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.

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.

Wait for the Ending: The Stories God Loves to Tell

Wait for the Ending

The Stories God Loves to Tell

In our most perplexing moments, our role is not to know the ending of this story, but to wait for the ending, and to live as faithful characters.

All We Do Is Succeed: The Story of John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’

All We Do Is Succeed

The Story of John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’

During John Bunyan’s twelve years in jail, he wrote a book that would become, for two centuries, the best-selling book written in the English language.

When Joy Feels Far Away

When Joy Feels Far Away

Sometimes, when joy feels far away, we need to hear some simple reminders: Darkness is normal. God is near. Joy is coming. Hope in him.

Argue with Your Pride

Argue with Your Pride

The madness of pride will plague us as long as we live, but it will fall, slowly and surely, before the happy sanity of Christian humility.

Expect the Bible to Unsettle You

Expect the Bible to Unsettle You

All throughout Scripture, God’s word not only comforts and uplifts his people; it also unsettles them.

Your Gospel Keeps People from God: Ten Appeals to Prosperity Preachers

Your Gospel Keeps People from God

Ten Appeals to Prosperity Preachers

The prosperity gospel will not make anybody praise Jesus. It will make people praise prosperity. John Piper makes ten appeals to prosperity preachers.

The Offensively Ordinary Steps to Godliness

The Offensively Ordinary Steps to Godliness

The holiness you will have in ten years will be the fruit of 100,000 small decisions you make between now and then. Holiness hides, and grows, in small things.

No, I Shall Not Want: An Anthem for Everyday Anxieties

No, I Shall Not Want

An Anthem for Everyday Anxieties

Satan whispers that we will wake up tomorrow with a need too great for God. God says, if you are his, you shall not want.

Most Growth Will Be Slow Growth

Most Growth Will Be Slow Growth

The road to heaven is long and slow. It’s a lifelong journey, not a sprint. Don’t despise the small steps of obedience you need to take again today.

God Will Daily Bear You Up

God Will Daily Bear You Up

If you are in Christ, God will bear you up today. He will show you mercy. He will make you new. And when tomorrow comes, he will do it all again.

God Does Not Forgive Excuses

God Does Not Forgive Excuses

God does not forgive excuses. He does not forgive qualifications. He does not forgive “buts” and “I was justs.” He only forgives sins.

Why God Made Your Mouth

Why God Made Your Mouth

God could not have given our mouths a higher calling than to be channels of grace. When you open yours, does the world become a better place, or worse?

The Dragon Hiding in Your Desires: Why Temptation Feels So Harmless

The Dragon Hiding in Your Desires

Why Temptation Feels So Harmless

Many of us fail to defeat sin because we refuse to use our imagination. If we could really see what sin will do to us, temptation would lose its power.

Three Ways to Purify Your Thinking

Three Ways to Purify Your Thinking

Your thought life will not become pure spontaneously. You will have to fight for it. But if you are in Christ, you won’t have to fight alone.

Do Everything Without Grumbling

Do Everything Without Grumbling

When unmet desire dissolves into discontentment, we grumble. When unmet desire draws us closer to God, we rise in worship.

End Your War Against Weakness

End Your War Against Weakness

Your weaknesses are not meaningless, and they are not mistakes. They are given by God. And in the end, they’re for your good.

He Loved the Children to Death: The Unassailable Strength of Weakness

He Loved the Children to Death

The Unassailable Strength of Weakness

When God wants to silence the devil’s accusations, defeat the strength of his foes, and shame the wisdom of the world, he teaches the children to sing.

The Good We Can’t Let Go: How to Guard Against Subtle Sins

The Good We Can’t Let Go

How to Guard Against Subtle Sins

If you are on guard against only bad things, you are asleep to half the battle. For many of us, the greatest danger comes from good things we can’t let go of.

The Harlot, the Virgin, and the Bride: How God Makes Us Sexually Whole

The Harlot, the Virgin, and the Bride

How God Makes Us Sexually Whole

If you are in Christ, a day is coming when you will no longer ache for complete purity. You will see Jesus’s face, and you will be pure as he is pure.