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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.

Unlock God’s Storehouse of Grace

Unlock God’s Storehouse of Grace

We must stop looking at our lack: our lack of resources, wisdom, and power, even our lack of faith. Our deficits discourage and defeat. Satan does not want you to look to Jesus and all the abounding grace that he purchased for you.

There Is Hope in Your Struggle for Light

There Is Hope in Your Struggle for Light

A Parable of Three Trees

Our struggles, past and present, have profound effects on us for the rest of our lives. They affect how we grow now and in the future. But this isn't always negative. When we're in Christ, we can rest assure that our pain has purpose.

How Long, O Lord?

How Long, O Lord?

God knows our waiting for him can be hard. He knows it can feel to us like he is is taking too long. He gives us permission to ask him, “How long is this going to last?” and reminds us that he has not forgotten us.

Unbelief Is Sure to Err

Unbelief Is Sure to Err

Unbelief messes up how we calculate reality and leads us to errant conclusions and really bad decisions. After Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead in John 11, the Jewish religious leaders realized they had a serious crisis on their…

How God Gives Assurance

How God Gives Assurance

God loves to give his children the gift of “the full assurance of faith” (Hebrews 10:22). It’s a precious thing, a source of deep peace and consolation, and he wants us to have it. But like most things in the Christian life, assurance is something that is cultivated and grows stronger over time.

America’s One Enduring Legacy in History

America’s One Enduring Legacy in History

Two millennia ago, “a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered” (Luke 2:1). The most apparently powerful earthly head-of-state ordered a census because the empire needed more tax revenue to fund its…

Loving the Neighbor We Didn’t Choose

Loving the Neighbor We Didn’t Choose

The neighbor we’re called to love is often not one we choose but one God chooses for us. In fact, this neighbor is often not one we would have chosen had not God done the choosing.

Life’s Knots Need Jesus

Life’s Knots Need Jesus

Phrygia was an ancient kingdom in what is now central Turkey. According to legend, once upon a time Phrygia was without a king. One day, a pagan oracle declared that the next man to drive an ox-cart into Phrygia’s capital…

What God Gives When He Takes Away

What God Gives When He Takes Away

Prosperity has a tendency to conceal idolatry and false faith. Loss reveals what we really love and believe.

The Way Is Hard, But He Is Strong

The Way Is Hard, But He Is Strong

Jesus said the way would be hard for those who followed him. Hell is real, and its messengers spread themselves all over the world to distort, disorient, and to create suspicion — to undermine and destroy faith. But faith in the Way is a force stronger than Hell.

Keep Speaking

It is precisely when it is personally costly to speak, and we *still* speak, that people listen to what we have to say. When it’s costly to deliver a message, the message must be costly. For people only pay dearly for what is valuable. Paying dearly glorifies the valuable thing.

Let Good Things Run Wild

Let Good Things Run Wild

God designed men and women. He made us equal in value and complementary in role. When trust what God says about what it means to be man or woman, and obey his instructions, the result is harmony, beauty, and joy.

Be a Human Infusion of Hope

Be a Human Infusion of Hope

Discouragement is everywhere in a broken, fallen world like ours. One way Satan spreads discouragement is through the pride in us that focuses on others' weaknesses and flaws. But God has given us a weapon against the darkness: encouragement, an infusion of hope we bring one another.

Your Bible Is a Mine, Not a Museum

Your Bible Is a Mine, Not a Museum

If we read Bible stories like museum exhibits, always viewing them fairly quickly and then moving to the next display, our grasp tends to remain rather superficial. We might think that we’ve seen pretty much all that there is to see. But when we mine them, we find these stories laced with treasures.

Things Not Seen

Things Not Seen

A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Trusting God’s Promises

God is doing far more than we can ever tell. In this book, Jon Bloom tells the Bible stories of old to deepen our faith in our unshakeable God.

Wake Up to the Corrupting Effects of Compromise

Wake Up to the Corrupting Effects of Compromise

What do we do when we see the corrupting effect of compromise at work in ourselves or those we know? Jesus’s prescription is painfully, mercifully brief: “be zealous and repent” (Revelation 3:19). The severe simplicity of his prescription is hopeful.

Turning Fifty and Still Fighting for Faith

Turning Fifty and Still Fighting for Faith

As I help lead the vanguard of Generation X into our sixth decade in the race of faith, with the rhythm of my feet upon the pavement and through some fatigue, I’m preaching to myself, “There’s sufficient grace to endure the race.”

How Should Christians Comment Online?

How Should Christians Comment Online?

How we comment on articles or social media posts says a lot about us and about what we believe. Let’s seek to show more grace to others.

Do Not Underestimate a Defeated Devil

Do Not Underestimate a Defeated Devil

We think we know what’s going on. But often we barely have a clue. Scripture teaches us that what we see happening in the world is only part of the story. There’s a whole dimension to reality that wields a…

You Don’t Have to Plan Everything

You Don’t Have to Plan Everything

God doesn’t want you to plan everything. Don’t get me wrong. Planning is a beautiful thing. God is a magnificent planner — in the bigness of the universe and the smallest molecules. Many things in life simply do not happen…

Loving and Celebrating a Defective Nation

Loving and Celebrating a Defective Nation

July 4th is the day we Americans set aside to celebrate the birth of our nation, the ideals it represents, and the freedoms we enjoy. But for many American Christians, the recent Supreme Court ruling will hang like a dark…

God’s Purpose for the Supreme Court — And Everything Else

God’s Purpose for the Supreme Court — And Everything Else

God is gathering his people from every corner of the globe. Regardless of what we face or experience in this life, this is what history is all about, from beginning to the very end. And no one can stop him — not even the Supreme Court.

Breaking Free from the Spell of Fantasy

Breaking Free from the Spell of Fantasy

Evil fantasy presents itself as a delectable delight. But it is not. It is an argument to be destroyed, not a sweet apple to be eaten. Believing this — really believing this — is the key to breaking free from fantasy’s enchantment.

How to Complain Without Grumbling

How to Complain Without Grumbling

The psalms of lament give inspired voice to our troubled souls. They model for us how to complain to God in a way that honors him. And they are themselves expressions of God’s merciful care for us.

Where Real Courage Comes From

Where Real Courage Comes From

Courage to face our fears will not come from self-confidence. It will only come from confidence in God’s powerful promises.

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