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Articles by Desiring God — 621 episodes
‘I’ve Lost My Taste for God’s Word’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible
‘I Don’t Understand What I Read’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible
‘I Don’t Need to Hear God Today’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible
Are You Tempted to Leave Jesus?
‘I’m Too Distracted When I Read’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible
‘I’m Not Feeling It Today’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible
The Real Reasons We Don’t Read the Bible
Humbled to Be an American: A Hopeful Exile at 250
Pornography and the War for the World
Faith Never Prays, ‘If You Can’
Ask Whatever I Wish? God’s Unblushing Promises for Prayer
Submission Holds Heaven’s Attention
Sin Will Find You Out
When Friends Fail and the Earth Gives Way
Find Heroes Better Than Harry Potter
Tomorrow May Be Too Late: Testimonies of the Damned
Artificial Preaching: The Temptation of AI
Jesus Raged? The Righteous Anger of God Incarnate
Keep Praying for a Breakthrough
This Little Light of Mine: Why Don’t I Let It Shine?
The Trial of Daily Bread
Lead at a Pace They Can Follow
Take That Risk for Jesus
No Sin Is Worth Hell
The Voice of ‘A Great Awakening’
The Day Death Tried to Swallow Life
He Came, He Died, He Conquered
The Agony of Sin and Love
How to Live the Unblessed Life
When Jesus Looks You in the Eye
‘Jacob I Loved’: The Heart Behind Election
He Purifies Our Hearts with Pleasure
Faithful Churches Can Rescue Cities
Sketch Beauty in Suffering
What Will War Bring to Iran? Praying for a Country in Crisis
He Defends Our Meekness with Might
He Sweetens Our Joys with His Sorrows
A Shy Guy’s Guide to Big Groups
The Beatitudes: Our King’s Call to All Joy
Who Needs to Hear Your Hard Words?
When God Denies Good Desires
All God’s Soul Is for Your Good: The Wonder of Enthused Omnipotence
Before You Rule, Rule Yourself
He Dawns as Prince of Peace
Jesus Showed Up: The In-Person Visit of the Incarnation
He Dawns as Everlasting Father
You May Not See the Fruit of Your Ministry
He Dawns as Mighty God
He Dawns as Wonderful Counselor
Where the Wild Things Are
The King Dawns in Darkness
Not Ashamed to Be Yours: The Honor of God in the Dreams of His People
What If I Don’t Enjoy the Christian Life? A Letter to Young Men
Preach the Bad News Too: A Surprising Lesson from Spurgeon’s Converts
Stay Put and Make Disciples: A Plea to Aging Saints
From Sinners to Sons: How God Welcomes the Lost
How Do I ‘Look to Jesus’?
How Is Christian Joy Different from the World’s?
The Lord Is My Shepherd: Why God Made Sheep
Just Try to Outgive Your God
Do Not Neglect the Gift You Have
When We Must Walk Alone
The Wartime Way to Stay: How Senders Win the Nations
His Eyes Still Roam the Earth: God’s Help for Humble People
Preachers, Perfect Your Voice
When Death Draws Near
The Bible Is Not ‘a Book’
When the Soul Lies in Shadow
When Anxiety Clouds Reality
When Love Calls for Sacrifice
Holy Ambition Doesn’t Hurry
When Dearest Dreams Shatter
Disciple-Making in a Busy Season
When Joy Feels Unthinkable
The Sky Is Falling: Noah, Chicken Little, and the Return of Christ
The Wonders of His Weather: Sensing God’s Majesty in the Storm
None Too Old to Serve the King
The Cost of Courageous Preaching
A Christian Vision for Exercise: Ten Lessons from a Ten-Year Project
The Sudden Ruin of a Stubborn Heart
Rise, Christian, and Conquer
How to Get Strong in God
What Should I Read Next?
Evangelism for Introverts
Spread Great Joy in a Big God to the Next Generation
How Do I ‘Give Glory’ to God?
Saved from Shallow Faith: A Sermon That Woke Me Up
Don’t Make Friends with Doubt
Work Out the Grace of God: A Sermon That Changed My Everyday Life
Sermons Change Lives
A Secret to Fearless Living
Do You See Demons?
Do You See Your Soul?
We (Still) Walk by Faith: How to See Beyond the Secular
God of Bloodstained Hands
God of All Goodness
He Brought Fantasy to Life
He Rested on the Final Sabbath
At Last He Breathed His Last
He Became the Better Man
He Welcomed Her Worship
He Loved Us Through Loneliness
He Dared to Ride a Donkey
God of Holy Laughter
Back When We Had Friends: Why Brothers Still Need Brothers
War of Stories: How Your Entertainment Shapes You
Her Many and Marvelous Ministries: How Women Give Life to the Church
Don’t Be Sorry for the Sermon: The Pride of an Apologetic Preacher
Grow Deep: A Word to Young Men
Glorious, Obvious Difference: The Complementary Souls of Men and Women
Is Your Christianity Too Quiet?
Use Your Body in the Fight for Joy
Be Still and Wonder: Two Habits for Hurried Souls
Brothers, Consider Your Spirit: The Manly Business of Pastoring
Better to Give Than to Get? Remembering God’s Promise of Reward
Laugh Before Devils: Joy as Spiritual Warfare
Do You Fight for Joy?
No One’s Born to Preach: The Myth and Truth of Pulpit ‘Gifting’
Go Get Her: To Men Delaying Marriage
Awe with Audacity: The Spirit of Christian Prayer
Prayer Dies Without Delight
Never Too Busy to Pray
Outpray God’s Goodness
How Healthy Is Your Soul? Six Questions for a New Year
Holy Bravery: How Christian Men Act Like Men
Famous for His Grace: How Christmas Makes Us Family
He Came to a World at War: O King of Nations
He Came to a World in Darkness: O Day-Spring
He Came to a World Barred from Heaven: O Key of David
Why Your Life Isn’t Working
Light and Warmth in Winter: Three Glories of His Advent
He Came to a World Without God: O Immanuel
Prepare to Speak on Sunday: The Ministry of Conversation
Forget About Yourself: Six Paths to Better Thoughts
When Your Heart Condemns You
When Offenses Come: How to Forgive and Move On
Love the Church Like Jesus
Satisfy Me to the End: Praying with Wisdom as We Age
What Makes Jesus Marvel?
Come to Church to Get
The Making of More Than a Conqueror
Escape from Doubting Castle: Counsel for Christians in Despair
First Up: Get Your Soul Happy in God
Lost in God’s Providence: How He Works Our Wanderings for Good
We Groan for Home: Waiting and Hoping Like Children of God
Christ in Me? Three Wonders of Life in the Spirit
Lost in the Maze of Me: How Introspection Goes Wrong
No Condemnation: A Dream Before God’s Judgment Seat
Glory May Cost You Everything: An Invitation to Romans 8
Some Mock, Others Believe: Pondering Strangeness in Our Preaching
Christ Is King: A Warning to God’s Foes
Celebrate the Reformation with Us
Growing Wise as We Grow Old: How Hardship Teaches Us to Hope
Stay Strange: The Church as a Home for Exiles
The Prayer of a Hunted Man
How to Plan Wickedly Well
Will You Love Jesus in Five Years? Training Your Soul to Delight in Him
Life Is Too Brief to Waste: Learning to Number Our Days
Strangers to Sin: How Heaven Makes Us Holy
Ten Sweeter, Stronger Looks: How Examining Self Illuminates Christ
Our Most Important Citizenship: Four Checks for ‘World Christians’
To Gain the World and Lose Your Soul
If the Men Aren’t Singing: Five Questions for Worship Leaders
If You Confess: How to Bring Your Sins to God
Love Her Less to Love Her More: The Dangers of Idolizing a Wife
‘Abraham, Take Your Son’: Wrestling with God’s Unsettling Test
Facing a Task Unfinished: A Battle-Hymn for Mission
Live a Larger Life: An Invitation to World Christianity
‘Be Perfect’? The Holiness God Requires of Us
Forget Your First Name: How to Live for Legacy
Does God Delight in Me? His Pleasure in (Imperfect) Holiness
‘Enter into My Happiness’: Jesus’s Invitation to Infinite Joy
Keep Watch Over Souls: A One-Verse Charge to Pastors
War Your Way to Heaven
What Makes God Happiest? Enjoying His Signature Joy
Save a Soul from Death: How We Bring Wanderers Back
A Republic — If God Keeps It
A Father’s 5-to-9: The Holy Ambition of Godly Dads
Speak to Men Like Men
The Wild Glory of an ‘Ordinary’ Life
The Skies We Die Under: Common Deathbed Deceptions
The Blessings of Being Bound: Finding Freedom Through Commitment
My Body Is Not My Own: How God Redeems What Sin Seized
The Strong Legacy of a Weak Father
The Undistracted Soldier: Six Marks of Christian Manhood
Love (All) Your Neighbors: A Surprising Test of True Faith
Throw Yourself Away in Hope: The Sacred Death of Fatherhood
Lord of All the Law: How Jesus Handled the Ten Commandments
God Beckons Through Beauty: Where Our Deepest Longings Lead
Give Them Time to Grow: Learning the Power of Patient Love
The Splendor of His Queen: How the Church Reflects Christ’s Majesty
When Love Takes You by the Shoulders: Embracing the Gift of Exhortation
Bring Out Her Best: The Privilege of Christian Husbands
Grace Has Taught Our Hearts to Fear
The Lost Son Who Never Left: Imagining the Older Brother’s Return
See Through Enemy Eyes: Expecting Temptation Before It Comes
Examine Yourself, Forget Yourself: Help for the Overly Introspective
Head of Every Head: How to Lead Like Jesus
Better Than Our Bitter Thoughts: The God of Surprising Goodness
Be Ready to Speak of Jesus: Evangelism as Spiritual Warfare
The Unimpressive Path to Immortality
Life Beneath a Sovereign Lord: How His Power Unleashes Us
Wrap Your Soul in Truth: Under-Armor for Spiritual War
To War, to Christ, to Glory
Risen to Love His Own: The Surprising Mercies of Easter
Life Is for Living
Good Friday for Bad People
Bring Your Grief to Gethsemane: The Healing Wounds of Maundy Thursday
What (Not) to Preach: How to Build and Cut a Sermon
Restore My Soul: In Pursuit of Personal Revival
Sin Won’t Comfort You: How Satan Tempts the Hurting
Revival in the Making: God’s Central Means for Spiritual Renewal
The Joy of Genuine Revival: Four Signs of the Holy Spirit
Start Small, Step Up, and Fail Well: How to Pursue Pastoral Ministry
Why We Long for Revival
Uprooting Sensibility: The Plain Speech of Godly Men
Are You Sailing or Sinking? A Tool for Diagnosing Spiritual Health
Even Believers Need to Be Warned: How Hell Motivates Holiness
The Gospel of God’s Happiness
Hell Can Heal Any Bitterness: Finding Peace in God’s Vengeance
Hell Is for Real
Hand Back the Fruit: Trusting God with the Mysteries of Evil
Hell Should Unsettle Christians: Embracing the Most Emotionally Difficult Doctrine
When This Season Ends: How to Let Good Things Go
Prayers of the Apocalypse
Respectable Drunkenness: Subtle Ways to Numb a Soul
Start the Day Happy in God: The Lost Art of Bible Meditation
What Makes a Woman Beautiful? A Guide for Young Men
The Joy of Being Left Behind: Releasing Children to Follow Jesus
The Three Most Important Words in Prayer
Put God’s Word to Work: Four Ways Pastors Use the Bible
Why Not Me? The Quiet and Consuming Eye of Envy
Heart-Deep Prayers: Why We Prioritize Spiritual Needs
Prayer: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic
His Voice First: A New Year’s Resolve and Prayer
Plan Like a Christian: Five Principles for a New Year
Heart of My Own Heart: Why I Love ‘Be Thou My Vision’
Reality Written in Cursive: The Power of Christian Wordcraft
God Unveils His Majesty: The Quiet Surprise of Christmas Day
Christmas Like a Christian: Five Glories the World Belittles
Your Best Days Are Ahead: Confronting the Lies of Nostalgia
Ghosts of Christmas: What the Damned Might Say
Trials Are Gardens for Lies: How Thankfulness Guards Us Against Satan
Tangible Acts of Christmas: A Missing Ingredient in Evangelism
When Your Heart Goes Dark: How to Seize Hope in Suffering
The Curious History of Christmas
Take a Chance This Advent: The Season of Waiting Begins
He Did Not Revile in Return: Following Jesus in an Age of Anger
Find Your Fathers in Christ: Advice for Younger Men
Give Thanks Against Temptation: The Spiritual Power of Gratitude
Bring Order to the Chaos: The Calming Force of Good Pastors
Order and Beauty: A Little Theology of Christian Writing
Romance Can Ruin You: How a Relationship Becomes a God
Apologetic of the Heart: Why Costly Love Captures Us
Single Men with Many Sons: How to Be a Spiritual Father
Children Caught in the Crossfire: The Tragedy of Same-Sex ‘Adoption’
We Have Sinned and Grown Old: Seeing Through Six-Year-Old Eyes
Jesus Is Better Than Working for Jesus
The Spiritual Discipline of Sky: How the Heavens Shape a Heart
Real Protestants Keep Reforming
‘The Shadow Proves the Sunshine’ How to See God in Spiritual Darkness
The Ache of ‘If Only’
The Dangers of Alone: Five Questions for Single Men
Counseling for Normal Christians
Preach to Comfort and Disturb: A Plea to Pastors
A Brief Life Still Burning: The Unlikely Impact of Robert Murray M’Cheyne
How to Love a Sister in Christ: A Guide for Single Men
The Successful and Worthless Husband: Five Marks of Foolish Men
Act Like Men
The Use and Abuse of Scripture: How Christian Preachers Wield the Word
Stepping Through Darkness: Obedience on the Hardest Days
Until You Get to Pastor: Seven Ambitions for Aspiring Men
His Majesty Lifts the Lowly: The Attractive Force of God’s Mercy
Wander Away to Her
A Faithful Man Who Can Find?
Where’s the Lion Now? Making Hard Decisions with Aslan
Attack at Dawn: The Spiritual War Against Ordinary Devotions
Get Behind Me, Sluggard: Four Lessons Against Laziness
The Severe Kindness of Jesus: Hearing Mercy in His Hard Words
How to Read a Book by God: Eight Questions for Better Understanding
‘Oh Slay the Wicked’: How Christians Sing Curses
Habits of Grit: Athletics, Grace, and the Christian Work Ethic
‘Just Not Feeling It’: How Routine Awakens Devotion
Rediscovering the Joy of Writing: Six Lessons for a Lifelong Habit
Wrestling with What Won’t Be: The Meaning of Midlife Melancholy
Greet with a Holy Kiss? Applying an Uncomfortable Command
The Wilderness of the Little Years: How Satan Tempts Tired Parents
The God We Can Kiss
Loud and Quiet Women: The Portrait God Finds Beautiful
How to Build (or Break) a Habit
Uncomfortably Limited: The Frustrating Beauty of Finitude
Almost Saved: Four Reasons to Examine Yourself
The Godliness of a Good Night’s Sleep
When Sharp Disagreements Separate: Lessons for Churches in Conflict
Fasting, Feasting, and Our Daily Bread: Following the Diet of Jesus
The Rare Courage of Real Friends: Why Love Will Sometimes Wound
The Pro-Child Life: Three Ways We Love the Littlest
Uncomfortably Affectionate: Toward a Theology of the Kiss
For Fathers of Young Children: Lessons from the Last Graduation
Live for Days You Will Not See: The Beauty of Christian Legacy
O Me of Little Faith
How to Love an Immortal
Did Jesus Pursue His Own Glory? The God-Centeredness of the God-Man
That Kind of Happy: The Wide Eyes of a Psalm 1 Man
Imagine Lust: A Lost Weapon in the Fight for Purity
Stabbed by Joy: The Longings That Led Me to Christ
Gentleness Made Him Great: Learning from the Strongest of Men
Your Life of Unlikely Courage
A Problem in Prayer: Learning to Ask as We Ought
No One Who Abides in Him Keeps on Sinning
What Does God Sound Like? Hearing the Voice of Majesty
Goats in Sheep’s Clothing: Why We Warn the Lukewarm
‘My Kingdom Is Not of This World’: The Lordship of Christ and the Limits of Government
Entrusted with Agony: How to Love a Suffering Soul
When God Sets Sunsets Free: Imagining the World to Come
Good Leaders Fail Well: How Mistakes Become a Staircase
Confrontational Christlikeness
When Was I Born Again? How ‘Regeneration’ Blossoms in Reformed Theology
Reversing Romans 1: A Glimpse of the Godward Life
Mercy Swallows Any Sorrow: Struggling Beside a Sea of Blessing
Assurance for the Unassured: Finding Hope in the Names of God
Train Them Up in Jesus: The One-Verse Vision for Dads
Find Your Way to Help the Hurting
Grumbling Obedience: Resisting a Common Temptation
Roast What You Kill: Becoming a Man Who Follows Through
Slow to Chide, Swift to Bless: Vision for Earthly Fathers
Wise Women Build Homes: Motherhood’s Lasting Influence
Not All Obedience Is Christian
Flee the Gospel of Me
We Travel to a World Unseen
Love the Place You Want to Leave
The Forgotten Habit: Fellowship as a Means of God’s Grace
Sleep Beneath His Promises: Learning Rest from the Psalms
Appointed and Disappointed: Four Lessons for Passing Leadership
God So Loved Himself: Overlooked Help from a Well-Known Friend
The Ministry of the Pew: Sunday Morning for Normal Christians
Why Do Christians Struggle to Love?
Join That Church: Why God Made You for Membership
Raw Passion and Messy Missiology: A Tribute to George Verwer (1938–2023)
The Art of One-Anothering: How the Church Loves Like Christ
Beware of the Birds: How Satan Sabotages Sermons
The Syntax of Sacrifice: Introduction to Leviticus
The Easter Yet to Come
Tree of Shame: The Horror and Honor of Good Friday
The Most High on His Knees: Learning Humility from the Last Supper
Redeeming Discipline: How Grace Reforms Our Effort
Does Alcohol Still Sober You? Five Warnings About Abuse
The Father’s Way: When Good Parents Say Yes and No
He Comes Quickly: Are You Still Waiting?
Still on the Throne: The Glories of a Seated Christ
What God Can Make from a Shattered Life
What Will Make You Resilient? Learning from a Living Miracle
Should We Get Married? How to Find Clarity in Dating
My Son, Give Me Your Heart: The First Desire of Fruitful Parenting
The Shadow We Cannot Shake: What to Do When Darkness Remains
God of Ages Past: The Awakening We Need Today
Thirty Days of Easter: Invitation to Enjoy the Risen Christ
Losing Christ in Christianity
Do You Want to Die Well?
A Holy Conspiracy of Joy: The Heart of Healthy Pastors and Churches
Sit at the Feet of Loss: What Endings Teach the Living
Man Enough to Weep
Four Marks of Faithful Teaching
Live Against the Drift: Refocusing the Distracted Soul
The Stable Presence: Five Traits of Resilient Fathers
Move the Body, Renew the Mind: A Christian Use for Exercise
Friends Who Fell Away: When Apostasy Comes Close to Home
Suffering Proves We Are Real
The Living God: What Makes Him Different and Satisfying
Faith in the Wilderness of Waiting
Beneath the Mountain of Smoke: Recovering the Awe of Worship
Christ Did Not Please Himself: The Joy of Bearing with Others’ Failings
Every Marriage Needs a Mission: Three Steps for Husbands
Does Technology Help or Hurt Dating?
Be Still, My Soul: A Hymn for the Hardest Losses
The Light and Momentary Success of the Wicked
How Not to Pray: Learning from Pharisees and Pagans
The Spiritual Power of Staying Put: Why Christians Are Slow to Leave
Lovers of Good: Eyes of Hope in a World Gone Bad
Forgive Me and Help Me Forgive: The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Sin
Begin Where You Are: How to Renew Your Prayer Life
Do the Will You Know: The First Step for Further Guidance
The Curse Under Our Breath: What Grumbling Sounds Like to God
You Can Understand the Bible
Pray This First
Sin Is Never Inevitable: How to Escape Overwhelming Temptation
We Call Him ‘Father’: The Privilege of Christian Prayer
The Pleasure of God in Ordinary Work
Don’t Check the Boxes: My Breakthrough in Morning Devotions
Born Between God and Man: Welcoming Our Long-Awaited Priest
We Long to Be Ruled: The Messianic Hopes in Every Heart
The Starving Eyes of Man: Why We Ache to See Glory
Mercies at Midnight: Seeking God Through Sleeplessness
Wisdom Above Came Below: How Christmas Speaks to Our Confusion
A Time to Say Goodbye: A Father’s Gratitude as Children Leave Home
The Secret Failure of Many Leaders
A Rest for Any Restlessness
Awesome and Fearsome: God’s Majesty in the Eyes of His Friends and Foes
You Can Be Forgiven: What Christmas Says to Our Sins
The Joy of Christian Duty
Disorient, Distort, Deceive: Satan’s Core Strategy Against Us
Two Kinds of Pastors
Honor an Old Face: The Lost Art of Respecting Our Elders
How to Keep Praying: Four Lessons from the Master
The Sweetness of a Godward Meal: Dad’s Wisdom for Thanksgiving Day
Can Christians Date Nonbelievers?
Lead Me, O Lord: Ten Prayers for Christian Leaders
Screen Sabbaths: A Modest Proposal for a Digital World
The Current State of Complementarity: Five Years After Nashville
How to Fail a Wife: Learning Marriage from a Bad Husband
How to Care for a Pastor: Five Ways to Uplift Your Shepherds
To Groan Is Human — And Christian: Learning from the Emotions of Jesus
How a Head Loves a Body: Watching Husbands and Wives Dance Well
Why Don’t We Have Good Friends?
Am I Ready for Ministry? Three Tests for a Man’s Aspiration
The Pastors We Didn’t Expect: Four Contours of Christian Leadership
The Five Not-Points of Calvinism
The Indispensable Lives of Ordinary Christians
Messy, Late, and Happy: How to Survive Sundays with Small Kids
How Can God Forget My Sins? What We Remember at the Table
Living Among Majesties: The Grandeur of the People of God
King Over Kin: The Warm Danger of Earthly Loves
The Inner Man of Pastors: Six Glimpses into God’s Design
You Will Be Breathtaking: Why God Clothes Us in Glory
Shades of Grace: Catholics and Protestants in Conversation
To the Uttermost: How Jesus Keeps Us Day by Day
Not by Head Alone: The Warm Heart of Justification
The Beautiful Roots of Courageous Submission
Give Me More of God: Why Spiritual Intimacy Can Feel Elusive
What Is the Lord’s Supper?
The Hands That Made the Meal: What the Supper Says About Ordinary Work
Doubt: A Personal History
My Flesh Is True Food: The Meaning of an Offensive Image
Humbled, Whole, and Honorable: What to Look for in a Pastor
How to Squander Your Spiritual Gifts
Better to Have a Burden
What Spoils the Lord’s Supper? How Not to Come to the Table
We Work with You: How Pastors Serve Their People’s Joy
Escape from Every Temptation
The Dark Side of Equality
The Messy Home of Blessing: Why Children Are Worth the Chaos
Why Bread and Wine? Enjoying the Meal Above All Meals
Be Comforted in Your Smallness
Breakfast of Pastors: How God Feeds and Keeps Spiritual Leaders
A Little Theology of Dinosaurs
O Beard, Where Art Thou?
The Spiritual Gift of a Closed Door: How Waiting Serves Ministry
Other Billy Graham ‘Rules’? The Modesto Proposal
What Does Disunity Say? Three Common Types of Division
Our Gentle and Terrifying God: How Justice Holds Out Mercy
Martyr or Madman? The Unnerving Faith of Ignatius
The Lost Awe of Majesty: Why I Love an Overlooked Attribute
Slow to Anger: The Beauty of God’s Perfect Patience
Put Your Anger to Bed: Five Lessons for Young Couples
Are You Not Provoked? The Jealousy of Godly Men
Everything in God Is God: How to Think About His Attributes
A Rest Sweeter Than Sleep: Nighttime Prayer for a Troubled Conscience
Calm Under Pressure: Recovering the Grace of Equanimity
You Still Need Good Friends
Do Infant Baptisms Count? Reconsidering Open Membership
Where Do We Find Unity Now? The Surprising Path to Real Peace
The Progressive Pilgrim: Allegory for an Easy Age
We Need More Holy Fools: How God Awakened Me to Eternity
Some Conflict Is Healthy: How Division Can Serve Churches
Tenacious Grace: How We Become and Stay One
Chapter-and-Verse Protestants: The Reformation Legacy of Little Berea
The Prudence Bucket: Applying the Bible to Gray Areas
If Your Brother Sins Against You: How to Forgive and Let Go
Triage in the Trenches: When Do Second-Tier Issues Divide?
Of Mountains and Molehills: How Much Should Doctrine Divide Us?
Why Is Christian Unity So Hard?
Jellyfish Christians: The Costs of Thin Christianity
American Prodigal: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Alexander Hamilton
The Quiet and Crucial Work of Deacons
‘In Faithfulness You Have Afflicted Me’
A Wife No Man Would Want: Lessons from the Hardest Marriage
Harry Potter Turns 25: What I Saw While Reading to My Sons
Casual Church: What Happened to Christian Reverence?
Immersed into Mission: Why Jesus Commands Us to Baptize
God Makes War with Words: Why Teaching Will Win the World
Some Answered Prayers Hurt: The Hidden and Faithful Love of God
Do Not Fear to Leave This World
Find a Storm to Stir You
Do unto Authors: Four Principles for Reading Well
Your Darkness Is Not Dark to Him
Because They Are No More
Jesus Shall Reign: The Remarkable Story of the First Missionary Hymn
Your Home Is a Hallway Out of Hell
How Did Jesus ‘Make Disciples’?
How to Watch for Wolves: Three Signs of False Teachers
Seeing Is Not Believing: Why We Miss God in Daily Life
Do Not Despise the Day of Small Groups: Four Marks of Daring Community
The Psalms Know What You Feel
The Happiest Family of All: How Father and Son Glorify Each Other
Submit Your Felt Reality to God
Face Your Fear of Man: How Christ Delivers from Human Approval
The Beast I Become: How to Bring Bitterness to God
The Pillar in the Pews: How the Church Upholds the Truth
Midlife Clarity: Five Proverbs for Men in Crisis
A Most Harmful Medicine: How Subjectivism Poisons a Society
When My Mother Became Annie’s Mom: A Tribute to a Woman’s Great Love
Stuck Between the World and God: How I Almost Died in Indecision
The Word of God Is Worth the Work
We Stand for Truth Himself
You Have Put More Joy in My Heart
How to Entertain the Holy Spirit
Me, Myself, and Lies: The Spiritual Dangers of Isolation
Invisible and Unmistakable: How Scripture Pictures the Holy Spirit
All-Sufficient, All-Satisfying: What Saving Faith Sees in Christ
The Love in His Grief: How the Spirit Responds to Our Sin
The Son Must Rise: What Made Easter Inevitable
Behold the Man Upon the Cross
When the Dawn Seems to Die: How Jesus Keeps Us from Falling Away
I Have No Good Apart from You: Prayer of the Satisfied Heart
The Best Sermon for Marriage: Seven Lessons for Lasting Love
What God Can Do in One Conversation: Recovering the Power of Personal Evangelism
Did Jesus Need the Spirit? Pondering the Power of the God-Man
Our God-Sized Ordinary: Six Ways to See the Holy Spirit
Roses Grow on Briers: Unsentimental Love in a Sentimental World
Sympathy Without Distress: The Exalted Compassion of Christ
The Joy of God in Us: Why the Spirit Produces Happiness
How to Pray Like Jabez
The Prayer to End All Prayers
Some Kindness Stings: Why Love Uses Hard Words
The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life: Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth
Kneeling Among Lions: Learning to Pray Like Daniel
Live Closer to Home: How Proximity Shapes Responsibility
After Two Whole Years: Have We Humbled Ourselves Yet?
The Strange Sounds of Praise: A Sufferer’s Introduction to the Psalms
Lord, Let Me Die: Mercy for Those Tired of Living
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Questioning How We Frame Reality
Did We Kiss Purity Goodbye?
The Power of a Praying Mother
As for Me and My House: The Delightful Duty of Family Religion
Talking Back to God: How His Promises Provoke Our Prayers
The Safest Man for Women: A Guide Toward Sexual Purity
Will I Trust God? Simple Prayer in a Desperate Moment
Pastors Are Only Matchmakers: The Humble Heart of Faithful Ministry
The Blissful and Trivial Life: How Entertainment Deprives a Soul
What Does a Faith Crisis Feel Like?
The Contagion of Cowardice
Am I Real? A Basic Guide to Christian Assurance
The Sin-Defying Power of Words
Walk the War Before You: What It Means to Live by the Spirit
What Does ‘Deconstruction’ Even Mean?
Sons of Lionhearted Saints: Recovering Our Lost Lineage
Leave Your Imperfections with God: How Remaining Sin Inspires Holiness
We Wish to See Jesus
Lord, Deliver Me from Me: A Daily Prayer Against Unbelief
The Light We Need to See: How Christ Dispels Spiritual Darkness
Let Tragedy Find Us Living
Patience Will Be Painful: How to Love the Hard-to-Love
Can I Be Holy Without Happiness?
In Love with the Life You Don’t Have
Holy Distractions: When God Interrupts Our Productivity
‘Your Will Be Done’: The Glory of Christ’s Human Choices
Life at the End of Roe: Recovering the Sanity and Wonder of Wanted Pregnancy
The Deepest Part of You: How Feelings Relate to Choices
The Other Side of the Race Debate: Four Ways to Disagree Christianly
Parable of an Unhealthy Soul: Why ‘Faith’ Dies Without Action
Why I Read Aloud to My Children
The Difficult Habit of Quiet
Desperate for Distraction: Why We’re Bad at Being Alone
Trials Prove True Joy: What Jesus Says About Happiness
Who Really Has Your Ear? The Re-Forming Power of Words
A Father’s Good Pleasure
Endangered Attention: How to Guard a Precious Gift
Repentance for a New Year
A New Year Worthy of God
The Most Wonderful Books on Earth: Gospel Reading for a New Year
More of Jesus: ‘Maximalist Christianity’ for a New Year
Confessions of a Former People-Pleaser
The Good War Against Moods: How Stubborn Faith Overcomes Feelings
The Most Stubborn Day of the Year: Why the World Stops for Christmas
He Is, He Was, He Will Be: Adoring the Alpha and Omega
Christmas with an Empty Chair: When the Holiday Just Isn’t the Same
The Wedding at the End of Marriage
Our Tongues (and Fingers) of Fire: What Words Reveal About Us
Worthless Conversation: How God Weighs Our Words
A Son Worthy to Be King
The Perils of a Passive Man
Who Wrote Hebrews? Exploring a New Testament Mystery
More Shocking Than Christ: Why We Call Jesus Lord
Someone Is Listening to Your Suffering
Labor to Give (or Take) No Offense
Indescribable: The Many and Marvelous Names of Jesus
We Were Made for Thanksgiving: A Father’s Gratitude for a National Holiday
Men of Faith Are Men Who Fight
Give Thanks and Give More: A Guide to Joyful Generosity
There Is a Name: Our Exclusive and Precious Christ
When Darkness Veils His Lovely Face
Victory That Lasts: Where to Begin Against Lust
Do You Insult Your Savior’s Bride? What Jesus Thinks of His Church
The Hardest Word to Obey
Impatience Is a War for Control: How God Prepares Us to Wait
Take the Hill: How Mission Brings Men Together
Kindness in a World Gone Mad
Food Rules: How God Reshapes Our Appetites
Courage for Normal Christians
What Love Is Not: Four Ways We Avoid the Costs
Laziness Ruins Happiness: What Makes Diligence a Virtue
Two Truths About the One Percent: How Important Is Corporate Worship?
Sin Is Not Who You Are
The Reformation of English: How Tyndale’s Bible Transformed Our Language
A Strange and Holy Calm: Holding Our Peace in an Age of Outbursts
For God So Warned the World: How He Keeps the Ones He Loves
Disrupt Your Dullness: Rekindling the Flame of Earnestness
Live Like You’ll Live Forever
Bible Memory Brings Reality to Life
You Are and Will Be Justified: The Future Promise of a Finished Work
A Reason to Be Vaccinated: Freedom
Beware the Anger of Your Soul: How to Restrain Ungodly Passion
Can Anything Mend Our Conflict? How Cynicism Dies in a Divided Church
Every Other Way Leads to Death: Why We Keep Sharing Christ
Don’t Miss the Marriage: Why the Justified Love Holiness
Feed His Sheep: Whom Does Christ Call to Preach?
Encouragement for Beginners: How to Strengthen a Soul in God
Our Lives in His: How Justification Leads to Holiness
The Sluggard in Me: Four Lies That Lead to Lazy
Feed the Sheep by Any Hand: Fighting Envy in Pastoral Ministry
The Real Protestant Ethic: How ‘Faith Alone’ Sparks Industry