Desiring God Articles

Was He Too Prone to Wander?

Robert Robinson (1735–1790)

Jun 16, 2019

Some think that Robert Robinson, who wrote the line, “Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,” did in fact wander from Jesus by the end of his life. Did he?

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More Than BFFs

Has your relationship with your best friend gone too far? Here are fifteen questions to help find your identity and security in Christ.

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Stop Loving Your Spouse Too Much

Jun 15, 2019

Every marriage is either Christian or idolatrous. And two married Christians can be idolatrous, without even realizing it.

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How Free Do You Really Want to Be?

Jun 14, 2019

The freest people in the world are the people who are freest from the world. How much, then, do you really want to be free?

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A Psalm Every Day

Steps for Walking Through Trials

Jun 13, 2019

Don’t wait until suffering comes to immerse yourself in the Psalms. Read them now, and they will serve you well whatever trials come.

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Immersed in a New Covenant

Why We Baptize Believers

Jun 13, 2019

Believer-baptists love to begin with the plain reading of New Testament texts, but God has given us more to say about how we put our whole Bibles together.

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Three Rules for Vacation Bible School

Guidance for Evangelizing Children

Jun 12, 2019

We often do not treat lost children and their families with as much love as we would want our children treated in another culture.

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Reading the Bible Upside Down

Why the Pope Changed the Lord’s Prayer

Jun 12, 2019

Before you reject something the Bible says, remember that you cannot see, understand, or plan what God can.

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Grief Taught Me to Rest

Three Ways to Find Joy in Suffering

Jun 11, 2019

Suffering well does not mean we become indifferent toward pain and loss, but that we hold fast to Christ no matter what comes.

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Why the Third Day?

The Promise of Resurrection in All of Scripture

Jun 11, 2019

Resurrection hope is more ancient than the empty tomb. God’s people have longed for resurrection since faith first came to the Old Testament saints.

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Serve God with Your Thirst

His Sermons Roused a Sleeping Church

John Piper Jun 10, 2019

You Can Hate Abortion and Love Women

Scott Klusendorf Jun 6, 2019

Hard Questions Will Only Serve Him

Rebecca McLaughlin Jun 6, 2019

My Quiet Times Are Anything but Quiet

Rachel Jankovic Jun 5, 2019

Three Ways to Pray for Adult Children

Michele Morin Jun 4, 2019

The Dragon Hiding in Your Desires

Scott Hubbard Jun 3, 2019

Three Symptoms of a Dying Church

David Gibson Jun 2, 2019

Sometimes We Must Settle for Peace

Jon Bloom Jun 1, 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.

Reading the Bible Upside Down

John Piper Jun 12, 2019

His Sermons Roused a Sleeping Church

John Piper Jun 10, 2019

He Sees with New Eyes

John Piper Jun 9, 2019

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

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.