Messages by Desiring God

We can know God's will and maintain trust in his help, if we are familiar with the trajectories of his Word.

How different, how wonderful the use of our mouths would be if we lived by faith in the God who made the mouth and not by sight—by looking at our own clumsy tongue.

Silence about Christ is dogma. Not to teach the infinite value of Christ is to teach that he is negligible.

The best fertilizer for our hope and godliness is the knowledge of our future in God's grace.

A life lived for the world will go naked into judgment; a life lived for Christ will be laden with eternal riches.

Confident expectation of a new world of righteousness empowers us to live for peace and purity in the present.

The more you know of Christ and his way, the more severe your judgment will be for not trusting and obeying him.

Even though the rebellious and the licentious today may think they are safe, they should learn that "from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction is not sleeping."

The meaning of Scripture does not change with every new reader or every new reading. It cannot be twisted to mean whatever we like. It is what it is, unchanging and unending.

The difference between mythical speculations and Christian faith is history. Our doctrines are not the result of clever head-work. They are the result of historical observation.