Articles by Desiring God

Desiring God
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Jan 5, 2022 • 9min

A Father’s Good Pleasure

Jon Bloom | A father has the distinct and rare gift of giving good gifts to his children because God loves to give good gifts to his.
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Jan 4, 2022 • 12min

Endangered Attention: How to Guard a Precious Gift

Scott Hubbard | If you’ve not thought much about how you spend your attention, you’re likely spending it poorly. Here are four lessons for stewarding your attention in a new year.
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Jan 2, 2022 • 11min

Repentance for a New Year

Greg Morse | When you hear God’s summons to repent, do you hear an invitation to misery, or a doorway to joy?
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Jan 1, 2022 • 9min

A New Year Worthy of God

Marshall Segal | Before you start a reading plan, or choose a diet, or buy a journal, or step on a treadmill, find a why worth changing for.
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Dec 30, 2021 • 10min

The Most Wonderful Books on Earth: Gospel Reading for a New Year

Scott Hubbard | Whatever your goals are for Bible reading next year, resolve, God helping you, to catch as much of Jesus as you can.
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Dec 28, 2021 • 12min

More of Jesus: ‘Maximalist Christianity’ for a New Year

David Mathis | Christ can handle our down seasons, but he doesn’t call us to settle for scraping by year after year. He invites us to more.
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Dec 27, 2021 • 11min

Confessions of a Former People-Pleaser

Marshall Segal | Whoever we are, we live to please either people or God. And if we think it’s possible to serve both, we likely live to please the former, not the latter.
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Dec 26, 2021 • 10min

The Good War Against Moods: How Stubborn Faith Overcomes Feelings

Joe Rigney | Saving faith is a stubborn thing. It holds onto Christ even when our emotions and moods bid us to let go.
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Dec 25, 2021 • 13min

The Most Stubborn Day of the Year: Why the World Stops for Christmas

David Mathis | Two thousand years later, no single day marks as many calendars, determines as many schedules, pauses as many businesses, and draws together friends and families like Christmas.
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Dec 24, 2021 • 12min

He Is, He Was, He Will Be: Adoring the Alpha and Omega

Jon Bloom | Who is this baby born in Bethlehem? He is Alpha and Omega. He is the beginning and the end. He is the great I Am.

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