

Articles by Desiring God
Desiring God
Articles from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
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Sep 8, 2024 • 8min
Life Is Too Brief to Waste: Learning to Number Our Days
Jon Bloom | When we learn to number our days, we see just how brief life is — briefer than we tend to assume, and far too brief to waste.

Sep 6, 2024 • 12min
Strangers to Sin: How Heaven Makes Us Holy
Greg Morse | Christian, you are not a citizen of this world. You hope for a better home and greater reward. Does this hope help you flee from sin now?

Sep 1, 2024 • 13min
Ten Sweeter, Stronger Looks: How Examining Self Illuminates Christ
Scott Hubbard | Godly introspection is a road, not a room, that ever takes us to the same glorious place: Jesus. And some of the best sights of Christ come at the end of that road.

Aug 31, 2024 • 13min
Our Most Important Citizenship: Four Checks for ‘World Christians’
David Mathis | Have the world’s patterns and “cultural moments” dulled the global scope and Great-Commission interests of your faith?

Aug 27, 2024 • 11min
To Gain the World and Lose Your Soul
Greg Morse | There is one item in the world that has no fair trade — the soul. And yet, how many trade the most priceless thing they own to gain mere trifles?

Aug 24, 2024 • 11min
If the Men Aren’t Singing: Five Questions for Worship Leaders
Jon Bloom | God made men to sing. But sometimes, our lyrics miss their hearts, our keys miss their registers, and as a result, our churches miss their voices.

Aug 20, 2024 • 12min
If You Confess: How to Bring Your Sins to God
Scott Hubbard | How can we confess our sins in a way that pleases God? Heed God’s fatherly hand, honestly name your sins, embrace God’s free forgiveness, and walk away glad in him.

Aug 17, 2024 • 14min
Love Her Less to Love Her More: The Dangers of Idolizing a Wife
Greg Morse | A husband loves his wife as she ought to be loved — he loves her best — only when he loves her as his wife and not as his god.

Aug 10, 2024 • 12min
‘Abraham, Take Your Son’: Wrestling with God’s Unsettling Test
Jon Bloom | God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son. How do we know he won’t call us to do the same today?

Aug 6, 2024 • 11min
Facing a Task Unfinished: A Battle-Hymn for Mission
Greg Morse | The Great Commission remains an unfinished task, and yet how many feel any urgency to see it completed?


