Most people want their lives to count for something. Something deep inside them wants to make some kind of difference in the world, to leave a mark, a lasting legacy. It is a longing for significance to do something “great.” …

We humans have an irrepressible need to make sense of the world and our experience in it. Meaninglessness Is an Illusion Darwinian naturalists believe that we adapted this need for meaning in order to secure food and pass along our…

How is your faith for evangelism? Too frequently mine is too small. I hate that sin of unbelief and having just spent a few days with some joyful, bold, fruitful evangelists, I am freshly encouraged to fight it. A reluctance…

You only need to stop long enough to think. There is so much divine glory to see in your truly extraordinary story.

There are no commandments in the Bible more devastating than the two that Jesus said are the greatest: And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and…

Your actions speak. Your works are words. The question is what are they saying? Actions Speak The old adage, “actions speak louder than words,” is true because, as another adage says, “words are cheap.” So, when it comes to our…

Into this horrible, humanly impossible famine God sends preachers — preachers in pulpits, on street corners, at the family table, in living rooms and hospitals and Bible studies and prisons.

In John chapter 5, Jesus throws down the gauntlet. First, he healed a man who had been disabled for 38 years. On the Sabbath (verse 9). On purpose...

These two words, “but God,” tell us that we have been saved only by God’s grace. Dead children of wrath do not become living, loving children of God but for God.

Are you wrestling with prayerlessness? Here are five ways into more consistent and passionate time alone with God.

God gives us a close-up of Joseph’s life to show us how active he is in ours — how he never leaves us or forsakes us in the good and the bad.

Some cover-ups are lies and some cover-ups are love. It depends on who’s doing the covering...

Today might go unnoticed by others, and you may not remember it. But God does not waste a single day, even the most unremarkable of them.

This promise that Jesus made to us is so sweeping in its scope and seems beyond the experience of many of us that it can strike us as unbelievable...

Among the Devil’s chief strategies is destroying relationships of love between Christians by eroding their trust in one another.

For many, the last few days before Christmas are rarely peaceful. This is especially true for parents and pastors...

J.R.R. Tolkien lived in the realm of fairies, fantasies, and faraway lands. Did he waste his time there?

What might Zechariah and Elizabeth have talked about after their friends left the naming ceremony where Zechariah had miraculously regained his speech?

Jesus often has harvests for us where we least expect them. Be careful not to assume that the real harvest is up the road and where you are is merely a rest stop or a frustrating, delaying detour.

Giving the gift of encouragement is not easy. It will likely add to our seasonal stress because it is spiritual warfare. If we’re going to encourage anyone else, we have to fight Satan and our own sin to do it.

Lukewarmness is the dying of conviction. And conviction often dies the slow death of a thousand compromises. 

Jon Blooms recommends a list of resources from Desiring God to help you cultivate true gratitude this Thanksgiving...

In a week, most of us in the United States will gather as family and friends around a table and share in the lavish feast we call Thanksgiving...

All of us sinners are Narcissistic to some degree. But the enchanting power that mirrors have over most of us is different from Narcissus. When we look into a mirror most of us are not captivated by our beauty, we are condemned by our defects.

We all must come to terms with the way we are. The first is to cultivate contentment with who God designed us to be. The second is to lay aside the burdensome weight of the fatalistic resignation that we’ll never be any different than what we are.