Desiring God Articles

If We Could See Sunday from Heaven

May 19, 2019

What we experience together in worship, however familiar or mundane it may feel in the moment, may be the closest to heaven we come in this life.

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How to Love When You Don’t Feel It

Sin often wraps its cold, lifeless fingers around our hearts, and chills us toward God and others. We must feed love the fuel of faith-filled action.

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His Scars Will Never Fade

The Wounds Christ Took to Heaven

May 18, 2019

What should we learn from the scars of Jesus? He can sympathize with our pain. He has loved us to the point of death. He will raise us from the dead.

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Meet the Maker of Middle-Earth

The Magic in Tolkien’s Story

May 17, 2019

Many good lives are not worth watching on screen, and some extraordinary authors did not lead extraordinary lives. Did Tolkien?

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For the Freshmen of Tomorrow

Six Guiding Lessons for Graduates

May 17, 2019

For the Christian, school is about worship — whatever discipline, whatever course, whatever professor. We are aiming much higher than a 4.0.

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Exercise for More of God

Five Reasons to Train Your Body

May 16, 2019

Exercise to steward your body. Exercise to serve others. Exercise to think clearly. Exercise to evangelize. Exercise to delight yourself in God.

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The Year My World Fell Apart

My War with Spiritual Depression

May 16, 2019

Often our problem in the darkest nights of life is not that we have no hope, but that we keep putting our hope in ourselves, rather than in God.

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The Help That Hurts

Three Lies That Add to Suffering

May 15, 2019

If Christ is with you, no suffering before you is hopeless, your help is not in vain, and you know you cannot help anyone alone.

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Scrambling for the Light

Christian Depression and the Use of Medication

May 15, 2019

When, if ever, might a Christian use antidepressants? Kathryn Butler, MD, walks us through the complexities of recovering from clinical depression.

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Change Is Truly Possible

Hope from Forty Years of Counseling

May 14, 2019

Christianity means change — whatever change needs to happen in your life — really is possible. God himself came, died, rose, ascended, and gave us his Spirit.

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

What Makes Jesus Rejoice

Walk with Me Through a Midlife Crisis

John Piper May 13, 2019

You Are Not Special, But You Are His

Scotty Smith May 12, 2019

Worth a Thousand Years of Waiting

Afshin Ziafat May 11, 2019

Do Everything Without Grumbling

Scott Hubbard May 10, 2019

Should I Tell My Kids About My Past?

William P. Smith May 9, 2019

He Stayed at Home to Save the World

John Piper May 7, 2019

Knowing God Makes All the Difference

David Mathis May 3, 2019

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 Why I Love the Apostle Paul: 30 Reasons.

Walk with Me Through a Midlife Crisis

John Piper May 13, 2019

He Stayed at Home to Save the World

John Piper May 7, 2019

Pray for Holy Tears

John Piper Apr 29, 2019

The Psalms Must Be Fulfilled

John Piper Apr 12, 2019

He Died a Thousand Times — and Lived

John Piper Apr 11, 2019

I Love How He Humiliates Me

John Piper Mar 28, 2019

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 have five children and make their home in the Twin Cities.