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Jon Bloom

Jon Bloom serves as teacher and cofounder of Desiring God. He is the author of four books, including Not by Sight and most recently True to His Word. He and his wife have five children and make their home in the Twin Cities.

How Do I Know If I Really Love Jesus?

How Do I Know If I Really Love Jesus?

Our faith-empowered obedience in public and private places is the God-designed evidence of our love for Jesus. We know what love is by what love does.

Satan Will Sing You to Sleep: Waking Up from Spiritual Indifference

Satan Will Sing You to Sleep

Waking Up from Spiritual Indifference

We can gauge our spiritual sleepiness by how the eternal states of non-Christians around us shape the way we approach life.

Jesus Also Had Unbelieving Family Members

Jesus Also Had Unbelieving Family Members

Do you have family members who do not believe in Jesus? So did Jesus. Be encouraged by the Son of God to take heart and persevere.

How to Recognize a Foolish Leader

How to Recognize a Foolish Leader

The right kind of leader, under the wise governing checks and balances constructed in the American constitution, will help guide our nation through the very precarious days that lie ahead of us.

Prepare Him Room

Prepare Him Room

Advent Begins

The season of Advent has begun — full of tradition, memory, and legend. And a season so full, often overfull, with exhausting activities.

When You Aren't Sure What to Do Next

Jesus guides us in many different ways. Sometimes he makes the next step clear as day. Other times, like Peter discovered in John 21:1-14, it feels like we’re left to muddle through, only to find that Jesus was leading through…

Judge Not, That You May Judge Well

Judge Not, That You May Judge Well

Christians are not to judge other Christians. And Christians are to judge other Christians. That’s what the Bible teaches.

Forgive Us Our What? Three Ways We Say the Lord’s Prayer

Forgive Us Our What?

Three Ways We Say the Lord’s Prayer

Jesus prayed five short lines that millions of us have memorized, so why do we recite the Lord’s Prayer differently?

How to Do Everything to the Glory of God

How to Do Everything to the Glory of God

“Do all to the glory of God” means more than thanking God for the food we eat. It means doing whatever it takes to love our neighbors for Jesus’s sake.

Why We Must Earnestly Desire Spiritual Gifts

Why We Must Earnestly Desire Spiritual Gifts

Why should we desire spiritual gifts and how should we pursue them?

Don’t Let Discouragement Choke You

Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. (John 14:1) Discouragement is a temptation “common to man” (1 Corinthians 10:13). And in dealing with it sometimes we need tenderness and other times we need toughness…

Lord, Align My Heart with Yours

Lord, Align My Heart with Yours

We all have dreams of one kind or another. The question is whether our deepest desires in life align with God’s wise and loving plan for us.

Where Real Courage Comes From

Where Real Courage Comes From

Courage to face our fears will not come from self-confidence. It will only come from confidence in God’s powerful promises.

Waiting for God Alone: How Desperation Teaches Us to Trust

Waiting for God Alone

How Desperation Teaches Us to Trust

Desperate seasons can make us feel fragile, vulnerable, and weak. They also, by God’s grace, can teach us to trust him like never before.

Lord, Help Me Feel My Need for You

Lord, Help Me Feel My Need for You

Whatever it takes, Lord, increase our awareness of our dependence on you in everything so that we will continually abide in you by faith.

The Devil Knows How to Discourage You

The Devil Knows How to Discourage You

Satan’s strategies are sophisticated, but his goal is simple: to discourage Christians. But God has given us a counterintuitive antidote.

Lay Aside the Weight of Self-Indulgence

Lay Aside the Weight of Self-Indulgence

Self-indulgence is spiritually dangerous to us because it’s a form of idolatry. It’s something we turn to instead of God for happiness.

You Don’t Have to Know God’s Will

You Don’t Have to Know God’s Will

You don’t have to know God’s will if you are confident in God’s word.

My Dark Night of the Soul

My Dark Night of the Soul

In your dark night of the soul, let God’s words lead you through, even when his voice seems strange and distant.

How God Gives Assurance

How God Gives Assurance

God loves to give his children the gift of “the full assurance of faith” (Hebrews 10:22). It’s a precious thing, a source of deep peace and consolation, and he wants us to have it. But like most things in the Christian life, assurance is something that is cultivated and grows stronger over time.

How Soon Will Jesus Return? Living in the Last Days

How Soon Will Jesus Return?

Living in the Last Days

Jesus means for his return to feel potentially imminent in every generation, while also helping each generation anticipate his potential delay.

God’s Mercy in Messed Up Families

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find an example of what we would call a “healthy family” in the Bible? It’s a lot easier to find families with a lot of sin and a lot of pain…

Lay Aside the Weight of Self-Pity

Lay Aside the Weight of Self-Pity

Jonah reminds me of God’s mercy toward self-pitying sulkers like me and encourages me to lay aside this sinful weight.

God Is at Work in Your Unremarkable Days

God Is at Work in Your Unremarkable Days

Today might go unnoticed by others, and you may not remember it. But God does not waste a single day, even the most unremarkable of them.

The Key to Spiritual Breakthrough

The Key to Spiritual Breakthrough

We will only persevere in prayer when we realize what we are up against. Do not lose heart or give up until God grants the breakthrough you seek.

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