Articles by Desiring God
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Grumbling Obedience: Resisting a Common Temptation
9 mins; May 21, 2023
Roast What You Kill: Becoming a Man Who Follows Through
12 mins; May 18, 2023
Slow to Chide, Swift to Bless: Vision for Earthly Fathers
11 mins; May 15, 2023
Wise Women Build Homes: Motherhood’s Lasting Influence
9 mins; May 14, 2023
Not All Obedience Is Christian
8 mins; May 12, 2023
Flee the Gospel of Me
13 mins; May 11, 2023
We Travel to a World Unseen
12 mins; May 08, 2023
Love the Place You Want to Leave
12 mins; May 05, 2023
The Forgotten Habit: Fellowship as a Means of God’s Grace
13 mins; April 30, 2023
Sleep Beneath His Promises: Learning Rest from the Psalms
11 mins; April 28, 2023
Appointed and Disappointed: Four Lessons for Passing Leadership
11 mins; April 27, 2023
God So Loved Himself: Overlooked Help from a Well-Known Friend
15 mins; April 24, 2023
The Ministry of the Pew: Sunday Morning for Normal Christians
12 mins; April 23, 2023
Why Do Christians Struggle to Love?
11 mins; April 21, 2023
Join That Church: Why God Made You for Membership
12 mins; April 20, 2023
Raw Passion and Messy Missiology: A Tribute to George Verwer (1938–2023)
9 mins; April 19, 2023
The Art of One-Anothering: How the Church Loves Like Christ
16 mins; April 16, 2023
Beware of the Birds: How Satan Sabotages Sermons
12 mins; April 14, 2023
The Syntax of Sacrifice: Introduction to Leviticus
32 mins; April 10, 2023
The Easter Yet to Come
9 mins; April 09, 2023
Tree of Shame: The Horror and Honor of Good Friday
14 mins; April 07, 2023
The Most High on His Knees: Learning Humility from the Last Supper
12 mins; April 06, 2023
Redeeming Discipline: How Grace Reforms Our Effort
11 mins; April 02, 2023
Does Alcohol Still Sober You? Five Warnings About Abuse
15 mins; March 30, 2023
The Father’s Way: When Good Parents Say Yes and No
11 mins; March 27, 2023
He Comes Quickly: Are You Still Waiting?
9 mins; March 26, 2023
Still on the Throne: The Glories of a Seated Christ
11 mins; March 23, 2023
What God Can Make from a Shattered Life
10 mins; March 20, 2023
What Will Make You Resilient? Learning from a Living Miracle
11 mins; March 19, 2023
Should We Get Married? How to Find Clarity in Dating
18 mins; March 16, 2023
My Son, Give Me Your Heart: The First Desire of Fruitful Parenting
7 mins; March 13, 2023
The Shadow We Cannot Shake: What to Do When Darkness Remains
11 mins; March 12, 2023
God of Ages Past: The Awakening We Need Today
11 mins; March 10, 2023
Thirty Days of Easter: Invitation to Enjoy the Risen Christ
11 mins; March 09, 2023
Losing Christ in Christianity
12 mins; March 06, 2023
Do You Want to Die Well?
10 mins; March 05, 2023
A Holy Conspiracy of Joy: The Heart of Healthy Pastors and Churches
10 mins; March 03, 2023
Sit at the Feet of Loss: What Endings Teach the Living
10 mins; March 02, 2023
Man Enough to Weep
11 mins; February 26, 2023
Four Marks of Faithful Teaching
10 mins; February 23, 2023
Live Against the Drift: Refocusing the Distracted Soul
11 mins; February 20, 2023
The Stable Presence: Five Traits of Resilient Fathers
9 mins; February 19, 2023
Move the Body, Renew the Mind: A Christian Use for Exercise
11 mins; February 17, 2023
Friends Who Fell Away: When Apostasy Comes Close to Home
11 mins; February 15, 2023
Suffering Proves We Are Real
12 mins; February 12, 2023
The Living God: What Makes Him Different and Satisfying
8 mins; February 10, 2023
Faith in the Wilderness of Waiting
11 mins; February 09, 2023
Beneath the Mountain of Smoke: Recovering the Awe of Worship
11 mins; February 06, 2023
Christ Did Not Please Himself: The Joy of Bearing with Others’ Failings
13 mins; February 05, 2023
Every Marriage Needs a Mission: Three Steps for Husbands
11 mins; February 03, 2023
Does Technology Help or Hurt Dating?
14 mins; January 26, 2023
Be Still, My Soul: A Hymn for the Hardest Losses
14 mins; January 23, 2023
The Light and Momentary Success of the Wicked
8 mins; January 22, 2023
How Not to Pray: Learning from Pharisees and Pagans
10 mins; January 20, 2023
The Spiritual Power of Staying Put: Why Christians Are Slow to Leave
13 mins; January 19, 2023
Lovers of Good: Eyes of Hope in a World Gone Bad
10 mins; January 17, 2023
Forgive Me and Help Me Forgive: The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Sin
11 mins; January 15, 2023
Begin Where You Are: How to Renew Your Prayer Life
11 mins; January 12, 2023
Do the Will You Know: The First Step for Further Guidance
12 mins; January 10, 2023
The Curse Under Our Breath: What Grumbling Sounds Like to God
13 mins; January 08, 2023
You Can Understand the Bible
12 mins; January 05, 2023
Pray This First
12 mins; January 04, 2023
Sin Is Never Inevitable: How to Escape Overwhelming Temptation
11 mins; January 02, 2023
We Call Him ‘Father’: The Privilege of Christian Prayer
10 mins; January 01, 2023
The Pleasure of God in Ordinary Work
9 mins; December 31, 2022
Don’t Check the Boxes: My Breakthrough in Morning Devotions
10 mins; December 27, 2022
Born Between God and Man: Welcoming Our Long-Awaited Priest
9 mins; December 25, 2022
We Long to Be Ruled: The Messianic Hopes in Every Heart
11 mins; December 22, 2022
The Starving Eyes of Man: Why We Ache to See Glory
12 mins; December 20, 2022
Mercies at Midnight: Seeking God Through Sleeplessness
12 mins; December 19, 2022
Wisdom Above Came Below: How Christmas Speaks to Our Confusion
8 mins; December 15, 2022
A Time to Say Goodbye: A Father’s Gratitude as Children Leave Home
10 mins; December 11, 2022
The Secret Failure of Many Leaders
13 mins; December 08, 2022
A Rest for Any Restlessness
10 mins; December 07, 2022
Awesome and Fearsome: God’s Majesty in the Eyes of His Friends and Foes
11 mins; December 05, 2022
You Can Be Forgiven: What Christmas Says to Our Sins
13 mins; December 04, 2022
The Joy of Christian Duty
12 mins; December 02, 2022
Disorient, Distort, Deceive: Satan’s Core Strategy Against Us
11 mins; December 01, 2022
Two Kinds of Pastors
14 mins; November 28, 2022
Honor an Old Face: The Lost Art of Respecting Our Elders
14 mins; November 27, 2022
How to Keep Praying: Four Lessons from the Master
10 mins; November 25, 2022
The Sweetness of a Godward Meal: Dad’s Wisdom for Thanksgiving Day
12 mins; November 24, 2022
Can Christians Date Nonbelievers?
13 mins; November 21, 2022
Lead Me, O Lord: Ten Prayers for Christian Leaders
12 mins; November 20, 2022
Screen Sabbaths: A Modest Proposal for a Digital World
12 mins; November 17, 2022
The Current State of Complementarity: Five Years After Nashville
14 mins; November 16, 2022
How to Fail a Wife: Learning Marriage from a Bad Husband
14 mins; November 15, 2022
How to Care for a Pastor: Five Ways to Uplift Your Shepherds
12 mins; November 14, 2022
To Groan Is Human — And Christian: Learning from the Emotions of Jesus
11 mins; November 13, 2022
How a Head Loves a Body: Watching Husbands and Wives Dance Well
9 mins; November 12, 2022
Why Don’t We Have Good Friends?
13 mins; November 07, 2022
Am I Ready for Ministry? Three Tests for a Man’s Aspiration
12 mins; November 06, 2022
The Pastors We Didn’t Expect: Four Contours of Christian Leadership
12 mins; November 03, 2022
The Five Not-Points of Calvinism
15 mins; October 31, 2022
The Indispensable Lives of Ordinary Christians
9 mins; October 30, 2022
Messy, Late, and Happy: How to Survive Sundays with Small Kids
10 mins; October 27, 2022
How Can God Forget My Sins? What We Remember at the Table
10 mins; October 25, 2022
Living Among Majesties: The Grandeur of the People of God
8 mins; October 23, 2022
King Over Kin: The Warm Danger of Earthly Loves
14 mins; October 20, 2022
The Inner Man of Pastors: Six Glimpses into God’s Design
16 mins; October 16, 2022