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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. Read more about Tony.

What We Learn from Nude Reality TV

G.K. Chesterton said public nudity is never practical, except on occasions that are entirely artificial. So nude reality TV, it seems, was unavoidable. Several current shows point the camera at the unclothed bodies of technically non-actors. “Buying Naked” (TLC) —…

Where Will You Be One Year from Today?

Where Will You Be One Year from Today?

Trying to predict the future is a petri dish of anxiety and fear. God calls us to live, plan, and dream by faith.

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How Do I Resist Smartphone Overuse?

How Do I Resist Smartphone Overuse?

Your smartphone is changing you, whether you realize it or not. Tony Reinke explains the costs of smartphone overuse, and how we can resist.

Pride, Despair, and Sovereign Grace

Pride, Despair, and Sovereign Grace

In light of the pain of this fallen world, helpless sinners desperately depend on God’s wooing, alluring, tender, and unstoppably sovereign grace.

The Allure of Middle-Earth

More than seventy-five years after J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, the glory and majesty of Middle-earth continues to draw millions of readers, and more recently, moviegoers. This week, theaters prepare for Friday’s opening of the acclaimed new movie The…

A (Very) Short Prayer for My Dullest Days

A (Very) Short Prayer for My Dullest Days

On the days when my heart feels dull, dry, and drowsy, I turn to one simple prayer from David in Psalm 51:12: “Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.”

Breaking Through the Despair of Unbelief

Breaking Through the Despair of Unbelief

Michael Reeves may now serve as the President of Union School of Theology in Oxford and be recognized as the author of wonderful books like Delighting in the Trinity and Rejoicing in Christ — but those affections for God were hard-won.

How to Share Your Story This Christmas: Counsel from Charles Spurgeon

How to Share Your Story This Christmas

Counsel from Charles Spurgeon

Christmas is not only an opportunity to relive the story of Jesus’s birth. It’s also an opportunity to tell the story of Jesus’s grace in your life.

Why God Is After Your Joy

Why God Is After Your Joy

Why is God so eager to pour his eternal blessing on people like us? It’s a question too many of us don’t really ask. Life often seems hard and stressful, and we grow blind to God’s present blessings and we…

You Were Made to Play: Five Reasons God Created Us to Recreate

You Were Made to Play

Five Reasons God Created Us to Recreate

Productivity loses its power when we lose the ability to play. We’ve become too narrow to make like God makes.

23 Tips from 23 Years of Book Reading

23 Tips from 23 Years of Book Reading

Many of us today love to swipe, scroll, and stare, but hardly read. Tony Reinke shares 23 tips for reading more and better in a digital age.

The Secret to Digital Health

The Secret to Digital Health

If we try to define our identity and worth in likes, retweets, and followers, we will never find the joy and peace we desperately crave.

20 Quotes from the Gospel Transformation Bible

In about a week, Crossway releases the ESV Gospel Transformation Bible. Created and edited by Bryan Chapell and Dane Ortlund, the new study Bible is filled with valuable notes from fifty contributors with the overall aim of helping students…

Get Alone Undistracted

Never Offline. The recent Time Magazine cover was intended to unnerve. The ominous reality is that computers are invading. They are getting strapped and stuck on us, moving into our glasses and our watches. Technology is “attempting to colonize our bodies.”

The Nail in the Coffin of Our Hearts: Five Hundred Years of Fighting Idolatry

The Nail in the Coffin of Our Hearts

Five Hundred Years of Fighting Idolatry

Shallow thinking about God always replaces God, and sets idols in his place. Luther stood against that temptation in every heart.

The Avenger

Four superheroes unite in "The Avengers Initiative" — Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and the Iron Man — a collaborative of the world's greatest powers, called together when cosmic evil threatens the planet. This is the storyline behind the…

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Glory-Finding in the Gospel of John: The War in Our Social Media Feeds (Part 2)

Glory-Finding in the Gospel of John

The War in Our Social Media Feeds (Part 2)

Digital detox is of some value. But unless we recognize that God’s glory is of value in every way, our struggle against self-glory will persist.

Why Oprah and Brad Pitt Deserted God (And Why You Shouldn’t)

God created the world for his own praise. And that thought is why Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, and the early C.S. Lewis all walked out on God. They all stumbled over God’s self-promotion. So, what is the solution to this…

I Know (New Music Video)

I Know (New Music Video)

We are honored to launch the new studio video for “I Know” from our friends, Kings Kaleidoscope, off their album Becoming Who We Are. These lyrics pluck the strings of a deep ache inside each of us: Every…

Two Keys to Flourishing in the Digital Age

Two Keys to Flourishing in the Digital Age

We all seem to sense that, for good or bad, our smartphones are changing us, our habits, and our relationships.

Are You Serious Enough About Happiness?

Are You Serious Enough About Happiness?

The laughter of fools undoubtedly makes the heart worse, but the deepest joy carries with it a pain and a longing that truly make the heart better.

The Christian’s Pledge of Allegiance

The Christian’s Pledge of Allegiance

Does your heart rise when the Apostles’ Creed is read or recited on Sunday morning? Those eighteen lines have lost some of their power over time, but they were once simultaneously the greatest act of rebellion and the greatest act of allegiance. We need to recover our wonder before these truths.

The Purest Act of Pleasure: Why God Delights in Election

The Purest Act of Pleasure

Why God Delights in Election

God did not love his bride for her beauty. He is making her beautiful because he loved her.

Discipleship in the Age of the Spectacle

Discipleship in the Age of the Spectacle

An Interview with Kevin Vanhoozer on Technology

I enjoy making the people I like uncomfortable, especially favorite theologians as I push them outside the comforts of their field of expertise to hear them address pressing contemporary issues. So when I first suggested Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer address connections…

Learning from Lincoln’s Flawed Marriage

The impressive new feature film Lincoln brings with it a high-definition reminder of the tremendous strengths and flaws of, and the challenges faced by, the 16th president of the United States. One struggle that finds its way into the movie…

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