Articles by Desiring God
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You Will Be Breathtaking: Why God Clothes Us in Glory
11 mins; October 13, 2022
Shades of Grace: Catholics and Protestants in Conversation
17 mins; October 11, 2022
To the Uttermost: How Jesus Keeps Us Day by Day
12 mins; October 09, 2022
Not by Head Alone: The Warm Heart of Justification
13 mins; October 06, 2022
The Beautiful Roots of Courageous Submission
9 mins; October 03, 2022
Give Me More of God: Why Spiritual Intimacy Can Feel Elusive
12 mins; October 02, 2022
What Is the Lord’s Supper?
9 mins; September 29, 2022
The Hands That Made the Meal: What the Supper Says About Ordinary Work
10 mins; September 26, 2022
Doubt: A Personal History
16 mins; September 25, 2022
My Flesh Is True Food: The Meaning of an Offensive Image
10 mins; September 19, 2022
Humbled, Whole, and Honorable: What to Look for in a Pastor
13 mins; September 18, 2022
How to Squander Your Spiritual Gifts
11 mins; September 15, 2022
Better to Have a Burden
10 mins; September 12, 2022
What Spoils the Lord’s Supper? How Not to Come to the Table
10 mins; September 11, 2022
We Work with You: How Pastors Serve Their People’s Joy
11 mins; September 09, 2022
Escape from Every Temptation
10 mins; September 08, 2022
The Dark Side of Equality
11 mins; September 05, 2022
The Messy Home of Blessing: Why Children Are Worth the Chaos
10 mins; September 04, 2022
Why Bread and Wine? Enjoying the Meal Above All Meals
10 mins; September 01, 2022
Be Comforted in Your Smallness
9 mins; August 31, 2022
Breakfast of Pastors: How God Feeds and Keeps Spiritual Leaders
11 mins; August 28, 2022
A Little Theology of Dinosaurs
10 mins; August 25, 2022
O Beard, Where Art Thou?
11 mins; August 22, 2022
The Spiritual Gift of a Closed Door: How Waiting Serves Ministry
9 mins; August 21, 2022
Other Billy Graham ‘Rules’? The Modesto Proposal
11 mins; August 19, 2022
What Does Disunity Say? Three Common Types of Division
11 mins; August 17, 2022
Our Gentle and Terrifying God: How Justice Holds Out Mercy
12 mins; August 15, 2022
Martyr or Madman? The Unnerving Faith of Ignatius
10 mins; August 14, 2022
The Lost Awe of Majesty: Why I Love an Overlooked Attribute
13 mins; August 11, 2022
Slow to Anger: The Beauty of God’s Perfect Patience
12 mins; August 08, 2022
Put Your Anger to Bed: Five Lessons for Young Couples
11 mins; August 07, 2022
Are You Not Provoked? The Jealousy of Godly Men
11 mins; August 04, 2022
Everything in God Is God: How to Think About His Attributes
13 mins; August 01, 2022
A Rest Sweeter Than Sleep: Nighttime Prayer for a Troubled Conscience
12 mins; July 31, 2022
Calm Under Pressure: Recovering the Grace of Equanimity
11 mins; July 30, 2022
You Still Need Good Friends
9 mins; July 29, 2022
Do Infant Baptisms Count? Reconsidering Open Membership
12 mins; July 27, 2022
Where Do We Find Unity Now? The Surprising Path to Real Peace
10 mins; July 24, 2022
The Progressive Pilgrim: Allegory for an Easy Age
13 mins; July 22, 2022
We Need More Holy Fools: How God Awakened Me to Eternity
11 mins; July 21, 2022
Some Conflict Is Healthy: How Division Can Serve Churches
11 mins; July 18, 2022
Tenacious Grace: How We Become and Stay One
10 mins; July 17, 2022
Chapter-and-Verse Protestants: The Reformation Legacy of Little Berea
10 mins; July 15, 2022
The Prudence Bucket: Applying the Bible to Gray Areas
9 mins; July 14, 2022
If Your Brother Sins Against You: How to Forgive and Let Go
10 mins; July 13, 2022
Triage in the Trenches: When Do Second-Tier Issues Divide?
16 mins; July 10, 2022
Of Mountains and Molehills: How Much Should Doctrine Divide Us?
13 mins; July 08, 2022
Why Is Christian Unity So Hard?
10 mins; July 06, 2022
Jellyfish Christians: The Costs of Thin Christianity
12 mins; July 05, 2022
American Prodigal: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Alexander Hamilton
21 mins; July 04, 2022
The Quiet and Crucial Work of Deacons
12 mins; July 03, 2022
‘In Faithfulness You Have Afflicted Me’
12 mins; June 29, 2022
A Wife No Man Would Want: Lessons from the Hardest Marriage
11 mins; June 27, 2022
Harry Potter Turns 25: What I Saw While Reading to My Sons
10 mins; June 26, 2022
Casual Church: What Happened to Christian Reverence?
12 mins; June 23, 2022
Immersed into Mission: Why Jesus Commands Us to Baptize
7 mins; June 21, 2022
God Makes War with Words: Why Teaching Will Win the World
8 mins; June 17, 2022
Some Answered Prayers Hurt: The Hidden and Faithful Love of God
9 mins; June 16, 2022
Do Not Fear to Leave This World
9 mins; June 15, 2022
Find a Storm to Stir You
9 mins; June 12, 2022
Do unto Authors: Four Principles for Reading Well
12 mins; June 10, 2022
Your Darkness Is Not Dark to Him
13 mins; June 08, 2022
Because They Are No More
8 mins; June 06, 2022
Jesus Shall Reign: The Remarkable Story of the First Missionary Hymn
9 mins; June 05, 2022
Your Home Is a Hallway Out of Hell
8 mins; June 03, 2022
How Did Jesus ‘Make Disciples’?
12 mins; June 02, 2022
How to Watch for Wolves: Three Signs of False Teachers
14 mins; May 31, 2022
Seeing Is Not Believing: Why We Miss God in Daily Life
11 mins; May 29, 2022
Do Not Despise the Day of Small Groups: Four Marks of Daring Community
16 mins; May 28, 2022
The Psalms Know What You Feel
7 mins; May 23, 2022
The Happiest Family of All: How Father and Son Glorify Each Other
15 mins; May 22, 2022
Submit Your Felt Reality to God
9 mins; May 19, 2022
Face Your Fear of Man: How Christ Delivers from Human Approval
11 mins; May 16, 2022
The Beast I Become: How to Bring Bitterness to God
11 mins; May 15, 2022
The Pillar in the Pews: How the Church Upholds the Truth
11 mins; May 13, 2022
Midlife Clarity: Five Proverbs for Men in Crisis
13 mins; May 11, 2022
A Most Harmful Medicine: How Subjectivism Poisons a Society
10 mins; May 09, 2022
When My Mother Became Annie’s Mom: A Tribute to a Woman’s Great Love
11 mins; May 08, 2022
Stuck Between the World and God: How I Almost Died in Indecision
10 mins; May 06, 2022
The Word of God Is Worth the Work
10 mins; May 05, 2022
We Stand for Truth Himself
11 mins; May 02, 2022
You Have Put More Joy in My Heart
8 mins; May 01, 2022
How to Entertain the Holy Spirit
11 mins; April 27, 2022
Me, Myself, and Lies: The Spiritual Dangers of Isolation
11 mins; April 26, 2022
Invisible and Unmistakable: How Scripture Pictures the Holy Spirit
9 mins; April 21, 2022
All-Sufficient, All-Satisfying: What Saving Faith Sees in Christ
15 mins; April 20, 2022
The Love in His Grief: How the Spirit Responds to Our Sin
9 mins; April 18, 2022
The Son Must Rise: What Made Easter Inevitable
11 mins; April 17, 2022
Behold the Man Upon the Cross
10 mins; April 15, 2022
When the Dawn Seems to Die: How Jesus Keeps Us from Falling Away
8 mins; April 14, 2022
I Have No Good Apart from You: Prayer of the Satisfied Heart
7 mins; April 11, 2022
The Best Sermon for Marriage: Seven Lessons for Lasting Love
18 mins; April 10, 2022
What God Can Do in One Conversation: Recovering the Power of Personal Evangelism
12 mins; April 09, 2022
Did Jesus Need the Spirit? Pondering the Power of the God-Man
13 mins; April 08, 2022
Our God-Sized Ordinary: Six Ways to See the Holy Spirit
12 mins; April 04, 2022
Roses Grow on Briers: Unsentimental Love in a Sentimental World
11 mins; April 03, 2022
Sympathy Without Distress: The Exalted Compassion of Christ
13 mins; April 02, 2022
The Joy of God in Us: Why the Spirit Produces Happiness
11 mins; April 01, 2022
How to Pray Like Jabez
18 mins; March 30, 2022
The Prayer to End All Prayers
11 mins; March 27, 2022