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Tony Reinke

Tony Reinke serves as Senior Teacher for Desiring God, host of the Ask Pastor John podcast, and author of Ask Pastor John: 750 Bible Answers to Life’s Most Important Questions (2024). He and his wife live in Phoenix.

Hope That Purifies

Our heavenly Father encourages his children to put off sin by delivering strong warnings in Scripture (Hebrews 6:4–8; 10:26–31). But he also motivates us to put on holiness by drawing from our assurances, like in 1 John 3:2a–3: we know…

Union With Christ: One of the Secrets of Sanctification

What is union with Christ? And how does this union help us advance in personal holiness? We asked J. I. Packer recently, and he answered in this rich 9-minute video: Transcribed Excerpt “[As a Christian] you have to face a…

C. S. Lewis, Panhandlers, and Laziness (Ask Pastor John)

C.S. Lewis, panhandlers, and laziness: these are all themes from this week's lineup of Ask Pastor John podcast episodes. Three episodes focus on C. S. Lewis and the fall DG national conference: "The Romantic Rationalist: God, Life, and Imagination in…

Thanking God with Piper, Chandler, and Storms

It’s now been three months since John Piper transitioned from the local-church pastorate to full-time “wider” ministry through Desiring God. The church gathered on April 14 for an appreciation and recommissioning service for her beloved Pastor John. There Piper gave…

Take Christ As Your Motto

Wikipedia can be misleading. August 4, not July 24, marks the annual birthday of slave trader-turned-pastor John Newton (1725–1807). The date change is due to an 11-day shift in the calendar adopted in 1750 which pushed all previous dates forward.…

The Book of 2 Corinthians in 42 Tweets

The Apostle Paul and the Corinthian church had a complicated relationship, and Second Corinthians is a personal letter from Paul that captures the tension. It's a letter that speaks to ministry, leadership, and preaching, and it's a letter that speaks…

Getting Real with Personal Sin: An Interview with Matt Chandler

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Why is our first inclination to run our sins into the dark shadows and hide like Adam tucked up against a tree trunk? We find it natural to hide our sins, even as Christians, but such an act contradicts our…

Where Are God’s Men? Where Are God’s Women?

John Piper gave this plea in his 2008 message at Together for the Gospel: My desire and prayer for you is that your life and ministry have a radical flavor. The flavor of risk, sacrifice, love, simplicity, joy, freedom, and…

Biblical Manhood and Womanhood on Display

Writes John Piper in his book, A Sweet and Bitter Providence (Crossway, 2010), page 132: The story of Ruth and Boaz is the kind of story that can awaken and feed the masculine and feminine soul in ways that we…

Salt and Like

You may have noticed a series of social media buttons on the side of each blog post and resource on the Desiring God website. This post is a little attempt to explain why those buttons, and the statistics they reflect…

Ripping the Heart Out of Sunday Worship

Why do we attend church on Sundays? Fundamentally, we come to church starved for God. Coming with our need, we seek God in our worship and in hearing the word faithfully preached. We arrive at church with a God-sized…

Enjoy God (with Puritan Help)

We don’t often talk about our daily enjoyment of God with our friends — a deficiency J. I. Packer picked up some years ago when he compared this trend to the Puritan age: Communion with God was a great thing…

Why God Is Not Vain to Seek Praise

In his recent sermon on Christian Hedonism, Pastor John recounts the day he first discovered C.S. Lewis’s answer to the dilemma of why God, in demanding that he be praised, “was not like an old vain woman seeking compliments.”…

Meaning and Metaphor

Sometimes spiritual truth is best communicated through the imagination, and I think this explains why the book of Revelation includes war tales of red dragons and multi-headed beasts — those nasty creatures are a great way to embody evil and…

Listening to the Word Preached

Today many of us will gather in local churches to hear the preaching of God’s word from faithful ministers. So what is the proper spiritual posture we should take for listening to the sermon? In our recently released ebook, Take…

Pray for Jerry Bridges

Today Jerry Bridges (82) underwent a scheduled heart surgery in Colorado Springs. He explained the procedure in an email last month. "I am scheduled to have heart surgery on April 12 to repair or replace the Mitral Valve. Ordinarily, this…

Manhood Restored: An Interview with Eric Mason

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Our all-sufficient Savior is many things, including a perfect model of masculinity. This point is a significant theme in Eric Mason’s new book Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole (B&H). Mason joined me to talk more about his…

A Theology of Reading

Theology Refresh: Podcast for Christian Leaders

Tony Reinke discusses the importance of reading in the Christian life.

Why Mars Should Boggle the Mind

Jeremiah 32:40–41: "I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. I…

Stop Apologizing for God: An Interview with Drew Dyck

Stop Apologizing for God: An Interview with Drew Dyck

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Interview with Don Carson on the TGC Women's Conference

Don Carson, the president and co-founder of TGC, answered a few questions about the conference and the priority of training women for ministry. Explain for us the origin of the women's conference and how it serves the broader vision of…

A Theater Called Holy Week

How did C. S. Lewis bungle The Chronicles of Narnia? For some critics, a major flaw is the way he interrupts the flow of the story by butting into the story as the narrator. You may remember it is Lewis…

Enjoying God’s Beatific Beauty

“How good is God,” wrote Jonathan Edwards, “that he has created man for this very end, to make him happy in the enjoyment of himself, the Almighty, who was happy from the days of eternity in himself … that he…

Reading as A Lifetime Vocation

Fresh into his new post at Bethel College in the fall of 1974, Professor John wrote an article to explain the lifelong value of solid reading habits. Teach a man to fish and he can learn from the ancient fishermen…

Heaven and Hedgehogs

A small emergency struck our home last week when my 4-year-old son’s favorite hedgehog stuffed animal went missing. The hope of finding him was beginning to shrink with every search under the couch and with every sweep under the bed…

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