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Jon Bloom

Jon Bloom serves as teacher and cofounder of Desiring God. He is the author of four books, including Not by Sight and most recently True to His Word. He and his wife have five children and make their home in the Twin Cities.

The Wisdom of God in the Frustration of Man

The Wisdom of God in the Frustration of Man

Sometimes it takes a good 4,000 years or so to appreciate just how wise God is. With thousands of years of retrospect, we know more than ever that the wisest thing we can do is to trust God’s promises and purposes.

The Most Powerful Apologetic Tool in the World

The Most Powerful Apologetic Tool in the World

The Bible itself is the greatest apologetic device that exists in the world. More people come to know and love Jesus Christ simply by reading the Bible than anything else.

Die to Your Flesh and Live

Die to Your Flesh and Live

Fighting your flesh is a daily struggle. What do we prayerfully watch for to escape power of our weak flesh?

Like Any Prince

Like Any Prince

Those of us whose youth was woven with Prince’s music may feel a rip in our hearts and a fresh call to sober reflection.

How to Kill Sinful Anger

How to Kill Sinful Anger

All sinful anger is hard to fight. It’s a selfish, hot-blooded passion our flesh enjoys indulging. But I find it particularly difficult to fight the sinful anger that I feel I have a right to feel.

How to Resist Temptation’s Mirage Moment

How to Resist Temptation’s Mirage Moment

Sin only occurs when we believe that the destructive lie can actually grant happiness. One key to resisting temptation is learning to recognize what I call the “mirage moment.”

Jesus Helps Our Unbelief

Jesus Helps Our Unbelief

Moving from Doubt to Delight

God has important things to teach us about our doubts — and what kind of “seeing” really brings us joy.

Enjoy a Good Laugh, Like God

Enjoy a Good Laugh, Like God

We will not cry for sorrow in glory, but we will laugh for joy. April Fools’ Day gives us an opportunity to taste heaven, and play Satan for the fool that he is.

Come to the Light and Really Live

Come to the Light and Really Live

We men love to think of ourselves as light-seekers, brave souls on the noble quest for the naked truth. Our noble quest is put to the test when the Truth seeks us out. It turns out that we do not seek true light.

God Rested on the Seventh Day

God Rested on the Seventh Day

Holy Saturday

No one yet understood that this Sabbath was far higher than any that had been kept since God’s ancient day of holy rest. And no one yet understood that this Passover was far holier than even the first Passover.

The Secret to Peace and Contentment

The Secret to Peace and Contentment

The secret to Christian peace and contentment is not a gnostic secret. This secret is hidden in plain sight throughout the Scripture and is available to anyone who is willing to believe it.

It’s Not a Talent Show

It’s Not a Talent Show

God does not apportion talents equally to his servants. He gives more to some and less to others. Each apportionment has its unique temptations. Jesus delivered a warning to less talented servants.

Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

Morning & Evening Meditations for Holy Week

A team of pastors and scholars walk us through Holy Week with short meditations for each morning and evening, from Palm Sunday to the triumph of Easter.

How to Recognize a Foolish Leader

How to Recognize a Foolish Leader

The right kind of leader, under the wise governing checks and balances constructed in the American constitution, will help guide our nation through the very precarious days that lie ahead of us.

Why We Must Earnestly Desire Spiritual Gifts

Why We Must Earnestly Desire Spiritual Gifts

Why should we desire spiritual gifts and how should we pursue them?

God’s Rehab for Weak, Weary Faith

God’s Rehab for Weak, Weary Faith

God’s plan to rehabilitate our faith can seem painful rather than pleasant. That’s the nature of rehab. It’s hard, and it can hurt. But the hardness and hurt are healing.

How Can We Be Angry and Not Sin?

How Can We Be Angry and Not Sin?

There is a kind of anger that comes from our regenerate, Spirit-directed nature, even if it is unavoidably tainted by our indwelling sin.

Rest in the Prince of Peace

Rest in the Prince of Peace

Let us not forfeit this peace and bear needless pain. Let us carry everything to God in prayer and trust him fully to provide everything we need.

The Mosque on the Mount

The Mosque on the Mount

For the past 13 centuries the Al Aqsa Mosque has occupied the temple’s former site. It is not a sign of God’s endorsement on Islam. Rather, the mosque is an unwitting guardian of the new covenant reality.

Will You Wrestle with God?

Will You Wrestle with God?

There are times when God only releases his blessings on us after a season of prolonged and even painful wrestling with him.

Prayers for Christ’s Increase and Our Decrease

Prayers for Christ’s Increase and Our Decrease

We should not only desire this increasing joy, but also specifically ask God for it and be willing to endure whatever it takes to produce it.

Why We Pray for Our Meals

Why We Pray for Our Meals

Praying before we eat a meal is a beautiful thing — or should be a beautiful thing. It is gloriously appropriate to give thanks and praise to God from whom all blessings flow.

How to Have Intimacy with God

How to Have Intimacy with God

We look for intimacy with God in all the wrong places. Here’s a better way to pursue deep and rich intimacy with the God of the Bible.

God Does Not Need You to Be Strong

God Does Not Need You to Be Strong

Our natural bent is to find our strength for today in ourselves, and not in God. God gives us weaknesses so that we have no choice but to lean on him.

God Knows

In your affliction, cry out to God for help. He hears. And when the time is right, God will answer you. For God sees you — and he knows.

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