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Articles from the Teaching Team at Desiring God.
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1 day ago
The Psalms Know What You Feel
Marshall Segal | No matter what situation you’re in, the psalms know what you feel. And the psalms can help you feel as you ought.
8 min
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2 days ago
The Happiest Family of All: How Father and Son Glorify Each Other
David Mathis | An astounding and holy contest runs through the pages of Scripture, as the Father and Son seek to “outdo one another in showing honor.”
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5 days ago
Submit Your Felt Reality to God
Joe Rigney | Our own sense of reality is not the same as reality itself. And simply recognizing that distinction can be the first step toward aligning our thoughts and emotions with God’s word.
9 min
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May 16, 2022
Face Your Fear of Man: How Christ Delivers from Human Approval
Greg Morse | Jesus could love people like he did because he did not fear them like we do.
11 min
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May 15, 2022
The Beast I Become: How to Bring Bitterness to God
Scott Hubbard | Sometimes, God seems to be answering a longtime prayer or fulfilling a deep desire — until it all crumbles before our face. How do we receive such painful turns from the hand of God?
11 min
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May 13, 2022
The Pillar in the Pews: How the Church Upholds the Truth
Marshall Segal | What makes the church a pillar and buttress of the truth? She holds up and lives out what God has said — whatever God has said, however he has said it, whatever it means for us.
12 min
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May 11, 2022
Midlife Clarity: Five Proverbs for Men in Crisis
David Mathis | A midlife crisis, disorienting as it may be, is not only a trial to be endured, but an opportunity for Christian maturity. New cracks in our soul may allow our theology to sink deeper than ever before.
13 min
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May 9, 2022
A Most Harmful Medicine: How Subjectivism Poisons a Society
Joe Rigney | The surest way to give the world over to evil is to begin to deny such evil exists. And this is exactly what we have begun doing.
11 min
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May 8, 2022
When My Mother Became Annie’s Mom: A Tribute to a Woman’s Great Love
Jon Bloom | “A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” For Mother’s Day, Jon Bloom obeys this verse and honors his mother’s beautiful love for the least of these.
11 min
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May 6, 2022
Stuck Between the World and God: How I Almost Died in Indecision
Greg Morse | God is not honored by mere checked boxes. He’s honored by a life that says he can be trusted, obeyed, and treasured above all else.
10 min
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May 5, 2022
The Word of God Is Worth the Work
Scott Hubbard | If you want more joy, more warmth, more life from your devotions, don’t bypass the hard, necessary work of thinking.
10 min
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May 2, 2022
We Stand for Truth Himself
David Mathis | Christians stand for truth, but not in the way the world might. Truth, for us, is unavoidably and irreducibly personal.
12 min
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May 1, 2022
You Have Put More Joy in My Heart
Marshall Segal | The joy God gives is not a fragile joy, ready to vanish in painful circumstances. It is strong enough to sustain fragile people through them.
9 min
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Apr 27, 2022
How to Entertain the Holy Spirit
Scott Hubbard | How do we show hospitality to the Holy Spirit? We hear his voice, heed his motions, hate his enemies, and receive his grace.
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Apr 26, 2022
Me, Myself, and Lies: The Spiritual Dangers of Isolation
Marshall Segal | One of Satan’s favorite strategies is isolation, and smartphones and social media have made his work that much easier.
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Apr 21, 2022
Invisible and Unmistakable: How Scripture Pictures the Holy Spirit
Joe Rigney | If you want to understand the Holy Spirit better, you can begin by grasping the images of the Spirit given in Scripture: wind and breath, spirit and river, oil and bird.
9 min
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Apr 20, 2022
All-Sufficient, All-Satisfying: What Saving Faith Sees in Christ
John Piper | How does saving faith honor Christ? By seeing him as not only all-sufficient, but all-satisfying. Not only efficacious, but glorious. Not only trustworthy, but a treasure.
15 min
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Apr 18, 2022
The Love in His Grief: How the Spirit Responds to Our Sin
Greg Morse | The Spirit can be grieved with us. But if we are in Christ, the Spirit will never leave us.
10 min
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Apr 17, 2022
The Son Must Rise: What Made Easter Inevitable
David Mathis | Jesus did not merely rise from the dead — he had to rise from the dead. His resurrection was not optional. Do you know why?
11 min
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Apr 15, 2022
Behold the Man Upon the Cross
Jon Bloom | Why do Christians call this Friday, of all Fridays, good? Because we would have no good apart from the horrors of the cross.
11 min
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Apr 14, 2022
When the Dawn Seems to Die: How Jesus Keeps Us from Falling Away
Scott Hubbard | When hope flees, and faith feels weak, and the dawn seems to die, what will keep us from falling away? Jesus prays for us.
9 min
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Apr 11, 2022
I Have No Good Apart from You: Prayer of the Satisfied Heart
Joe Rigney | Many of us struggle to experience contentment because we look for it in the wrong places. The satisfied heart prays, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”
7 min
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Apr 10, 2022
The Best Sermon for Marriage: Seven Lessons for Lasting Love
Marshall Segal | The best marriages take their cues not only from the romance of the Song of Solomon, but from the daily, unspectacular faithfulness of the Sermon on the Mount.
19 min
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Apr 9, 2022
What God Can Do in One Conversation: Recovering the Power of Personal Evangelism
Greg Morse | In all the emphases on slow, patient, relational evangelism, have we forgotten just how much God can do in a single conversation?
12 min
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Apr 8, 2022
Did Jesus Need the Spirit? Pondering the Power of the God-Man
David Mathis | Jesus’s miracles certainly show that he is God — but the New Testament’s answer as to how he performed those miracles is not quite as simple.
14 min
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Apr 4, 2022
Our God-Sized Ordinary: Six Ways to See the Holy Spirit
Marshall Segal | If you belong to Christ, God has flooded every familiar and unremarkable corner of your life with his Spirit.
12 min
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Apr 3, 2022
Roses Grow on Briers: Unsentimental Love in a Sentimental World
David Mathis | When you think about the love of God, how much has your imagination been shaped by the sentimental age in which you live?
12 min
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Apr 2, 2022
Sympathy Without Distress: The Exalted Compassion of Christ
Greg Morse | The risen Jesus remembers us, loves us, intercedes for us — and not in a way that diminishes his heavenly joy. That is really good news.
14 min
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Apr 1, 2022
The Joy of God in Us: Why the Spirit Produces Happiness
Jon Bloom | Why is the Holy Spirit so often connected to joy in Scripture? Because he is the Joy at the center of reality.
12 min
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Mar 30, 2022
How to Pray Like Jabez
David Mathis | Twenty years ago, ‘The Prayer of Jabez’ became one of the bestselling Christian books of all time. What made it so popular, and how might we learn from Jabez today, without throwing away Scripture?
18 min
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Mar 27, 2022
The Prayer to End All Prayers
Marshall Segal | In the world to come, we will have nothing to fear, nothing to mourn, nothing to endure, nothing to confess. Can you imagine?
12 min
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Mar 25, 2022
Some Kindness Stings: Why Love Uses Hard Words
Jon Bloom | The most loving people do not delight in wounding others, but they are willing to, for the sake of real healing. They know that soft words can sometimes be cruel, and hard words kind.
12 min
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Mar 24, 2022
The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life: Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth
Greg Morse | Life is rarely wasted all at once, but rather through thousands of small, seemingly insignificant moments.
12 min
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Mar 20, 2022
Kneeling Among Lions: Learning to Pray Like Daniel
Joe Rigney | Before Daniel courageously survived the lions’ den, he courageously knelt before his God. What can we learn from his brave prayer?
12 min
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Mar 18, 2022
Live Closer to Home: How Proximity Shapes Responsibility
Scott Hubbard | The best place to live today is the place you already are. And the best people to give your attention to are those already near you.
12 min
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Mar 15, 2022
After Two Whole Years: Have We Humbled Ourselves Yet?
David Mathis | The question isn’t whether God’s humbling hand descended over these last two years, but have we acknowledged it, and humbled ourselves before him?
12 min
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Mar 14, 2022
The Strange Sounds of Praise: A Sufferer’s Introduction to the Psalms
Jon Bloom | Why do we love the psalms? In part because we know, deep down, that real worship sometimes means weeping.
11 min
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Mar 13, 2022
Lord, Let Me Die: Mercy for Those Tired of Living
Greg Morse | Some walk through the valley of the shadow of death and long to just lie down. How does God respond to those who pray for life to end?
15 min
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Mar 12, 2022
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Questioning How We Frame Reality
Joe Rigney | Are you ever perplexed that two people can experience the same event and come to very different conclusions about what happened?
10 min
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Mar 11, 2022
Did We Kiss Purity Goodbye?
Marshall Segal | The pursuit of sexual purity always goes awry when we try to enforce the laws of God without extending the heart of God.
16 min
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Mar 9, 2022
The Power of a Praying Mother
Scott Hubbard | Many of the greatest victories and advances God has worked in history have been answers to a mother’s persistent prayers.
10 min
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Mar 7, 2022
As for Me and My House: The Delightful Duty of Family Religion
Greg Morse | God doesn’t want worship to be a tiny corner of family life. He wants worship to touch every room, closet, and hallway.
9 min
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Mar 6, 2022
Talking Back to God: How His Promises Provoke Our Prayers
David Mathis | God means for prayer to be more dynamic and relational than an employee petitioning his boss for a raise, or a slave requesting some provision from his master.
14 min
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Mar 4, 2022
The Safest Man for Women: A Guide Toward Sexual Purity
Marshall Segal | How Christian men treat sex, whether married or not, sheds light on Christ for all to see, or obscures and slanders him.
15 min
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Mar 3, 2022
Will I Trust God? Simple Prayer in a Desperate Moment
Jon Bloom | The power of a man who believed, in the face of the humanly impossible, has had a ripple effect that will touch every soul in heaven. Will you, like him, trust God?
11 min
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Mar 2, 2022
Pastors Are Only Matchmakers: The Humble Heart of Faithful Ministry
Scott Hubbard | In their heart of hearts, all Christians ask their pastors, “Would you show me Jesus?” And in their heart of hearts, all faithful pastors say, “Gladly.”
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Feb 27, 2022
The Blissful and Trivial Life: How Entertainment Deprives a Soul
Marshall Segal | What, if any, of your entertainment might need to be curbed or redirected for the sake of your soul?
12 min
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Feb 25, 2022
What Does a Faith Crisis Feel Like?
Jon Bloom | For some Christians, common doubts build up over time to produce a serious faith crisis. How can we care for those who feel lost in the storm?
13 min
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Feb 22, 2022
The Contagion of Cowardice
Greg Morse | God requires a lot of men in the church. The enemies are real, and the risks are great. Will we trust God enough to lay aside our fears?
14 min
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Feb 20, 2022
Am I Real? A Basic Guide to Christian Assurance
Scott Hubbard | How can you know your faith is real? The enemies of Christian assurance are great. But for all who are in Christ, the God of assurance is greater.
17 min
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