
Articles by Desiring God
Articles from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
Latest episodes

Apr 8, 2024 • 12min
Life Beneath a Sovereign Lord: How His Power Unleashes Us
Scott Hubbard | If God really is as sovereign as the Bible says, how should we live? His sovereignty invites us to pray more boldly, take greater risks, and draw even closer to heaven.

Apr 6, 2024 • 13min
Wrap Your Soul in Truth: Under-Armor for Spiritual War
David Mathis | Christians are people of the truth — lovers of the truth, speakers of the truth, armored in the truth, as we follow Truth himself.

Apr 3, 2024 • 14min
To War, to Christ, to Glory
Greg Morse | If God is for us in spiritual war, then who can stand against us? Rise up, men of the cross, sisters of the crown, soldiers of Christ.

Mar 31, 2024 • 12min
Risen to Love His Own: The Surprising Mercies of Easter
Scott Hubbard | On the first Easter, Jesus surprised our sorrow with joy, our guilt with forgiveness, our confusion with clarity. And so he still surprises today.

Mar 30, 2024 • 14min
Life Is for Living
Greg Morse | How needful is it to know our end before we get there? How priceless to feel our fleetness before our ship sails?

Mar 29, 2024 • 12min
Good Friday for Bad People
Marshall Segal | Good Friday bids us to stop and remember just how sinful we were — just how bleak it was for us before that darkest day in history.

Mar 28, 2024 • 12min
Bring Your Grief to Gethsemane: The Healing Wounds of Maundy Thursday
David Mathis | Tonight is not first about our griefs. But as we draw near to the sorrows of Jesus, we do indeed find comfort for every grief — and grace for every sin.

Mar 23, 2024 • 11min
What (Not) to Preach: How to Build and Cut a Sermon
David Mathis | After a preacher has wrestled for days, even weeks, with a sermon text, and wrestled hard with the needs of his particular people, he can ask, Which glories here am I most excited to preach?

Mar 20, 2024 • 11min
Restore My Soul: In Pursuit of Personal Revival
Scott Hubbard | Follow Christ long enough, and you’ll find yourself in some spiritual valley, in desperate need of renewal. When you do, follow the map God has drawn for us: Remember. Return. Remove. Restore.

Mar 16, 2024 • 12min
Sin Won’t Comfort You: How Satan Tempts the Hurting
Marshall Segal | The “comforts” of sin may seem safer and more appealing in the fires of your trials, but they will only make your pain that much worse.