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 lives in Minneapolis.

‘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.

The Teenage Martyr: Lady Jane Grey (c. 1537–1554)

The Teenage Martyr

Lady Jane Grey (c. 1537–1554)

Lady Jane Grey was a teenage victim of social and political conspiracy, beheaded at seventeen for her faith. But her life is far from a tragedy.

Whitewashed Heroes: The Flaws in Our Reformers

Whitewashed Heroes

The Flaws in Our Reformers

The Reformers opposed proud rulers, unmasked depraved priests, and recovered the gospel for the world. But every one of them had a dark side.

The British Candle: Latimer (c. 1485–1555) and Ridley (c. 1502–1555)

The British Candle

Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley (Martyred in 1555)

One Lord, one faith, one stake. The story of two great Reformers burned at the same stake.

Defend the City: A Call to Single Men

Defend the City

A Call to Single Men

Single men, we are cities under siege. Every time we give in to sexual temptation, we take a stone off the wall. Every time we resist, we build.

Let Go and Get Going

Let Go and Get Going

Sometimes God moves heaven and earth in answer to our prayers. But more often, he just moves us.

Learn How to Be Brought Low

Learn How to Be Brought Low

God will bring all of us low at some point in our lives. If we ask him, he can teach us how to be brought low with hope and joy.

Beauty Is Born in Bad News

Beauty Is Born in Bad News

We may try to blunt the force of bad news through self-protection, but it will keep us enslaved until we find a way to face it, fearless and full of hope.

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