

Articles by Desiring God
Desiring God
Articles from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
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Mentioned books

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


