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Scott Hubbard is an editor for Desiring God, a pastor at All Peoples Church, and a graduate of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He and his wife, Bethany, live with their two sons in Minneapolis.

Do Not Despise the Day of Small Groups: Four Marks of Daring Community

Do Not Despise the Day of Small Groups

Four Marks of Daring Community

Small groups may feel unremarkable, but again and again, God has struck revival with small matches. Here are four marks of the small but daring community.

The Beast I Become: How to Bring Bitterness to God

The Beast I Become

How to Bring Bitterness to God

Sometimes, God seems to be answering a longtime prayer or fulfilling a deep desire — until it all crumbles before our face. How do we receive such painful turns from the hand of God?

The Word of God Is Worth the Work

The Word of God Is Worth the Work

If you want more joy, more warmth, more life from your devotions, don’t bypass the hard, necessary work of thinking.

How to Entertain the Holy Spirit

How to Entertain the Holy Spirit

How do we show hospitality to the Holy Spirit? We hear his voice, heed his motions, hate his enemies, and receive his grace.

When the Dawn Seems to Die: How Jesus Keeps Us from Falling Away

When the Dawn Seems to Die

How Jesus Keeps Us from Falling Away

When hope flees, and faith feels weak, and the dawn seems to die, what will keep us from falling away? Jesus prays for us.

Live Closer to Home: How Proximity Shapes Responsibility

Live Closer to Home

How Proximity Shapes Responsibility

The best place to live today is the place you already are. And the best people to give your attention to are those already near you.

The Power of a Praying Mother

The Power of a Praying Mother

Many of the greatest victories and advances God has worked in history have been answers to a mother’s persistent prayers.

Pastors Are Only Matchmakers: The Humble Heart of Faithful Ministry

Pastors Are Only Matchmakers

The Humble Heart of Faithful Ministry

In their heart of hearts, all Christians ask their pastors, “Would you show me Jesus?” And in their heart of hearts, all faithful pastors say, “Gladly.”

Am I Real? A Basic Guide to Christian Assurance

Am I Real?

A Basic Guide to Christian Assurance

How can you know your faith is real? The enemies of Christian assurance are great. But for all who are in Christ, the God of assurance is greater.

The Other Side of the Race Debate: Four Ways to Disagree Christianly

The Other Side of the Race Debate

Four Ways to Disagree Christianly

Improving our conversations will not heal all our divisions, but it may soften prejudices, nurture understanding, and lead us toward a less fragile unity.

Endangered Attention: How to Guard a Precious Gift

Endangered Attention

How to Guard a Precious Gift

If you’ve not thought much about how you spend your attention, you’re likely spending it poorly. Here are four lessons for stewarding your attention in a new year.

The Most Wonderful Books on Earth: Gospel Reading for a New Year

The Most Wonderful Books on Earth

Gospel Reading for a New Year

Whatever your goals are for Bible reading next year, resolve, God helping you, to catch as much of Jesus as you can.

A Son Worthy to Be King

A Son Worthy to Be King

Many expected the coming Christ to be the Son of David. No one expected that he also would be David’s Lord.

Someone Is Listening to Your Suffering

Someone Is Listening to Your Suffering

Why can Christians always sing, even in the hardest days? Because our God always reigns, because our God will deliver, and because someone is listening.

There Is a Name: Our Exclusive and Precious Christ

There Is a Name

Our Exclusive and Precious Christ

While so many get offended that Jesus claims to have the only name that saves, Christians stop and wonder that there’s any name at all.

Food Rules: How God Reshapes Our Appetites

Food Rules

How God Reshapes Our Appetites

Some indulge their appetites, some deny their appetites, and some learn to follow Jesus in directing their appetites.

The Reformation of English: How Tyndale’s Bible Transformed Our Language

The Reformation of English

How Tyndale’s Bible Transformed Our Language

Not only did William Tyndale bring the word of God into English, but he brought English into the form we know and use today.

You Are and Will Be Justified: The Future Promise of a Finished Work

You Are and Will Be Justified

The Future Promise of a Finished Work

If you are in Christ, you are and always will be justified. But one day God will unveil that justification for all to see.

The Sluggard in Me: Four Lies That Lead to Lazy

The Sluggard in Me

Four Lies That Lead to Lazy

A life of laziness usually does not grow overnight, but through day after day of little excuses, trivial indulgences, small defeats.

True Christianity Is a Fight

True Christianity Is a Fight

Do not be surprised when your flesh wages war against your love for Jesus. The war is normal. The war is good. The war means you are real.

Judge Others as You Want to Be Judged

Judge Others as You Want to Be Judged

“Judge not.” Few words of Jesus are more familiar, even to non-Christians. And when understood, few are more devastating.

Let There Be Rest: Recovering Healthy Weekly Rhythms

Let There Be Rest

Recovering Healthy Weekly Rhythms

God rested after creating the world — but not because he needed it. Some of us refuse to imitate his example — even though we do need it.

When My Heart Is Cold: Bible Meditation for Beginners

When My Heart Is Cold

Bible Meditation for Beginners

If you have tried meditating on the Bible, but struggled to make progress, here are some simple steps to make the most of your time in God’s word.

Live Where You Live: Practicing a Lifestyle of Presence

Live Where You Live

Practicing a Lifestyle of Presence

Once, in a world without cars or screens, people had no choice but to live where they lived. Today, many choose to live anywhere else.

Difference Belongs at Home

Difference Belongs at Home

Love within the body of Christ is a dance between diversity and unity, and we begin to learn those steps in the family.

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