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You Can Improve Your Relationship with God

You Can Improve Your Relationship with God

You Can Improve Your Relationship with God

Satan wants you to think you can’t improve your relationship with God. God wants to give you even more of himself.

Six Traits to Look for in a Spouse

Pray and seek counsel about what you should look for in a potential spouse, and then resolve not to settle for anything less.

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Christian Hedonism

Joy changes everything, because God is most glorified in us when are most satisfied in him.

The Sovereignty of God

God does all that he pleases, and nothing can derail his ultimate purposes, including the human will.

Prayer to God includes our praises, confessions, thanksgivings, and requests. Because of Christ, he is listening.

Not only has God revealed himself by speaking, but he put it in a book for us to access whenever we desire.

Jesus saves sinners. At the heart of the Christian faith in the glory of God in the rescue of the ungodly.

Pain is not only a threat in this life, but a promise. But no hardship is bigger, deeper, or lasts longer than God.

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Gay Rights, Hate Speech, and Hospitality: Longings of a Former Lesbian

Gay Rights, Hate Speech, and Hospitality

Longings of a Former Lesbian

How did Christian beliefs about homosexuality become hate speech? Rosaria Butterfield traces the cultural shift and commends a way forward.

What Do Cessationists Believe About Prophecy?

What Do Cessationists Believe About Prophecy?

The Bible is unspeakably precious, and its authority and sufficiency must be gladly guarded for the sake of Christ’s glory and the church’s joy.

Planned. Purchased. Preserved. How God Saves and Keeps a Sinner

Planned. Purchased. Preserved.

How God Saves and Keeps a Sinner

A Christian’s salvation rests secure in a cord of three unbreakable strands: The Father planned it. The Son purchased it. The Spirit preserves it.

The Benefit of Bad Sermons

The Benefit of Bad Sermons

If we tune out during another boring sermon on Sunday, it may say less about the preacher’s ability and more about our spiritual maturity.

Raising a Family Far from Home

Raising a Family Far from Home

If God has taken you far from family for his name’s sake, he plans to give you the family you need through your local church.

A Grief Misunderstood

A Grief Misunderstood

The world tells us one story about grief. God tells another. He has a place for your tears, patience for your process, and promises for your healing.

How the Spirit Draws a Child: Five Things Parents Can Do

How the Spirit Draws a Child

Five Things Parents Can Do

We cannot change our children’s hearts on our own. But we can welcome the Spirit’s work as we join him in exalting the name of Jesus Christ in our homes.

Six Prayers for the Half-Hearted

Six Prayers for the Half-Hearted

Six Prayers for the Half-Hearted

If you have felt half-hearted in your pursuit of God, here are six prayers that will help you seek him with all of you again.

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

The Only True Freedom

Six Prayers for the Half-Hearted

Marshall Segal Sep 13, 2018

How to Avoid a Wonderful Retirement

Chris Cagle Sep 12, 2018

The Glorious Inefficiency of Prayer

David Mathis Sep 12, 2018

What I Learned About My Sins at Sixty-Four

John Piper Sep 11, 2018

Women, We Need His Word

Rachel Jankovic Sep 10, 2018

Five Prayers for Those Who Wait

Scott Hubbard Sep 10, 2018

He Will Hold Me Fast

David Mathis Sep 9, 2018

Is Anyone Born Gay?

Christopher Yuan Sep 8, 2018

The Secret to Self-Discipline

Jon Bloom Sep 7, 2018

Silas, Dorcas, Mnason, and Me

Kaitlin Miller Sep 6, 2018

When Did You First Enjoy God?

David Mathis Sep 6, 2018

When You’re Tempted to Give Up

Ryan Chase Sep 5, 2018

How to Ruin Your Life in Your Twenties

Jonathan Pokluda Sep 5, 2018

How to Survive a Spiritual Winter

Sara Hagerty Sep 4, 2018

The Heterosexual Gospel

Jackie Hill Perry Sep 4, 2018

Is Pornography Your Therapy?

Greg Morse Sep 3, 2018

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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 Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship.

What I Learned About My Sins at Sixty-Four

John Piper Sep 11, 2018

He Killed His Sin with Love

John Piper Aug 24, 2018

God Sends You Back to School

John Piper Aug 21, 2018

Unashamed of the Bible

John Piper Aug 13, 2018

No Maverick Cells in Me

John Piper Aug 7, 2018

His Stubborn Joy Brought Slavery Down

John Piper Jul 29, 2018

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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.

What Do Cessationists Believe About Prophecy?

Jon Bloom Sep 17, 2018

The Secret to Self-Discipline

Jon Bloom Sep 7, 2018

Lord, Make Me a City on a Hill

Jon Bloom Aug 31, 2018

Yawning at Majesty

Jon Bloom Aug 26, 2018

The Greatest Thing You Can Do with Your Life

Jon Bloom Aug 10, 2018

Your Life Is Not Boring

Jon Bloom Aug 5, 2018

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David Mathis

Executive Editor, desiringGod.org

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Tony Reinke

Senior writer, desiringGod.org

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Marshall Segal

Staff writer, desiringGod.org

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Greg Morse

Content strategist, desiringGod.org

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Why Homosexuality Is Not Like Other Sins

Why Homosexuality Is Not Like Other Sins

Why Homosexuality Is Not Like Other Sins

Homosexual acts are not the only sins prohibited in the Bible, but right now they are different from the rest.

What Grieving People Wish You Knew at Christmas

What Grieving People Wish You Knew at Christmas

What Grieving People Wish You Knew at Christmas

For those who’ve recently lost someone they love, the holidays can seem more like something to survive than to enjoy.

So-Called Same-Sex Marriage: Lamenting the New Calamity

So-Called Same-Sex Marriage

Lamenting the New Calamity

On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that states cannot ban same-sex marriage. But God would have us weep for our sins, not institutionalize them.

When the Not-Yet Married Meet

When the Not-Yet Married Meet

Dating to Display Jesus

The great prize in dating is not Christ-centered intimacy, but Christ-centered clarity. And seven other principles for Christian dating.

It’s Not You, It’s God

It’s Not You, It’s God

Nine Lessons for Breakups

Breakups in the church are painful. Here are lessons for loving others in the heartbreak.

How to Live Under an Unqualified President

How to Live Under an Unqualified President

Donald Trump is morally unqualified to be president of the United States. How then shall Christians live under such a leader?

Fasting for Beginners

Fasting for Beginners

Fasting sounds so simple, and yet all sorts of complications keep it from happening. To help you start down the slow path to good fasting, here are six simple pieces of advice.

Popular Articles: Motherhood Is a Calling; The Dead End of Sexual Sin; Questions to Ask When Preparing for Marriage; Parents, Require Obedience of Your Children; Twelve Questions to Ask Before You Watch ‘Game of Thrones’

Popular Authors: John Piper; Jon Bloom; Jonathan Parnell; David Mathis; Tony Reinke

Popular Topics: Sanctification & Growth; Suffering; Prayer; Faith; Christian Hedonism

Popular Topics: World Missions; The Sovereignty of God; Corporate Worship; Marriage; Parenting