Samuel James | Desiring God

Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. We’re on a mission to change that. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ.

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Samuel James

Samuel James serves as associate acquisitions editor at Crossway Books and managing editor of Letter & Liturgy. He lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife Emily and son Charlie.

Courage Takes More Than a Keyboard: Christian Nerve in a Digital Age

Courage Takes More Than a Keyboard

Christian Nerve in a Digital Age

As more and more of our lives go online, we are in regular danger of possessing bold keyboards while lacking similar courage face to face.

How to Survive a Life Like Yours: Why Self-Help Is Only Some Help

How to Survive a Life Like Yours

Why Self-Help Is Only Some Help

Why do self-help books sell so well? Because we know how much wisdom we need, and we’re looking in all the wrong pages.

Constantly (Dis)connected: How Online Habits Form Us

Constantly (Dis)connected

How Online Habits Form Us

Our habits online form us in ways we often don’t realize. If we’re going to love God and neighbor in our digital age, we desperately need analog truth.

He Made Me Lean on Him: Four Tips for Your Twenties

He Made Me Lean on Him

Four Tips for Your Twenties

Most of us are blindsided by the harshness of reality in our twenties. Fill your soul with God now so that you’re not devastated when life comes.

What Netflix Cannot Give — and Death Cannot Take

What Netflix Cannot Give — and Death Cannot Take

Joy is not a participation trophy in the Christian life. It is a prize to be won, an animal to be caught, a treasure we sacrifice whatever necessary to have.

How to Leave Porn Behind

How to Leave Porn Behind

Christian men are fighting a losing battle with pornography because they are trying to remove the sin without adopting a radical lifestyle of repentance.