The Shelf Life on Preaching the Gospel to Yourself
The clock is ticking. If you're faithfully "preaching the gospel" to your own soul, day in and day out, but distancing yourself from regular Bible intake, your freshness is fading. There's an...
View ArticleFear, Anxiety, and Growing in Sanctification
Ed Welch is a biblical counselor and the author of several books including Running Scared: Fear, Worry & the God of Rest. He serves on the faculty of the Christian Counseling and Educational...
View ArticleWhen We Need a Lifeline
"That book has been a lifeline."A young man just said this to me last week as he and his wife face indescribable suffering — his youngest son will likely die in the next few months. If you’ve never...
View ArticleA Weighty and Necessary Topic
"This is a very weighty, very painful, and very necessary topic," explains John Piper. In this short video he extends his invitation to Desiring God's November conference on disability, "The Works of...
View ArticleWe Are About Comfort... and Conquest
This conference is not solely about comfort; it is also about conquestIf you think a conference about God and disability is going to be mostly about comforting those who are hurting, you are only...
View ArticleWrestling with an Angel
God and his word are the most important things you can share with anyone, including someone who is suffering because of disability. And not far behind are testimonies of God’s extraordinary goodness,...
View ArticleNational Conference Live-Stream
If you're not able to join us in Minneapolis for the conference this weekend, each of the main sessions will be live-streamed in both English and in Spanish at www.desiringgod.org/live.Transmisión en...
View ArticleDon't Discount Them Like the Culture Does
It speaks volumes when a pastor addresses the reality of disability with biblical authority. In this 3-minute video, John Knight, father of a child with multiple disabilities, explains how "The Works...
View ArticleGod Is More Relentless Than Disability
John Knight says that churches need pastors who love the word of God. That's one central aim of the upcoming disability conference November 8.In this short video, John challenges pastors to set forth a...
View ArticleBrothers, We Are Not Professors
It has been said by one great Reformed theologian that we are living in the most anti-intellectual age in the church’s history. We are the TV generation, making way for the Internet generation. Images...
View ArticleHow John Piper Responds to Death Threats
Everyday gospel ministry requires courage. Whether it’s the courage to keep going when insulted, or honestly repent when you’ve been wrong, or not cave when threatened physically, public Christian...
View ArticleFuture Grace: April Conference in South Florida
Miami metro, here we come. On April 5–6, 2013, we will gather, God willing, at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, for a Desiring God Regional Conference under the bannerFuture Grace:...
View ArticleWhy a New Student Missions Conference?
The new website for Cross has just gone live.Cross is a new student missions conference. I serve on the leadership team — along with Thabiti Anyabwile, Kevin DeYoung, David Platt, Zane Pratt, David...
View ArticleNational Conference 2013: Celebrating the Work of C.S. Lewis
Fifty years ago this fall, C.S. Lewis quietly crossed from this life into the next.While the assassination of John F. Kennedy captured the world’s attention on November 22, 1963, one Clive Staples...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Know Jack
Perhaps you’re a verifiable lover of C.S. Lewis and his mere Christianity, his Narnia chronicles, his brilliant and diabolical missives from hell itself, and his unmatched blend of uncompromised heart...
View ArticleOur Choices Matter
Max McLean, the lead actor and director of the theatrical adaptation of The Screwtape Letters, has performed the role of Screwtape hundreds of times since the play debuted in 2010. This means that...
View ArticleSeeing Pleasure Through a Demon’s Eyes
Max McLean, director and lead actor in the theatrical adaptation of The Screwtape Letters, goes in character to describe the demonic perspective on pleasure.From the book, page 44:Never forgot that...
View ArticleAdvice for Christian Artists
Max McLean encourages Christians in the arts to integrate their faith in every step they take. “Make your faith the source of your art,” he says.In this short video he explains the passion and strategy...
View ArticleAre We Fascinated with Lewis’s Fame or His Influence?
The video below introduces the amazingly influential C.S. Lewis and invites you to our National Conference on Lewis, September 27–29.If your time is short, just go straight to the video. But if you...
View ArticleIntroducing the C.S. Lewis “Small Talks”
We want this conference to be the next best thing to visiting Narnia for yourself.The Desiring God 2013 National Conference, September 27–29 in Minneapolis, is taking up the theme “The Romantic...
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