

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

Sep 25, 2024 • 4min
Celebrate the Reformation with Us
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.

Sep 24, 2024 • 10min
Growing Wise as We Grow Old: How Hardship Teaches Us to Hope
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.

Sep 22, 2024 • 12min
Stay Strange: The Church as a Home for Exiles
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.

Sep 15, 2024 • 14min
The Prayer of a Hunted Man
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.

Sep 11, 2024 • 13min
How to Plan Wickedly Well
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.

Sep 10, 2024 • 12min
Will You Love Jesus in Five Years? Training Your Soul to Delight in Him
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?

Sep 8, 2024 • 8min
Life Is Too Brief to Waste: Learning to Number Our Days
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.

Sep 6, 2024 • 12min
Strangers to Sin: How Heaven Makes Us Holy
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?