Articles by Desiring God

John Piper | Luther didn’t stand alone 500 years ago. Nor does he stand alone today. We’ve created a 31-day journey to introduce you to the many heroes of the Reformation. Join us at desiringgod.org/stand.

Jon Bloom | Our lives are both shorter and harder than we expect. But for the believer, God designs these sorrows to teach us wisdom and hope.

Scott Hubbard | Christians are sojourners and exiles in this world — strangers. And to live up to that name, we need a community to help us stay faithfully strange.

Greg Morse | Even in the deadliest circumstances, David was a man on the hunt for beauty. In the end, he would discover that he did not hunt beauty as much as Beauty hunted him.

Marshall Segal | When you plan, do you acknowledge what you don’t know, admit what you can’t control, and ask God for help? If not, your plans may be well-laid but wicked.

David Mathis | Your soul is being conditioned every day for what you will delight in five years from now. Are you training yourself for delight in Jesus, or for indifference to him?

Jon Bloom | When we learn to number our days, we see just how brief life is — briefer than we tend to assume, and far too brief to waste.

Greg Morse | Christian, you are not a citizen of this world. You hope for a better home and greater reward. Does this hope help you flee from sin now?

Scott Hubbard | Godly introspection is a road, not a room, that ever takes us to the same glorious place: Jesus. And some of the best sights of Christ come at the end of that road.

David Mathis | Have the world’s patterns and “cultural moments” dulled the global scope and Great-Commission interests of your faith?