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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.

Our Eyes Are a Parable About Faith

Our Eyes Are a Parable About Faith

Our perceptions are not our primary source of truth; they were never designed to be. They require the help of another source in order for us to accurately understand what’s truly real.

There Was a Man Sent from God

There Was a Man Sent from God

Our faith is not a private matter. It is a public window through which God wants to reveal Jesus to others.

Jesus Offers Escape from Hypocrisy

Jesus Offers Escape from Hypocrisy

The Christians in Sardis had the reputation of being alive, but they were not. Their reputation was a phantom of a former real greatness. Is this true of you?

Don’t Live Strong, Live Wise

Don’t Live Strong, Live Wise

This prayer of Moses will help you keep life in perspective. It will help you remember what is transient and what is eternal. It will help you live wisely.

Auld Lang Syne

In Gratitude of Old Friends

What makes “Auld Lang Syne” so powerful? It has nothing to do with a New Year and everything to do with an old friend.

Who Would Have Dreamed?

Who Would Have Dreamed?

This story is not of merely human origin. There is nothing like it in any other human religion or mythology: the Incarnation for the sake of atoning substitution for the sake of our redemption.

Christianity and Atheism

Christianity and Atheism

Choose Your Strangeness

It’s true: The Christmas story is humanly strange. But to be fair, atheists also embrace wildly far-fetched, strange beliefs of their own.

Lay Aside the Weight of Slander

Lay Aside the Weight of Slander

Slander is one of the adversary’s chief strategies to divide believers and derail the mission of the church. Be on our guard and lay slander aside.

Lay Aside the Weight of Low Self Image

Lay Aside the Weight of Low Self Image

If we find that we struggle with a low self-image, we need to look carefully at it, because it may not be low at all.

It Takes Work to Stay Warm

It Takes Work to Stay Warm

The key to surviving the spiritual polar climate we live in is fire. We’ve got to stay warm. If we don’t, it can result in injury or even death.

Prepare Him Room

Prepare Him Room

Advent Begins

The season of Advent has begun — full of tradition, memory, and legend. And a season so full, often overfull, with exhausting activities.

Jesus Will Provide the Wine

Jesus Will Provide the Wine

When you fail in wisdom or fail to meet the righteous requirement of God’s law, or fail to love the Lord with all your heart, you need not fear. Jesus is able to make all grace about to you so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times you may abound in every good work.

The Prize Is Worth the Price

The Prize Is Worth the Price

The pursuit of an Olympic gold medal is all-consuming. Athletes must structure their entire life around the training required for that elite level of competition because this pursuit can only be achieved with a ruthlessly narrow focus and rigorous discipline. The same is true for Christians.

Don’t Follow Your Heart (New Book)

Don’t Follow Your Heart (New Book)

Jon Bloom’s ‘Don’t Follow Your Heart’ will help you heal, as well as avoid spiritual heart disease, by identifying and resisting your heart’s errant predilections and directing it to do all God’s will — to follow Jesus.

You Are Meant to Move Mountains

You Are Meant to Move Mountains

Not every unanswered prayer for healing, provision, conversion, etc., is a result of little faith. But we must not let ourselves off the hook too quickly when we don’t see prayers answered or when our ministry efforts fail.

God Says “No” for Your Joy

God Says “No” for Your Joy

The only time God gives us restrictions or prohibitions is for our joy. He never says “no” to us unless “no” will make us ultimately happier.

Your Bible Is a Gold Mine

Your Bible Is a Gold Mine

The wonderful thing about the Bible is that we often find treasure in unexpected places. God loves to lace and layer revelatory riches in what at first seems like a fairly straightforward historical narrative.

Don’t Follow Your Heart

Don’t Follow Your Heart

God’s Ways Are Not Your Ways

This short book is a collection of 31 helps for common heart problems. Because your biggest problems in life are heart problems.

Reformation Day: Jesus Came Knocking

Reformation Day: Jesus Came Knocking

If Jesus is knocking on our door, let us welcome him in fully that we may eat with him and he with us. Accepting his unsurpassed invitation to joy through repentance and reformation may be the greatest way to celebrate Reformation Day.

Is Your World Too Small?

Is Your World Too Small?

We live in a small world at high speed. And this way of living tends to produce spiritual barrenness rather than richness. That’s why G.K. Chesterton, ahead of his time, was sounding a warning more than a century ago. He said to get your microscopes back out.

Don’t Coddle Your Fears

Don’t Coddle Your Fears

We obey what we fear. Most fears are expressions of truths or people that we believe. And what we believe will always govern our behaviors.

I Need Thee Every Hour

I Need Thee Every Hour

The lyrics could hardly be simpler, and yet they capture one of our heart’s most profound longings and can be prayed in the sweetest or most sorrowful moments in life. The prosody of the music could hardly be more perfect. But it is not the skill of the hymn’s construction that makes it so powerful.

We Should Pray for Healing

We Should Pray for Healing

The New Testament instructs us to ask God to distribute healing for the glory of Jesus. So we should earnestly desire this gift.

Praying for a Breakthrough

Praying for a Breakthrough

Are you praying for a breakthrough? Don’t lose heart. Grow determined. Intense opposition almost always precedes a breakthrough.

A Picture of Prevailing Prayer

A Picture of Prevailing Prayer

Real prayer begins with real desire, often with real desperation. We cry to God, but he does not seem to respond. God wants us to keep asking and cry out louder.

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