Category: Desiring God

In every good deed, God is active and working. Even our good works will ultimately be ascribed to the glory of God. Watch Now Read More Desiring God

Set aside, for a moment, the day’s pressing tasks. Hush, if you can, the hopes and desires that rushed upon you the moment you awoke. Step away from the morning’s…

Where is God when I face life-changing consequences for my sin? Can he really work for my good, even in a punishment as severe as prison? Listen Now Read More…

“Is following Jesus difficult or easy?” The homeless (and apparently drunk) man asked my wife years ago. Disinterested in hearing any answer but his own, he solved his own riddle…

When we consider theologians in the history of the church who have celebrated the doctrine of God’s exhaustive providence, the names that come immediately to mind are Augustine, Calvin, Edwards,…

In Christ, we get a new legal standing before the judgment seat of God and a new nature to live before men. Watch Now Read More Desiring God

Can we pursue our own dreams while also obeying God? Or do we need to give up our dreams in order to follow what Jesus is really calling us to?…

At the second coming of Christ, the people of God will see the risen King in his power and great glory. They will be changed instantly into sinless persons who…

If seeing and embracing the sovereignty of God causes us to pray less, we have not yet understood his sovereignty, or prayer. Providence does not make prayer optional or incidental,…

One warm, dusty midday, Jesus sat alone near Jacob’s well outside the Samaritan town of Sychar. His disciples had gone into town to buy food, but he had planned a…