Category: Desiring God

We often think of creation — forests and oceans, tornados and earthquakes, lions, tigers, and bears — as wild and untamed compared with normal life. And we’re not wrong. When…

What young men will be, in all probability, depends on what they are now. Young men seem to forget this. I am a pastor, and my occupational duty requires me…

At the cross, Satan’s one weapon of damnation is taken away. Jesus’s sacrifice cancels our record of debt. Watch Now Read More Desiring God

“The laborer deserves his wages” — including those who labor in preaching and teaching. But how might a church decide what a pastor’s wages should be? Listen Now Read More…

I sometimes feel that I am living just as long as I have something great to work for. My mother-in-law, Joni, lives with my wife and me. She’s in relatively…

As a younger man, I expected that leadership would mean responsibility, burden, and difficult decision-making. I didn’t know, however, that leadership would also mean a good deal of failure. I…

To be a Christian means God delivered you from the rule of Satan to live under the rule of God’s beloved Son. Watch Now Read More Desiring God

The kind of man you hate reveals what kind of man you are. “But I hate him,” Ahab declared of Micaiah, God’s prophet. Jehoshaphat, the righteous king of Judah, sat…

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in . . . conduct. (1 Timothy 4:12) My brother pastor, this tragic world has no…

In Paul’s elder qualifications, he seems to assume that pastors will be married. So how should churches assess the qualification of a single man who wants to pastor? Listen Now…