Scott Hubbard | Desiring God

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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 in Minneapolis.

You Are Not You Without Him

You Are Not You Without Him

You will never find the true you by focusing on yourself. You will find the true you only when you forget about yourself and become consumed with Him.

I Take You: Our Vows for the Unknown Country

I Take You

Our Vows for the Unknown Country

Today, we make promises bigger than both of us. To have and to hold. For better or worse. To love and to cherish. Till death do us part.

God Moves in a Mysterious Way: Hope for the Hard Years Ahead

God Moves in a Mysterious Way

Hope for the Hard Years Ahead

We do not need to grasp all that God is doing. In the end, God will show that his ways, so high above our own, were perfect at every turn.

His Heart Is Broad as Heaven: Why God Delights to Forgive

His Heart Is Broad as Heaven

Why God Delights to Forgive

What makes God glad to forgive you? Not your merits, not your vows, and not your future potential, but rather the worth of the Lamb who was slain.

Give the Gentle Kiss of Honesty

Give the Gentle Kiss of Honesty

We hate to receive it, we cringe to give it, and we easily justify withholding it. But love demands it. Give the gentle kiss of honesty.

God Is Bigger Than Your Problems

God Is Bigger Than Your Problems

When your problems feel overwhelming and you don’t see a way out, lift up your eyes and behold your God.

Roll Your Burdens onto God

Roll Your Burdens onto God

How did George Müller handle the worries of ten thousand orphans? He took them off his own shoulders one by one, and then he rolled them onto God’s.

Awaken Me to Today: Three Daily Reminders

Awaken Me to Today

Three Daily Reminders

When you wake up tomorrow, look up to God. Look around to his world. Look ahead to your life that day. And ask God to awaken you.

God Will Conquer All Your Sins

God Will Conquer All Your Sins

If you have tasted God’s grace in Christ, and long to enjoy more of him, but carry the awful weight of sin, know this: God will win the warfare he began.

Let Your Dream Small Group Die: Five Ways to Meaningful Community

Let Your Dream Small Group Die

Five Ways to Meaningful Community

When your Christian community disappoints you, avoid the urge to flee. Instead, let your dream community die, and learn to love the one you have.

What to Do While You Wait

What to Do While You Wait

Have you been waiting far longer than you expected? Let Psalm 37 lead you: Don’t fret. Commit your way to God. Do good. Delight yourself in the Lord.

Five Prayers for Those Who Wait

Five Prayers for Those Who Wait

When you find yourself in a season of prolonged and painful waiting, here are five ways to focus your prayers.

You Can Say No to Sin

You Can Say No to Sin

Self-control can feel agonizing — like severing an arm or tearing out an eye. And in Christ, we have everything we need to walk in it.

‘Just a Little More’: How to Quiet Your Cravings

‘Just a Little More’

How to Quiet Your Cravings

When we give in and eat a little too much, sleep a little too long, or watch a little too late, we don’t add to our enjoyment. We surrender it.

You Need More Than God Alone

You Need More Than God Alone

If you think you need only your quiet time to survive in the Christian life, you’re cutting yourself off from a hundred other means of grace.

Raise Your Song in the Night

Raise Your Song in the Night

When faced with darkness without and doubt within, do exactly what Satan wants you not to do: sing.

Ten Thousand Small Trials: How God Fits Us for Glory

Ten Thousand Small Trials

How God Fits Us for Glory

The little trials you meet today are not mere letdowns or annoyances. They are invitations from your Father to become more like Jesus.

Every Love That Slipped Away

Every Love That Slipped Away

Every agony we experience in love prepares us for a love that is weighty, indestructible, and far better than the best romance this world can offer.

Follow God to the Lonely and Hurting

Follow God to the Lonely and Hurting

God loves to bring his children into rooms where visitors rarely enter — whether in an orphanage in Africa or in the kitchen across the street.

What God Says to Your Tears

What God Says to Your Tears

God will not reproach you for the tears you shed as you walk through the ruins of our broken world. But he will dry them all one day.

You Can Win the War Against Sin: Three Promises for Today’s Temptation

You Can Win the War Against Sin

Three Promises for Today’s Temptation

If you’re discouraged in your battle against sin, remember that the war is normal, the war is winnable, and the war will end.

Join the 40-Day Feast: How to Prepare Ahead for Easter

Join the 40-Day Feast

How to Prepare Ahead for Easter

Protestants may have a checkered history with Lent, but what if we took it as an invitation to feast?

Grumbling in Paradise: How to Break Through Discontent

Grumbling in Paradise

How to Break Through Discontent

Satan makes God’s world sound like a cramped single-bedroom apartment. The Spirit opens our eyes to see that it is an endless beach of wonder.

Watch Where You Walk in 2018

Watch Where You Walk in 2018

Jesus knows how to repay everything you might lose on the path of love in 2018.

Begin to Hope Again

Begin to Hope Again

If you are in Christ, change is not only possible, but surely coming. No matter how long you’ve sat in darkness, you can begin to hope again.