximate and listed here in Eastern Standard Time. For those onsite, see the schedule here in Central Standard Time.

Monday, February 4

2:30 - 3:30 PM EST, Mark Dever (Sponsored by Fidelis Foundation)

• Centrality of the Church in Disciple-Making

4:00 - 5:00 PM EST, Seminar with Mark Dever

• Connecting the Dots Between Shepherding, Disciple-Making and Meaningful Membership

8:30 - 9:30 PM EST, Kent Hughes

• Liberating Ministry from the Succ…

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1. Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry

2. Jonathan Edwards, End for Which God Created the World

3. David Daniell, William Tyndale

4. Joel Beeke, A Puritan Theology

5. Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

6. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

7. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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God did it again...

One of the promises we turn to often at Desiring God is Philippians 4:19 – “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” We think we know our needs. He knows. And he provides.

Mercifully, God put it in the hearts of thousands of you to give a total of $870,140 towards the needs of the ministry in December. We were praying for $745,000. Amazing! How often in our lives has God blessed us beyond our requests!

We feel a deep sense of responsibility. To whom much is given much will be required. We are praying God will make us humble, wise, faithful stewards with these unexpected funds for the glory of Christ.

We…

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Here on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, many of us are mourning the loss of 50 million babies to legal abortion in the United States since 1973. To help the mourners, and to give hope in Jesus, Desiring God has put together this video especially for today.

There are biblical reasons for believing that all infants who die will be saved. This poem is a celebration of their wrecked and rescued lives. It is an invitation to believe in the grace of God and to act on behalf of the helpless.

God is the ultimate actor in life and in death and after death. And we are created to join him in acting on behalf of the children. “We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works” (Eph…

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One biblical principle of justice is that the more knowledge we have that our action is wrong, the more guilty we are, and the more deserving of punishment (Luke 12:47–48). The point of this blog post is that we know what we are doing — all America knows. We are killing children. Pro-choice and Pro-life people both know this.

But before I show that, let’s clarify what the Supreme Court did forty years ago today. In Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court in effect made abortion on demand untouchable by law. The way this was done was with two steps.

One step was to say, laws may not prevent abortion, even during the full nine months, if the abortion is “to preserve the life or health of the mother…

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The racial world I grew up in and the one we live in today are amazingly different. Racism remains in many forms in America and around the world. But in the days of my youth the segregation was almost absolute and the defense of it was overt and ugly, without shame.

• In 1954, seventeen states required segregated public schools (ABW, 99);
• In 1956, 85% of all white southerners rejected the statement, “White students and Negro students should go to the same schools”;
• 73% said that there should be “separate sections for Negros on streetcars and buses”;
• 62% did not want a Negro “with the same income and education” as them to move into their neighborhood (ABW, 144);
• In 1963, 82% of all w…

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