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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.

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.

Not All Sins Are the Same: Why Hell Will Be Worse for Some

Not All Sins Are the Same

Why Hell Will Be Worse for Some

Not all sins are the same, and hell will be worse for some — but probably not for the sinners you would expect.

Don’t Ever Stop Praying: The Refreshing Privilege of Unceasing Prayer

Don’t Ever Stop Praying

The Refreshing Privilege of Unceasing Prayer

How can we learn to pray without ceasing? Embrace discipline. Carry God’s word with you. Focus on him who hears you. Believe that you were made to pray.

How to Recognize the Holy Spirit: Nine Tests for Spiritual Fruit

How to Recognize the Holy Spirit

Nine Tests for Spiritual Fruit

How can we recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit? Here are nine practical tests of how much of a home he has made in our hearts.

God Behind Me, God Before Me: Looking Backward and Forward by Faith

God Behind Me, God Before Me

Looking Backward and Forward by Faith

As we sit on the edge of a new year, do not let regret for your past, or worry over your future, overshadow the power of your God.

Wherever He Is, We Are Welcome: Heaven’s Great High Priest

Wherever He Is, We Are Welcome

Heaven’s Great High Priest

Because of the unique and long-anticipated priestly role and work of Jesus, repentant sinners can approach the throne of God with boldness.

Uncomfortably Human: Why Jesus Can Sympathize with You

Uncomfortably Human

Why Jesus Can Sympathize with You

When we miss the full and true humanity of Christ, we miss a precious part of our Savior. We miss the one who can sympathize with every one of us.

Ask the Bible Anything: Why God Rewards the Hardest Questions

Ask the Bible Anything

Why God Rewards the Hardest Questions

The questions we bring in humility to the word of God pose him no threats but only draw us deeper into his wonders.