Desiring God Articles

Risk Your Kids for the Kingdom?

On Taking Children to Unreached Peoples

Oct 23, 2017

Parents should protect their children from danger at any cost. But the greatest threat isn’t against their physical safety but their eternal souls.

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Sex Belongs to Believers

Hollywood has ripped the curtains off the sacred marriage bed, so we might be tempted to think we should have nothing to do with sex. The Bible says the opposite.

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The Champion of the Kirk

John Knox (c. 1513–1572)

Oct 22, 2017

John Knox feared the face of no man, which equipped him to bring reform to his homeland in the Highlands.

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Meal Above All Meals

Five Reasons We Enjoy Eating with Jesus

Oct 22, 2017

Has the Lord’s Supper become humdrum for you, something you do mindlessly, something you’ve simply done for years?

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Sacrifice Your Preferences on Sundays

Oct 21, 2017

If you struggle to enjoy the songs at your church, consider how God might be using them to build others up.

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The Radical Reformer

Conrad Grebel (c. 1498–1526)

Oct 21, 2017

Conrad Grebel is known as a “radical Reformer” — a leader who took the movement one step further by insisting on separating church from state.

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The Prosperity Gospel in Our Closet

Oct 21, 2017

Yes, God is better than all the world has to offer — but if that’s where our delight in God ends, we’ve stopped short of how far the Bible goes.

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Ordinary Gifts for Extraordinary Trials

How God Carries Us Through Suffering

Oct 20, 2017

God is giving you the help in trials you’ll need ten years from now while you listen to his words today.

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The Majestic Beard of Zurich

Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575)

Oct 20, 2017

Without Zwingli there would have been no Reformation in Zurich. Without Heinrich Bullinger it would not have lasted.

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At Least as Dangerous as Porn

Oct 20, 2017

The Bible says that something is at least as spiritually dangerous as pornography, and it may be even more prevalent in America today.

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

God’s Final, Decisive Word

Where Did the Reformation Really Begin?

David Mathis Oct 19, 2017

Disability Is Not a Death Sentence

MaryLynn Johnson Oct 18, 2017

Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex, Baby

Marshall Segal Oct 18, 2017

The Silence We Desperately Need Today

Ryan Hawkins Oct 17, 2017

The Best Place to Give Up Grumbling

Matt Damico Oct 14, 2017

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 Reading the Bible Supernaturally.

Far Worse Than Being Caught

John Piper Oct 17, 2017

The Underground Translator

John Piper Oct 10, 2017

Matrimony No More

John Piper Oct 9, 2017

116 Been Real

John Piper Oct 6, 2017

How to Fight When Your Mind Is Failing

John Piper Oct 3, 2017

Does God Really Save Us by Faith Alone?

John Piper Sep 25, 2017

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.