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

Oct 25, 2024 • 17min
Escape from Doubting Castle: Counsel for Christians in Despair
Greg Morse | No matter how long you have lived in despair, nor how dark your heart has become, the dungeon that holds you has an escape.

Oct 22, 2024 • 14min
First Up: Get Your Soul Happy in God
David Mathis | When your eyes first open, what’s your first priority? Your burning need each day is to get your soul happy in God.

Oct 20, 2024 • 11min
Lost in God’s Providence: How He Works Our Wanderings for Good
Greg Morse | Our lives often take strange turns. How good to know, then, that God can turn all the unplanned oddities of your life for your good and his glory.

Oct 18, 2024 • 10min
We Groan for Home: Waiting and Hoping Like Children of God
Jon Bloom | Christians can only be so happy in this world. Even our best seasons are accompanied by groanings for a home beyond this world.

Oct 11, 2024 • 15min
Christ in Me? Three Wonders of Life in the Spirit
David Mathis | Christian, how often do you marvel that you have the Spirit of God in you? God with us has become God in us — empowering us, interceding for us, and testifying to us.

Oct 8, 2024 • 12min
Lost in the Maze of Me: How Introspection Goes Wrong
Scott Hubbard | Our Lord calls us to look within. Yet alongside healthy introspection are a dozen dangers — paths that will yield not more self-knowledge but rather more anxiety and fear.

Oct 6, 2024 • 16min
No Condemnation: A Dream Before God’s Judgment Seat
Greg Morse | One day, every soul from every corner of creation will stand trial before the Judge of all. When that day comes, and your records are read, what will your plea be?

Oct 1, 2024 • 9min
Glory May Cost You Everything: An Invitation to Romans 8
Marshall Segal | If you want to stabilize your soul, fortify your heart, and inflame your joy, then come walk the cliffs and peaks of the greatest of all chapters: Romans 8.

Sep 29, 2024 • 15min
Some Mock, Others Believe: Pondering Strangeness in Our Preaching
David Mathis | “You bring some strange things to our ears.” Some in Athens said it to the apostle Paul. Some in America will say it to faithful preachers today.

Sep 27, 2024 • 15min
Christ Is King: A Warning to God’s Foes
Greg Morse | One sound shakes the spheres, makes mountains tremble, puts enemy armies to flight, and echoes throughout the hosts of heaven — the laughter of God at his enemies.