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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.

Lit!

A Christian Guide to Reading Books

If you enjoy reading or not, this book is for you. This practical guide built on the gospel offers the skills to have a balanced reading diet.

All Spheres of Life — Even Pro Basketball

They're calling it "LinSanity" in New York, and it hit fever pitch tonight after Lin's game winning 3-pointer with less than a second to play in the Knicks win. He finished with 27 points and a career-high 11 assists. But…

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…

Meet Jonathan Edwards

Spiders, hedonism, revivals, and the mysteries of the trinity — Jonathan Edwards's mind was rich and his writings are prolific. Digestible overviews of his life and writings are always appreciated. During the recent conversation between John Piper and Douglas Wilson…

Where Souls Find Sweet Rest Forever

Psalm 23:2, He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. Jonathan Edwards: In Christ you shall have glorious objects for the eye of your soul to behold in which you shall find rest. You…

I Exist to...

...what? What drives you? John Piper says, "I exist to to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ." This is the mission of John Piper, the mission…

Our Gold, His Glory

It would be difficult to find a better summary of what Desiring God is all about than from this quote taken from the writings of Puritan Thomas Watson: We glorify God by working out our own salvation. God has twisted…

Serving Up Tweets: An Interview with Ray Ortlund on Social Media

Serving Up Tweets: An Interview with Ray Ortlund on Social Media

Dr. Ray Ortlund Jr. is an author, pastor and a former seminary professor. He also blogs and tweets regularly. Given his experience, responsibilities, and his devotion to social media, I asked him to explain more about why and how…

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…

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…

Grace to You in Your Bible Reading; Grace <em>with You</em> as You Live Your Day

In 1994 Pastor John began explaining a theme he noticed in the introductions and conclusions to all 13 of Paul’s epistles. Paul begins each epistle with grace, and he closes each epistle with grace. The pattern is “a bracing trumpet…

Our Tears Are Being Undone

Tears sum up everything gone wrong in this fallen world. Grief, frustration, pain, disappointment, loss, stress, tragedy, disaster, regret, mourning, depression, lament, brokenness, abandonment — all of it can be expressed through the universal language of tears. We need no…

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…

The Creator On His Knees (Maundy Thursday)

The Maundy in Maundy Thursday comes from the Latin root mandatum, or commandment, taken from Jesus' words in John 13:34: A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you…

God Is The Resurrection-Gospel

The whole point of Easter is that we get … blank. How would you finish the sentence? ... we get justification. … we get new life in Christ. … we get the promise of imperishable physical bodies. … we…

When Easter Joy Turns to Monday Gloom

Coming out of holy week in 1981, Pastor John addressed the realities of the Monday blues that so often follow on the heels of the Easter Sunday joys. He said this in his sermon, "The Sifting of Simon Peter…

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…

Christ + Something = Insult

The following excerpt is transcribed from handwritten sermon notes by John Piper from a message he preached at Perlacher Chapel in Munich, Germany on June 24, 1973. Before digging into Ephesians 1–2, he opened with these words: The plight of…

Interview with Matt Chandler

He is the new president of the Acts 29 Network, he just released his first book, and today he kicks off a seven-city book tour. Matt Chandler is a busy man. Now serving in his tenth year…

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…

A Theology of Reading

Theology Refresh: Podcast for Christian Leaders

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

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…

Reflections on the Life of Isaac Newton

At a recent morning staff devotional at the DG offices, John Piper shared a biographical sketch of the brilliant scientist, Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727). The talk was inspired by his recent reading of this 2005 biography by Gale Christianson. The…

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…

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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