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Assurance for the Unassured: Finding Hope in the Names of God

Assurance for the Unassured: Finding Hope in the Names of God

Assurance for the Unassured

Finding Hope in the Names of God

Those who often deal with doubts over their own salvation may find deeper assurance from a surprising source: God’s infinite commitment to his name.

What Risks Can Moms Take? Following Jesus with Small Children

What Risks Can Moms Take? Following Jesus with Small Children

What Risks Can Moms Take?

Following Jesus with Small Children

Any mother who follows Jesus will be called to take risks for Jesus. How do we overcome our fears, especially as we care for small children?

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Train Them Up in Jesus: The One-Verse Vision for Dads

Train Them Up in Jesus

The One-Verse Vision for Dads

What does it mean to raise children in the “discipline and instruction” of the Lord? These two concepts represent indispensable facets of faithful Christian fatherhood.

Find Your Way to Help the Hurting

Find Your Way to Help the Hurting

When suffering comes to those around you, don’t assume someone else will step up and help. Assume God plans to meet one of their many needs through you.

Grumbling Obedience: Resisting a Common Temptation

Grumbling Obedience

Resisting a Common Temptation

How often is there a hitch in your obedience, or an edge to your obedience, or self-pity in your obedience?

Conversion Story of a Nation: How Suffering Led Armenia to Christ

Conversion Story of a Nation

How Suffering Led Armenia to Christ

The gospel often advances with great power through suffering. What lessons and encouragement might we draw for missions today from the remarkable story of Gregory the Illuminator?

Why Boys Don’t Wrestle Girls: Lessons for Our Future Men

Why Boys Don’t Wrestle Girls

Lessons for Our Future Men

In a day when boys may be expected to wrestle girls, our sons need clear lessons that God made men to protect, not dominate, the women in their lives.

Roast What You Kill: Becoming a Man Who Follows Through

Roast What You Kill

Becoming a Man Who Follows Through

Meet the sophisticated sloth: he dates but never marries, attends church but never joins, works hard only when others watch — and rarely finishes what he begins.

He Drew Me Through Agony: My Painful Path to Faith

He Drew Me Through Agony

My Painful Path to Faith

While working in the ER, suffering shattered her nominal faith. Within a year, her pain became the path God used to lead her to himself.

Attention, Affection, Authority: Primer for Parenting Young Children

Attention, Affection, Authority

Primer for Parenting Young Children

“Do not provoke your children,” the apostle Paul warns fathers. Instead, show them focused attention, manifest affection, and calm authority.

Slow to Chide, Swift to Bless: Vision for Earthly Fathers

Slow to Chide, Swift to Bless

Vision for Earthly Fathers

As sinful as we are, our heavenly Father is “slow to chide, and swift to bless.” How much more should earthly fathers aspire to be the same with our children?

Wise Women Build Homes: Motherhood’s Lasting Influence

Wise Women Build Homes

Motherhood’s Lasting Influence

As an imperfect but God-fearing woman builds her house, she becomes for her children Wisdom’s first face, first voice, first touch.

Love Your Children, Love God More: Lessons from Sarah Edwards

Love Your Children, Love God More

Lessons from Sarah Edwards

Sarah Edwards was not only a devoted Christian, but also a mother of eleven children. What might her example of bearing, raising, and losing children teach us today?

Not All Obedience Is Christian

Not All Obedience Is Christian

Christians do not work for our salvation, but we do work out our salvation as God powerfully works within us. All Christian obedience, then, begins on the inside.

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John Piper

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John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Come, Lord Jesus.

Raw Passion and Messy Missiology

John Piper Apr 19, 2023

The Current State of Complementarity

John Piper Nov 16, 2022

All-Sufficient, All-Satisfying

John Piper Apr 20, 2022

A Reason to Be Vaccinated: Freedom

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How Could Jonathan Edwards Own Slaves?

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See Glory, Be Glorious

John Piper Jul 7, 2021

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Jon Bloom

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Jon Bloom serves as teacher and cofounder of Desiring God. He is the author of four books, including Not by Sight and most recently True to His Word. He and his wife have five children and make their home in the Twin Cities.

Appointed and Disappointed

Jon Bloom Apr 27, 2023

Why Do Christians Struggle to Love?

Jon Bloom Apr 21, 2023

What Will Make You Resilient?

Jon Bloom Mar 19, 2023

Sit at the Feet of Loss

Jon Bloom Mar 2, 2023

Be Still, My Soul

Jon Bloom Jan 23, 2023

We Call Him ‘Father’

Jon Bloom Jan 1, 2023

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Tony Reinke

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