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Joe Rigney is president of Bethlehem College & Seminary and a teacher for desiringGod.org. He is a husband, father of three, and pastor at Cities Church. His most recent book is More Than a Battle: How to Experience Victory, Freedom, and Healing from Lust.
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Beware the Anger of Your Soul: How to Restrain Ungodly Passion

Beware the Anger of Your Soul

How to Restrain Ungodly Passion

Oct 17, 2021
As we feel the temperature of our souls rising, we need to stop and remind ourselves that ungodly anger will only add iniquity to our injury.
Joe Rigney
Oct 17, 2021
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Our Lives in His: How Justification Leads to Holiness

Our Lives in His

How Justification Leads to Holiness

Oct 5, 2021
Does our right standing before God depend on our becoming more like Jesus, or does our becoming more like Jesus flow from our right standing before God?
Joe Rigney
Oct 5, 2021
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Pray and Obey Anyway: How God Meets Us in the Valley

Pray and Obey Anyway

How God Meets Us in the Valley

Sep 19, 2021
Do you want to know what devastates the halls of hell? A Christian who feels abandoned by God and yet still believes, still prays, still loves, still obeys.
Joe Rigney
Sep 19, 2021
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Overseers of Souls: Why Elders Must See and Act

Overseers of Souls

Why Elders Must See and Act

Sep 4, 2021
Some elders fail to see the threats to their flocks. Others fail to act on what they see. Faithful shepherding means seeing well and taking responsibility.
Joe Rigney
Sep 4, 2021
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The Cracks in Our Debates: Lessons from Lewis on Disagreement

The Cracks in Our Debates

Lessons from Lewis on Disagreement

Aug 25, 2021
Friendships, families, and churches divided over the events of the last year. We may have preserved more unity if we were better equipped to disagree.
Joe Rigney
Aug 25, 2021
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Ungodly Ambition: How to Test Our Motivations

Ungodly Ambition

How to Test Our Motivations

Aug 6, 2021
Ambition can be a wonderful servant, and a cruel master. How do you discern when a holy ambition has become an oppressive one?
Joe Rigney
Aug 6, 2021
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The Bright Side of Futility

The Bright Side of Futility

Jul 26, 2021
Rather than run from God out of a sense of futility, perhaps we might see in that sense of futility an invitation to come home and rest in him.
Joe Rigney
Jul 26, 2021
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A Safe Place for Sinners to Change: Six Marks of Gospel Presence

A Safe Place for Sinners to Change

Six Marks of Gospel Presence

Jul 14, 2021
Caring for someone battling persistent sin can be hard. Wise friends and counselors know how to maintain compassionate stability while firmly confronting sin.
Joe Rigney
Jul 14, 2021
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The Confusing and Perfect Love of Christ

The Confusing and Perfect Love of Christ

Jul 5, 2021
Sometimes the hardest part of following Jesus is waiting for him to help, to heal, to answer. His delays, however, are expressions of his love.
Joe Rigney
Jul 5, 2021
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Weep, But Also Rejoice: Soul Care in a Favorite Story

Weep, But Also Rejoice

Soul Care in a Favorite Story

Jun 26, 2021
Stories can help us to gain perspective, to step outside of our own lives in order to reflect on reality. And they can help us care for one another in grief.
Joe Rigney
Jun 26, 2021
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A Most Offensive Love: The Hard Sayings of a Kind Savior

A Most Offensive Love

The Hard Sayings of a Kind Savior

May 27, 2021
When Jesus speaks a hard word, some stop following. But others press through the hard saying to see and enjoy more of him.
Joe Rigney
May 27, 2021
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What Does the Lord Require of Me? The Ten Commandments and Christian Ethics

What Does the Lord Require of Me?

The Ten Commandments and Christian Ethics

May 19, 2021
The Ten Commandments open a wide and wonderful window into who God is, and what it means for us to live and love like him.
Joe Rigney
May 19, 2021
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Religious Affections: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic

Religious Affections

A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic

May 11, 2021
Jonathan Edwards’s ‘Religious Affections’ is a tremendous book — and potentially devastating. Here are ten things to know before reading Edwards’s classic.
Joe Rigney
May 11, 2021
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Where Do We Disagree? Golden Rule Reading and the Call for Empathy

Where Do We Disagree?

Golden Rule Reading and the Call for Empathy

Apr 12, 2021
Whatever you read, wherever you read, ask yourself, “Am I doing unto authors as I would have them do unto me?”
Joe Rigney
Apr 12, 2021
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Some Lose God While Serving God: A Subtle Danger in Christian Ministry

Some Lose God While Serving God

A Subtle Danger in Christian Ministry

Mar 26, 2021
How many have lost Christ while doing much for Christ? They evangelize, do good works, defend the truth, and yet in the process, forget their first love.
Joe Rigney
Mar 26, 2021
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Everything Is Providential: C.S. Lewis on the Symphony of History

Everything Is Providential

C.S. Lewis on the Symphony of History

Feb 27, 2021
When we think of the providence of God, we may think of names like Augustine, Calvin, Edwards, and Owen, but have we overlooked C.S. Lewis?
Joe Rigney
Feb 27, 2021
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More Than a Battle: How to Experience Victory, Freedom, and Healing from Lust

More Than a Battle

How to Experience Victory, Freedom, and Healing from Lust

Feb 2, 2021
The struggle with lust is a fierce battle, an enslaving addiction, and a deep brokenness. Rigney shows us that through the gospel it is the Holy Spirit that gives us victory, sets us free, and heals our wounds.
Joe Rigney
Feb 2, 2021
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What We Still and Will Believe: The Precious Clarity of Enduring Creeds

What We Still and Will Believe

The Precious Clarity of Enduring Creeds

Dec 1, 2020
From the beginning, the church has strived to summarize and clarify what she believes in creeds and confessions, to guard us from error and to bind us together.
Joe Rigney
Dec 1, 2020
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What Makes a Man — or a Woman? Lost Voices on a Vital Question

What Makes a Man — or a Woman?

Lost Voices on a Vital Question

Sep 9, 2020
What makes a man, or a woman? God has not left us without answers, or without multiple witnesses to those answers.
Joe Rigney
Sep 9, 2020
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Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World?

Strangely Bright

Can You Love God and Enjoy This World?

Aug 25, 2020
At the heart of the Christian life is a tension between the supremacy of God over all things and the enjoyment of all things for his sake.
Joe Rigney
Aug 25, 2020
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Do You Feel My Pain? Empathy, Sympathy, and Dangerous Virtues

Do You Feel My Pain?

Empathy, Sympathy, and Dangerous Virtues

May 2, 2020
Empathy has become a more popular virtue than sympathy in recent decades. But the shift does not come without its dangers.
Joe Rigney
May 2, 2020
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Dangerous Compassion: How to Make Any Love a Demon

Dangerous Compassion

How to Make Any Love a Demon

Jan 18, 2020
True compassion moves toward the hurting — without getting swallowed by their grief.
Joe Rigney
Jan 18, 2020
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Why God Does Everything He Does

Why God Does Everything He Does

Oct 4, 2019
The God-centeredness of God may unnerve us at first, but if we wait over his word long enough, nothing will stabilize our faith and joy in God more.
Joe Rigney
Oct 4, 2019
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Treasure in the Field: Enjoying God Through the Game of Baseball

Treasure in the Field

Enjoying God Through the Game of Baseball

Jun 8, 2019
Our problem is not that we love the good in this world too much, but that we do not see the good in this world in relation to the One who made it.
Joe Rigney
Jun 8, 2019
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The Enticing Sin of Empathy: How Satan Corrupts Through Compassion

The Enticing Sin of Empathy

How Satan Corrupts Through Compassion

May 31, 2019
Satan drives a subtle and enticing ferry from the truth that feelings are important to the lie that feelings are all that’s important.
Joe Rigney
May 31, 2019

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