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Scott Hubbard

Scott Hubbard is a graduate of Bethlehem College & Seminary and an editor for desiringGod.org. He and his wife, Bethany, live with their son in Minneapolis.

Seize the Day’s Interruptions

Seize the Day’s Interruptions

Are you too busy to be like Jesus? Do you have time for the quiet and inconvenient interruptions God has planned for you?

Calvinism in One Point: The Often-Forgotten Story of TULIP

Calvinism in One Point

The Often-Forgotten Story of TULIP

Many might defend, and even die for, the truths contained in the acronym TULIP. But few know where this flower actually first sprouted.

Holy Is Who You Are: A Missing Weapon in the War Against Sin

Holy Is Who You Are

A Missing Weapon in the War Against Sin

Holiness is not only a goal to strive for. Holiness is an identity to live from, a security to stand on, and a destiny to long for.

Denying Yourself Is Loving Yourself

Denying Yourself Is Loving Yourself

What happens when Christians deny themselves? We find ourselves, we defy the devil, we join heaven’s side, and we destroy our sorrow.

Remember Who You Were Without Christ

Remember Who You Were Without Christ

When we forget who we once were apart from Christ, we too easily forget who we now are in Christ.

The Quiet Power of Ordinary Devotions

The Quiet Power of Ordinary Devotions

Reading through the Bible may feel ordinary most days, but the effects over a lifetime will be anything but ordinary.

The Proverbs 31 Warfare: How Home Unleashes a Woman

The Proverbs 31 Warfare

How Home Unleashes a Woman

Many have heard of the Proverbs 31 woman. But what about the Proverbs 31 warrior?

America Was Never Home: How Christian Exiles Love a Nation Like Ours

America Was Never Home

How Christian Exiles Love a Nation Like Ours

This world is not our home, yet God has placed us here for a purpose. We are both strangers and citizens, exiles and ambassadors.

Let Your Dream Church Die: How Discontentment Destroys Community

Let Your Dream Church Die

How Discontentment Destroys Community

When discontentment with our church begins to rise, it may mean God is leading us elsewhere. But often he’s just calling us to rise up and be the church.

Faithfulness in Forgotten Places: Why Small Obedience Matters to God

Faithfulness in Forgotten Places

Why Small Obedience Matters to God

When our work escapes the notice of every human eye, it does not escape God’s. He is eager to catch the smallest tasks that we perform in faith.

The World Needs More Faithful Men

The World Needs More Faithful Men

Faithfulness grows slowly, often imperceptibly. Faithfulness requires hard work, over a long time. Faithfulness will often be taken for granted.

Pray to See the Church as God Does

Pray to See the Church as God Does

Fellow Christians can be stranger than we ever imagined, yet more precious than we often believe. They are our family.

Against Every Accusation: What to Say When Satan Whispers

Against Every Accusation

What to Say When Satan Whispers

Satan may know more about your sin than you do, but he can only accuse you. If you are in Christ, he cannot condemn you.

The War Means You Are Real: Four Ways to Fight Indwelling Sin

The War Means You Are Real

Four Ways to Fight Indwelling Sin

The greatest threat to our souls is not behind us, beside us, or in front of us. The greatest threat to our souls lies within.

Every Sin Hides a Lie: Three Ways Temptation Betrays Us

Every Sin Hides a Lie

Three Ways Temptation Betrays Us

Satan’s master design in temptation is to lessen the guilt of sin, hide the danger of sin, and embellish the pleasure of sin.

Let the First Voice Be His: Why Wisdom Meets God in the Morning

Let the First Voice Be His

Why Wisdom Meets God in the Morning

The morning, more than any other time of day, invites us to give God our firstfruits, roll away our burdens, hear his teaching, and enjoy his love.

The Maker of the Mountains Is with You

The Maker of the Mountains Is with You

When we feel small, vulnerable, and afflicted, God comes to us — not only as our strong Redeemer and merciful Savior, but as our faithful Creator.

‘Obedience Will Make You Miserable’: The Tired Lie Satan Loves to Tell

‘Obedience Will Make You Miserable’

The Tired Lie Satan Loves to Tell

Only a lie could convince our first parents that they served a stingy God. And only a similar lie can do the same today.

After the Virus Has Passed: Ordinary Life in Light of Eternity

After the Virus Has Passed

Ordinary Life in Light of Eternity

Numbering our days will lead many ordinary people to take some radical steps. It also will lead us to take all sorts of ordinary actions radically.

Fortified by Fire: How Suffering Makes Us Strong

Fortified by Fire

How Suffering Makes Us Strong

God means for the strength you build through suffering today to carry you to the day when you will never suffer again.

‘Finished’: What the Son Cried as He Died

‘Finished’

What the Son Cried as He Died

Three words hold our highest praise, our best defense, our sweetest song: “It is finished.”

Father, Son, and Controversy: The Great Theological Earthquake of 1054

Father, Son, and Controversy

The Great Theological Earthquake of 1054

In 1054, a theological controversy erupted that left the Christian world divided in two. And it focused on a single Latin word: filioque.

Holiness Is Never Far from Home: Fighting Sin and Satan with a Family

Holiness Is Never Far from Home

Fighting Sin and Satan with a Family

Nothing is more dangerous to Satan and all his demons than an average Christian home filled with godliness.

Four Lies That Keep Us from Prayer

Four Lies That Keep Us from Prayer

Maybe the next step you need to take in your prayer life is to abandon one of these four common deceptions.

Freedom Is to Be Like Him

Freedom Is to Be Like Him

The freest people in the world are not focused on doing what they want, but on serving where they’re needed.