Articles by Desiring God

Desiring God
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Apr 9, 2022 • 12min

What God Can Do in One Conversation: Recovering the Power of Personal Evangelism

Greg Morse | In all the emphases on slow, patient, relational evangelism, have we forgotten just how much God can do in a single conversation?
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Apr 8, 2022 • 14min

Did Jesus Need the Spirit? Pondering the Power of the God-Man

David Mathis | Jesus’s miracles certainly show that he is God — but the New Testament’s answer as to how he performed those miracles is not quite as simple.
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Apr 4, 2022 • 12min

Our God-Sized Ordinary: Six Ways to See the Holy Spirit

Marshall Segal | If you belong to Christ, God has flooded every familiar and unremarkable corner of your life with his Spirit.
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Apr 3, 2022 • 12min

Roses Grow on Briers: Unsentimental Love in a Sentimental World

David Mathis | When you think about the love of God, how much has your imagination been shaped by the sentimental age in which you live?
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Apr 2, 2022 • 14min

Sympathy Without Distress: The Exalted Compassion of Christ

Greg Morse | The risen Jesus remembers us, loves us, intercedes for us — and not in a way that diminishes his heavenly joy. That is really good news.
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Apr 1, 2022 • 12min

The Joy of God in Us: Why the Spirit Produces Happiness

Jon Bloom | Why is the Holy Spirit so often connected to joy in Scripture? Because he is the Joy at the center of reality.
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Mar 30, 2022 • 18min

How to Pray Like Jabez

David Mathis | Twenty years ago, ‘The Prayer of Jabez’ became one of the bestselling Christian books of all time. What made it so popular, and how might we learn from Jabez today, without throwing away Scripture?
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Mar 27, 2022 • 12min

The Prayer to End All Prayers

Marshall Segal | In the world to come, we will have nothing to fear, nothing to mourn, nothing to endure, nothing to confess. Can you imagine?
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Mar 25, 2022 • 12min

Some Kindness Stings: Why Love Uses Hard Words

Jon Bloom | The most loving people do not delight in wounding others, but they are willing to, for the sake of real healing. They know that soft words can sometimes be cruel, and hard words kind.
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Mar 24, 2022 • 12min

The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life: Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth

Greg Morse | Life is rarely wasted all at once, but rather through thousands of small, seemingly insignificant moments.

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