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Don Whitney

Don Whitney is Professor of Biblical Spirituality and the John H. Powell Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO. He is the author of Praying the Bible, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, and Family Worship. Free resources for teaching others to pray the Bible may be found at his website, The Center for Biblical Spirituality.

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What Are Spiritual Disciplines?

What Are Spiritual Disciplines?

What makes a discipline spiritual, and what makes a spiritual practice a discipline? Don Whitney addresses six characteristics of Christian spiritual disciplines.

Ten Questions for a New Year

Ten Questions for a New Year

The beginning of a year is an ideal time to stop and get our bearings. To that end, here are ten questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God.

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

Finding Grace in the Messes of Marriage

These short devotionals by John Piper, Francis Chan, and others are designed to shape, challenge, and inspire your own vision of marriage and God.

Reignite Your Prayer Life

Reignite Your Prayer Life

How’s your prayer life? Hardly any question can cause more chin-dropping, foot-shuffling embarrassment for Christians than asking about their prayer life. Why do so many followers of Jesus suffer with such unsatisfying prayer lives and consider themselves hopelessly second-rate Christians for it?

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What’s the Most Neglected Spiritual Discipline?

What’s the Most Neglected Spiritual Discipline?

Which spiritual discipline can help awaken our appetite for God, but is rarely practiced well today?

A God-Entranced Vision of All Things

A God-Entranced Vision of All Things

The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards

These ten essays explore the life and legacy of Jonathan Edwards, and show the lasting relevance of his God-centered teaching.

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Pursuing a Passion for God Through Spiritual Disciplines: Learning from Jonathan Edwards

Pursuing a Passion for God Through Spiritual Disciplines: Learning from Jonathan Edwards

In this message, Donald Whitney enlists Edwards’ use of spiritual disciplines to encourage us to move down these channels to the ocean of God himself.

Ten (More) Questions for a New Year

Ten (More) Questions for a New Year

Without a modest plan and some intentionality, we might waste the year God has given us. Here are ten questions to help us spend the next year well.

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What Spiritual Disciplines Are Most Important?

What Spiritual Disciplines Are Most Important?

Taking in the word of God and talking to him in prayer are the most basic, fundamental disciplines. But is there a way to do both of those better?

Worthy of Family Worship: First Steps for Christian Homes

Worthy of Family Worship

First Steps for Christian Homes

The first question for family worship is not how long or how often or what to read and pray, but is God worthy of it?

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How Do I Know If I’m Doing the Spiritual Disciplines Right?

How Do I Know If I’m Doing the Spiritual Disciplines Right?

Discipline is a mark of a believer in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit gives us new desires to see and savor Jesus Christ wherever we can find him.

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Why We Need Personal and Congregational Disciplines

Why We Need Personal and Congregational Disciplines

The spiritual disciplines are habits to be engaged in personally and corporately. We need time alone with God, and we need time together with his people.

Thirteen-Hour Days: Did Jonathan Edwards Neglect His Family?

Thirteen-Hour Days

Did Jonathan Edwards Neglect His Family?

By modern standards, some might accuse Jonathan Edwards of neglecting his wife and children for the sake of ministry. Is that charge fair, and if not, what might we learn from his devotion?

Watch Yourself and the Teaching: An Old Charge for New Pastors

Watch Yourself and the Teaching

An Old Charge for New Pastors

After five decades, a veteran pastor and teacher of pastors revives the simple, God-breathed charges at the heart of any man’s ministry.

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Devoted to Discipline and Doctrine

Desiring God 1997 Conference for Pastors

Aside from various strategies about church growth, ministers must pay careful attention to their lives and doctrine and persevere in it.

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Triumphantly Encouraged: The Privilege of Ministry, Panel Discussion

Desiring God 1997 Conference for Pastors

The essential doctrines of our faith and things that we must be willing to stand for, defend, and advance beyond the boundaries of our own culture.

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