Category: Desiring God

Daily productivity requires often elusive focus and grit. Pastor John offers ten charges to live each day to the glory of God. Listen Now Read More Desiring God

I can still recall, around the age of ten, standing in the kitchen of my childhood home and seeing my mom’s three-ring binder open on the counter. She had inserted…

Our union with Christ grants us every blessing of the Christian life and voids any pride we could take in our own strength. How could we boast in anything but…

God often uses risks to bring life to others and to end long-standing fruitlessness in our lives. What would it look like to step out for the sake of Christ?…

My watch alarm buzzed, reminding me that it was time for another dose of my medication. Although prescribed to manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, its main effect so far…

The time for your mission has arrived. Trash bag in hand, you set poised to maneuver through a backyard strewn with little toy landmines, make it to the trash can…

Can we glimpse God’s love in the murder of Christ? John Piper opens Luke 22:1–6 to show that God reveals his love for us in the death he planned for…

Did Jesus demean the Canaanite woman he called a dog? Pastor John explains how Jesus’s test revealed her great faith — and her adoption as one of God’s own. Listen…

Why would God give rebels a king? John Piper shows from 1 Samuel 12 how God used Israel’s sin to prepare the way for Christ. Watch Now Read More Desiring…

I was wet concrete, drying quickly. It was 2017. My wife and I had just spent a year in New Zealand doing ministry with Calvary Chapel Bible Institute. As we…