Articles by Desiring God

Marshall Segal | When you plan, do you acknowledge what you don’t know, admit what you can’t control, and ask God for help? If not, your plans may be well-laid but wicked.

David Mathis | Your soul is being conditioned every day for what you will delight in five years from now. Are you training yourself for delight in Jesus, or for indifference to him?

Jon Bloom | When we learn to number our days, we see just how brief life is — briefer than we tend to assume, and far too brief to waste.

Greg Morse | Christian, you are not a citizen of this world. You hope for a better home and greater reward. Does this hope help you flee from sin now?

Scott Hubbard | Godly introspection is a road, not a room, that ever takes us to the same glorious place: Jesus. And some of the best sights of Christ come at the end of that road.

David Mathis | Have the world’s patterns and “cultural moments” dulled the global scope and Great-Commission interests of your faith?

Greg Morse | There is one item in the world that has no fair trade — the soul. And yet, how many trade the most priceless thing they own to gain mere trifles?

Jon Bloom | God made men to sing. But sometimes, our lyrics miss their hearts, our keys miss their registers, and as a result, our churches miss their voices.

Scott Hubbard | How can we confess our sins in a way that pleases God? Heed God’s fatherly hand, honestly name your sins, embrace God’s free forgiveness, and walk away glad in him.

Greg Morse | A husband loves his wife as she ought to be loved — he loves her best — only when he loves her as his wife and not as his god.

Jon Bloom | God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son. How do we know he won’t call us to do the same today?

Greg Morse | The Great Commission remains an unfinished task, and yet how many feel any urgency to see it completed?

Scott Hubbard | Are you a world Christian serving a worldwide Lord? Jesus sends us outside of ourselves, our families, and our comforts to care about the nations he came to save.

Jon Bloom | “Be perfect,” Jesus tells us in his Sermon on the Mount. But what kind of perfection does he expect while we still deal with indwelling sin?

Greg Morse | We are a generation of first names, of forgotten pasts and rootless family trees. But in Christ, God empowers us to live for something bigger, greater, and far longer lasting.

Scott Hubbard | How can the present holiness of Christians bring God pleasure? Because true holiness, however imperfect, beats sin with God’s own pleasure in himself.

David Mathis | Nine times in rapid succession, Jesus invites us into the very happiness of God. Surprising as that may be, his conditions for entrance may shock us even more.

Greg Morse | Hebrews 13:17 offers a solemn and glorious charge to every pastor: keep watch over immortal souls as those who will give an account to Christ.

Greg Morse | The Christian life is one of fierce holiness. Christ calls us to hoist crosses, hack off limbs, gouge out eyes, contend for souls, and wage war against spiritual powers.

David Mathis | Lay God’s many pleasures side by side, and ask which one is his deepest delight. Across the scope of Scripture, one clear answer emerges.

Greg Morse | Do you know someone who is wandering away from Jesus? God may have a word for you in the final verses of James, a letter to spiritual wanderers.

David Mathis | At the founding, perhaps only as few as 10 percent of Americans were church members. So, what happened in the early 1800s, and what might we learn from it today?

Scott Hubbard | Children need to see a dad ambitious to spread God’s kingdom in the world. But with equal surety, children need to see a dad ambitious about being dad.

Greg Morse | In our overly sensitive society, have we lost the ability to talk to men like men?

Jon Bloom | A typical human life is a lot like grass — brief, quiet, and apparently ordinary. But one day we will see that no human life could ever be considered ordinary.