It’s road construction season in Minneapolis. That means orange signs with massive blinking arrows — the ones that signal that your commute is about to take twice as long. And then the dreaded concrete barriers that make half of the lanes on the busiest freeway in the city totally inaccessible.

Now picture the road construction completed: extra lanes added, new interchanges built, and all the workers and equipment gone. But imagine the barriers are left in place. A week. . . a month. . . a year goes by and still those barriers continue to make the new road and interchanges inaccessible.

Here at Desiring God we want to help people everywhere understand and embrace the truth that God is m…

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In the past 12 months over 113,000 Portuguese speakers have visited the Desiring God website from places like Brazil, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Portugal. We rejoice in statistics like this, not for statistics’ sake, but because we know that each number represents a real person and a real gospel opportunity.

You may remember that last year we launched a Portuguese interface for our website. That site currently has over 100 translated Portuguese sermons and books.  

Our most recent initiative is a Portuguese-language Desiring God page on Facebook and Twitter.

We want to make it as easy as possible for the potential 180,000,000 Portuguese readers worldwide to…

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¿Habla Español también? A major focus at Desiring God in recent years has been getting our resources into Spanish. Next to English, Spanish is the second most accessed language version of our website. We now have over 600 Spanish resources. And our freshest initiative is a Spanish-language Desiring God page on Facebook and Twitter.

Our desire is to make it as easy as possible for non-English readers worldwide to be able to access and interact with our content, and then spread it among their peers through their social networks. Increasingly, the way content is consumed and spread on the Internet is through social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. According to one recent report, in …

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