Articles by Desiring God

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Endangered Attention: How to Guard a Precious Gift Jan 04, 2022

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Scott Hubbard | If you’ve not thought much about how you spend your attention, you’re likely spending it poorly. Here are four lessons for stewarding your attention in a new year.

Repentance for a New Year Jan 02, 2022

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Greg Morse | When you hear God’s summons to repent, do you hear an invitation to misery, or a doorway to joy?

A New Year Worthy of God Jan 01, 2022

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Marshall Segal | Before you start a reading plan, or choose a diet, or buy a journal, or step on a treadmill, find a why worth changing for.

The Most Wonderful Books on Earth: Gospel Reading for a New Year Dec 30, 2021

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Scott Hubbard | Whatever your goals are for Bible reading next year, resolve, God helping you, to catch as much of Jesus as you can.

More of Jesus: ‘Maximalist Christianity’ for a New Year Dec 28, 2021

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David Mathis | Christ can handle our down seasons, but he doesn’t call us to settle for scraping by year after year. He invites us to more.

Confessions of a Former People-Pleaser Dec 27, 2021

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Marshall Segal | Whoever we are, we live to please either people or God. And if we think it’s possible to serve both, we likely live to please the former, not the latter.

The Good War Against Moods: How Stubborn Faith Overcomes Feelings Dec 26, 2021

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Joe Rigney | Saving faith is a stubborn thing. It holds onto Christ even when our emotions and moods bid us to let go.

The Most Stubborn Day of the Year: Why the World Stops for Christmas Dec 25, 2021

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David Mathis | Two thousand years later, no single day marks as many calendars, determines as many schedules, pauses as many businesses, and draws together friends and families like Christmas.

He Is, He Was, He Will Be: Adoring the Alpha and Omega Dec 24, 2021

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Jon Bloom | Who is this baby born in Bethlehem? He is Alpha and Omega. He is the beginning and the end. He is the great I Am.

Christmas with an Empty Chair: When the Holiday Just Isn’t the Same Dec 23, 2021

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Greg Morse | We need not hide or suppress the pain of loss at Christmas. God means for the pain to deepen our joy and hope in him.