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Articles from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.

Episode Date
Better Than Our Bitter Thoughts: The God of Surprising Goodness
Apr 27, 2024
Be Ready to Speak of Jesus: Evangelism as Spiritual Warfare
Apr 20, 2024
The Unimpressive Path to Immortality
Apr 13, 2024
Life Beneath a Sovereign Lord: How His Power Unleashes Us
Apr 08, 2024
Wrap Your Soul in Truth: Under-Armor for Spiritual War
Apr 06, 2024
To War, to Christ, to Glory
Apr 03, 2024
Risen to Love His Own: The Surprising Mercies of Easter
Mar 31, 2024
Life Is for Living
Mar 30, 2024
Good Friday for Bad People
Mar 29, 2024
Bring Your Grief to Gethsemane: The Healing Wounds of Maundy Thursday
Mar 28, 2024
What (Not) to Preach: How to Build and Cut a Sermon
Mar 23, 2024
Restore My Soul: In Pursuit of Personal Revival
Mar 20, 2024
Sin Won’t Comfort You: How Satan Tempts the Hurting
Mar 16, 2024
Revival in the Making: God’s Central Means for Spiritual Renewal
Mar 13, 2024
The Joy of Genuine Revival: Four Signs of the Holy Spirit
Mar 09, 2024
Start Small, Step Up, and Fail Well: How to Pursue Pastoral Ministry
Mar 06, 2024
Why We Long for Revival
Mar 02, 2024
Uprooting Sensibility: The Plain Speech of Godly Men
Feb 24, 2024
Are You Sailing or Sinking? A Tool for Diagnosing Spiritual Health
Feb 21, 2024
Even Believers Need to Be Warned: How Hell Motivates Holiness
Feb 18, 2024
The Gospel of God’s Happiness
Feb 16, 2024
Hell Can Heal Any Bitterness: Finding Peace in God’s Vengeance
Feb 10, 2024
Hell Is for Real
Feb 07, 2024
Hand Back the Fruit: Trusting God with the Mysteries of Evil
Feb 05, 2024
Hell Should Unsettle Christians: Embracing the Most Emotionally Difficult Doctrine
Feb 03, 2024
When This Season Ends: How to Let Good Things Go
Feb 02, 2024
Prayers of the Apocalypse
Jan 31, 2024
Respectable Drunkenness: Subtle Ways to Numb a Soul
Jan 28, 2024
Start the Day Happy in God: The Lost Art of Bible Meditation
Jan 27, 2024
What Makes a Woman Beautiful? A Guide for Young Men
Jan 24, 2024
The Joy of Being Left Behind: Releasing Children to Follow Jesus
Jan 20, 2024
The Three Most Important Words in Prayer
Jan 17, 2024
Put God’s Word to Work: Four Ways Pastors Use the Bible
Jan 16, 2024
Why Not Me? The Quiet and Consuming Eye of Envy
Jan 13, 2024
Heart-Deep Prayers: Why We Prioritize Spiritual Needs
Jan 07, 2024
Prayer: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic
Jan 06, 2024
His Voice First: A New Year’s Resolve and Prayer
Jan 01, 2024
Plan Like a Christian: Five Principles for a New Year
Dec 31, 2023
Heart of My Own Heart: Why I Love ‘Be Thou My Vision’
Dec 30, 2023
Reality Written in Cursive: The Power of Christian Wordcraft
Dec 27, 2023
God Unveils His Majesty: The Quiet Surprise of Christmas Day
Dec 25, 2023
Christmas Like a Christian: Five Glories the World Belittles
Dec 24, 2023
Your Best Days Are Ahead: Confronting the Lies of Nostalgia
Dec 23, 2023
Ghosts of Christmas: What the Damned Might Say
Dec 16, 2023
Trials Are Gardens for Lies: How Thankfulness Guards Us Against Satan
Dec 13, 2023
Tangible Acts of Christmas: A Missing Ingredient in Evangelism
Dec 10, 2023
When Your Heart Goes Dark: How to Seize Hope in Suffering
Dec 09, 2023
The Curious History of Christmas
Dec 06, 2023
Take a Chance This Advent: The Season of Waiting Begins
Dec 02, 2023
He Did Not Revile in Return: Following Jesus in an Age of Anger
Nov 26, 2023
Find Your Fathers in Christ: Advice for Younger Men
Nov 24, 2023
Give Thanks Against Temptation: The Spiritual Power of Gratitude
Nov 23, 2023
Bring Order to the Chaos: The Calming Force of Good Pastors
Nov 19, 2023
Order and Beauty: A Little Theology of Christian Writing
Nov 18, 2023
Romance Can Ruin You: How a Relationship Becomes a God
Nov 15, 2023
Apologetic of the Heart: Why Costly Love Captures Us
Nov 12, 2023
Single Men with Many Sons: How to Be a Spiritual Father
Nov 11, 2023
Children Caught in the Crossfire: The Tragedy of Same-Sex ‘Adoption’
Nov 08, 2023
We Have Sinned and Grown Old: Seeing Through Six-Year-Old Eyes
Nov 05, 2023
Jesus Is Better Than Working for Jesus
Nov 04, 2023
The Spiritual Discipline of Sky: How the Heavens Shape a Heart
Nov 01, 2023
Real Protestants Keep Reforming
Oct 31, 2023
‘The Shadow Proves the Sunshine’ How to See God in Spiritual Darkness
Oct 28, 2023
The Ache of ‘If Only’
Oct 25, 2023
The Dangers of Alone: Five Questions for Single Men
Oct 21, 2023
Counseling for Normal Christians
Oct 18, 2023
Preach to Comfort and Disturb: A Plea to Pastors
Oct 15, 2023
A Brief Life Still Burning: The Unlikely Impact of Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Oct 14, 2023
How to Love a Sister in Christ: A Guide for Single Men
Oct 11, 2023
The Successful and Worthless Husband: Five Marks of Foolish Men
Oct 08, 2023
Act Like Men
Oct 07, 2023
The Use and Abuse of Scripture: How Christian Preachers Wield the Word
Oct 04, 2023
Stepping Through Darkness: Obedience on the Hardest Days
Sep 30, 2023
Until You Get to Pastor: Seven Ambitions for Aspiring Men
Sep 27, 2023
His Majesty Lifts the Lowly: The Attractive Force of God’s Mercy
Sep 23, 2023
Wander Away to Her
Sep 20, 2023
A Faithful Man Who Can Find?
Sep 19, 2023
Where’s the Lion Now? Making Hard Decisions with Aslan
Sep 17, 2023
Attack at Dawn: The Spiritual War Against Ordinary Devotions
Sep 16, 2023
Get Behind Me, Sluggard: Four Lessons Against Laziness
Sep 13, 2023
The Severe Kindness of Jesus: Hearing Mercy in His Hard Words
Sep 10, 2023
How to Read a Book by God: Eight Questions for Better Understanding
Sep 09, 2023
‘Oh Slay the Wicked’: How Christians Sing Curses
Sep 06, 2023
Habits of Grit: Athletics, Grace, and the Christian Work Ethic
Sep 03, 2023
‘Just Not Feeling It’: How Routine Awakens Devotion
Sep 02, 2023
Rediscovering the Joy of Writing: Six Lessons for a Lifelong Habit
Aug 30, 2023
Wrestling with What Won’t Be: The Meaning of Midlife Melancholy
Aug 28, 2023
Greet with a Holy Kiss? Applying an Uncomfortable Command
Aug 26, 2023
The Wilderness of the Little Years: How Satan Tempts Tired Parents
Aug 23, 2023
The God We Can Kiss
Aug 20, 2023
Loud and Quiet Women: The Portrait God Finds Beautiful
Aug 16, 2023
How to Build (or Break) a Habit
Aug 15, 2023
Uncomfortably Limited: The Frustrating Beauty of Finitude
Aug 12, 2023
Almost Saved: Four Reasons to Examine Yourself
Aug 09, 2023
The Godliness of a Good Night’s Sleep
Aug 06, 2023
When Sharp Disagreements Separate: Lessons for Churches in Conflict
Aug 05, 2023
Fasting, Feasting, and Our Daily Bread: Following the Diet of Jesus
Aug 02, 2023
The Rare Courage of Real Friends: Why Love Will Sometimes Wound
Jul 31, 2023
The Pro-Child Life: Three Ways We Love the Littlest
Jul 29, 2023
Uncomfortably Affectionate: Toward a Theology of the Kiss
Jul 26, 2023
For Fathers of Young Children: Lessons from the Last Graduation
Jul 24, 2023
Live for Days You Will Not See: The Beauty of Christian Legacy
Jul 20, 2023
O Me of Little Faith
Jul 19, 2023
How to Love an Immortal
Jul 15, 2023
Did Jesus Pursue His Own Glory? The God-Centeredness of the God-Man
Jul 11, 2023
That Kind of Happy: The Wide Eyes of a Psalm 1 Man
Jul 09, 2023
Imagine Lust: A Lost Weapon in the Fight for Purity
Jul 08, 2023
Stabbed by Joy: The Longings That Led Me to Christ
Jul 05, 2023
Gentleness Made Him Great: Learning from the Strongest of Men
Jul 01, 2023
Your Life of Unlikely Courage
Jun 28, 2023
A Problem in Prayer: Learning to Ask as We Ought
Jun 27, 2023
No One Who Abides in Him Keeps on Sinning
Jun 24, 2023
What Does God Sound Like? Hearing the Voice of Majesty
Jun 21, 2023
Goats in Sheep’s Clothing: Why We Warn the Lukewarm
Jun 17, 2023
‘My Kingdom Is Not of This World’: The Lordship of Christ and the Limits of Government
Jun 15, 2023
Entrusted with Agony: How to Love a Suffering Soul
Jun 14, 2023
When God Sets Sunsets Free: Imagining the World to Come
Jun 10, 2023
Good Leaders Fail Well: How Mistakes Become a Staircase
Jun 07, 2023
Confrontational Christlikeness
Jun 06, 2023
When Was I Born Again? How ‘Regeneration’ Blossoms in Reformed Theology
Jun 04, 2023
Reversing Romans 1: A Glimpse of the Godward Life
Jun 03, 2023
Mercy Swallows Any Sorrow: Struggling Beside a Sea of Blessing
May 31, 2023
Assurance for the Unassured: Finding Hope in the Names of God
May 28, 2023
Train Them Up in Jesus: The One-Verse Vision for Dads
May 25, 2023
Find Your Way to Help the Hurting
May 23, 2023
Grumbling Obedience: Resisting a Common Temptation
May 21, 2023
Roast What You Kill: Becoming a Man Who Follows Through
May 18, 2023
Slow to Chide, Swift to Bless: Vision for Earthly Fathers
May 15, 2023
Wise Women Build Homes: Motherhood’s Lasting Influence
May 14, 2023
Not All Obedience Is Christian
May 12, 2023
Flee the Gospel of Me
May 11, 2023
We Travel to a World Unseen
May 08, 2023
Love the Place You Want to Leave
May 05, 2023
The Forgotten Habit: Fellowship as a Means of God’s Grace
Apr 30, 2023
Sleep Beneath His Promises: Learning Rest from the Psalms
Apr 28, 2023
Appointed and Disappointed: Four Lessons for Passing Leadership
Apr 27, 2023
God So Loved Himself: Overlooked Help from a Well-Known Friend
Apr 24, 2023
The Ministry of the Pew: Sunday Morning for Normal Christians
Apr 23, 2023
Why Do Christians Struggle to Love?
Apr 21, 2023
Join That Church: Why God Made You for Membership
Apr 20, 2023
Raw Passion and Messy Missiology: A Tribute to George Verwer (1938–2023)
Apr 19, 2023
The Art of One-Anothering: How the Church Loves Like Christ
Apr 16, 2023
Beware of the Birds: How Satan Sabotages Sermons
Apr 14, 2023
The Syntax of Sacrifice: Introduction to Leviticus
Apr 10, 2023
The Easter Yet to Come
Apr 09, 2023
Tree of Shame: The Horror and Honor of Good Friday
Apr 07, 2023
The Most High on His Knees: Learning Humility from the Last Supper
Apr 06, 2023
Redeeming Discipline: How Grace Reforms Our Effort
Apr 02, 2023
Does Alcohol Still Sober You? Five Warnings About Abuse
Mar 30, 2023
The Father’s Way: When Good Parents Say Yes and No
Mar 27, 2023
He Comes Quickly: Are You Still Waiting?
Mar 26, 2023
Still on the Throne: The Glories of a Seated Christ
Mar 23, 2023
What God Can Make from a Shattered Life
Mar 20, 2023
What Will Make You Resilient? Learning from a Living Miracle
Mar 19, 2023
Should We Get Married? How to Find Clarity in Dating
Mar 16, 2023
My Son, Give Me Your Heart: The First Desire of Fruitful Parenting
Mar 13, 2023
The Shadow We Cannot Shake: What to Do When Darkness Remains
Mar 12, 2023
God of Ages Past: The Awakening We Need Today
Mar 10, 2023
Thirty Days of Easter: Invitation to Enjoy the Risen Christ
Mar 09, 2023
Losing Christ in Christianity
Mar 06, 2023
Do You Want to Die Well?
Mar 05, 2023
A Holy Conspiracy of Joy: The Heart of Healthy Pastors and Churches
Mar 03, 2023
Sit at the Feet of Loss: What Endings Teach the Living
Mar 02, 2023
Man Enough to Weep
Feb 26, 2023
Four Marks of Faithful Teaching
Feb 23, 2023
Live Against the Drift: Refocusing the Distracted Soul
Feb 20, 2023
The Stable Presence: Five Traits of Resilient Fathers
Feb 19, 2023
Move the Body, Renew the Mind: A Christian Use for Exercise
Feb 17, 2023
Friends Who Fell Away: When Apostasy Comes Close to Home
Feb 15, 2023
Suffering Proves We Are Real
Feb 12, 2023
The Living God: What Makes Him Different and Satisfying
Feb 10, 2023
Faith in the Wilderness of Waiting
Feb 09, 2023
Beneath the Mountain of Smoke: Recovering the Awe of Worship
Feb 06, 2023
Christ Did Not Please Himself: The Joy of Bearing with Others’ Failings
Feb 05, 2023
Every Marriage Needs a Mission: Three Steps for Husbands
Feb 03, 2023
Does Technology Help or Hurt Dating?
Jan 26, 2023
Be Still, My Soul: A Hymn for the Hardest Losses
Jan 23, 2023
The Light and Momentary Success of the Wicked
Jan 22, 2023
How Not to Pray: Learning from Pharisees and Pagans
Jan 20, 2023
The Spiritual Power of Staying Put: Why Christians Are Slow to Leave
Jan 19, 2023
Lovers of Good: Eyes of Hope in a World Gone Bad
Jan 17, 2023
Forgive Me and Help Me Forgive: The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Sin
Jan 15, 2023
Begin Where You Are: How to Renew Your Prayer Life
Jan 12, 2023
Do the Will You Know: The First Step for Further Guidance
Jan 10, 2023
The Curse Under Our Breath: What Grumbling Sounds Like to God
Jan 08, 2023
You Can Understand the Bible
Jan 05, 2023
Pray This First
Jan 04, 2023
Sin Is Never Inevitable: How to Escape Overwhelming Temptation
Jan 02, 2023
We Call Him ‘Father’: The Privilege of Christian Prayer
Jan 01, 2023
The Pleasure of God in Ordinary Work
Dec 31, 2022
Don’t Check the Boxes: My Breakthrough in Morning Devotions
Dec 27, 2022
Born Between God and Man: Welcoming Our Long-Awaited Priest
Dec 25, 2022
We Long to Be Ruled: The Messianic Hopes in Every Heart
Dec 22, 2022
The Starving Eyes of Man: Why We Ache to See Glory
Dec 20, 2022
Mercies at Midnight: Seeking God Through Sleeplessness
Dec 19, 2022
Wisdom Above Came Below: How Christmas Speaks to Our Confusion
Dec 15, 2022
A Time to Say Goodbye: A Father’s Gratitude as Children Leave Home
Dec 11, 2022
The Secret Failure of Many Leaders
Dec 08, 2022
A Rest for Any Restlessness
Dec 07, 2022
Awesome and Fearsome: God’s Majesty in the Eyes of His Friends and Foes
Dec 05, 2022
You Can Be Forgiven: What Christmas Says to Our Sins
Dec 04, 2022
The Joy of Christian Duty
Dec 02, 2022
Disorient, Distort, Deceive: Satan’s Core Strategy Against Us
Dec 01, 2022
Two Kinds of Pastors
Nov 28, 2022
Honor an Old Face: The Lost Art of Respecting Our Elders
Nov 27, 2022
How to Keep Praying: Four Lessons from the Master
Nov 25, 2022
The Sweetness of a Godward Meal: Dad’s Wisdom for Thanksgiving Day
Nov 24, 2022
Can Christians Date Nonbelievers?
Nov 21, 2022
Lead Me, O Lord: Ten Prayers for Christian Leaders
Nov 20, 2022
Screen Sabbaths: A Modest Proposal for a Digital World
Nov 17, 2022
The Current State of Complementarity: Five Years After Nashville
Nov 16, 2022
How to Fail a Wife: Learning Marriage from a Bad Husband
Nov 15, 2022
How to Care for a Pastor: Five Ways to Uplift Your Shepherds
Nov 14, 2022
To Groan Is Human — And Christian: Learning from the Emotions of Jesus
Nov 13, 2022
How a Head Loves a Body: Watching Husbands and Wives Dance Well
Nov 12, 2022
Why Don’t We Have Good Friends?
Nov 07, 2022
Am I Ready for Ministry? Three Tests for a Man’s Aspiration
Nov 06, 2022
The Pastors We Didn’t Expect: Four Contours of Christian Leadership
Nov 03, 2022
The Five Not-Points of Calvinism
Oct 31, 2022
The Indispensable Lives of Ordinary Christians
Oct 30, 2022
Messy, Late, and Happy: How to Survive Sundays with Small Kids
Oct 27, 2022
How Can God Forget My Sins? What We Remember at the Table
Oct 25, 2022
Living Among Majesties: The Grandeur of the People of God
Oct 23, 2022
King Over Kin: The Warm Danger of Earthly Loves
Oct 20, 2022
The Inner Man of Pastors: Six Glimpses into God’s Design
Oct 16, 2022
You Will Be Breathtaking: Why God Clothes Us in Glory
Oct 13, 2022
Shades of Grace: Catholics and Protestants in Conversation
Oct 11, 2022
To the Uttermost: How Jesus Keeps Us Day by Day
Oct 09, 2022
Not by Head Alone: The Warm Heart of Justification
Oct 06, 2022
The Beautiful Roots of Courageous Submission
Oct 03, 2022
Give Me More of God: Why Spiritual Intimacy Can Feel Elusive
Oct 02, 2022
What Is the Lord’s Supper?
Sep 29, 2022
The Hands That Made the Meal: What the Supper Says About Ordinary Work
Sep 26, 2022
Doubt: A Personal History
Sep 25, 2022
My Flesh Is True Food: The Meaning of an Offensive Image
Sep 19, 2022
Humbled, Whole, and Honorable: What to Look for in a Pastor
Sep 18, 2022
How to Squander Your Spiritual Gifts
Sep 15, 2022
Better to Have a Burden
Sep 12, 2022
What Spoils the Lord’s Supper? How Not to Come to the Table
Sep 11, 2022
We Work with You: How Pastors Serve Their People’s Joy
Sep 09, 2022
Escape from Every Temptation
Sep 08, 2022
The Dark Side of Equality
Sep 05, 2022
The Messy Home of Blessing: Why Children Are Worth the Chaos
Sep 04, 2022
Why Bread and Wine? Enjoying the Meal Above All Meals
Sep 01, 2022
Be Comforted in Your Smallness
Aug 31, 2022
Breakfast of Pastors: How God Feeds and Keeps Spiritual Leaders
Aug 28, 2022
A Little Theology of Dinosaurs
Aug 25, 2022
O Beard, Where Art Thou?
Aug 22, 2022
The Spiritual Gift of a Closed Door: How Waiting Serves Ministry
Aug 21, 2022
Other Billy Graham ‘Rules’? The Modesto Proposal
Aug 19, 2022
What Does Disunity Say? Three Common Types of Division
Aug 17, 2022
Our Gentle and Terrifying God: How Justice Holds Out Mercy
Aug 15, 2022
Martyr or Madman? The Unnerving Faith of Ignatius
Aug 14, 2022
The Lost Awe of Majesty: Why I Love an Overlooked Attribute
Aug 11, 2022
Slow to Anger: The Beauty of God’s Perfect Patience
Aug 08, 2022
Put Your Anger to Bed: Five Lessons for Young Couples
Aug 07, 2022
Are You Not Provoked? The Jealousy of Godly Men
Aug 04, 2022
Everything in God Is God: How to Think About His Attributes
Aug 01, 2022
A Rest Sweeter Than Sleep: Nighttime Prayer for a Troubled Conscience
Jul 31, 2022
Calm Under Pressure: Recovering the Grace of Equanimity
Jul 30, 2022
You Still Need Good Friends
Jul 29, 2022
Do Infant Baptisms Count? Reconsidering Open Membership
Jul 27, 2022
Where Do We Find Unity Now? The Surprising Path to Real Peace
Jul 24, 2022
The Progressive Pilgrim: Allegory for an Easy Age
Jul 22, 2022
We Need More Holy Fools: How God Awakened Me to Eternity
Jul 21, 2022
Some Conflict Is Healthy: How Division Can Serve Churches
Jul 18, 2022
Tenacious Grace: How We Become and Stay One
Jul 17, 2022
Chapter-and-Verse Protestants: The Reformation Legacy of Little Berea
Jul 15, 2022
The Prudence Bucket: Applying the Bible to Gray Areas
Jul 14, 2022
If Your Brother Sins Against You: How to Forgive and Let Go
Jul 13, 2022
Triage in the Trenches: When Do Second-Tier Issues Divide?
Jul 10, 2022
Of Mountains and Molehills: How Much Should Doctrine Divide Us?
Jul 08, 2022
Why Is Christian Unity So Hard?
Jul 06, 2022
Jellyfish Christians: The Costs of Thin Christianity
Jul 05, 2022
American Prodigal: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Alexander Hamilton
Jul 04, 2022
The Quiet and Crucial Work of Deacons
Jul 03, 2022
‘In Faithfulness You Have Afflicted Me’
Jun 29, 2022
A Wife No Man Would Want: Lessons from the Hardest Marriage
Jun 27, 2022
Harry Potter Turns 25: What I Saw While Reading to My Sons
Jun 26, 2022
Casual Church: What Happened to Christian Reverence?
Jun 23, 2022
Immersed into Mission: Why Jesus Commands Us to Baptize
Jun 21, 2022
God Makes War with Words: Why Teaching Will Win the World
Jun 17, 2022
Some Answered Prayers Hurt: The Hidden and Faithful Love of God
Jun 16, 2022
Do Not Fear to Leave This World
Jun 15, 2022
Find a Storm to Stir You
Jun 12, 2022
Do unto Authors: Four Principles for Reading Well
Jun 10, 2022
Your Darkness Is Not Dark to Him
Jun 08, 2022
Because They Are No More
Jun 06, 2022
Jesus Shall Reign: The Remarkable Story of the First Missionary Hymn
Jun 05, 2022
Your Home Is a Hallway Out of Hell
Jun 03, 2022
How Did Jesus ‘Make Disciples’?
Jun 02, 2022
How to Watch for Wolves: Three Signs of False Teachers
May 31, 2022
Seeing Is Not Believing: Why We Miss God in Daily Life
May 29, 2022
Do Not Despise the Day of Small Groups: Four Marks of Daring Community
May 28, 2022
The Psalms Know What You Feel
May 23, 2022
The Happiest Family of All: How Father and Son Glorify Each Other
May 22, 2022
Submit Your Felt Reality to God
May 19, 2022
Face Your Fear of Man: How Christ Delivers from Human Approval
May 16, 2022
The Beast I Become: How to Bring Bitterness to God
May 15, 2022
The Pillar in the Pews: How the Church Upholds the Truth
May 13, 2022
Midlife Clarity: Five Proverbs for Men in Crisis
May 11, 2022
A Most Harmful Medicine: How Subjectivism Poisons a Society
May 09, 2022
When My Mother Became Annie’s Mom: A Tribute to a Woman’s Great Love
May 08, 2022
Stuck Between the World and God: How I Almost Died in Indecision
May 06, 2022
The Word of God Is Worth the Work
May 05, 2022
We Stand for Truth Himself
May 02, 2022
You Have Put More Joy in My Heart
May 01, 2022
How to Entertain the Holy Spirit
Apr 27, 2022
Me, Myself, and Lies: The Spiritual Dangers of Isolation
Apr 26, 2022
Invisible and Unmistakable: How Scripture Pictures the Holy Spirit
Apr 21, 2022
All-Sufficient, All-Satisfying: What Saving Faith Sees in Christ
Apr 20, 2022
The Love in His Grief: How the Spirit Responds to Our Sin
Apr 18, 2022
The Son Must Rise: What Made Easter Inevitable
Apr 17, 2022
Behold the Man Upon the Cross
Apr 15, 2022
When the Dawn Seems to Die: How Jesus Keeps Us from Falling Away
Apr 14, 2022
I Have No Good Apart from You: Prayer of the Satisfied Heart
Apr 11, 2022
The Best Sermon for Marriage: Seven Lessons for Lasting Love
Apr 10, 2022
What God Can Do in One Conversation: Recovering the Power of Personal Evangelism
Apr 09, 2022
Did Jesus Need the Spirit? Pondering the Power of the God-Man
Apr 08, 2022
Our God-Sized Ordinary: Six Ways to See the Holy Spirit
Apr 04, 2022
Roses Grow on Briers: Unsentimental Love in a Sentimental World
Apr 03, 2022
Sympathy Without Distress: The Exalted Compassion of Christ
Apr 02, 2022
The Joy of God in Us: Why the Spirit Produces Happiness
Apr 01, 2022
How to Pray Like Jabez
Mar 30, 2022
The Prayer to End All Prayers
Mar 27, 2022
Some Kindness Stings: Why Love Uses Hard Words
Mar 25, 2022
The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life: Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth
Mar 24, 2022
Kneeling Among Lions: Learning to Pray Like Daniel
Mar 20, 2022
Live Closer to Home: How Proximity Shapes Responsibility
Mar 18, 2022
After Two Whole Years: Have We Humbled Ourselves Yet?
Mar 15, 2022
The Strange Sounds of Praise: A Sufferer’s Introduction to the Psalms
Mar 14, 2022
Lord, Let Me Die: Mercy for Those Tired of Living
Mar 13, 2022
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Questioning How We Frame Reality
Mar 12, 2022
Did We Kiss Purity Goodbye?
Mar 11, 2022
The Power of a Praying Mother
Mar 09, 2022
As for Me and My House: The Delightful Duty of Family Religion
Mar 07, 2022
Talking Back to God: How His Promises Provoke Our Prayers
Mar 06, 2022
The Safest Man for Women: A Guide Toward Sexual Purity
Mar 04, 2022
Will I Trust God? Simple Prayer in a Desperate Moment
Mar 03, 2022
Pastors Are Only Matchmakers: The Humble Heart of Faithful Ministry
Mar 02, 2022
The Blissful and Trivial Life: How Entertainment Deprives a Soul
Feb 27, 2022
What Does a Faith Crisis Feel Like?
Feb 25, 2022
The Contagion of Cowardice
Feb 22, 2022
Am I Real? A Basic Guide to Christian Assurance
Feb 20, 2022
The Sin-Defying Power of Words
Feb 18, 2022
Walk the War Before You: What It Means to Live by the Spirit
Feb 17, 2022
What Does ‘Deconstruction’ Even Mean?
Feb 15, 2022
Sons of Lionhearted Saints: Recovering Our Lost Lineage
Feb 13, 2022
Leave Your Imperfections with God: How Remaining Sin Inspires Holiness
Feb 10, 2022
We Wish to See Jesus
Feb 09, 2022
Lord, Deliver Me from Me: A Daily Prayer Against Unbelief
Feb 07, 2022
The Light We Need to See: How Christ Dispels Spiritual Darkness
Feb 06, 2022
Let Tragedy Find Us Living
Feb 04, 2022
Patience Will Be Painful: How to Love the Hard-to-Love
Feb 02, 2022
Can I Be Holy Without Happiness?
Feb 01, 2022
In Love with the Life You Don’t Have
Jan 30, 2022
Holy Distractions: When God Interrupts Our Productivity
Jan 27, 2022
‘Your Will Be Done’: The Glory of Christ’s Human Choices
Jan 23, 2022
Life at the End of Roe: Recovering the Sanity and Wonder of Wanted Pregnancy
Jan 22, 2022
The Deepest Part of You: How Feelings Relate to Choices
Jan 20, 2022
The Other Side of the Race Debate: Four Ways to Disagree Christianly
Jan 17, 2022
Parable of an Unhealthy Soul: Why ‘Faith’ Dies Without Action
Jan 16, 2022
Why I Read Aloud to My Children
Jan 14, 2022
The Difficult Habit of Quiet
Jan 13, 2022
Desperate for Distraction: Why We’re Bad at Being Alone
Jan 09, 2022
Trials Prove True Joy: What Jesus Says About Happiness
Jan 08, 2022
Who Really Has Your Ear? The Re-Forming Power of Words
Jan 06, 2022
A Father’s Good Pleasure
Jan 05, 2022
Endangered Attention: How to Guard a Precious Gift
Jan 04, 2022
Repentance for a New Year
Jan 02, 2022
A New Year Worthy of God
Jan 01, 2022
The Most Wonderful Books on Earth: Gospel Reading for a New Year
Dec 30, 2021
More of Jesus: ‘Maximalist Christianity’ for a New Year
Dec 28, 2021
Confessions of a Former People-Pleaser
Dec 27, 2021
The Good War Against Moods: How Stubborn Faith Overcomes Feelings
Dec 26, 2021
The Most Stubborn Day of the Year: Why the World Stops for Christmas
Dec 25, 2021
He Is, He Was, He Will Be: Adoring the Alpha and Omega
Dec 24, 2021
Christmas with an Empty Chair: When the Holiday Just Isn’t the Same
Dec 23, 2021
The Wedding at the End of Marriage
Dec 19, 2021
Our Tongues (and Fingers) of Fire: What Words Reveal About Us
Dec 16, 2021
Worthless Conversation: How God Weighs Our Words
Dec 13, 2021
A Son Worthy to Be King
Dec 12, 2021
The Perils of a Passive Man
Dec 09, 2021
Who Wrote Hebrews? Exploring a New Testament Mystery
Dec 06, 2021
More Shocking Than Christ: Why We Call Jesus Lord
Dec 05, 2021
Someone Is Listening to Your Suffering
Dec 03, 2021
Labor to Give (or Take) No Offense
Dec 02, 2021
Indescribable: The Many and Marvelous Names of Jesus
Nov 28, 2021
We Were Made for Thanksgiving: A Father’s Gratitude for a National Holiday
Nov 25, 2021
Men of Faith Are Men Who Fight
Nov 24, 2021
Give Thanks and Give More: A Guide to Joyful Generosity
Nov 23, 2021
There Is a Name: Our Exclusive and Precious Christ
Nov 21, 2021
When Darkness Veils His Lovely Face
Nov 20, 2021
Victory That Lasts: Where to Begin Against Lust
Nov 18, 2021
Do You Insult Your Savior’s Bride? What Jesus Thinks of His Church
Nov 16, 2021
The Hardest Word to Obey
Nov 14, 2021
Impatience Is a War for Control: How God Prepares Us to Wait
Nov 12, 2021
Take the Hill: How Mission Brings Men Together
Nov 11, 2021
Kindness in a World Gone Mad
Nov 10, 2021
Food Rules: How God Reshapes Our Appetites
Nov 08, 2021
Courage for Normal Christians
Nov 07, 2021
What Love Is Not: Four Ways We Avoid the Costs
Nov 05, 2021
Laziness Ruins Happiness: What Makes Diligence a Virtue
Nov 04, 2021
Two Truths About the One Percent: How Important Is Corporate Worship?
Nov 03, 2021
Sin Is Not Who You Are
Nov 02, 2021
The Reformation of English: How Tyndale’s Bible Transformed Our Language
Oct 31, 2021
A Strange and Holy Calm: Holding Our Peace in an Age of Outbursts
Oct 28, 2021
For God So Warned the World: How He Keeps the Ones He Loves
Oct 26, 2021
Disrupt Your Dullness: Rekindling the Flame of Earnestness
Oct 24, 2021
Live Like You’ll Live Forever
Oct 23, 2021
Bible Memory Brings Reality to Life
Oct 22, 2021
You Are and Will Be Justified: The Future Promise of a Finished Work
Oct 21, 2021
A Reason to Be Vaccinated: Freedom
Oct 19, 2021
Beware the Anger of Your Soul: How to Restrain Ungodly Passion
Oct 17, 2021
Can Anything Mend Our Conflict? How Cynicism Dies in a Divided Church
Oct 16, 2021
Every Other Way Leads to Death: Why We Keep Sharing Christ
Oct 14, 2021
Don’t Miss the Marriage: Why the Justified Love Holiness
Oct 13, 2021
Feed His Sheep: Whom Does Christ Call to Preach?
Oct 10, 2021
Encouragement for Beginners: How to Strengthen a Soul in God
Oct 07, 2021
Our Lives in His: How Justification Leads to Holiness
Oct 05, 2021
The Sluggard in Me: Four Lies That Lead to Lazy
Oct 04, 2021
Feed the Sheep by Any Hand: Fighting Envy in Pastoral Ministry
Oct 03, 2021
The Real Protestant Ethic: How ‘Faith Alone’ Sparks Industry
Oct 01, 2021