Joe Rigney

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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The Light and Momentary Success of the Wicked

Jan 22, 2023

Many see how the wicked prosper and abandon the costly path of faith and godliness. If only they could see where each path leads.

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Begin Where You Are

How to Renew Your Prayer Life

Jan 12, 2023

C.S. Lewis wrote a book on prayer in which he pens four words that might change your prayer life: “Begin where you are.”

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Wisdom Above Came Below

How Christmas Speaks to Our Confusion

Dec 15, 2022

Wisdom from above is not merely about knowing what is true but knowing how to live. It addresses the head, heart, and hands.

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The Joy of Christian Duty

Dec 2, 2022

Is there a good, wise, and Christian Hedonistic way of celebrating the value of duty in the Christian life?

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The Sweetness of a Godward Meal

Dad’s Wisdom for Thanksgiving Day

Nov 24, 2022

“My son, eat honey, for it is good.” On Thanksgiving Day, a father and son discuss taste buds, honey, and the sweetness of wisdom to the soul.

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How a Head Loves a Body

Watching Husbands and Wives Dance Well

Nov 12, 2022

In the church and in marriage, the head and body are profoundly interdependent. You can’t have one without the other.

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Living Among Majesties

The Grandeur of the People of God

Oct 23, 2022

“As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.” The Bible sees a majesty in believers that believers themselves often miss.

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The Beautiful Roots of Courageous Submission

Oct 3, 2022

God describes feminine courage very differently from how the world does. So what makes a godly woman brave, and how might that change her marriage?

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What Spoils the Lord’s Supper?

How Not to Come to the Table

Sep 11, 2022

In many churches, the Lord’s Supper feels somber, heavy, and introspective. But is that what Jesus intended when he broke the bread and poured the cup?

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Be Comforted in Your Smallness

Aug 31, 2022

Does one of your callings in life feel overwhelming? Let C.S. Lewis help you take comfort in your smallness.

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Everything in God Is God

How to Think About His Attributes

Aug 1, 2022

How might we think in an orderly way about God’s attributes? Here’s often overlooked help from Jonathan Edwards.

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Do Infant Baptisms Count?

Reconsidering Open Membership

Jul 27, 2022

If a Christian wants to join your baptist church but they tell you that they were baptized as a child, what do you do?

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The Prudence Bucket

Applying the Bible to Gray Areas

Jul 14, 2022

Many of the most difficult decisions churches face are ones the Bible does not clearly address. This means pastors have to regularly practice humble, Bible-saturated prudence.

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Triage in the Trenches

When Do Second-Tier Issues Divide?

Jul 10, 2022

If sexuality and baptism are both second-tier issues, why is the former often more divisive in the wider church today?

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Immersed into Mission

Why Jesus Commands Us to Baptize

Jun 21, 2022

Being baptized into the church means being immersed in its mission. The old has passed and a new life now begins.

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Do Unto Authors

Four Principles for Reading Well

Jun 10, 2022

The best readers gladly observe the Golden Rule: they read others as they would want to be read.

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Submit Your Felt Reality to God

May 19, 2022

Our own sense of reality is not the same as reality itself. And simply recognizing that distinction can be the first step toward aligning our thoughts and emotions with God’s word.

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A Most Harmful Medicine

How Subjectivism Poisons a Society

May 9, 2022

The surest way to give the world over to evil is to begin to deny such evil exists. And this is exactly what we have begun doing.

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Invisible and Unmistakable

How Scripture Pictures the Holy Spirit

Apr 21, 2022

If you want to understand the Holy Spirit better, you can begin by grasping the images of the Spirit given in Scripture: wind and breath, spirit and river, oil and bird.

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I Have No Good Apart from You

Prayer of the Satisfied Heart

Apr 11, 2022

Many of us struggle to experience contentment because we look for it in the wrong places. The satisfied heart prays, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

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Kneeling Among Lions

Learning to Pray Like Daniel

Mar 20, 2022

Before Daniel courageously survived the lions’ den, he courageously knelt before his God. What can we learn from his brave prayer?

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Questioning How We Frame Reality

Mar 12, 2022

Are you ever perplexed that two people can experience the same event and come to very different conclusions about what happened?

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Walk the War Before You

What It Means to Live by the Spirit

Feb 17, 2022

If the Spirit lives in you, you do not need to give in to sinful desires anymore. You will not be perfect, but you can be increasingly free.

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Lord, Deliver Me from Me

A Daily Prayer Against Unbelief

Feb 7, 2022

When doubts assail and fears prevail, run to your Father in prayer: “Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in you.”

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The Deepest Part of You

How Feelings Relate to Choices

Jan 20, 2022

How much do our feelings reveal who we are? What might we learn from a seeming disagreement between John Piper and C.S. Lewis.

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A digest from Desiring God

Joe Rigney

The Light and Momentary Success of the Wicked

Begin Where You Are

How to Renew Your Prayer Life

Wisdom Above Came Below

How Christmas Speaks to Our Confusion

The Joy of Christian Duty

The Sweetness of a Godward Meal

Dad’s Wisdom for Thanksgiving Day

How a Head Loves a Body

Watching Husbands and Wives Dance Well

Living Among Majesties

The Grandeur of the People of God

The Beautiful Roots of Courageous Submission

What Spoils the Lord’s Supper?

How Not to Come to the Table

Be Comforted in Your Smallness

Everything in God Is God

How to Think About His Attributes

Do Infant Baptisms Count?

Reconsidering Open Membership

The Prudence Bucket

Applying the Bible to Gray Areas

Triage in the Trenches

When Do Second-Tier Issues Divide?

Immersed into Mission

Why Jesus Commands Us to Baptize

Do Unto Authors

Four Principles for Reading Well

Submit Your Felt Reality to God

A Most Harmful Medicine

How Subjectivism Poisons a Society

Invisible and Unmistakable

How Scripture Pictures the Holy Spirit

I Have No Good Apart from You

Prayer of the Satisfied Heart

Kneeling Among Lions

Learning to Pray Like Daniel

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Questioning How We Frame Reality

Walk the War Before You

What It Means to Live by the Spirit

Lord, Deliver Me from Me

A Daily Prayer Against Unbelief

The Deepest Part of You

How Feelings Relate to Choices

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