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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.

From Radical Lesbian to Redeemed Christian

From Radical Lesbian to Redeemed Christian

How a radical lesbian became a redeemed Christian.

Facebook Obsession and the Anguish of Boredom

Facebook Obsession and the Anguish of Boredom

Unhealthy Facebook addiction flourishes because we fail to see the cost on our lives. What are the consequences of boredom-induced compulsive behaviors?

Are You Chasing Happiness or Holiness?

Are You Chasing Happiness or Holiness?

Many people avoid holiness to pursue happiness not knowing that the two are one.

Top 15 Books of 2015

Top 15 Books of 2015

What was your favorite new book this year? Here’s our top 15 of 2015.

Alzheimer’s, the Brain, and the Soul

Alzheimer’s, the Brain, and the Soul

How does dementia affect the spiritual life? We asked pastor and psychologist Dr. Ben Mast in this feature interview.

Lazy Busy

Unmasking the Deadly Sin of Sloth

Sloth says all things should work together for our comfort. God says all things will work together for our good. There’s a big difference.

14 Best Books of 2014

14 Best Books of 2014

At Desiring God I cherish being surrounded by co-laborors and online friends who treasure great books, and who eagerly celebrate and share the most noteworthy titles as they come along. In 2014, delicious non-fiction Christian titles ran off presses like…

Why We Should Escape Social Media (And Why We Don’t)

Why We Should Escape Social Media

(And Why We Don’t)

Social media is a brew of emotionally stimulating drugs we mix for ourselves. We use the noise to drown out the parts of our lives we’d rather not face.

Why Do I Exist?

Why Do I Exist?

Am I failing at life? Am I succeeding? And why do I exist in the first place? These questions are huge, we all ask them, and thankfully the Bible helps us with answers in the form of a litmus test. …

Jesus Sings

Jesus sings. If Scripture didn’t say it, I wouldn’t either. But it’s true. In four places in Scripture we read that Jesus, the Son of God himself, raised his voice in worship.1 Which is immediately confusing on one level…

Ask Pastor John

Death Can Only Make Me Better: Remembering Tim Keller (1950–2023)

Death Can Only Make Me Better: Remembering Tim Keller (1950–2023)

On May 19, 2023, Tim Keller entered the reward of his Master. In this special episode of Ask Pastor John, Tony Reinke shares a sermon clip from Dr. Keller on the joy of God in the face of cancer.

Fighting Presumptuous Sins

Sin is a mystery, and it’s a mystery the psalmist wrestles with in Psalm 19. First he looks up to the heavens to delight in the Creator’s handiwork (verses 1–6). Then he looks down to delight in God’s words (verses…

The Joy Project: An Introduction to Calvinism

The Joy Project

An Introduction to Calvinism

True happiness is not found. The deepest and most enduring happiness breaks into our lives, overcomes our boredom, and ultimately finds us.

Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God

Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of God

Disabilities break into life in various forms: as the product of genetic misalignments in the womb, as the result of tragic and regrettable accidents, as the byproducts of infectious disease, and from the degenerative effects of old age. They affect…

Is Tim Keller Weak on Wrath?

Is Tim Keller Weak on Wrath?

I may have been the first blogger to accuse Tim Keller publicly for what I perceived to be his passive (and weak) view of God’s wrath in the wake of his book The Reason For God (2008). My response was…

Turn My Eyes from Worthless Things

Turn My Eyes from Worthless Things

Curbing Our Infinite Appetite for Distraction

We’re not mainly creatures of our environment; we’re creatures of what we focus on in our environment. Where we give our attention matters.

How Do I Know I’m Saved? (Ask Pastor John)

In the 4,300 emails you have sent us, one of the most common questions we have received for the Ask Pastor John podcast is about assurance: How can I know I'm saved? On Monday we released Pastor John’s response (…

Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History

Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History

They never asked to be remembered on earth. And many haven’t been. But although God-fearing women seldom make earth’s history, they fill the annals of heaven.

20 Quotes from The Explicit Gospel

What follows are 20 quotes that caught my attention as I read Matt Chandler's new book, The Explicit Gospel (Crossway, 2012): “More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a…

Should Teens Own Smartphones?

Should Teens Own Smartphones?

Is it possible for a teen to resist the powers of culture and go smartphone-free through the middle school and high school years?

Those Deleted Tweets

Monday night, in the wake of the devastating tornado in Oklahoma, John Piper posted two tweets at 11:00pm (CST). Both tweets quoted the first chapter of Job. He first cited Job 1:19, and then Job 1:20, and they were posted…

Speaking the Truth In Love

For much of my Christian life I have had a one-sided view of “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15). I assumed that the verse meant only that when hard news or rebuke needed to be brought, it should be…

God Has Brought Me Safe Thus Far

God Has Brought Me Safe Thus Far

Amazing Grace for a New Year

This first week of the year affords many of us an opportunity to hit “pause” on our busyness and reflect, backward and forward, on our own lives.

Ian and Larissa: One Year Later

Note: Click the CC button to watch this video with captions in 18 different languages. It’s been one year since we released this video, very simply titled: “The Story of Ian and Larissa.” The response was (and continues to be)…

Do You Get ‘It’?

Do You Get ‘It’?

A Dialogue About Christians and Horror

I don’t watch horror films, but I’m intrigued enough by ‘It’ as a cultural phenomenon to dialogue with another Christian who does.

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