The following quotes are taken from Steve DeWitt's outstanding book, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything (Credo House, 2012).

“Created beauty eclipses God’s beauty in the desire factory of man’s heart. It is a case of mistaken identity. Every created beauty was created by God to lead our affections to Him. That’s why He made the pleasures of earthly beauty so fleeting — so that on the other side of the pleasure we might experience either wonder and worship and ultimate satisfaction in God or the pursuit of the pleasure that beauty provides for its own sake. If we choose the latter, we will only be disappointed again.” (7)

“What if we were to realize that every sunset viewed, every…

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In his new book on holiness, Kevin DeYoung devotes an entire chapter to the pressing issue of sexual morality (chapter 8), and a large portion of that chapter addresses Christians who are dating or courting. So what would he say as a pastor to a man and woman who are asking the question, "How far is too far before marriage?" Kevin answers in this clip (4 minutes):

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Kevin DeYoung is a plenary speaker at our National Conference (which starts Friday). Visit the event page to learn more and register while there’s still time. Today is the last day for online registration.

Here’s a full list of clips from our 7-part interview series with Kevin DeYoung on The Hole In Our Holiness —

• What’s t…

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If you're not able to join us in Minneapolis for the conference this weekend, each of the main sessions will be live-streamed in both English and in Spanish at www.desiringgod.org/live.

Transmisión en Español provista por MisiónVirtual.org.

The following is a schedule for the live-stream feed (all times Eastern). The live-stream feed will not include musical worship. Messages marked with an asterisk (*) are approximate start times only. The actual start times may vary based on the length of musical worship prior to teaching. Be sure to tune into the stream a few minutes earlier than scheduled for these sessions.

Friday, September 28

8:30* – 9:30 PM, John Piper, Prelude to Acting the…

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In his new book, Kevin DeYoung writes, "It may sound boring or out-of-date, but it just happens to be true: the way to grow in your relationship with Jesus is to pray, read your Bible, and go to a church where you’ll get good preaching, good fellowship, and receive the sacraments" (134). It sounds ordinary, and it is, as Kevin explains in the following clip (4 minutes):

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Kevin DeYoung is a plenary speaker at our National Conference (coming up later this week). Visit the event page to learn more and register while there’s still time.

Here’s a full list of clips from our 7-part interview series with Kevin DeYoung on The Hole In Our Holiness —

• What’s the Hole in Our Holiness?
  
• My Sanct…

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The Lord has given his children a variety of motivations for how and why we pursue personal holiness, a point that Kevin DeYoung makes in our recent discussion over his new book The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap Between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness (Crossway, 2012). I began by asking Kevin about one model of sanctification that builds almost exclusively from justification in this 4-minute clip:

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Kevin DeYoung is a plenary speaker at our National Conference (coming up later this week). Visit the event page to learn more and register while there’s still time.

Here’s a full list of clips from our 7-part interview series with Kevin DeYoung on The Hole In Our Holiness…

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What's the most neglected theme related to personal sanctification? Kevin DeYoung says it's our union with Christ. In our recent discussion over his new book, The Hole In Our Holiness: Filling the Gap Between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness (Crossway, 2012), he explained (6 minutes):

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Kevin DeYoung is a plenary speaker at our National Conference in Minneapolis (next week!). Visit the event page to learn more and register while there’s still time.

Here’s a full list of clips from our 7-part interview series with Kevin DeYoung on The Hole In Our Holiness —

• What’s the Hole in Our Holiness?
  
• My Sanctification in Redemptive History
  
• The Imitation of Christ
  
• The Most Neglect…

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What would Jesus do?

The pop phrase has worn out, but there’s enduring truth in it. “We see in Jesus the best, most practical, most human example of what it means to be holy,” writes Kevin DeYoung in his new book The Hole In Our Holiness: Filling the Gap Between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness (Crossway, 2012).

We asked Kevin to speak about Jesus as our moral example in the following clip, and we started with a clear definition of sanctification and justification (7 minutes):

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Kevin DeYoung is a plenary speaker at our National Conference in Minneapolis (next week!). Visit the event page to learn more and register while there’s still time.

Here’s a full list of clips fro…

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Even if we take personal holiness seriously as believers (and we should), we often lose sight of how our personal sanctification fits into a much larger redemptive storyline that stretches all the way back to creation and stretches forward into eternity.

One of the strengths of Kevin’s new book The Hole In Our Holiness is a focus on this storyline (see pages 38–47). I asked him to summarize it, and explain why it matters, in the following clip (6 minutes):

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Kevin DeYoung is a plenary speaker at our National Conference in Minneapolis (next week!). Visit the event page to learn more and register while there’s still time.

Here’s a full list of clips from our 7-part interview series with…

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Kevin DeYoung is the author of the new book The Hole In Our Holiness: Filling the Gap Between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness (Crossway, 2012). During a recent trip to Minneapolis, we pulled Kevin into the studio to ask him about a number of key themes from his book. In this first clip from the interview, Kevin talks about his family, his church in Michigan, why he hates camping so much, and of course why he thinks our holiness has a big hole in it (8 minutes):

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Kevin DeYoung is a plenary speaker at our National Conference in Minneapolis (next week!). Visit the event page to learn more and register while there’s still time.

Here’s a full list of clips from our 7-part interv…

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In his new book Gospel Deeps, Jared Wilson writes, “If holiness makes you a sourpuss, you’re doing it wrong.” (Wouldn’t that make a nice slogan on a changeable letter church billboard?)

Wilson’s line is pointed and poignant. But why? What is the fundamental connection between joy and obedience?

One biblical text that gets at this dynamic is 1 John 5:3–4,

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.

In his book Finally Alive, John Piper draws out three links within this text:

• Link One: “Love for God i…

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