

Articles by Desiring God
Desiring God
Articles from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
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Jul 31, 2023 • 12min
The Rare Courage of Real Friends: Why Love Will Sometimes Wound
Marshall Segal | Ask God for the kind of friends who love your soul more than your feelings, who will prize your eternal destiny even above the friendship itself.

Jul 29, 2023 • 12min
The Pro-Child Life: Three Ways We Love the Littlest
Scott Hubbard | If we want to oppose the anti-child forces in this world, we will need more than a pro-life position, a high view of motherhood, and a robust Sunday school program.

Jul 26, 2023 • 12min
Uncomfortably Affectionate: Toward a Theology of the Kiss
David Mathis | It says something profound about our God that his people, in ancient Israel and the early church, are a kissing people.

Jul 24, 2023 • 13min
For Fathers of Young Children: Lessons from the Last Graduation
Jon Bloom | The years of fatherhood are few and precious. The days may seem long, the sleep short, and the seasons tiring, but in the end, you’ll look back and wish to have much of it again.

Jul 20, 2023 • 12min
Live for Days You Will Not See: The Beauty of Christian Legacy
Scott Hubbard | Live for yourself, and your life will mean little to those beyond you. But spend your life on others, and it will grow a harvest in due time.

Jul 19, 2023 • 10min
O Me of Little Faith
Greg Morse | Sometimes we settle for weaker faith because we fear what greater faith might cost us in this life.

Jul 15, 2023 • 13min
How to Love an Immortal
Marshall Segal | What might it look like to study and work, to date and marry and parent, to disagree and forgive, like you’ll live forever?

Jul 11, 2023 • 20min
Did Jesus Pursue His Own Glory? The God-Centeredness of the God-Man
David Mathis | We might assume the God-centeredness of God would lead to the Christ-centeredness of Christ, but the Gospels present a more complex and wonderful picture.

Jul 9, 2023 • 10min
That Kind of Happy: The Wide Eyes of a Psalm 1 Man
Marshall Segal | Some men read the Bible assuming they’ve seen it all before. Others open the same book always expecting to find some new reason to treasure God.

Jul 8, 2023 • 11min
Imagine Lust: A Lost Weapon in the Fight for Purity
Scott Hubbard | Many in the battle against lust try to shut off the imagination, but what if God means for you to win the battle through imagination?


