Desiring God Articles

Every Hard Day Will Be Beautiful Someday

Jun 20, 2018

Our experience of the present will always be tainted by sin on this side of heaven, but one day God will make even the hardest moments beautiful.

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Motherhood Is a Calling

When you prioritize your children, you testify that you value what God values and refuse to value what the world does.

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Fill Our Hearts Till They Break

Jun 20, 2018

If anxiety threatens to stifle your joy in God or undermine your confidence in him, lift your eyes up from your problems and look closer at all that he has made.

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Someone Needs Your Second Language

Jun 19, 2018

If you love Christ and have never learned a second language, here are five reasons to consider taking up the challenge.

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‘Happy Wife, Happy Life’

And Other Misleading Advice to Young Husbands

Jun 19, 2018

Lasting joy in our marriages is found in living out the drama of Christ and his bride, not Adam and his.

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You Do Not Have Much Time

Jun 18, 2018

Time is something given to us that we often don’t fully appreciate until we don’t have much left. But the wise will ask God how to use it.

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God Is Not Afraid of the Dark

Jun 17, 2018

God is not afraid of the darkness in this world, and he is not afraid of the darkness in you.

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You Kept Your Promises to Mom

Six Reasons We Love Faithful Fathers

Jun 16, 2018

Dad, you kept your promises to Mom, and oh what fruit grew in this soil.

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God’s Unexpected Answer to Our Prayers for Revival

Jun 15, 2018

Some things we fear, like suffering and persecution, are often the very things that God uses to answer our prayers for awakening.

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The Hardest Part of Mothering

Jun 14, 2018

Have I done enough, said enough, been enough? No one told me that the hardest part of mothering was the part when they leave.

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Grace Is Pardon — and Power!

Complementarians Should Be Toughest on Abuse

Rebecca McLaughlin Jun 12, 2018

Finding God at the End of Ourselves

Randy Alcorn Jun 10, 2018

What Sustains Missions in the Hardest Places?

Brett Rayl Jun 9, 2018

Hold On to the God Who Holds You

Tim Counts Jun 7, 2018

When God Withholds Something Good

Marshall Segal Jun 6, 2018

Have You Left Your First Love?

Greg Morse Jun 5, 2018

Joy in Christ Kept Him in China

John Piper Jun 4, 2018

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 Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship.

Joy in Christ Kept Him in China

John Piper Jun 4, 2018

The Great Commission Will Require Disobedience

John Piper + 1 May 29, 2018

The Devil Can Do Exposition

John Piper May 27, 2018

The Happiest Woman I Have Ever Known

John Piper May 13, 2018

Leave Your Century for a While

John Piper May 10, 2018

If I Were 22 Again

John Piper May 7, 2018

Jon Bloom

@Bloom_Jon

Jon Bloom serves as author, board chair, and co-founder of Desiring God. He is author of three books, Not by Sight, Things Not Seen, and Don’t Follow Your Heart. He and his wife live in the Twin Cities with their five children.