My Dear Globdrop, Words fail to express how pleased I am that your man attended his uncle’s funeral, after all. You did well to heed my counsel, nephew, despite Screwtape’s…
Category: Desiring God
Grace Flows from Joy in the Trinity: Ephesians 1:7–10, Part 5 – John Piper
“To the praise of the glory of his grace” summarizes the purpose of Ephesians, your life, and history. Watch Now Read More Desiring God
Only Halfway Home: Demons, Disciple-Making, and Middle-Age – Ryan Griffith
Disciple-making is, at its essence, humbly helping other disciples to faithfully follow Jesus. As disciples, our commission is to help others understand what it means to be part of his…
Brave Words with a Broken Heart: The Unusual Boldness of the Apostle Paul – Justin Taylor
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. —John Stott John Piper has tried to…
Do We Need Extrabiblical Texts to Understand the Bible? – John Piper
Extrabiblical sources can help fill in some details of our Bible study, but all the gold we need to mine for life and godliness is in our English Bibles. Listen…
Time Alone for God: The Ageless Habits of Jesus Christ – David Mathis
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) It’s a sweeping claim, but it might just be the kind of…
Did God Save Me to Call Attention to Himself? – John Piper
Over and over in the Bible, God says that he saves us in order to draw attention to himself. Why did God design salvation that way? Listen Now Read More Desiring…
America Was Never Home: How Christian Exiles Love a Nation Like Ours – Scott Hubbard
In the aftermath of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, some American Christians began to feel newly like exiles in their own country. All at once, it seemed to them, the…
Already, Not Yet: How to Live in the Last Days – David Briones
ABSTRACT: For now, Christians live in a great theological tension: we already possess every spiritual blessing in Christ, but we do not experience the fullness of these blessings yet. In…
Christ Redeems Us from Disobedience: Ephesians 1:7–10, Part 4 – John Piper
Christ’s blood not only purchases our forgiveness, but our obedience. We were not only redeemed from guilt, but from our futile ways of living. Watch Now Read More Desiring God