Articles by Desiring God

Desiring God
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Sep 22, 2024 • 12min

Stay Strange: The Church as a Home for Exiles

Scott Hubbard | Christians are sojourners and exiles in this world — strangers. And to live up to that name, we need a community to help us stay faithfully strange.
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Sep 15, 2024 • 14min

The Prayer of a Hunted Man

Greg Morse | Even in the deadliest circumstances, David was a man on the hunt for beauty. In the end, he would discover that he did not hunt beauty as much as Beauty hunted him.
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Sep 11, 2024 • 13min

How to Plan Wickedly Well

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.
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Sep 10, 2024 • 12min

Will You Love Jesus in Five Years? Training Your Soul to Delight in Him

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?
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Sep 8, 2024 • 8min

Life Is Too Brief to Waste: Learning to Number Our Days

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.
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Sep 6, 2024 • 12min

Strangers to Sin: How Heaven Makes Us Holy

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?
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Sep 1, 2024 • 13min

Ten Sweeter, Stronger Looks: How Examining Self Illuminates Christ

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.
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Aug 31, 2024 • 13min

Our Most Important Citizenship: Four Checks for ‘World Christians’

David Mathis | Have the world’s patterns and “cultural moments” dulled the global scope and Great-Commission interests of your faith?
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Aug 27, 2024 • 11min

To Gain the World and Lose Your Soul

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?
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Aug 24, 2024 • 11min

If the Men Aren’t Singing: Five Questions for Worship Leaders

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.

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